The Witches of Letters: A Supernatural Rewatch Podcast

This week we are wrapping up Season 5 by talking about our highlights of the season, our hot takes and thoughts on the character arcs for season 5, behind the scenes fun facts, and as usual we finish by playing end of season games. Joy also brings back prank wars by sharing more haunted creepy doll stories with Laura. We are having 2 weeks off before we start season 6, so see you then! Stay safe o...

In this episode Joy, Laura and their guest Wally from The Wally Verse break down season 5 episode 22 of Supernatural “Swan Song”. It’s the season finale and Sam and Dean face off against the devil! Sam sacrifices himself to save the world, with help from Dean, Cas and Bobby. We discuss how this show deserved so much more recognition than it did for the writing, acting, set design, everything; Jare...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 21 of Supernatural “Two Minutes To Midnight”. Sam and Dean defeat the third horseman pestilence to gain his ring, and Bobby sells his soul to Crowley so he will help them find the final horseman Death.  Dean finds Death in Chicago and he offers his ring to Dean on the promise that Dean will make sure Lucifer is trapped at whatever cost, eve...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 20 of Supernatural “The Devil You Know”. Sam and Dean, on the hunt for the horseman Pestilence, find themselves in a town where a flu epidemic has broken out. Crowley turns up to help and they kidnap a demon named Brady who works for a pharmaceutical company and may know where Pestilence is.  We discuss how much we love Crowley, how Brady i...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 19 of Supernatural “Hammer Of The Gods”. Sam and Dean are lured to a fancy hotel by a bunch of different Gods who are planning to use them to stop the apocalypse. Gabriel then shows up to help them.  We discuss Laura’s love of brotherly banter, the misrepresentation of the deities in this episode (especially Zao Shen), how in a different wo...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 18 of Supernatural “Point of No Return”. Sam, Bobby and Cas work together to stop Dean sacrificing himself to Michael. But when the angels bring Sam and Dean’s half brother Adam back from the dead to use him as Michael's vessel instead of Dean, they all have to work together to hide Adam and try to stop Zachariah once and for all. We di...

In this episode we are joined by the hosts of Spirits and Supernatural, Jenny and Dawn, as we break down season 5 episode 17 of Supernatural “99 Problems”.  We discuss how funny it is when Sam and Dean have to prove they are hunters to other people, Cas’ lack of knowledge about technology, and how Dean has given up leading him to be willing to be Michael’s vessel. We also discuss drunk Sam and dru...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 16 of Supernatural “Dark Side of The Moon”. Sam and Dean are killed by hunters who are angry that Sam started the apocalypse, and they end up in heaven.  We discuss Sam and Dean dying again, how scary heaven is, and we disagree about Dean and Sam’s differing happiest memories and how they made each other feel. We also discuss Kurt Fuller’s...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 15 of Supernatural “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”. Sam and Dean have to fight a town full of zombies when people start coming back to life. At first they aren't threatening, but then the zombies start killing people so they have to stop them. We discuss Jody Mills as this is her first episode and how Joy loves the character and thinks Laur...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 14 of Supernatural “My Bloody Valentine”. Cas helps Sam and Dean hunt down Cupid when a couple devours each other. However, when other strange deaths start occurring they realise it's something bigger, and Cas works out that Famine, one of the four horsemen, is behind everything. We discuss what made Dean dead inside, if “Dracula Sam” i...

Today Joy and Laura bring you a special episode to celebrate their 100th episode of the podcast! We have a listener mailbag segment with your stories and hot takes, special thanks shout outs for people who have supported us, lots of reminiscing,  SPN quizzes, games, and Joy reads Laura’s astrology/natal chart to see how compatible she would be with Sam! Stay safe out there, have each other’s backs...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 13 of Supernatural “The Song Remains The Same”. Sam and Dean go back in time to 1978 when the angel Anna threatens to kill their parents so Sam is never born, and Lucifer never rises. We discuss when Cas started liking Sam, because didn’t he hate him until this episode? Is it trauma bonding? We also discuss how Sam has never actually seen h...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 12 of Supernatural “Swap Meat”. While Sam and Dean are in a town investigating poltergeist activity at the house of a former babysitter, Sam ends up in a body swap situation with a local teenager Gary. We discuss the reasons why Laura doesn’t like this episode and Joy does like it, how Jared steals the show with his acting, and how good Sar...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 11 of Supernatural “Sam, Interrupted”. Sam and Dean get themselves admitted to a psychiatric hospital to investigate reports of a monster that is killing patients. We discuss how well this episode portrays a psychiatric hospital, how Dr Cartwright looks like Xena, and how nice it is that Martin is the hero of this episode. We also discuss h...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 10 of Supernatural “Abandon All Hope…” Sam and Dean, along with Ellen, Jo and Castiel, go to Carthage, Missouri to find and kill Lucifer. However, upon their arrival Meg shows up with hell hounds in tow who attack the group, leaving Jo mortally wounded.  We discuss Jo and Ellen’s deaths, and Jo and Dean’s relationship and how they are perfe...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 9 of Supernatural “The Real Ghostbusters”. Sam and Dean turn up at the first annual Supernatural convention and have to hunt a real threat amongst all of the LARPers pretending to be them. We had so much fun on this episode! We discuss how we would love to go to this convention, how Hookman is like all Supernatural podcasters, and how Damie...

In this episode we break down season 5 episode 8 “Changing Channels”. Sam and Dean are transported into various TV shows by the trickster, who it turns out is actually the archangel Gabriel, who is trying to force them to say yes to being Lucifer and Michael’s vessels. We had so much fun with this episode. We discuss how entertaining this episode is; the different TV show references; the trickster...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 7 “The Curious Case of Dean Winchester”. Sam, Dean and Bobby work a case involving a witch playing poker games where people gamble with years of their life instead of money. Both Bobby and Dean lose years and age, and it’s up to Sam to save them with his secretly good poker skills. We discuss our thoughts about the character Patrick; the di...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 6 “I Believe The Children Are Our Future”. Sam and Dean investigate a series of deaths and strange happenings that resemble urban legends or lies that kids believe. After some investigation they find a young boy called Jesse who possesses the power to make his thoughts reality, and who Cas says is the Antichrist. We discuss how the demon lo...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 5 “Fallen Idols”. Sam and Dean investigate when it seems like the ghosts of famous people start killing residents of a town in Ohio. We start with a, sort of, mailbag segment where listeners tell us the line or scene that got them hooked on Supernatural, and their comfort episodes. Feel free to email us yours. You can find the email address...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 4 “The End”. Dean is sent 5 years into the future, to 2014, by the angel Zachariah to see what the world will be like if he continues to say no to being Michael’s vessel. He meets the future version of himself, who has been hardened by the apocalypse, and finds out that he never reconciled with Sam and that Sam is now Lucifer's vessel!...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 3 “Free to Be You and Me”.  We see what S&D have been up to since going their separate ways. Sam has given up the hunting life and has found work at a bar in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, Dean and Cas team up to capture the archangel Raphael who might be able to help them find God.  We discuss how hilarious the Dean and Cas dynamic is in this ep...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 2 “Good God, Y’all!”. One of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, War, controls a town making everyone think everyone else is a demon so they fight among themselves and kill each other needlessly. Sam and Dean team up with Jo, Ellen and Rufus to save the day. We discuss our feelings about seeing Ellen and Jo again, Laura gets impatient to s...

In this episode Joy and Laura break down season 5 episode 1 “Sympathy For The Devil”. After Lucifer was freed at the end of season 4, Sam and Dean go after the Michael sword to use it to defeat him. Meanwhile, Lucifer is searching for his vessel, a man named Nick, and gains his consent to use him as a host body. We discuss Becky and how much we hate her; how Laura is going to fall in love with Luc...

Merry Christmas, and happy holidays Hunters! We have another bonus episode for you today! If you need a little breather from family today, we’ve got you. Join us as we read you some spooky ghost stories, just like the Victorian’s used to do at Christmas. Don’t forget that protective salt circle, or at least light a candle! We’ve got stories about a near death experience on Christmas Eve, the Brown...