Review | 7x22 | There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood by Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin is an entirely plot-driven episode that picks up right from where Reading Is Fundamental left off. The episode mainly deals with Sam and Dean’s 'Easter egg hunt' for the ingredients needed to forge an anti-leviathan weapon – a hunt that forces them to strike several alliances that they are not at all comfortable with – but it also moves Bobby’s storyline forward. All in all, I think the episode is fairly entertaining. It is well paced, has a row of interesting guest characters and a storyline that manages to hold my interest. More importantly though, it gives us Sam and Dean as a well attuned team and even offers some light-hearted moments between them, which is definitely a step up from last week. Sure, There Will Be Blood is not the most exciting penultimate episode of a season ever, but it is not a complete let-down either.

( So, now you want to prevent the extermination of the vampire race? )

And once again I am sorry this review is late and a bit rough around the edges. Unfortunately, I have been bed-ridden due to illness these last couple of days and my fever-muddled brain refused to cooperate on, well, anything really. But I wanted to get this out before the next episode monopolises my brain; I can always smooth this one out later. We’re having a long hiatus in front of us, after all.