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Happy Halloween!  In celebration of the holiday, today’s entry will focus only on the scariest show of the week… Supernatural.  Tomorrow, when things go back to normal, we’ll post our regular review for The Office. 

REVIEW FOR

SUPERNATURAL
Season Four
Episode Seven
“It’s The Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester”
Written by Julie Siege
Directed by Charles Beeson

Supernatural continues to be the power-house of the fall television season with another strong episode.  This is another chapter in the overall arc of the season, as Sam and Dean race to stop a witch from opening one of the sixty six seals… on Halloween no less.  There is some great character development, and the plot of this episode stretches the moral ambiguity in all new ways when Sam is forced to choose between using how powers to stop a demon nearly as power (if not more powerful) than Yellow Eyes.  There is a lot of mythology and funny one-liners thrown in as well, again proving that this is one of the most textured shows currently airing. Like the last few episodes, this lacked some of the urgency of the first few installments… but that’s to be expected.  The opening to the season was gritty, brutal, and dark, and it got some big things moving.  These episodes are building up for more big things to come, because if a show packs in so many huge events in every episode, those events start to lose their significance.  Hopefully, Heroes will eventually learn what Supernatural has mastered.  This episode served as nice build-up in the angel storyline, the sixty six seals storyline, as well as the character arcs–and I can tell something big is coming this way soon.  I think it’s going to be the revelation of exactly what happened to Dean in hell.