Again, when we begin the episode (after the teaser with the unfortunate 300-pound man getting an impromptu monster-based liposuction), Dean gets some fancy camera work staged around him. This seems to be a theme in recent episodes. Intentional, or does it just look cool? And I want to mention how happy I am that Dean says “So we’ve got a Thinner situation?” Mostly because I made that reference at the end of my review last week. Sam and Dean eventually connect the fat-sucking murders to a spa and go undercover. Sam ends up a yoga instructor and Dean a kitchen worker. This is almost a direct opposite of their roles in the episode “After School Special,” when Dean plays a high school gym teacher and Sam a janitor. The funniest moment of the episode is ironically when Dean is in trouble. They drugged the pudding! Dean sounds like he’s drunk-dialing Sam when he calls for help. It’s another one of those roll-your-eyes-at-Dean moments where he eats something he shouldn’t and suffers the consequences. Anyone hungry for turducken? The only way I can figure why this episode was aired now is because there are a couple mentions at the beginning and end of the episode of Sam’s ultimatum to Dean about them not being brothers anymore. We never expected Dean to go along with it, and he even makes the remark that he doesn’t break that easy. That familiar fight changes when Sam calls Dean out for being selfish and lonely. He claims Dean only keeps saving him because Dean doesn’t want to be alone. All around, not a terrible episode, but there wasn’t really anything new here. Themes and even characters seemed recycled from the past. Den of Geek Rating: 3 Out of 5 Stars Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
