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Supernatural Season 8 Episode 1

We Need to Talk About Kevin

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AIRED: Oct 03, 2012

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One year after their battle with the Leviathans, Sam finally finds his brother Dean, who reveals what happened to him and Castiel in Purgatory. They soon reunite with the prophet Kevin and learn about another Word of God... and an unbelievable opportunity.

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Supernatural's Season 8 Premiere: ...And Kevin Makes Three

Nothing says "Winchester Reunion" like resentment and secrecy.

By MaryAnn Sleasman, Oct 04, 2012

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So not the start I was hoping for.

7.0

By Shoxxu, Oct 20, 2012

I think the episode was a mediocre one at best. Don't get me wrong I love supernatural but I think that the episode was lack luster and didn't pull me in as it did in the early seasons. I think that having the ending of the last season get almost wiped away in the next episode was quite unfair to the fans. For some reasons the show always puts Sam and Dean back together as fast as they can. I hope the season get better from here out as I think there is still hope for the show.moreless
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Needed more, didn't feel right

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By BhakarLopared, Oct 09, 2012

This was the opener to season 8. I found myself watching my phone and watching guitar videos at alot of points in the episode. It just didn't have that supernatural spark.
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well theres an hour of my life Ill never get back

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By TanyaH, Oct 08, 2012

one of the worst eps yep and the worst season opener of the whole series. how do you people give it a 8 or 9? the shows been going down hill for years the storys are stupid and repetitive. this WAS once my fav show now i can barley stand to watch it.
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Season 8 Episode 1

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By pootato, Oct 07, 2012

As far as season premieres go, this one was not half bad. I especially appreciated the parallels with S4E1 (when Dean comes back from Hell). The only thing that really bugged me was the way it ended. The episode had so much potential can the S7 finale left it pretty much open,and they did pretty well throughout the episode but the ending was pretty weak.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin

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By Neksmater, Oct 06, 2012

Dean returns from Purgatory a year after he gets sucked in after having killed Dick. In a vast expanse of woods in the in Maine wilderness he happens across two campers and asks where he is. He steals one of their packs and hits the road to Louisiana where he digs up the grave of the person who helped him escape from Purgatory: Benny. Benny is a vamp who hid his soul in Dean's arm when he crossed over. Their dealings being done they go their separate ways and Dean reconnects with Sam after giving him the usual (ok you're not a demon or anything else we've ever encountered before type stuff). Sam explains that he gave up the hunting life after Dean disappeared like he promised he would and didn't even look for him. Dean tells a little about his time in Purgatory and when Sam asks about Castiel Dean simply says that he didn't make it which makes me curious about Dean's time there and what led the peace and love filled Cass possibly turn against Dean? Anyway Dean digs out a bunch of Sam's old phone that he hadn't used at all while he was away and finds messages from Kevin saying he had escaped Crowley's grasp and is in hiding. The two visit Kevin's old girlfriend at her college campus but she says that she doesn't know anything. Turns out the girlfriend was possessed by a demon and alerts Crowley to the Winchesters looking after Kevin and tells Crowley that Dean is surprisingly back on Earth. Sam's details about his life after having hit a dog and living with a woman were much more pleasant and uplifting than Dean's brutal encounters with several nasties in the woods of Purgatory. His edginess is very consistent with that of someone who had been fighting wall to wall for a year. The brothers find Kevin in a church and he tells them that the Word of God that Crowley was having him decipher before he killed the demons looking over him and escaped told of a way to close that gate of Hell forever. This is interesting dynamic-wise since the Winchesters have always been aided by lower level demons to take down much stronger or worse creatures than demons so for them to finally turn against the devils they know is a good plot point to open up rather than having to introduce another batch of baddies like the Leviathans. And when the demons were killed and Crowley was on the phone he asked, "Men?" who refers to their minions like that especially when you're only talking to one, didn't that demon have name? Crowley pays the brothers a visit with Kevin's girlfriend (possessed by a demon) showing and saying that he will release her if Kevin surrenders himself to Crowley. Crowley makes the demon inside of her let his girlfriend speak. I'm sorry but her acting of "Kevin is that you?" was crap and I hated her and her poor acting it was so on the nose. Anyway she gets ganked by Crowley and the brothers escape with Kevin in tow and the Word is still hidden somewhere by Kevin. Is this another year where Crowley is the big bad and is then replaced by another bigger baddie or is this is the year where he is well and true the only villain? That's my question, and will we ever see Misha again as Cass or are we destined to not find out what happened to him until season's end of something? Oh well, a decent opening to Season 8 that put the brothers at odds, as usual, in a way that we haven't quite seen before. That being said I hope that this is the last season. As much as I love this show how much longer can this go on for? Once the demons are banished from Hell forever, what then? I just don't see any other endgame here beyond this seeing as many (myself included) only watch the show for the characters now and everything after Season 5 is less than it was before quality wise. I do sincerely like this show but any genre show like this begins to show its stretches after 8 years and in a recent interview with Jeremy Carver he revealed that he had a plan to make the series go thru Season 10. Come on guys, as some who's been with this show since it started all the way back in 2005 we've had our good run and while I do still find this show fun and entertaining without a good solid season arc it feels too thinly plotted and "why should I care?" than it did before. But they're still keeping it floating. I just felt like that needed to be said that after this season I will most likely not be sticking around.moreless
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Jared Padalecki	Sam Winchester
Jensen Ackles	Dean Winchester

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Lissa Neptuno	Channing Ngo	Guest Star
Sean Carey		Guest Star
Nina Kiri	Channing's Roommate	Guest Star
Liane Balaban	Amelia Richardson	Recurring Role
Ty Olsson	Benny	Recurring Role
Mark Sheppard	Crowley	Recurring Role

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- Sam: Maybe we should split up, ask around, see if anyone's seen him.
  Dean: Yeah. Asian kid, yay high, at a university. That should be easy.
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- Kevin: What the hell happened to you guys?
  Dean: Cliff Notes? I went to Purgatory. Sam hit a dog.
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- Crowley: Dean. Looking... well, let's just say Purgatory didn't do you any favors. Where's your angel?
  Dean: Ask your mother.
  Crowley: There's that grade-school zip. Missed it. I really did.
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- Channing: Kevin...what's going on?
  Kevin: There is a demon in you and you're going to your safety school.
  Channing: What?!?
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- Crowley: Chin up, gentleman. I'm a professional.
  Dean: This ain't over by a long shot, Crowley.
  Crowley: Really, Dean, who writes your stuff? A marshmallow?
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- Sam: Kevin? How you holding up?
  Kevin: Awesome. The King of Hell just snapped my girlfriend's neck. How 'bout you?
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- Music: Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull), Man in the Wilderness (Styx)
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- International Airdates:
  Canada: October 7, 2012 on SPACE
  Australia: October 12, 2012 on Eleven
  India : October 26, 2012 on AXN India
  Norway: November 15, 2012 on FEM
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- Title
  
  The title is a reference to the 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, and the movie of the same name, about a woman who tries to deal with the strange behavior of her child (especially towards herself), and eventually comes to terms when he goes on a shooting spree at his high-school.
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- Dean: So you dropped your peanut butter in her chocolate.
  Referencing the 1970s-80s marketing slogan for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, "Two great tastes that that taste great together. In the TV commercials, a person with chocolate and a person with peanut butter would inevitably collide and mix up their food. One would say "You got your peanut butter in my chocolate!" and the other would say, "You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!", and they'd end up happy with the resulting mixture.
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- Dean: Thirty-one flavors of bottom-dwelling nasties.
  Referencing Baskin-Robbins, the ice cream franchise created in 1953. Per their slogan, they keep at least 31 flavor of ice cream available for their customers, giving a different flavor every day of the month for those who want it.
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