Crossroad Blues
- Episode aired Nov 16, 2006
- TV-14
- 42m
IMDb RATING
8.6/10
6.2K
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The people of a small town have been selling their souls to a crossroad demon.The people of a small town have been selling their souls to a crossroad demon.The people of a small town have been selling their souls to a crossroad demon.
Lilian Umurungi
- Lloyd's Patron #3
- (as Lilian Umurgungii)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRobert Johnson was a young, and by all accounts untalented, boy who, in the early 1920s when he was in his late teens, would hang around bars listening to the Blues musicians of the day. He dreamed of being able to play like them. From accounts of his contemporaries, he disappeared for a few months and when he resurfaced he could play Blues better than everyone. He shot to fame almost over night. His music does feature many occult references, and the legend grew that he had sold his soul to the devil in return for talent and fame. He died at 27, under mysterious circumstances. There are several different accounts of his death, and he left behind at least three women claiming to be his widow. It is unknown if or where he was buried. To this day he remains an artistic legend, and those who remembered him maintained till they died that they had never seen anything like him before or since.
- GoofsThe picture of the black dog that Dean comments on is actually that of Fenrir, a monstrous wolf in Norse mythology, not a hell hound. His destructive powers were so feared that the gods had no choice but to imprison him. Also in the picture is the god Tyr, a deity noted for his courage and strength.
- Quotes
Dean Winchester: We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous.
- ConnectionsReferences Let's Make a Deal (1963)
Featured review
Annoyingly disjointed, plotty...still good despite that
The notion of demon deals, and the bill coming due, is a central notion of the show. Dozens of episodes are made exploring this concept and season 3 is anchored in it. This episode is the first to deal with it explicitly. Unfortunately the writer decided to frame the story using the Robert Johnson legend. The device as individual scenes is great. The cold opening here is among the best of the show and Johnson's deal scene is atmospheric. But because the material is never integrated into the plot per se it feels tacked on. Worse the plotting of the episode is too point A to point B as the boys just figure everything out in a too easy way. The overall show is one of the most procedural-and a predictable one at-episodes in the entire series.
Most of which can be forgiven because of the story content of the final scene, Dean deal scene as well as its meaning for Dean's arch of the season are the precise moves they should have made with Dean; the final 10 minutes of this episode are among the best of season 2. This episode is greatly helped by its place continuity. The start of the episode is great, as it the ending. The 20 minutes in the middle is going through the motions plotting.
Most of which can be forgiven because of the story content of the final scene, Dean deal scene as well as its meaning for Dean's arch of the season are the precise moves they should have made with Dean; the final 10 minutes of this episode are among the best of season 2. This episode is greatly helped by its place continuity. The start of the episode is great, as it the ending. The 20 minutes in the middle is going through the motions plotting.
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- CubsandCulture
- Sep 8, 2019
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