The fantasy drama Supernatural revolves around two brothers who hunt creatures of supernatural origin, saving the world as they do so. The show has come a long way from being about werewolves and vampires to the Devil and now God himself.
In the season 13 finale, Lucifer is killed by the archangel Michael possessing Dean. Season 14 opens with Michael running amok, and Sam looking desperately for his brother. Let us look at some of the funniest and scariest episodes of the season.
10 Funniest: "Stranger In A Strange Land"
By the 14th season, the series has moved on from its signature wit to more understated comic moments, that too are usually dark. The season 14 premiere is all about Dean, looking dapper as the archangel Michael.
The irony here is that Michael is roaming the world, asking random people, including world leaders, what they really wanted from life, and realizing how lost humans really are. Fans also get to drool over Sister Jo, played by Jensen Ackles' wife, Daneel Ackles, whom Michael accosts in a dark alleyway.
9 Scariest: "The Scar"
The boys get in touch with their friend and ally, Jody Mills, who informs them that there have been attacks in Sioux Falls where the victims had stab wounds just like the one Dean has.
Sam, Dean, and Jody investigate the matter to make a gory discovery. Whoever it is that wields the spear that hurt Michael has also decapacitated three men and put their heads up on stakes. The sight, needless, to say, is not a pretty one.
8 Funniest: "Mint Condition"
Chainsaws are flying and action figures from horror movies are coming to life in Supernatural's tribute to the slasher genre.
Aired as a Halloween episode, "Mint Condition" revolves around an apparent B-grade horror-movie-series-turned-cult-classic--of course, Dean knows every film in the franchise-- that comes to life when a ghost possesses action figures from the movie. Disgusting as this Freddy Kruger look-alike is, the episode is actually fun.
7 Scariest: "Unhuman Nature"
With Lucifer dead, Nick, his vessel, is now feeling lost and seeking revenge for the death of his family, which had led him into the Devil's arms years ago. Unfortunately, Nick is not taking his years of trauma being possessed by Satan well. His bloodlust for the man who killed his wife and child causes him to ruthlessly torture and kill all those he considers somehow responsible for what happened to his family.
The mood in the bunker is also melancholic as Jack, now without his grace, is falling desperately sick as his organs are shutting down. The boys send an SOS call to Rowena to help heal Jack, but the latter is unable to give them any good news.
6 Funniest: The Spear
The enemy-turned-ally, Arthur Ketch, is helping the boys locate potential weapons against Michael, the archangel, who is busy building an army of killer monsters, presumably to annihilate the world.
The former mercenary of the British Men of Letters, however, exasperates the brothers and Cas when he tells them that the weapon he had got hold of, a kind of hyperbolic pulse generator, or an egg that is used to exorcise angels and demons from their vessels, has been put in the mail, albeit priority mail. The knowledge that one of the only weapons in the universe that could be used to defeat Michael is coming via the mail naturally puts the boys off, embarrassing Ketch no end.
5 Scariest: "Prophet And Loss"
The boys find a case where people are being killed horrifically and bled as part of what seems to be some kind of ritual.
It turns out that with the prophet Donatello being in a limbo between life and death, the prophet after him had been brought off the bench before his time, and the latter is getting some kind of scrambled signals from Donatello's unconscious mind which is leading him to go rogue. The brutal murders are disturbing, to say the least, especially, since they are being committed by a regular person, albeit a prophet.
4 Funniest: "Lebanon"
The series' 300th episode is mostly funny and heartwarming, with a special appearance from Kurt Fuller as the powerful angel Zachariah, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as John Winchester, the hunter who trained the brothers Winchester in their art of hunting, and of course, their father.
Thrown into this episode is a bit of everything that makes the show so popular with fans. From a murderous clown to the brothers being caught in a temporal paradox with a kale-loving Sam giving TED talks and a pouting Dean wanted for a fair number of beheadings--there is something for everybody. Of course, the highlight of the episode comes when Dean charms an elderly lady off her feet with just a glance here and a touch there, while Sam just ends up creeping her out when he tries to imitate his brother.
3 Scariest: "Ouroboros"
A hungry and cannibalistic demi-god is eating people in the most horrific manner. The boys, Cas and Jack, with Rowena's help, realize that they are dealing with a gorgon, an ancient entity that survives on human flesh.
A gorgon is derived from Greek mythology of the snake goddesses such as Medusa, who was able to turn people into stone by simply gazing at them. The episode draws on this lore where the demi-god has a snake for a pet and is able to paralyze people by planting a kiss on them. To add to the horror, the episode ends with Michael possessing Rowena, massacring the bunker, killing all the hunters who had become the Winchesters' friends over time, and torturing the brothers themselves.
2 Funniest: "Game Night"
As stated earlier, the series loses a lot of its humor as it progresses into its final seasons. There are only a handful of real moments that could get one to double over with laughter.
In "Game Night," Dean is going berserk trying to figure out his favorite game as a child which is supposed to relax him but seems to be having the opposite effect. Castiel, on the other hand, is looking to contact God so that he could restore Jack's soul; he is not above bribing the angel Anael with a pair of antique earrings, after which the two of them go looking for a way to call God and end up walking on squishy rats, amidst creepy dolls. Moreover, Nick has abducted the prophet Donatello, and fans know that any episode with Mark Pellegrino is soaked in darkly comic moments.
1 Scariest: "Absence"
Designed as something of a send-off to Mary Winchester, the episode shows the brothers and Cas in the aftermath of the soulless Jack killing Nick and inadvertently murdering Mary.
Jack is shown running from his own mistakes and trying to undo what he did to bring Mary back, to the extent of performing necromancy. Of course, the more desperate he gets, the more he is unable to control his powers. But that is not the only worrying thing happening here. Sam and Dean, bent on avenging Mary's death, realize that they might have to kill Jack, whom they had come to look upon as family, after all.
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August 06, 2020 at 05:30AM
