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- brotherly banter and matter-of-fact attitude towards dealing with monsters
- an episode of the week structure that uses several genre tropes (the Rashomon episode, the episode where they live a completely different life)
- serious emotional character developments and philosophical arguments, and
- a solid mythology for the show.
All the episodes have been fun, but the standouts for me are: No Exit (their take on 'Saw'), Nightshifter (weirdly, I feel it's inspired by 'Inside Man' and it's a great sequel to a Season 1 ep), Heart (werewolves, and a pretty amazing conclusion), and Hollywood Babylon (an satire of trashy Hollywood movies - Pearce, if there's one episode you should watch it's this one).
This second season has basically put all the pieces into place for a third season dealing with a war of demons vs hunters. I'm about to watch the two part season finale, and my expectations are high. The end of Season 1 had the highest proportion of cliffhangers-and-twists to running time of any episode of TV I've seen since the Season 1 finale of Twin Peaks.
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The end of Season 2 was good IMO. I felt that season 2 didn't quite keep the overarching plots ramping up like in season 1, so this did effect it.
However, I also found that the finale of Season 2 wrapped up many things so well that I wasn't too stressed about seeing Season 3 any time soon.
I freaking love the Rashomon/trickster episode. So so funny!
"Dean! This is really important!"
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