 It's not as bad as if people say it is, except it kind of is. Holy crap guys, it's been four months since I reviewed Hookman, I'm really slow at this. But admittedly, after season 12 of season finale, I was a little bit burnt out as well as bummed out. I wasn't a big fan of the season finale of season 12, here's hoping the season 13 is a better product. However, bugs! This is an episode that I was actually kind of looking forward to seeing the comments for, because this has been an episode that's been widely regarded as one of the worst episodes they ever made for the show. I don't think it's that bad. Admittedly, the ending's dumb. But I don't think it's as bad as they say it is. Sure, the idea of bugs being enemies is kind of interesting, and then kind of as well as the whole ancient Indian burial ground, they were going to have to use that stereotype at least once. And they did. And it was a... So there are some scares that are actually not too bad. I actually like the idea of people being aligned by bugs, because that's terrifying to me, and they do it decently. But really it comes down to the ending. The ending is dumb, because we are supposed to believe that they fight off bugs for the entire night. The entire night, which lasts five minutes. It was really bad pacing, and in the end they're all kind of just like doing this. They should all have been covered with bazillion wasp bites. They all should have died. But it was kind of a retrospective look at the idea of the conflicting views of their father by Sam and Dean through the young boy who was trying to convince his father that shit be bad in that neighborhood. And it's kind of cool to see the reflecting going back and forth. When they're trying to tell the kid what to say to his dad to get him out of the house, Sam says, make him believe, make him understand, make him believe in you. Dean just grabs the phone and is like, don't do that. Just tell him you have a pain in your right side and that you need to go to the hospital. And he looks at Sam afterwards and is like, make him believe you. And that's a great introspective into the relationships of the brothers. Do we need a 42 minute episode about bug-deeding people to get that? Not entirely. And like I said, the ending is not the best at all. And I got some comments from you guys as well, so I'm going to read some here. This one's from Kay Scruton. I was hilarious. The gay jokes were for me in bugs. Even the first time watching it, when it ended, there was something that was really bothering me and I couldn't put my finger on it. I realized that this was showing it to a friend. The ending is super rushed. So Sam and Dean go into the house at the same time and the horde of flies and bees show up. I think this was around midnight in the episode and then they're in the house for maybe 10 minutes at the most and the sun is up. Also the sun rises gradually, bringing the light up until the sky is lit, right? Well according to Supernatural, it takes five seconds for the sun to completely rise. What's even worse is in the retrospective before season 10, Robert Singer said that they knew bugs was going to be terrible and they practically begged Eric Kripke not to do it. They had to CGI in bees because the real ones they filmed couldn't be seen or the cameras that they had. One thing I can give the episode credit for is that it gave us time with, it gave us that line from Chuck in season 11 episode 20 with the last time I saw Pat Look in an editor's face. I just handed in bugs. Got another one here from Rob Hanna. For bugs, despite all the negativity this episode gets, I loved it. The effects were lousy but the story about the Native American curse just felt so real. Supernatural usually uses stereotypical Canadian, Mexican and later on they do Native Americans for comedy of course but this was one just was clearly not, did not. And I guess that this is why I like the episode so much. The gay jokes were hilarious too. And the kid is Sam Alfie, well the actor is anyways. Oh yeah, okay now I get it. The kid in this episode would reappear as one of the angels who was a pizza boy later on in the show. Shit, wow, that's kind of interesting but that was like almost like a 10 year, how long of a break was that? Anyways guys in the end I'll give bugs a 3 out of 7. It's not awful but it's definitely an episode that only is remembered basically for its title and the controversy around it as well as just the loud sort of appreciation the episode gets. Anyways guys, I'm going to be reviewing Home next. Home was a very interesting episode, this was actually the first time that Mary made a physical appearance since the first episode when she died. It also had this African American lady who was a spiritualist, she was like a ghost reader and all this stuff. I loved her character and she never came back once in the entire show. So I'm looking forward to that one. Give me your thoughts in the comments below about what you think and I'll try and say some of them in the review for the next episode whenever I get around to that. Also October 13th is coming around so that means season 13 is coming around and yes I will be reviewing the episodes for as long as I can handle them. As long as the show is god back on course. Mary beat Lucifer with holy ring gauntlets with fricking fisticuffs with... You kidding me? Anyways, that's all from me. See you guys later.