The dead have risen. Must be Thursday.

5.15 "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"

1. In the previous few episodes I'd been thinking that Dean was looking crazy tired and this was possibly just make-up being unable to disguise the fact that Jensen is starting to look old. I could not have been more wrong. In this episode he looked downright beautiful. Behold:


2. "Awesome. Another horseman. Must be Thursday." Really, Jeremy Carver? Really? 1) The "this show airs on Thursday" joke was already done better in "Wishful Thinking" and 2) this is a straight up ripoff of "Dawn's in trouble. Must be Tuesday." Maybe next time leave the meta to Ben Edlund.

3. Zombies! Zombie kid holding his dad's entrails, FTW!

4. No, Sam, Bobby's not okay. Dean's not okay. Castiel isn't even okay. You're really going to have to figure out how to make yourself okay because nobody around you has the energy to take care of you anymore. Suck it up and deal before Lucifer makes you his bitch.

5. Where the hell is Castiel?