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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 22, Stairway to Heaven recap 🎳 Angels are blowing themselves up in Cas’s name, Dean can't part from the First Blade, and Metatron is bowling for recruits, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.
Cas calls the boys in after one of his angels walks into an ice cream shop and takes out one of Metatron’s angels, plus a lot of innocent people. Cas swears he didn’t order it, and Dean doesn’t believe him. So Sam rides with Cas to chase down a possible double agent, while Dean “interviews” the angels at Cas’s power plant headquarters. Nobody there likes him, and he promised to leave the Blade at home.
Episode Highlights:
An ice cream shop, an order with exactly 10 blueberries, and an angel in a very questionable coat
Dean wakes Sam with a guitar riff at full volume, and Sam still sleeps with a gun under his pillow, even in the bunker
Agents Spears and Aguilera, because Cas has noticed the aliases are always popular musicians
Metatron is caught playing dress-up in his own trench coat knockoff
Tyrus loves bowling (the “symphony of wood”) and calls Metatron a nerd to his face (Booger?)
Sam looks great behind the wheel, and Cas finds out he’s accidentally running a cult
“Why is six afraid of seven?” Plus a Lord of the Rings door and an Indiana Jones penitent man trap
Dr. Flagstaff (her angel name is 18 syllables) and an interrogation that goes from hot to terrifying fast
Tessa is back, and Dean is not happy to see her
Metatron hijacks every screen in the building with a very convincing offer
Written by Andrew Dabb and directed by Guy Norman Bee, whose interrogation scenes are the standouts of the episode. LA loved getting Sam and Cas on their own together. Berly says that since Meta Fiction, she’s finally on board with Metatron as the season’s big bad, partly because Curtis Armstrong is impossible to hate. The gore: some hollowed-out vessels, and Josiah’s makeup, which is genuinely hard to look at. Berly still isn’t sold on reapers being angels. And Dean’s temper is getting scarier every episode.
In the lore segment, Berly revisits the Metatron lore from The Great Escapist: the scribe of God, once the prophet Enoch, guardian of the Akashic Records, and namesake of Metatron’s Cube. She tries invoking him again on air, and her vibrations remain unraised.
“Because he’s a weird guy, okay? He’s a weird, dorky little guy.” – Dean
Your turn, hunters: Is Metatron the big bad you wanted for Season 9? And should reapers be angels or their own thing? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it’s how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.
Sources:
https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Stairway_to_Heaven
https://www.gaia.com/article/who-is-archangel-metatron
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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 21, King of the Damned recap 👑 Abaddon brings a guest from 1723, Crowley sweet-talks a hellhound over speakerphone, and Dean finally gets his hands on the First Blade again, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.
With Abaddon’s army supposedly growing and Metatron’s followers popping up everywhere, everyone is scrambling to tie up loose ends. Cas, now “Commander” Cas, calls in the boys to question one of Metatron’s wannabe recruits. Meanwhile, Crowley gets an unwelcome visit and a bargaining chip that hits close to home.
Episode Highlights:
Leith, Scotland, 1723: Abaddon in modern clothes with her Josie Sands hair, and a party crasher who gets the hook
Ezra brags in a bar that Metatron picked him, and the awkward pauses are agonizing
Commander Cas in that stiff khaki coat, plus a burgundy suit so fabulous the hosts were sure he’d matter more
Crowley’s demons are business professional, and “Who’s with me?” gets one very unwelcome answer
An interrogation shot from below and above until you feel interrogated too
“I made it to the final round”: Ezra did not make Metatron’s cut
Crowley explains his three-inch deal to a 1723 visitor who thinks this must be heaven
Juliet the hellhound gets a speakerphone call from Papa
The blade’s hiding place (not a skeleton, unfortunately), and Sam volunteers for body cavity duty
“Poughkeepsie,” and Dean keeps it to himself
Written by Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming and directed by P.J. Pesce. Berly loved the director’s angles in the interrogation and one final shot that looks like a painting. LA loved the Crowley and Gavin dynamic, with both of them fighting off their affection for each other. Berly’s favorite is the hellhound scene, which was unnecessary, she admits, and adorable. The big complaint is that it feels like a rush to tie up loose ends. After half a season of demon army building, where was the army? The gore award goes to a very bloody face, with the coat hook close behind. Plus, LA has a Titanic moment she will never live down.
In the lore segment, LA revisits the Abaddon lore from season 8's Clip Show with a summary from GotQuestions.org. In Revelation 9:11, Abaddon (Hebrew for “place of destruction”) is also called Apollyon (Greek for “the destroyer”), and she’s king over a horde of demonic locusts that rise from a smoking abyss when the fifth angel blows his trumpet. Scripture seems to treat Abaddon as one of Satan’s underlings rather than Satan himself. Plus, Apollyon shows up in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, and LA really lightens the mood at the end.
“No one in the history of torture has been tortured with torture like the torture you’ll be tortured with.” – Crowley
Your turn, hunters: Where was Abaddon’s army? And if Dean answered you with just “No,” how scared would you be? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it’s how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.
Sources:
https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/King_of_the_Damned
https://www.gotquestions.org/Abaddon-Apollyon.html
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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 20, Bloodlines recap 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Chicago’s monster mafia, a spinoff that never was, and a very bad night for a proposal, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.
Berly and LA are back after the flu took them both out, and they’re tackling the backdoor pilot fans love to dunk on. A mysterious killer is targeting Chicago’s five ruling monster families, and Sam and Dean get caught between a grieving almost-fiancé, a shapeshifter prince, and a werewolf princess who’s done being told to stay quiet. Is it really as bad as everyone says?
Episode Highlights:
A dinner proposal, a maître d’ who’s a dick, and the ferry where it all began
A monster speakeasy where a vampire feeds in the open and the bartender tastes the air
“Your mother’s a bitch,” and even the Wraith laughs
A clawed killer in black, and blood splooge #81, courtesy of the Wraith bodyguard's demise
A dying man’s message for someone named David
FBI agents Sam and Dean politely tell Ennis that monsters aren’t real
David Lassiter sneaks into college offices as his own professors
A bag of meat labeled “Susan,” and a decapitation that caught LA off guard
Ennis checks a visitor with his phone camera, then pulls out a silver bullet
“You’re with me, Romeo.” “You got it, Buffy.” And a phone call that changes everything
Written by Andrew Dabb and directed by Robert Singer. The verdict: it’s not bad at all! The real problem is where it lands, slamming the brakes on Season 9 right when the story gets going. Berly’s fix: air it as the midseason premiere. Both hosts loved the monster family politics and David, and Dean’s “Godfather with fangs” says it all. The parts that needed more workshopping: how a human killer managed that first death, the werewolf leap attack, and that kiss.
In the lore segment, LA takes on the original five families of 1931 New York. The Castellammarese War pitted Joe “the Boss” Masseria against Salvatore Maranzano, until Lucky Luciano switched sides. Masseria was gunned down at a Coney Island restaurant, and legend says Bugsy Siegel had to shove the shaky getaway driver out of the seat. Maranzano lasted five months as “boss of all bosses” before gangsters disguised as government agents took him out (sound like anyone?). Luciano then built the Commission, which gave Al Capone and Chicago a seat at the table. Margot Lassiter is running a very old playbook.
“Sometimes you gotta work with the bad guys to get to the worst guys.” – Dean
Your turn, hunters: Would you have watched Supernatural: Bloodlines? And which monster family would you join? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it’s how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.
Sources:
https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Bloodlines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Families
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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 19, Alex Annie Alexis Ann recap 🧛 Sheriff Jody Mills (Kim Rhodes) is BACK, and she's protecting a troubled teen named Alex (Katie Sarife), who was raised by a nest of vampires and really, REALLY wants to go home, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast. Mama bear Jody: activated.

A deputy in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, picks up a teen runaway, and things go very wrong at the station. Jody calls in the Winchesters, and they quickly figure out Alex is a human kidnap victim who's been living with vampires since she was a little girl... and they're coming to get her back. While Jody hides Alex at a remote cabin, Sam and Dean track down the nest in O'Neill, Nebraska, learn exactly how the vampires have been using her, and discover that the vampire mom at the center of it all has her own tragic reason for keeping Alex. Meanwhile, Sam starts to notice that Dean is enjoying his work a little too much.

Episode Highlights:
Jody Mills, wonderful to see her as always
The boys learning Alex isn't the victim they expected
Vampiric Stockholm syndrome, as Jody puts it
Dean at the wood chipper: "Need a hand?" (There was literally a hand.)
The vampires' very dark use for Alex (it gets worse)
Alex's years-old bite marks that just... vanish (one episode after the show joked about continuity errors)
Dean's dead man's blood trick, and some very cool decapitations
Dean's "look at me, bitch" moment that made us go WHAT
Jody finally facing her own grief (growth!)
Sam's worry about how much Dean is enjoying the kill (the Mark of Cain is no joke)
In the lore segment, we revisit the vampire cure from Live Free or Twihard and dig into the real-life case of a man in Turkey diagnosed with clinical vampirism, whose insatiable craving for blood earned him a write-up in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics in 2011 and, according to a 2013 Smithsonian report, was eventually cured after two years of treatment. It's some of the darkest lore we've done.

Your turn, hunters: Should Jody take in Alex? And how worried are YOU about Dean right now? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it's how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.

Sources:
https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Alex_Annie_Alexis_Ann
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/real-life-turkish-vampire-now-cured-16969818/
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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 18, Meta Fiction recap 🪽 Metatron (Curtis Armstrong) is writing the story now, and Gabriel (Richard Speight Jr.) is BACK... or is he? Berly and LA break it all down on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.

Metatron opens the episode at a typewriter in a smoking jacket and ascot, narrating his own story like he's God. And he kind of is now. Meanwhile, Dean is brooding in the shower (we needed more), Cas is on the road with his motel room and no wings, and a familiar face pops up on a Casa Erotica tape before appearing in person on Castiel's couch. Full body shots plus close-ups, interesting angles and lighting. Thank you, Thomas J. Wright!

Episode Highlights:
Metatron in the opening credits, and the jokes about continuity and retcons
Gabriel looking right at the camera: Don't you need gas? (We should have known.)
Dean getting some alone time with Gadreel (Tahmoh Penikett). Gadreel does not leave in good condition.
Metatron fingering Cas with all of human pop culture, so Cas can finally get references
Cas in a SUIT for about forty-five seconds before the trench coat comes back. The audacity.
Sam and Dean's holy fire plan (how many rings did they make, just to be sure?)
Curtis Armstrong clearly having the time of his life
Hannah's I knew it! moment
The story is FINALLY moving forward (thank you, Robbie Thompson!)
In the lore segment, we dig into Gabriel's horn: how Gabriel became the trumpeter of Judgment Day in Milton's Paradise Lost, Armenian religious art, and spirituals like Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel. Gabriel announces births and interprets visions, but when does he pick up the horn? Listen to the end to find out.

"Bitch, please. You've been God more often than Dad has." – Gabriel (to Castiel)
Your turn, hunters: Did the Gabriel reveal get you too? And would YOU blow the horn of Gabriel? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (a review helps other fans find their way to the bunker), or send us fan mail. See you next time. Cheers!

Sources:
https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Meta_Fiction
https://thegoodnewsherald.wordpress.com/2018/08/18/gabriels-horn/
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