Season 2 Final Rankings
Here is our final Season 2 Ranking, as decided by Sarah and I through my arbitrary points system! We’re starting at the bottom and moving to the top. This was a long time coming so lets get to it!
Ranking 13-22 (the just okay the the god awful)
#22 - Heart
My score: 5
Sarah’s score: 5
Total points: 32
God we hated this episode, I think the only one we hated more was Route 666 from last season. The continuity within the episode was off, the dialog was terrible, the characters (including the boys) were flat, and the werewolf creature design? Lazy, Lazy, Lazy. The werewolves not only looked like sh*t, but they don’t even really look like werewolves! Just like...wtf was this? Why did we have to watch this?
#21 - No Exit
My score: 5
Sarah’s score: 6
Total points: 33
Not a great day for feminism indeed. It’s like they didn’t know what to do with Jo so they just fell back onto tired old troupes. I can’t wait until she gets some actual, you know, character.
#20 - The Usual Suspects
My score: 5
Sarah’s score: 6
Total points: 36
Dull, predictable and honestly only tangentially supernatural. This plot could easily fit into an episode of CIS with very few tweaks. Ugh, this really was the tone for the season wasn’t it? Also why was this what they came up with for guest star Linda Blair who is most well known for The Exorcist? You’d think that would inspire something more fantastical than this.
#19 - Houses of the Holy
My score: 6
Sarah’s score: 6
Total points: 41
We get talk of angels, but not anything close to the actual angels that end up on the show in later seasons. And, boy oh boy, were the themes way too on the nose. Boring and unnecessary.
#18 - Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things
My score: 5
Sarah’s score: 6
Total points: 44
The title for this ep is abysmal and it doesn’t get better from there. There’s some emotional ideas here that could work, but they just weren’t executed properly. Yet another underwhelming episode.
#17 - Roadkill
My score: 5
Sarah’s score: 6
Total points: 47
This was perfectly serviceable, but ultimately not as good as some of our favorite one-off episodes, and has no ties to the season arc. Tricia Helfer is amazing as always but this is another instance of Supernatural not knowing what to do with their special guest stars. A trend that will get down right embarrassing in later seasons.
#16 - Born Under a Bad Sign
My score: 8
Sarah’s score: 7
Total points: 57
We were both hyped to watch this, but we were both let down. There’s some interesting things, some good acting, but also some on the nose dialog and one of the cringiest, most uncomfortable scenes we’ve seen in Supernatural to date.
#15 - Everybody Loves a Clown
My score: 7
Sarah’s score: 7
Total points: 58
Text book definition of the whole is not as good as the sum of it’s parts. The monster’s interesting, but not executed as well as it could have been. The B plot (A plot?) is interesting as Sam and Dean come to terms with their dad’s death. Jensen knocks it out of the part as always, it just isn’t as cohesive as it should be.
#14 - All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1
My score: 7
Sarah’s score: 7
Total points: 59
The set up for the finale was just okay. Sarah and I are really starting to realize we don’t like Sam-centric episodes...Dean girls to the end! The best thing about this episode was the surprise ending and the brilliant performances of the entire Supporting Cast. (Also why was this part 1 and part 2? It still gets to me, that it’s not technically a two parter its just named like it is.)
#13 - Playthings
My score: 7
Sarah’s score: 7
Total points: 60
A good one-off, old school spooky horror for the win. I also need to give a shout out the cinematography for giving us a Shining homage in this haunted bed and breakfast, where Dean gets to take the place of his beloved Jack Nicolson. Overall a beautifully shot episode.
