Did someone say queer Dean content? Because we have some of that here...
Truly there’s been so much written about this episode, strictly about Dean and his sexuality, that I’m gonna take one little paragraph here to say that the surface-level parallels (including the vast majority of the THEN segment of this episode) are all sending up flaming red flags about Sam and what he’s secretly up to with Ruby. Even though Ruby isn’t even *in* this episode. Because if we weren’t already worried about Sam and the terrible secrets he’s keeping from Dean, this episode does its best to launch flare guns at us over it.
But the queer Dean content? I got plenty of that too!
Links that will likely be especially of interest this week:
The Superwiki page for this episode
But especially these posts:
An interview with Jim Parrack (the actor who plays Nick) from the official Supernatural magazine (archived from the source) and if that’s hard to read (tumblr version with embiggenable images) (yes, that’s the one where he talks about leaning into the sexuality of the siren, while also playing the character as not strictly male or female)