Welcome to our favorite director, Jensen Ackles! There’s just so much that happens in this episode, and he did a great job with it. Like a lot of season six, it looks like a fairly straightforward MotW case (or series of cases), but rewatching s6 is so much more interesting when you know where everything is headed.

The monsters are all acting “weird;” something is really really wrong with Sam, and Dean is really worried about it; Bobby finds a way to finagle his soul back from Crowley-- so right there we have lots of hints about the whole season. It’s the souls. And that will still sound like a cryptic statement seven episodes down the line when Death gives Dean that exact warning, but it really does sum up... pretty much all of s6 when you know everything that’s actually happening.

So we get to have some fun this week, learning a little more about Bobby’s life when he’s just at home doing his own thing, we get to enjoy Rufus and Jody again, and we get to meet Bobby’s new neighbor, who I assume immediately moved and never looked back. :’)

LINKS!

The Superwiki page for this episode

My tag

Filming locations map

Sneak Peek promo video