Skin

I did enjoy this one, even though the idea of a shapeshifter isn't very original. It was Still a fun episode.

I have to commend the visual effects here. I thought the transformation "shedding" scene was great, grotesque and unsettling body horror. Also the piles of festering goop. I watch a lot of these types of shows and I felt grossed out by it. This gives the episode more points.

Seeing Dean shirtless definitely doesn't hurt either.

The monster of the week format is put to good use in this episode as the shapeshifter furthers the brothers' melodrama AND works as a potent thematic metaphor, in this case domestic violence being the result of socialization of men. The writing is crisp and the show does a good job of ringing out the scares from the premise. Best of all, Dean-well "Dean"-expressing resentment towards Sam is very much needed to make the characters seem more like brothers ; this is an early example of that key dynamic of the show.

Apart from that the episode contains one of the goriest, viscerally horrifying scenes of the series in the first seen transformation of the shifter. They never bothered to go as extensive as the sequence here ever again but the scene is so effective that even 15 years later you still get the creeps in the shapeshifter episodes.

Good stuff.

I miss years 2005 till 2007 i miss this years when I was in high school those were times back than. Paul Walker was alive my mom was alive and this show from Season 1 - 5 was incredible. First Season of Supernatural is great absolutely great.

Two brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) travel cross country, desperately searching for their missing father while traveling on the road they are fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth.

The first season was about Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles no one else, they were the main stars and Eric Kripke produced and developed the first 5 seasons until Sera Gamble took over as a showrunner and ruined it after Season 6.

Season 1 is my favorite show that I still watch it today now 14 years ago the actors were beautiful now days they are ugly and old and abolutely joke I am really tierd of Misha Collins as Castiel an angel who sucks at acting or Crowley who is a terrible villian. Or relegious show now which is a total joke.

Skin is as bad-ass episode and my favorite episode of all time. Sam's friend from college Zach Warren (Aleks Holtz) is acussed of a murder of his gf and Sam and Dean travel to St. Louis, Missouri, to investigate the typical doppelganger case and help Sam's friend and his sister Rebecca Warren (Amy Grabow). I miss when sam and Dean cross travel trough country. I miss after my mom died I travel with my dad crosscountry too just like Sam did with his brother Dean. Sam Winchester was absolutely my favorite character.

That is one of the reasons why Friday the 13th (2009) reboot from Jared Padalecki is my favorite horror slasher flick and my fav and why I put it above the original Friday the 13th.

Great acting performence from Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles and Amy Grabow. I used to tavel cross country with my dad like Sam and Dean did I really miss 14 years back I will never get those years back.

Supernatural fans check out the first Season Episodes: Skin, Wendigo, Hook Man and Bloody Mary are my favorite episodes in season 1 from Supernatutal.

Okay so this episode starts out with a man convicted of murder and he's friends with Dean and Sam. The boys investigate and they run into a Skinwalker (a shape shifting man) who senselessly assaults and kills people for no reason. It morphs into Dean and starts wreaking havoc! I thought this episode was rather strange (this and Phantom Traveler). The Shape Shifter doesn't have a true story or background, I mean: where on earth did this thing come from? The being says it was born with the ability but that's it? Hmm...this is what makes it confusing because most of the other episodes of the show (except this one and Phantom Traveler) explain where the things come from and why they are what they are.

6 out of 10

One of the more creepy, dark episodes. It's an easy view and goes more into the character of Dean which has pretty much just been the comedic relief till now. The cgi was bad tho.