In the fifteenth episode of the eighth season of\u00c2\u00a0Supernatural<\/i>,\u00c2\u00a0NO.<\/b> Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Supernatural<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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Trigger Warning: For talk of bestiality, racism\/racial stereotypes<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Oh my god, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all.<\/p>\n
This is, without a doubt, one of the most misguided, poorly thought-out, endless-secondhand-embarrassment-causing, ridiculous things this show or ANY OTHER SHOW I HAVE EVER SEEN has ever, ever,\u00c2\u00a0ever<\/i>, done. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even say that the scenes involving Dean coming to trust Sam are a saving grace to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best Friend with Benefits.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d First of all, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because THE VERY EPISODE TITLE ALONE IS\u00c2\u00a0FUCKING HORRIFYING<\/b>. WHO? WHO THOUGHT OF THIS? WHO WAS SO AMUSED BY BESTIALITY JOKES THAT THEY DEVOTED\u00c2\u00a0AN ENTIRE EPISODE TO THE CONCEPT?<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0Did no one stop them? Were they granted some sort of wish and the entire writing staff and production team and the director all could not stop this person from making DOGFUCKING 101 a reality? I want to take the\u00c2\u00a0genuinely wonderful<\/i> scenes of Dean offering his trust to Sam, and I want to put them in LITERALLY ANY OTHER EPISODE because they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deserve to be tainted by this monstrosity.<\/p>\n
Am I being cruel here? Yes, because this show asked me to sit through a running gag that was HAVING SEX WITH DOGS. You made me do this, and this is what you get.\u00c2\u00a0WHAT THE FUCK,\u00c2\u00a0SUPERNATURAL<\/i>?<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0Was this absolutely necessary? Did this show\u00c2\u00a0need<\/i> a story like this? Sure, the idea of an internal power struggle between witches, fought over moral issues, is interesting. The idea of familiars is a classic of the genre. THERE DID NOT NEED TO BE A SINGLE JOKE ABOUT HAVING SEX WITH DOGS.<\/p>\n
But let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unpack this further, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my duty to point out how this show is not only giving us an episode that thinks HAVING SEX WITH DOGS is a topic ripe for humor, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s UNBELIEVABLY RACIST. Oh, not so funny now, is it? Look, there had to be at least ONE PERSON who thought having a black woman talk about her white lover being HER MASTER was the slightest bit unfortunate. ONE PERSON HAD TO HAVE THOUGHT THAT. I understand that the episode then tries to talk about the power dynamics in a witch\/familiar relationship, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all lost on me when the writers somehow think you can stick this kind of language on a show set in America in an episode SET IN MISSOURI.<\/p>\n
Fun fact: people of color within America, particularly black people within this country, have been fighting the stereotype that we are animals and savages for HUNDREDS OF YEARS. (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m using the collective \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in reference to the various stereotypes associated with people of color in\u00c2\u00a0general<\/i>. I do not include myself in stereotypes associated specifically with black people because that has never historically been used against me. Just want to make that distinction! I have been compared to all sorts of animals in derogatory ways over the years, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to co-opt something that I do not experience.) Even in positive depictions, you still see this association. In many beloved animated features of the last century, the voice cast is full of white people voicing an array of varied characters full of depth and layers, and guess who voices their animal companions? USUALLY BLACK PEOPLE. And let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just say that no one on staff was aware of this stereotype or archetype or history or whatever. We still have the problem that makes it seem like literally\u00c2\u00a0no one<\/i> read this script before committing it to digital space. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like those times in high school drama class when kids would suggest prompts for improv scenes and it was so obvious it was some weird fantasy the dude jerked off to at night, and he just wanted people to act it out for him, and THEN THIS SHOW PUT THAT REALITY ONTO OUR SCREENS.<\/p>\n
Forty goddamn minutes of Sam and Dean Winchester making jokes about HAVING SEX WITH DOGS. This is what just happened. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like a surreal dream because as ridiculous and awful as some of this show has been, I would have figured that\u00c2\u00a0any living human ever<\/i> would think that making a forty-minute episode surrounding a man WHO MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE SEX WITH A DOG is possibly a terrible idea. That is the reality I accept, and so I must be in some parallel universe where a writing staff creating stories for an internationally-known television show in its eighth season feels that a BESTIALITY episode of their show will be well received BY EVEN ONE PERSON. Who was the intended audience for this episode? Did Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming test out their dog sex jokes on their friends? Did they bounce their idea off the rest of the writing staff? Was this episode written during a week when the rest of the staff was at home with the stomach flu? When it got approved, did they quietly dance in their offices, convinced that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d finally live down the infamous Racist Ghost Truck episode they wrote? (Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I forgot about that one, you\u00c2\u00a0two.)<\/p>\n
Actually, let me just spell this shit out: that is two episodes where this writing team has proven that\u00c2\u00a0they cannot write black people and specifically black women<\/i>. I mean, now they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t write DOGS either, so THAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S A WHOLE LOT OF FUN. JUST\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 what?\u00c2\u00a0What<\/i>?<\/p>\n
What a fucking disaster, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. An utter and complete waste, monstrously offensive, tonally disgusting, and an example of a show so completely going out of the bounds of decency that it devotes FORTY-ODD MINUTES TO COUNTLESS JOKES ABOUT HAVING SEX WITH DOGS.<\/p>\n
There aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough hyperbolic statements in the world to convey how I feel.\u00c2\u00a0Fuck<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The video for this awful episode whose title I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to type again can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>. Take solace in knowing that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably quite entertaining to watch my face as I struggle to understand whether or not this episode is really happening.<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – Mark Does Stuff is now on Facebook<\/a>! Feel free to Like the page, which I’m running myself, for updates and SILLINESS. In the fifteenth episode of the eighth season of\u00c2\u00a0Supernatural,\u00c2\u00a0NO. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Supernatural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[591],"class_list":["post-4452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural","tag-mark-watches-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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