 That's a bit gross. Hey guys, continuing my retro reviews of original Supernatural episodes, this is episode 6 of season 1, otherwise known as Skin. And this was the first time we were introduced to shapeshifters, and really this episode is known for two things. The opening, where we see Dean, looks like he almost just brutally tortured and killed a woman, and being confronted by SWAT team, and the peeling scene. We have not seen this level of FX in this show ever since. If anything, they probably really pushed the sensors and were probably never allowed to do this again, and it's one of the best scenes in the entire episode, it is freaking amazing. I ask you guys after the Bloody Marriott review to give me your favorite moments of skin, and I got pretty much almost all of them were talking about the peeling scene. One of them by Rova Etta really captured her feeling of the scene. Love the episode, but you, not one to watch while you're eating, that's for sure. Kudos to the FX department, that was one really detailed shedding. It is the only time that Supernatural has had a shapeshifter shed that is shown in such detail. They knew what they were doing, it would look so real, it kind of felt like an X-Files type moment while I was watching it. I really miss all the time, effort, and detail put into making the creatures in severed limbs and heads, and all the fun gore of the earlier season, seems like they don't really have an FX budget anymore, I wonder what happened. They've got a lot more with visual effects definitely in recent seasons, they haven't really done makeup a lot in a while, and kind of missed that aspect. This episode started off as I said with Dean looking like he was a culprit in terms of having kidnapped, tortured, and almost killed a girl. They jump back a week earlier, and Sam's gotten a call from one of his old college friends, whose brother has been implicated in a murder even though it's impossible, however it seems as though he was in two places at once. This episode then went into the detail of what shapeshifters are, how you're able to tell them apart, and just the idea of being able to have an ability to basically resemble someone entirely as well as intake their memories. Now that was explained later on when Dean, Evil Dean, is fighting Sam and how he's recollecting memories as well as his traits and his skills. It was actually kind of a cool episode, admittedly this was done better when they go to the insane asylum later on when Sam gets possessed sort of by the evil doctor guy there. They was trying to kind of create this sort of inner drama, these inner thoughts about the brothers, about what they really think of each other. This was done okay, but it's way better done in the later on asylum episode. Jensen Ackles actually did a pretty good job in my opinion as a villainous character. He was really antagonistic, he really liked to pressure Sam, and it was cool seeing him be sort of this dark self of himself. Obviously he was done way better 10 seasons later as Demon Dean, but I still thought he did a good job in this episode. While the episode is really remembered for the effects of the gore, it doesn't really hold up as much anymore in terms of how the rest of the story holds up, especially since there was a far better shapeshifter episode in season 2, you know the one I'm talking about. In the end, I'm going to give skin a 4 out of 7, I liked it. I think it was enjoyable. Oddly enough though, if you guys actually watched the Netflix version of the episode, that shedding scene, at least for me on Canadian Netflix, it's not playing the right song. It's playing some weird, really lazy tonal crap when the version that I have on the original season 1 DVD is Hey Man, Nice Gun, or Nice Shot by Filter, and that song worked perfectly. It really worked well with the shedding part, it was awesome. Some of you guys also commented on what the characters had to deal with with police in terms of this is the first time Warp Dean died, as well as this is when they really kind of got on the board with the cops. Ergo, this is what led into the FBI agent who would start hunting them down after the bank scene in season 2. Aaron Drake had a good point about this. Skin is awesome because it sets up the trickles with the law, back when shit had consequences, unlike the Leviathan shapeshifters or their recent run-in with the Secret Service, which I'm not holding my breath out for, for any consequences there. You were right. It's always riveting to seeing a bad guy frame a protagonist and how they get out of it. I always love the effects of the creature shedding and always gross me out, and I love the use of Filters Hey Man, Nice Shot. So like I said, don't watch the Netflix version. That episode's wrong. Finally, we got a quote from Uticorn379. I liked how we saw someone from Sam's past at college. I also liked the shot with the shapeshifter changes and sheds and has a scheme of Dean. I also know Dean was arrested in the first episode and even in the Bloody Mary episode almost arrested again. But I think it was the first time it was something so big that it was the first time, the real time, that certain cops started to pay attention and we would see more in the future. This did start setting up that FBI character who was introduced in season two. Either way, guys, I hope you enjoyed this review. The next episode is Hookman and that's obviously based off the classic Urban Legend. So tell me what you guys liked about that episode, what you remember from it, and give me any updates of what you think about this review and this episode. Anyway, guys, I hope you enjoyed these reviews. I'll see you guys with the next one.