Quick Take: Supernatural, "Repo Man"
“Good morning, Vietnam!” - Hallucifer
Review: Supernatural, “Repo Man”
(S0715) It’s about that time, kids: the home stretch of the Supernatural season. This means that everything is going to start going downhill for our emotionally damaged demon-slayers.
“Repo Man” flashes back to the pre-Lucifer days of yore with a brutal torture scene. Sam and Dean pull out all the stops on a homicidal demon possessing Jeremy the Mailman, grilling him for information about Lilith. Remember Lilith?
(Sigh.) It was all so simple then.
Okay, not really. But giving Jared Padalecki that unfortunate season3-4 hair was a nice touch to remind us that Sam is isn’t all cray cray yet.
Of course, one can make the argument that Sam Winchester has always been on the more unbalanced end of the sanity spectrum. It’s a wonder he can speak in complete sentences with the amount of chemical dickery his brain has surely been awash in since…well…since season one. First it was the visions, then that brief flirtation with telekinesis. Then we were all hopped up on demon blood. Then we were Lucifer’s One True Prom Dress. Sam should really be locked up in a padded room at this point in his life.
Soon, my little chickadees. Soon.
The fact that Sam has been hallucinating Lucifer all season long is common knowledge, but for artistic reasons (and Mark Pellegrino scheduling reasons) the specifics of those hallucinations have been left largely to viewers’ imaginations. But kids, it’s time for the train to fly off the tracks. When Dean finds himself kidnapped by Jeremy the Mailman Who Secretly Likes Being Possessed, it’s up to Sam and the Prince of Darkness in his head to work the case and come to the rescue. That’s all well and good and everyone wins. Except Jeremy the Mailman, but he was a creep so it’s okay. However, after engaging his hallucination, Sam finds that he can’t turn Lucifer off. Hallucifer is, of course, tickled.
And so am I, having waited since September for some more quality time with Mark Pellegrino. Sorry, Sammich, you made your hellfire covered bed, and now you get to lay in it.
I'll go get the popcorn.
