As an episode, "Home" is an absolute tease. Right away, there's this dangling carrot of awesomeness and resolution, but, as it turns out, the carrot is well, a carrot, and carrots, while versatile, are not that great.
Allow me to be even more vague. The episode begins with a woman, recently moved into a new house. But, this new house is actually the Winchesters' old house, so there's this pervasive insistence that we're finally going to get a clue as to what's going on, why Mommy Winchester died, and exactly what killed her. Well, guess what. We don't. Instead we get this constant back and forth teasing, wherein we are led to believe that we are going to get answers, only to have us slapped in the face
(like this)
and led to believe that it's just another freak-of-the-week affair. By the end, we are so discombobulated by this bitch-slappery of tease that answers feel like questions and we feel like we've just been dragged along through what would have been an emotional roller coaster if Supernatural was the kind of show that could elicit emotional responses.
By the end, we're left with a rushed introduction (and final departure) of the Winchesters' long-lost mom, the knowledge that something's up with Sam (which we kind of knew already), and the fact that John is keeping tabs on the boys but he has some kind of mysterious thing he needs to be sure about before he talks to them.
It's not by any means the worst episode to date, but the overall quality and lack of coherence fail to cash the cheques "Home" is writing.
Rating: 3.0 stars
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