Awesome Bedtime Stories: A Review of Supernatural Season Three, Episode Five

November is one of those all important Sweeps month's for network television and it's the time when those networks trot out what they believe are their very best episode offerings of the television season to impress the viewers and the advertisers as well. Last night, the CW Network offered up the Supernatural season three episode Bedtime Stories and I don't know about the advertisers, but this viewer was definitely impressed!

From start to finish, Bedtimes stories, written by Cathryn Humphries and directed by Mike Rohl was a well crafted, tightly honed episode that had all the elements of Supernatural at its best. First and foremost it was about the Winchester brothers.

From the first sequence of them seen together barreling down a dark highway in the Impala arguing about Dean's deal with the demon and Dean's adamant refusal to allow Sam to do anything about it, to the final sequence of Sam coldly gunning down the crossroads demon who did the deal, this time around played with perfect continuity of the demon's personality by Sandra McCoy, it was all about the bond of brotherhood and love that binds the Winchester boys together in their dark and dangerous, lonely world of hunting the supernatural.

Sam and Dean Winchester were, in this episode, once again the perfect blend of humor, angst and intelligence that sets them above the pack in the world of television action heroes. Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles were given top notch material to work with that gave them a chance to bring forth one of the most powerful things that makes Supernatural so worth watching - the incredible working chemistry these two super talented young actors have with each other. When Padalecki and Ackles are allowed to mesh their talents together to bring the bonds of brotherhood between Sam and Dean Winchester to life as they were in Bedtime Stories, it ignites the small screen with an intensity of storytelling, both verbal and nonverbal, that has the ability to put similar 'big screen' performances to shame.