Supernatural

This week, Timeless takes us back to the golden age of Hollywood, with episode 3 of season 2: Hollywoodland.  Spoilers are ahead in this review, so please be warned!

Last week’s season opener reframed the Timeless story, and made it much more of an underdog theme, so with the season now fully underway, and a new direction in place, the team begins to get stuck into the fightback, in a very enjoyable episode 2 – The Darlington 500.

Last season, Timeless, along with several other shows such as Travelers and Time after Time, made its debut, with time travel as its premise.  Like Travelers, it is still here for a second season, although its return was slightly rockier, having been cancelled and then gaining a reprieve due to fan pressure.  The season opens with ‘The War to End All Wars’, and as usual, please expect some spoilers!

In Mythic, the world’s supernatural gears are grinding to a halt, and the masses, believing in the lie known as science, are oblivious to the threat to their status quo.  It is …
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Welcome back, Supernatural. How you’ve been missed! You left us for months after a redeeming eighth season that made up for the mess Season 7 left. You even joked about it with us, letting us know it wasn’t a solo clown trip. In Season 8 you were back in fine, if frenetic, form and you let us know you meant business.

Even after seven seasons of fighting, saving, dying and apocalypses, hearing the sweet refrains of “Carry on Wayward Son” still manages to bring a giddy excitement and no dearth of tears. Right away, we’re plunked back into Crowley’s machinations of messing around with any and all friends of the Winchesters and those they’ve saved.

Metatron’s made himself known and saved Kevin from Crowley’s directorial clutches. Crowley’s got the angel tablet which he reached in and took from Castiel’s gut. Castiel’s bleeding out from angel blade bullets and tablet removal when Dean and Sam nearly run him over. Sam is looking craptacular. Oh, and there’s a third trial waiting to happen. No big.

Supernatural’s again gone meta, subtly this time with a brand spanking new tangent. It’s a dirty pleasure watching Crowley describe to his black-eyed children how Sam and Dean talk and behave. Congrats, Crowley, you’ve reached troll-stalker levels.

The surprise and reveals in the episode were deep and touching. Finding out more of Charlie’s past fleshes out her character and tells the real reason she’s been running for so long. Sam slowly crumbles even more as Dean tries to hold on to all the pieces.

A lot of intensity gets packed into 42 minutes: Kevin Tran being taunted by Crowley. Sam finding *****. Dean re-killing ***** to save his brother. Events are flying into overdrive; you know a season finale is winging its way near. The let down in “Taxi Driver” is how quickly and easily everything is; not emotionally, mind, but in action.

The beauty of “Freaks and Geeks” is it shows a possible younger generation of hunters while exploring what it means to be family. Hunters are naturally alone, yet relying on a wider network of other hunters and information gatherers. What happens if hunters are raised as normal kids while hunting down the monsters?

What’s more horrifying than any demon? An agent of heaven training another angel to kill his best human friend that he’s sworn to protect.

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