The Girl Next Door

Its a flipflop episode that contradicts previous episodes that certainly a mishap throughout the entire series but a soul crunching episode nonetheless and hits deep to sam and the betrayal within family regardless of his own feelings. Stellar episode but missing stars due to the flipflopping on character development. I certainly think this was a episode to pave the way to the brothers dynamic and most likely a way to see how both could sway from their principals to meet what they truly need in the heat of the moment or just to appease their own satisfactions so they can be able to look themselves in a mirror at the end of the day.

I agree with most of zombiehigh18's points.

I wound up watching major chunks of this show a while back as my 21-year-old grandson is a major fan of this series. He's in the midst of re-watching the whole thing on NetFlix so I occasionally catch an old episode these days.

I gather this episode abounded with in jokes. I remember spotting some of of those now and again in the series, but don't recollect most episodes as crawling with the stuff. I remember seeing this episode sometime or other, but not being stopped in my tracks by "Amy flaming Pond?!" multi-age scenes, as I was just now while looking at Jewel Staite's history, prompted by the disasterathon running at the moment on Syfy.

Too bad they didn't sneak some fireflies or some other Kaylee reference into the episode - or did they? All things considered, about as entertaining and angst-ridden as most Supernatural episodes.

Bobby rescues Dean and Sam from the Sioux Falls General Hospital and they recover their injuries in a hideout in Montana. When Sam reads in the news about the death of three scumbags in the Livingston Park in Lincoln, Nebraska, he steals the Impala and drive to Nebraska.

Sam meets a woman, Amy, in the woods ready to attack a driver. She hits Sam but he meets her,again at her home. Sam recalls when he was a young teenager and he falls in love with the girl Amy. However he discovers that Amy and her mother are Kitsunes that feed with human brains. When her mother is ready to kill him, he is protected by Amy. Now Amy explains why she killed her victims and Sam let her go. Now he has to convince Dean to spare Amy.

"The Girl Next Door" is an episode that I did not like at all. I did not like Dean's attitude luring Sam and stabbing Amy, betraying his brother. The writers did a poor job in this story and I believe that this murder will certainly bring a conflict between Sam and Dean. Last but not the least, I am impressed with the astonishing beauty of Emma Grabinsky. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "The Girl Next Door"

On its own this is a good episode. It has nice bro melodrama and Ackles does well enough to keep the episode feeling like a thriller. But it is an episode built around ad hoc flashbacks to give the current episode more emotional weight or investment. I really hate how the show repeatedly uses this device of contriving events in the past that only are brought up as a way of telling the current episodes. Sometimes they end up double down on idiotic aspects of the show. OF COURSE Sam's first kiss is with a monster. This is the worst use of the device but it is one of the most trite examples.

Did they really force the 15 yr old actress to wear a shirt with her boobs hanging out? You they are did.. absolutely disgusting! It's one thing to have a consenting adult with their cleavage out the entire episode which I always think is awful and the show is full of it but to do it to the little girl and I'm pretty sure she was actually 15 at the time. Repulsive.! Shame!