The Witches of Letters: A Supernatural Rewatch Podcast

This week Joy and Laura are talking about season 1 episode 15 “The Benders”, and it’s a scary one!!

Sam is abducted by the Bender family and Dean teams up with a sheriff’s deputy to find him. We discuss cat jump scares, why Sam can’t just use his powers to free himself, and Joy writes us a ‘fun fact’ jingle, as well as a new podcast motto. Did anyone else notice that the cages completely changed half way through? Please write in and let Joy know she isn’t going crazy.

Joy's Easter egg this week is a true crime one, about the real Benders family. Yes, this episode was based on a real story, and it’s terrifying!

Stay safe out there, have each other’s backs, and always keep fighting!

Sources used:

https://epguides.com/Supernatural/  (for dates of episodes)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0757750/?ref_=ttep_ep15 

Joy's references

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This week Joy and Laura discuss season 1 episode 14 “Nightmare”. Sam's visions are getting stronger and leads them to investigate a series of deaths in the Miller family.

We talk about the evolution from “Dean girl” to “Sam girl” and why that might be the case. Hint, it’s therapy! Dean’s duck face makes another appearance, as does Aunt Zelda from Sabrina The Teenage Witch!

We discuss whether the real villain in this episode is Max or his step mother, the parallels between Max and Sam, and how Dean reacts to this. Joy is not loving Dean at all this episode because he’s being an asshole (#TeamSam), although she did like those priest costumes! 

Stay safe out there, have each other’s backs, and always keep fighting!

Sources used:

https://epguides.com/Supernatural/  (for dates of episodes)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0713616/?ref_=ttep_ep14 

 Joy's references

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This week Joy and Laura examine Dean and Cassie’s relationship, and Sam's hilarious reaction to seeing his brother in love. Joy’s Easter eggs this episode include a haunted dorm, electoral fraud in Athens, Ohio, and the real life story that this episode is based on that ignited the civil rights movement. We also discuss grizzly death scenes that we are surprised made it onto network TV, and the beautiful yet tense action scene where Dean faces the truck and we aren’t 100% sure if he is going to make it, and nor is Sam!

Joy thinks this episode is sexy in social justice and sexy with men in ties.

Stay safe out there, have each other’s backs, and always keep fighting!

Sources used:

https://epguides.com/Supernatural/  (for dates of episodes)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0713619/?ref_=ttep_ep13 

Joy's references ep13

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This week’s episode is apparently really popular within the fandom, but we weren’t feeling it. We thought it was really depressing, but we did record on a Monday so that may have had something to do with it. 

We discuss the stupidity of the opening scene and have differing opinions about Dean’s reaction to his prognosis from the doctor. Laura zones out when the conversation focuses on the religious aspects of this episode…twice!

We think the use of tarot in this episode is a very strange work of fiction, and Sue-Ann…what an evil bitch!

Stay safe out there, have each other’s backs, and always keep fighting!

Sources used:

https://epguides.com/Supernatural/  (for dates of episodes)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0713614/?ref_=ttep_ep12 

Joy's show notes (I was made aware of an issue last week that you couldn’t open Joy’s show notes, this has now been rectified for all previous episodes)

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This week Joy and Laura discuss season 1 episode 11 “Scarecrow”.

In this episode Sam and Dean split up and we are not happy about it. Sam tries to follow their Dad to California, and Dean investigates the cases of couples who have gone missing as they drive through a small town.

We talk about how much we are loving this series so far, Joy tells us about the origins of scarecrows, and the Vanir gods from Norse mythology, and Laura totally didn’t get that Meg was a freaking demon!

Stay safe out there, have each other’s backs, and always keep fighting!

Sources used:

https://epguides.com/Supernatural/ (for dates of episodes)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0713620/?ref_=ext_shr 

Joy's show notes 

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This week Joy and Laura examine season 1 episode 10 “Asylum”.

This was a scary one! John sends the boys to a haunted asylum where they encounter the spirits of many patients and the creepy doctor, who it turns out is the villain of the episode, and Sam gets possessed and almost kills Dean! 

We consider whether Jensen did his own stunts, Joy is surprisingly on Team Sam this week, and we get annoyed at how many times everyone splits up…have they never seen a horror show before?? Side note: Did anyone hear where the action takes place in this episode as we aren’t sure, is it the south wing perhaps?

Stay safe out there, have each other’s backs, and always keep fighting!

Sources used:

https://epguides.com/Supernatural/  (for episode dates)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0713610/?ref_=ext_shr 

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieMistakes/s/oxivn9X5PN

Joy's show notes ep10

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This week Joy and Laura are discussing season 1 episode 9 “Home”.

This was such a good episode and we finally get some more back story, which Laura has been desperately craving! Sam and Dean investigate a case in their old childhood home, and John Winchester shows back up although he hides from the boys. We discuss our love for the character Missouri, all the Stephen King references peppered throughout this episode, and Joy has an amazing show Easter egg which links to the backstory of why Lawrence, Kansas was chosen as the setting for the Winchester house. 

Stay safe out there, have each other’s backs, and always keep fighting!

Sources used:

https://epguides.com/Supernatural/ 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0713623/?ref_=ext_shr 

Joy's show notes

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This week Joy and Laura get into season 1 episode 8 “Bugs”. Bleurgh!

This episode was full of bugs and it was disgusting! We get into a debate about Sam and Dean’s feelings about their Dad which ends up being a bit like a therapy session. Laura gets Joy back for all the Bloody Mary stuff by telling her all about cockroaches here in the UK, and Joy starts a petition for screen doors to be fitted on all houses here.

We also get into the fact that they used REAL BEES in the attic scene, putting the actors in danger! Oh and who else noticed Dean’s “flamethrower”?

Stay safe out there, have each other’s backs, and always keep fighting!

Sources used:

https://epguides.com/Supernatural/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0713612/?ref_=ext_shr 

Joy's show notes/references

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This week Joy and Laura are talking about season 1 episode 7 “Hook Man”.

We discuss the nostalgia we feel for 90’s slasher movies, and go off on a bit of a Scream tangent. We also make links between Lori in this episode and Laurie Strode from the Halloween movies. We call out the hypocrisy of religious men, and explain why we think everyone should leave Taylor alone! Joy has another true crime Easter egg, that links to last week’s Easter egg, and Laura reveals what Lori and her Dad are having an argument about in the scene where Sam is keeping watch outside their house, although this is not really a secret if you also watch TV with the subtitles on.

Thirst traps: Joy 6, Laura 6.

Stay safe out there, have each other’s backs, and always keep fighting!

Sources used:

https://epguides.com/Supernatural/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hook?wprov=sfla1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0713615/?ref_=ext_shr

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Hi Hunters!

We have an announcement for you. Listen to us explain why we have decided to change the name of the podcast, and we also pull some tarot cards.

Nothing else is changing but we will have to take down the old episodes and upload them again.

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