This is a promising start. At first the episode looked like it was going to be some kind of terrible Evil Dead rip off but as the first scene developed I could tell that something was slightly off about it. The acting was a little over the top and the background sky looked very fake. Just as I was about to lay into the episode, it was revealed that this was just a film set and the people I was watching were just in the middle of rehearsing a scene.
One of the tech guys has a conversation with the lead actress (her name is Terra but I don't know how that is spelt so I'm sticking with that!) about how he thinks the set is haunted. Sure enough it doesn't take long for him to be found dead and hanging from the lighting gantry. Terra finds him and lets loose a brilliant scream, much to the director's delight who mistakenly believes she is rehearsing for the next scene. It's a good strong funny opening to an episode. Don't let me down now!
There was an inside joke! And I actually understood it! Dean and Sam are on a tour of the studios and the tour guide mentions that they will soon be passing the set of The Gilmore Girls and if they're lucky they may spot one of the stars of the show. At this Sam looks a little nervous and jumps from the tour bus. Jared Padalecki (Sam) also starred in The Gilmore Girls! I very much approve of this kind of humour. Brilliant!
I like it when things like that are aknowledged. I usually put too much thought into such things. For example, and I'm going slightly off topic here, I remember watching the movie Scream and in that movie there is a scene where a group of characters are watching Halloween. Now that's fair enough. However in Halloween H2O (a sequel to Halloween) there is a scene where a character is watching Scream 2. Now that got me thinking. In the Halloween universe, if someone can watch Scream 2 then they must also be able to watch Scream, at which point they will be watching a film where a group of characters are watching a film about them! Clear? Well it messes with my mind anyway so now it can mess with yours!
Anyway back to the plot. Sam has decided to take the trip to LA as a kind of holiday to get over what happened to Madison. I suppose it was made such a big deal of in the last episode that it had to be at least mentioned again but I just want to try to forget about the whole Madison incident. Dean mentions that he was expecting more sunshine from LA and that it feels more like Canada. This is another inside joke, because that's where Supernatural is filmed so they actually are in Canada! I'm on fire today! I'm so proud of myself!
Things are getting more interesting now. Dean and Sam have discovered that Frank (the crew guy that died) was actually an actor and isn't dead at all. It was all some kind of publicity stunt to make out that the studio is haunted. I was just starting to believe that this might turn out to be the first episode of Supernatural to not actually feature any supernatural elements...then a grey ghost lady turns up and hangs one of the producers.
I'm not sure, but there might be another inside joke that I'm not quite getting. The director of the film (Hell Hazers 2) is being referred to as McG. Now I know that the main producer of Supernatural is McG. I don't think it's the same guy but I'm guessing they've used his name as joke. Adding credence to this idea is that when they show a trailer for Hell Hazers 2, it mentions that the director was also director of the Charlie's Angels movies, and the real McG was connected with those movies so maybe it's supposed to be the same guy.
All these references are making it more difficult to concentrate on the actual plot! Oh another person has been killed by the way. Sucked into a massive fan on the set...because fans can be set to suck apparently...and have the strength to drag a full grown man across a studio. That's ghosts for you!
The disgruntled writer of the movie has hidden actual summoning rituals into the script which has been causing the ghosts to materialise and kill people. Dean, Sam and one of the producers are trapped in the studio as the spirits surround them. Sam realises that the ghosts only show up on camera so he uses the camera on his phone to scan the area whilst Dean blasts any ghosts that turn up with a shotgun. Imagine a more adult version of Pokemon Go and you'll get the general idea.
Walter, the writer smashes the talisman he has been using to control the ghosts which lets them go free and they tear him to pieces. And all because he couldn't accept a few changes to his script.
And that's pretty much it. Except that the producer now introduces the idea of the camera phone into the movie which proves to be a hit and Dean randomly jumps into bed with Terra. (The bitch!)
Supernatural is back on top form! Although I'm a bit confused about Frank's "death" at the start. That took up a good 10 minutes of the episode and then it turned out to be fake and added nothing to the overall story. It felt like they'd realised the episode was under running by 10 minutes so they threw that in to bulk the story out. That being said, I still enjoyed it.
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