Supernatural Recap: Exile on Main St.

Supernatural is back! But it’s not the same, after all we don’t even get a road so far.

But, Dean’s now Mr. Respectable, doing the whole 9 to 5 routine, not knowing that his brother is out there somewhere. He’s a family man, with Lisa and son Ben, he does construction. He barbeques on the weekends, and he double checks that the house is safe before heading to bed. Everything he thought he always wanted, but during it all he looks bored out of his mind. Heck he's not even giving his baby some much needed attention, his poor Impala sits alone in the garage undriven.

At one of those barbeque's Dean runs Azazel, but lucky for him, it isn't real, just a little djinn poisioning, and  Sam comes to his rescue. Sam has followed in his father’s and brother’s footsteps and is the latest Winchester to come out of hell. He’s a little stoic, a little stiff, but then again he did come out of hell, and maybe that’s the way he copes. We know he went to hell, we just don’t know how long he stayed, or how he got out.
Sam forced to tell his brother that he’s back. And its perfect timing too, Dean keeps having hallucinations of the Yellow-Eyed Demon. At first Dean doesn’t believe his eyes, but after a little awkward hug, they’re reunited. It’s not the same. Sam now, is very much how Dean was. He’s take charge, kill first ask later, and I’m not really feeling it. There’s a big disconnect between them, more than a whole you went to hell thing, because that’s more common than it should be in this family.

But not only has Sam been back for a year, he’s been hunting with some members of his maternal family, the Campbells. And although Dean is a little angered that Sam didn’t tell him that he made it out of hell, he understands that his intentions on giving him a normal life were good. And do the boys are off, but first they have to get Lisa and Ben to safety.

They stop by Bobby’s, depositing Lisa and Ben, and Dean learns that Bobby knew of Sam’s return from the start, dealing another crushing blow to Dean. Two people Dean trusted kept this very big secret from him, all in the name of protecting him, how quaint. But Lisa takes the whole dean retuning to hunting pretty well.

And then there’s Grandddaddy Campbell, whose also been resurrected alongside Sam. There’s no clue as to why this has happened, but it has, and it not like this is the first time Dean has met his grandfather. He also meets some of his cousins, but something seems off about the whole lot of them, like they have a hidden agenda or something. The Campbells are a long line of hunter, extending back generations, which leads to the question of why.


Dean returns to be with Lisa and Ben, but you can't help but to wonder how long it will truly last.

Off to the hunting of the actual evil that brought Dean out of Suburbia. The Djinns have been messing with Dean, because the boys killed their father, way back in season 2. They want revenge, and horrific imagery and poisionings is definitely doing the trick. But the Djinn aren’t in their normal hiding places, they’re passing for humans until it’s time to inflict their poison on their victim. They’re acting in ways they never have in the past, the boys still manage to defeat them, but that opens more questions on what’s changed.