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Supernatural Season 6, Episode 1, Exile on Main Street recap 🏡 It's the season six premiere, one year later: Dean is living the normal life with Lisa (Cindy Sampson) and Ben (Nicholas Elia), mowing the lawn and building a garage, until a djinn, a hallucination of the Yellow-Eyed Demon, and a VERY familiar face come crashing back into his life, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast. (The title is a nod to the Rolling Stones album.)

First, thank you to Brittany K. for the five-star review! Then it's on to the episode: Dean has kept his promise to Sam and walked away from hunting. But the nightmares never stopped, Lisa has been seeing red flags for a year, and Dean's still keeping a stash of weapons in the shed. After a guys' night with his neighbor Sid (Russell Porter), Dean starts seeing Azazel (Fredric Lehne) everywhere, and help arrives from someone he never expected to see again. Plus, meet the Campbells: Samuel Campbell (Mitch Pileggi) is back from the dead too, with three hunter cousins in tow.

Episode Highlights:

• Dean, suburban dad: lawn, garage, Sunday barbecue
• Dean pulling a gun on a Yorkie into the shed (Yellow Fever flashbacks?)
• Azazel taunting Dean, up close and personal
• The surprise reunion that left us screaming
• Bobby meeting Lisa and Ben for the first time: Nice to finally meet you. (It's been a YEAR, Dean.)
• Grandpa Samuel Campbell and cousins Gwen, Christian, and Mark
• Our honest take? Not the strongest premiere. We're confused, and you might be too.

In the lore segment, we dig into the jinn of pre-Islamic Arabia: shape-shifting, dual-dimensional beings made of smokeless fire, and …and the Arabian Nights tale The Fisherman and the Jinni, which inspired Disney's Aladdin. Plus, our tangent into Three Thousand Years of Longing (best thrifting ever).

"The guy that basically just saved the world shows up at your doorstep. You expect him to have a couple of issues." – Lisa Braeden

Your turn, hunters: Could Dean ever really live the normal life? And seriously, who locked that Yorkie in the shed? 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.

Sources:

• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Exile_on_Main_Street
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k7ekv/what-are-jinn-arab-spirits

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