We've had Supernatural's take on vampires, now it's the turn of that other staple of horror fiction: the werewolf.
Sam and Dean are investigating the death of a businessman, found mauled in his office with his heart ripped out. They suspect that the attacker is the ex-boyfriend of the man's assistant Madison (Emmanuelle Vaugier), but, this being Supernatural, things are never straight forward.
Sometimes, I can't help thinking that shows that thrive on the twist need an occasional Occam's Razor storyline where the obvious solution is the correct one for a change; just to throw smart-arses like me off the scent.
But once the 'surprise' is revealed, Heart moves in a totally different, emotional direction as the brothers hunt desperately for a cure for lycanthropy that leads to one of the most powerful final scenes this series has yet given us.
Once again, Supernatural has taken a horror cliche (the werewolf) and reinvented it for its own ends.
Thursday, 27 November 2008
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Jeez, this one was a gutwrencher. I saw the first twist (werewolf's identity) coming, but wasn't paying attention to how much time had passed in the episode, so the second twist (about the status of the cure) took me completely by surprise. Good, good, moving episode overall. Nice acting all around. Emmanuelle Vaugier looked familiar to me, but I couldn't quite place her (she reminded me of Robia LaMorte, Buffy's Jenny Calendar), but I found out I'd seen her in Human Target.
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