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Supernatural Season 1, Episode 12, Faith recap 🙏 Dean gets a death sentence, a blind faith healer gets a Reaper problem, and Julie Benz breaks our hearts on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast. Plus, we're officially halfway through season one!

First, some fandom news from Berly's deep dive into SPN Twitter: there are SAM GIRLS and DEAN GIRLS who fight each other (we're Team Both), Wincest shippers exist (oh no), and our blood splooge count is a disappointing ONE. Berly also started listening to Supernatural Then and Now with Rob Benedict and Richard Speight Jr., until they made the same dingo ate my baby joke we did. LA was not pleased. THAT'S HER JOKE, DAMMIT.

The episode opens with Dean getting WRECKED by 100,000 volts while fighting a rawhead, a basement-dwelling, child-eating monster. Pro tip: standing in water + tasering a monster = massive heart attack. The doctor gives Dean a few weeks to live, and Dean just... accepts it? This man is terrified of planes and going home, but death? Totally chill. Sam is NOT having it and drags Dean to a faith healer in Nebraska.

Enter Roy LeGrange (great ZZ Top name) and his tent revival. Dean makes a snarky comment about wallets, the BLIND preacher hears him anyway, and he picks Dean to heal. Dean sees a creepy, prune-faced man in black behind Roy, passes out, and wakes up HEALED. But across town, a jogger drops dead of a heart attack at the exact same moment.

Episode Highlights:

• Sam being the CUTEST trying to help Dean walk, and Dean being like GET OFF ME
• Sick Dean with bags under his eyes? We'd still hit it
• Layla, played by Julie Benz of Angel and Dexter, and Team Layla all the way
• Sue Ann being hilariously bad at hiding evidence (she flips her necklace to SHOW the symbol, then hides it)
• The excessive dust in the office that looked like sawdust
• Sam's cheesiest proud face as he leaves so Dean can say goodbye to Layla
• The Reaper's eye effects (that milky film was COOL)
• Blue Öyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper, of course

In the lore segment, we dig into Grim Reaper origins, from Thanatos, the Greek god of death (twin brother of Hypnos), to the Valkyries, the Norse choosers of the slain, to how the plague gave us the scary skeleton version we know today. And the scythe? A harvesting tool for souls!

"That fabric softener teddy bear. Oh, I'm gonna hunt that little bitch down." – Dean Winchester

Your turn, hunters: Team Sam, Team Dean, or Team Both like us? And did Layla deserve better? (Yes.) Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it's how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.

Resources:

• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Faith
• https://www.britannica.com/story/where-does-the-concept-of-a-grim-reaper-come-from
• https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/grim-reaper.htm

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