Bobby's taken one to the dome--will the mid-season finale be the end of Sam and Dean's surrogate father?
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Tags Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Supernatural, The CW

Take a comic book, put it on TV, and the fans go nuts. Take a TV show and adapt it to a comic and… Not so much. Mainly because most of them are shockingly bad. That said? There’s been a few TV to comic book adaptations that don’t just not suck, they’re actually good. Here are ten of the best:

10. True Blood

IDW’s recent comics based on the sweaty, dirty HBO vampire series may lack the wall-to-wall nudity, but they make up for it in crazy creatures and buckets of blood. It’s tough to nail the voices of “real” characters, but these comics do it swimmingly… Fake sounding Southern accents and all.

9. Supernatural

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Tags Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Firefly, Muppets, Supernatural, True Blood

A mostly so-so episode has a pretty jarring ending leading into the mid-season finale.

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Tags CW, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Supernatural

Please note: calling out a trope and making a whole episode out of it does not automatically make said trope funny again. Case in point: this week's clunky episode of Supernatural that sees Sam getting married under mysterious circumstances to Sam and Dean superfan, Becky Rosen (Emily Perkins, who, I'm just now realizing is Brigitte from the first two, very, very good Ginger Snaps movies). The sum total gag of the episode (and I don't feel like this is really any kind of spoiler at all) is that Sam is magically roofied by a painfully nerdy fan, and it's all kind of a big bummer all around since the episode does nothing more than tread water and avoid the main storyline of the season. We get it, you guys don't know what the deal is with Leviathan, either.
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Tags CW, Emily Perkins, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Supernatural

To the best of my knowledge, I've never met anyone who went to a psychic or called a psychic hotline back when that was a whole thing. Well, in this week's episode of Supernatural, Sam and Dean investigate a series of murders in a small town that just full of sham psychics and clairvoyants.
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Tags CW, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Supernatural

In this week's episode, Sam and Dean get murderous doppelgangers, while Bobby attempts to MacGuyver some kind of means of hurting Leviathan.
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Tags CW, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Supernatural

Charisma Carpenter and James Marsters return to the CW as bickering witches in this week's episode.

After four straight weeks of pretty dark/emotionally-grim episodes, "Shut Up, Dr. Phil" attempts to bring the funny to Supernatural with Sam and Dean investigating a series of improbable murders in a small town linked to a married couple on the outs (Carpenter, Marsters). While the War of the Roses meets the frequently called-out Bewitched premise has a lot of promise, as with last week, there's not enough time to spend with the interesting villains.

Those villains, of course, being--no big spoiler here--married witches played by former Buffy and Angel alums Charisma Carpenter (still fine--yeah I said it) and James Marsters (does this guy age at all). As wealthy bigwigs in a small town, their escalating tensions are causing some of the local plant life to rot, statues to explode, and acquaintances and friends to die gory, agonizing deaths. With the exception of a bit of counseling at the end of the episode and a last-minute save of a potential victim, Sam and Dean don't have a whole lot to do this episode, placing a lot of it on Marsters and Carpenter. Unfortunately, more than a third of "Shut Up, Dr. Phil" is structured like a mystery, requiring Sam and Dean to catch up to where any viewer who watched the preview from last week starts off: that is to say, they're dealing with dueling witches. It's also a shame that Carpenter and Marsters' characters don't exactly share a lot of screen time--these are two actors who can do heated/funny bickering well and it's a missed opportunity keeping them separated for so long.

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Tags Charisma Carpenter, CW, James Marsters, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Supernatural

This week's episode of Supernatural feels like the first truly missed opportunity of the season, opening up an intriguing can of worms about Dean's character along with the repercussions of his actions and then promptly shutting all of that down with "monster of the week" nonsense.

Without any new leads on Leviathan, Sam and Dean follow up on a series of improbable murders in a small town. Each of the victims has some horrible incident for which they were responsible, and in each case, their deaths somehow mirror the thing they did. Doing a little research, the boys learn that it's none other than the Egyptian god Osiris, played by Iron Man and Star Trek (2009) actor Faran Tahir. Apparently, every few years he shows up in a random location and sits in judgement of people feeling profound guilt, dooming them to a poetically just death (i.e. the hit and run driver is run down in his own apartment, etc.). Still shaken up by killing the demon mother from last week, Dean crosses the sardonic god's path, opening up a perfect opportunity to take a look at the kind of messed up life the elder Winchester brother has led up to this point. Read more...

Tags CW, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Supernatural

Jensen Ackles (Dean) directs this flashback-heavy episode as Sam confronts a past hunt.
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Tags CW, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Supernatural

Something's in the water's making people evil and it ain't the fluoride.
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Tags CW, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Mischa Collins, Supernatural