The Plaidcast Supernatural Rewatch

Join two literary nerds and Supernatural devotees in rewatching and (over)analyzing the show from episode one. We've got work to do! (Spoilers for seasons 1-15!) Can't see our early episodes? Our show catalogue is here: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/theplaidcast Email: theplaidcast@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theplaidcast/

10.21- Dark Dynasty 11/29/2025

10.21- Dark Dynasty Is this episode better than Hamlet? Michelle thinks maybe! ;) Today we discuss one of the most controversial deaths in the series and wear out the "This is Stupid" supercut. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/39203260

10.20- Angel Heart 11/08/2025

10.20- Angel Heart In which we discuss Jimmy Novak's sacrifice, the point of no return for Claire's hair, and why this caramelly episode needed more salt. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/38964220

10.19- The Werther Project 10/25/2025

10.19- The Werther Project [This episode contains discussion of suicide and self-harm.] In which we discuss weaponized independence, diseased killer puppies, the hazards of spell coloring, and an anthem for resisting despair from Gerard Manley Hopkins. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/38779700

Bonus Episode: Pilot Revisited! 10/11/2025

Bonus Episode: Pilot Revisited! In October 2015, we put out the very first episode of the Plaidcast, covering the Pilot of Supernatural. We showed up with enthusiasm, trepidation, a background in literary criticism, a single page of notes, and zero recording experience. We worked hard to keep our episodes concise, because who wants to listen to English teachers ramble for over 70 minutes? 10 years and 230 podcast episodes later, much like the later seasons of the show, all restraints have been abandoned! :) To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we decided to rewatch the episode that started it all, with a new appreciation for Sam's bangs, shadowy public libraries, and Eric Kripke at the helm. We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/38550365

10.18- Book of the Damned 09/21/2025

10.18- Book of the Damned In which we discuss beachside dreams, buried wounds, the maddest thing a man can do, DEAN IN A HOODIE, and the bad bad thing that the sad man did. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/38294560

10.17- Inside Man 09/06/2025

10.17- Inside Man In which we discuss emotional respawning, JC Penney's dresses, the similarities between heaven and Lumon's severed floor, and Dean as Crowley's unpaid therapist. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/38115440

10.16- Paint it Black 08/16/2025

10.16- Paint it Black In which we discuss muddled metaphysics, great shots vs grate shots, and what Sam has in common with Katerina Ivanovna. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/37848160

10.15- The Things They Carried 07/19/2025

10.15- The Things They Carried [This episode includes discussion of suicide.] In which we discuss Andor and individualism, Sam's research deficiencies, Michelle's hydration fixation, and say a final (and long overdue) farewell to Cole! SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/37466970

10.14- The Executioner's Song 06/29/2025

10.14- The Executioner's Song In which we discuss true crime, mixed metaphors, death by soundstage, Cain the palantir, and showdowns vs hoedowns. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/37210270

Bonus Episode: A Conversation With Sheila O'Malley 06/15/2025

Bonus Episode: A Conversation With Sheila O'Malley After following Sheila's writing on Supernatural, film, and television for a decade, we were honored and elated to talk with her about her backwards rewatch of the show, prioritizing character over plot, masculinity in Supernatural, the irresistible but deadly drift towards bureaucracy, good things coming in season 11, and of course the phenom that is Jensen Ackles. You can read The Sheila Variations . You can read "Breaking Down the Schtick" . You can pre-order the Art and Making of Frankenstein . We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/37016640

10.13- Halt and Catch Fire 06/01/2025

10.13- Halt and Catch Fire "Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky tells us that long before phones, people were still murdering and still feeling the guilt. You can do it in a 19th century apartment in Russia. The phones are not the problem. Human nature is." SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/36803780

10.12- About a Boy 05/10/2025

10.12- About a Boy In which we discuss Sam the Stoic and Flower Sommelier, what kind of toilet Lucifer would be, and what it means to pull a Dean Winchester. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/36519085

10.11- There's No Place Like Home 04/19/2025

10.11- There's No Place Like Home In which we discuss sanitized evil, the bummer of binaries, and Winchester exceptionalism. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/36228830

10.10- The Hunter Games 04/07/2025

10.10- The Hunter Games In which we discuss Shakespearean blocking (derogatory), the worst demon butler, Michelle's indifference to Sam's wet hair, and Dean's murderous bowlegs. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/36031930

10.09 The Things We Left Behind 03/08/2025

10.09 The Things We Left Behind In which we discuss Grilled Cheesegate, Dean's purple plaid, Claire vs Jack, the legend of Dad, and Castiel as clown, father, avenger, and doof. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/35585355

10.08- Hibbing 911 02/09/2025

10.08- Hibbing 911 In which we discuss excruciating teambuilding activities, Dean's puppy eyes, Benny erasure, Interview With the Vampire (!), and the unbridled awesomeness of a Donna/Jody team up. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/35208015

10.07- Girls Girls Girls 01/26/2025

10.07- Girls Girls Girls In which we discuss the Show's long-standing vessel dilemma, the scorching of subplots, and a decade-old Sam Laugh preserved in a time capsule. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/35018745

10.06- Ask Jeeves 12/29/2024

10.06- Ask Jeeves In which we discuss pastiche vs parody, which Supernatural characters would have wills, and whether all numerical values are arbitrary. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/34645615

10.05- Fan Fiction 12/14/2024

10.05- Fan Fiction In which we discuss Boy Melodrama, the definitive fancasting for Female Dean, our favorite musical moments, and Epic Art. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/34442435

10.04- Paper Moon 11/23/2024

10.04- Paper Moon In which we discuss "We Time," lycanthropic nature vs. nurture, longterm resources for moral monsters, and the powderkeg of Dean's embarrassment. Also featured: your best and worst of season 9! SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/34120626

10.03 - Soul Survivor - Part 2 10/13/2024

10.03 - Soul Survivor - Part 2 In which we discuss season 9 erasure, Hammergate, and Sam's classroom management strategies. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/33434067

10.03 - Soul Survivor - Part 1 10/13/2024

10.03 - Soul Survivor - Part 1 In which we discuss Dean's blood type, opposing primary-colored shirts, and what Sam could learn from "Princess Peach Showtime." SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/33434047

10.02- Reichenbach 09/28/2024

10.02- Reichenbach In which we discuss MONSTER MONSTERS, the philosophical and literary implications of the title, Crowley's Enneagram type, the contrasts between Demon Dean and Soulless Sam, and Michelle's uninformed opinions about Sam's hair. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/33241662

10.01- Black 09/14/2024

10.01- Black In which we discuss Farah Mendlesohn's "Rhetorics of Fantasy," the saddest bowl of cornflakes and the funniest glass of orange juice, the surprising complexity of Anne Marie, and the evolution and degeneration of Demon Dean. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/33050842

Bonus Episode: 21 Moments That Devastated Us 08/17/2024

Bonus Episode: 21 Moments That Devastated Us We all know the Supernatural writers love to make us cry. Which moments devastated us the most? We had a hard time narrowing it down. We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/32622447

Bonus Episode: Q&A! 07/12/2024

Bonus Episode: Q&A! Thank you for all of your thoughtful questions! Today we take a stab at answering them. We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/32118632

9.23 - Do You Believe in Miracles - Part 2 06/30/2024

9.23 - Do You Believe in Miracles - Part 2 In which we discuss our Best and Worst of season 9, a close reading of "I lied" and "I'm proud of us," and one of the most shocking twists in the series. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/31942577

9.23 - Do You Believe in Miracles - Part 1 06/30/2024

9.23 - Do You Believe in Miracles - Part 1 In which we discuss ancient emails, missing dialogue, Gadreel's redemption, and the writers' comparisons to an HBO series that we did not expect. SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: Facebook: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/31942562

9.22- Stairway to Heaven 06/16/2024

9.22- Stairway to Heaven [This episode contains discussion of suicide.] In which we discuss campy angels, the character assassination of Tessa, and the DEFINITIVE pronunciation of Gadreel! SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find all episodes organized by season on our Facebook page, or scroll through our back catalogue here: /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/31765801

9.21- King of the Damned 06/03/2024

9.21- King of the Damned No one in the history of torture has ever been tortured like we were tortured by Enochian, Gavin, and the seagull anecdotes of random angels in this episode. (Or like you'll be tortured as you listen to us discuss whether a tvs show can have four characters. YES, IT CAN.) SPOILERS for ALL seasons! Looking for earlier episodes? Find all episodes organized by season on our Facebook page, or scroll through our back catalogue here: We would love to hear from you! Email: theplaidcast@gmail.com /episode/index/show/theplaidcast/id/31573007

The Plaidcast Supernatural Rewatch

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