Review for 5x01 'Sympathy For The Devil'

The S5 opener Sympathy For The Devil, by courtesy of Eric Kripke, was neither as emotional and character driven as In My Time Of Dying, nor as well structured and groundbreaking as Lazarus Rising, but it wasn’t a disaster like The Magnificent Seven either. Overall the believable character work outweighed annoyances with the mytharc development, failed attempts at humour and badly structured scenes and made it a mostly enjoyable watch. However, the episode did raise a couple of concerns about the direction of the character arcs this season, but it’s way too early to discern how much of that concern is misdirected, so I’ll try to remain positive.

( I don’t think that we can ever be what we were. )