Supernatural (TV Series) Mommy Dearest (2011) User Reviews

Leaves the viewer hanging!

[mm-39 · 7/10 · 5 May 2011]

Mommy Dearest leaves the viewer hanging! Mommy Dearest is a connecting episode which creates a new over riding series storyline. The show is based on a virus that infects people. The how and why questions make the show entertaining. The viewers also find out that the Winchester brothers are at odds with Cassiel's idea of collateral damage. I will not ruin the show, but their is a huge plot twist at the ending. A new plot line is revealed pertaining to a new weapon. Who is who and what is what are the new questions? The viewer will learn next week! Either the old storyline was not working and they reinvented the series or, the writers have been playing with the audience from the beginning of season six. I give Mommy dearest seven out of ten

All About Eve and Crowley

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 9 December 2012]

Lenore tells to Dean, Sam, Bobby and Castiel that Eve is in a small town in Oregon and they head to hunt her down. Soon they discover that the locals have been transformed in hybrid species of demons and Dean calls them "Jefferson Starships". When they meet the Mother of All, they discover a secret about Crowley.

"Mommy Dearest" is another great episode of "Supernatural" with a joke with the Jefferson Starship band. The unexpected conclusion shows that Castiel has made a very strange association with an archenemy. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Queridinho da Mamãe" ("Mommy Dearest")

Jefferson Starships

[zombiehigh18 · 7/10 · 24 December 2011]

Season six got me confused, I don't know by now who is the real big bad of the season. Since the first episode of the season we have been jumping on from one story line to another. First there were the alpha monsters, then the search for purgatory, then the Campbells, and Sam's missing soul, later we found out about the war in Heaven and Angels buying human souls, then we killed Crowley to find out now that he is not dead and Cas now is a suspect (Oh What happened to you Cas, you used to be an Angel with a heart not a ruthless killing machine and now you are working with Crowley?) and finally the Mother of All story. Some viewers might find the various story lines as the season is rich in ideas, I find it messy, scattered and confusing even if the story lines are all tied together in the end. Sure there are some good episodes but overall I find myself wishing (and I say it again) this great show ended with the amazing season five finale.

What I liked about this episode?

1- The scene with the Winchesters and the two boys was heart warming, Both Sam and Dean delivered a great silent conversation as always. Dean looked at them thinking "Yeah, I've been there" with Sam looking at him thinking "I'm grateful you have always been there for me" then looking at the window and with a faint of a sad smile looking back at his life with his big brother. And I love the level of synchronization between the Winchester brothers that has been running around for a couple of episodes now.

2- Dean defying Casteil to save the boys instead of focusing on the greater purpose.

3- Why does most villains have to hurt the boys using a distorted image of their mother? Samantha Smith was great in her evil role and I liked the boys painful reaction to Lenore.

4- Jefferson Starships :)

Things I didn't like:

1- Killing the Mother of All came too easy and didn't match the worry we had for a few episodes about her powers and her menacing threat.

2- I liked Amber Benson on "Bloodlust", yet something in her performance now is annoying me. However, I felt bad and shocked when Castiel ruthlessly killed her.

Now I'm wondering again, Who is the real big bad this season? Is it Crowley or Castiel or something else that will come out later on? How will Dean handle Cas's betrayal? We still have three episodes left to see.

Wraps up easy

[shwetafabm · 8/10 · 22 June 2020]

It's entertaining enough. Has mystery. Eve seems like a good character. I don't like the monsters, the show wants us to know that monsters have a mind of their own, they want us to be sympathetic, show us multiple times what someone goes through when turned, yet they also want to force us this weird mind control thing that the monsters go through where they obey blindly i suppose. The Mystery of Cass and Crowley is good At this point i am missing seasons 1-2 a lot, the atmosphere, the simplicity, i was missing it in 4-5 too but the plot was too brilliant and i was ok with that because it came as a natural conclusion. I don't mind the multiple storylines and big bads also.

On its own it's fine, but in context it doesn't really work.

[CubsandCulture · 5/10 · 9 April 2020]

I do like the big twist at the end of the episode as it helps focus the season. Of course I love the Jefferson Starships creatures and jokes. But that is pretty much all I can say in favor of the episode. The Mother of All is a truly underdeveloped concept in the season and given that she is not the aggressor of the situation it's really hard t o square what she is meant to bring to the season on the whole. They make her to sympathetic to be an antagonist you dislike but she doesn't have enough material to be a frenemy. The season suffers greatly from the lack of a clear cut big bad and this episode should have gone a lot further than it did alone that route. Moreover, Eve goes down way to easily. The episode is highly anticlimactic.

While the lines of Dean picking on Cas being useless are funny they are very mean-spirited and are misplaced. The humor in this episode is shockingly sour for the show.