Supernatural (season 11)

Supernatural (season 11)
Country of origin United States
Release
Original network The CW
Original release October 7, 2015 (2015-10-07) – present

The eleventh season of Supernatural, an American supernatural drama television series created by Eric Kripke, premiered on October 7, 2015, on The CW. The season will consist of 23 episodes and air on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm (ET).[1]

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Episodes
No.
overall 		 No. in
season 		 Title  Directed by  Written by  Original air date  Prod.
code 		 U.S. viewers
(millions) 
2191"Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire"Robert SingerJeremy CarverOctober 7, 2015 (2015-10-07)4X62521.94[2]
In the aftermath in the season 10 finale, the Darkness being released, Sam and Dean meet a young sheriff's deputy named Jenna who claims people have been going rabid and killing each other. A man whose wife has died has a newborn baby with him but he is infected. He insists on giving the baby to Jenna and the Winchesters, naming her Amara before he dies. Dean is haunted by a vision of The Darkness telling him he set her free and they are now linked into always helping each other. Dean wants to kill the infected and escape with the baby but Sam wants to try and cure them. Sam acts as a diversion allowing Dean and Jenna to escape, though Sam gets infected. Castiel struggles to control himself from inflicting more violence due to Rowena's attack dog spell, and is captured by two angels when he begs for help. Crowley regroups after narrowly escaping Castiel's attempt on his life, hearing that The Darkness has set off ancient alarms in both Heaven and Hell. As Jenna is changing Amara's diaper, she sees the Mark of Cain on her left shoulder.
2202"Form and Void"Phil SgricciaAndrew DabbOctober 14, 2015 (2015-10-14)4X62531.85[3]
Dean takes Jenna to her grandmother's home and leaves to help Sam. However, Amara begins levitating her toy blocks and Jenna's religious grandmother calls an exorcist while Jenna calls Dean. Dean arrives to find the "exorcist" to be Crowley who explains that he senses an ancient darkness in the child. At the same time, Jenna visits Amara and then suddenly murders her grandmother. Investigating the noise, Dean finds the Mark of Cain on Amara and remembering it on the woman from his vision, realizes that Amara is the Darkness. Confronting Jenna, Crowley realizes that she is now soulless, Amara having consumed her soul. Dean and Jenna fight before Crowley kills her. Crowley reveals he intends to use Amara for his own purposes, but Dean incapacitates him only to find Amara, now grown into a young girl, gone. Crowley later approaches Amara with people for her to feed on. At the same time, two angels torture Castiel before Hannah (in a male vessel) saves him. When he asks about the location of the Winchesters, Castiel realizes it was a ruse to get information from him. The other two angels try to hack his mind, but Rowena's spell gives him the strength to break free and fight back. Castiel kills the other two angels, but not before they kill Hannah. An infected Sam works to find a cure to the Darkness' poisoning with little luck. He encounters a Reaper who informs him that the new Death is going to have him and Dean thrown into a void when they die and that he is "unclean in a biblical sense." As a result, Sam researches purifications from the Bible and finds a reference to holy oil. Using holy fire, Sam is able to cure himself and then save the remaining people in the town. Returning to the bunker, he and Dean find Castiel begging for help.
2213"The Bad Seed"Jensen AcklesBrad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-LemingOctober 21, 2015 (2015-10-21)4X62511.59[4]
Sam and Dean search for Rowena to cure Castiel as well as begin to try and find Metatron before the other angels do, for information on The Darkness. A demon tries to kill Rowena while she is attempting and failing to recruit witches for her Mega Coven, leading the Winchesters to her. Though they take the Codex from her she has hidden The Book of the Damned. Castiel loses control as the attack dog spell takes him over and goes rogue. While searching for him Rowena reveals the deal Sam made with her to kill Crowley if she removed the Mark of Cain from Dean, though Dean understands. Dean saves a woman from Castiel and is attacked by the angel. Rowena restores Castiel to normal and escapes. A low level demon and angel commiserate at a bar that the leaders of Heaven and Hell don't appear to be doing anything about The Darkness. Meanwhile Crowley is raising Amara and even he is unnerved by her power. Amara doesn't seem interested in a world of pure evil but she feeds on enough demons to make herself a teenager and demands Crowley bring her more.
2224"Baby"Thomas J. WrightRobbie ThompsonOctober 28, 2015 (2015-10-28)4X62542.04[5]
Seen entirely in and around the Impala: Sam and Dean head for a case where a sheriff's deputy was killed. Sam has a dream where someone or something appears to him as a younger John Winchester, telling him he and Dean have to stop The Darkness and: "God helps those who help themselves." Sam thinks this and his other vision from when he was infected mean God is helping them, though Dean is skeptical. Sam is attacked while trying to talk the victim's wife while Dean is attacked by the replacement sheriff's deputy; shooting it with silver and beheading it don't kill it. A call from Castiel explains it is a Nachzehrer, a ghoul and vampire-like creature. The wife wakes up and has been turned, kidnapping Dean in the car. She explains she killed her husband for not joining them and the new deputy is the alpha. The alpha is restored and explains he is scared of The Darkness so he is siring an army. He will turn Sam, who is walking into a trap and then they will eat Dean. Dean gets free and shoves copper pennies down the alpha's throat and decapitates him with the Impala's door, killing him and returning his victims to normal humans. Both bruised Winchesters agree to stop The Darkness after they heal, driving off in the battered Impala.
2235"Thin Lizzie"Rashaad Ernesto GreenNancy WonNovember 4, 2015 (2015-11-04)4X62551.64[6]
A young couple is killed in a hotel that used to be the home of Lizzie Borden. Sam and Dean quickly find all the paranormal signs in the hotel are fakes for the tourists. However, one of the hotel owners is killed, along with a man miles away from the hotel who is found by Sidney, the babysitter of his son Jordie. The wife Dawn has an unemotional reaction to her husband's death. Dean meets Len (Jared Gertner) a Lizzie Borden fan who says he saw a girl named Amara wandering outside the hotel a few nights ago and he hasn't felt normal since he met her. Dean realizes Amara ate Len's soul. Suspecting Dawn to be soulless as well, the Winchesters find her and her lover dead in a house with Jordie tied up. Sidney captures the Winchesters explaining she also met Amara, who said she wanted to help Sidney. Sidney has felt blissful ever since her soul was taken, Amara helping her not care about her abusive childhood. Sidney killed her enemies and Jordie's parents for being abusive and plans to offer the Winchesters to Amara as a gift. Len saves the Winchesters by killing Sidney. Len can feel himself turning darker the longer he is without a soul so he turns himself in for all the murders to stop himself. The Winchesters send Jordie to an aunt and are concerned about Amara growing stronger. Amara watches them as they leave promising to see Dean soon.
2246"Our Little World"John ShowalterRobert BerensNovember 11, 2015 (2015-11-11)4X62561.70[7]
Amara eats the soul of a teenager named Goldie and ages slightly upward again. Crowley grounds Amara for sneaking out to eat and tries to convince her that he can be a father and teacher for her, while having her soulless victims killed to keep her a secret. Dean and Sam are still in the area and are called in once Len is killed in jail. Goldie is arrested and the Winchesters capture the assassin meant for her. After killing him, they track Crowley and Amara to an abandoned asylum to kill Amara. Sam fights off several demons while avoiding killing most of them to try and save the human hosts; he also has another vision. Crowley prepares to kill Dean but Amara stops him, declaring she doesn't need him and tortures Crowley into letting Dean go. Amara knows Dean won't kill her because of their link and says she'll soon be strong enough to exact her revenge on God. Meanwhile, Castiel sees Metatron on television and tracks him down, taking the demon tablet. Metatron is stuck as a human and films tragedies to sell to the media for money. Sensing a rage within Castiel, Metatron constantly mocks him, hoping to be killed since he hates being human. Castiel resists this, and gets Metatron to reveal that in order to make the world, God had to sacrifice His sister, The Darkness. Castiel deems Metatron harmless and lets him leave, to the Winchesters' shock. Dean lies and says Amara overpowered him. Sam is horrified to realize his visions are of The Cage where Michael and Lucifer are locked inside.
2257"Plush"Tim AndrewEric Charmelo & Nicole SnyderNovember 18, 2015 (2015-11-18)4X62571.66[8]
After a man is murdered by someone in a bunny mask that won't come off, Sheriff Donna Hanscum calls in the Winchesters for help. After learning that the killer suddenly changed after putting the mask on, they come to believe it is a cursed object. Donna's deputy Doug is forced to kill the young man to save Donna and she and the Winchesters burn the mask and believe it to be over. However, a young woman in a jester mascot outfit brutally attacks the local football coach before being stopped by the school quarterback. After the quarterback tells them that the room suddenly got cold, the Winchesters realize they are dealing with a ghost who is possessing the various costumes and those who wear them. Using rock salt, they are able to free the latest possession victim, who tells them that the costume had recently been donated to the school. The Winchesters and Donna learn that the costumes belonged to a children's performer named Chester Johnson and after his suicide, his sister donated all of his costumes. Realizing Chester is the ghost, Donna and Doug collect all of the costumes and burn them while Dean talks to the first victim's widow and learns that Chester supposedly molested the children of the two victims. At the same time, Sam is unable to stop Chester from possessing another innocent victim and using him to finish off the coach. Chester's sister Rita explains that after she was confronted with the accusations of child molestation, she worried about her own son and helped the two men get to Chester to scare him. In doing so, Chester was accidentally killed and now wants revenge. Possessing Rita's son through the last costume, Chester attacks but Dean is able to remove the costume and Sam burns it, destroying Chester. At the same time, Sam prays to God for guidance on his visions and explains to Dean he thinks that they mean he has to return to Lucifer's Cage and that the answer to The Darkness may be there.
2268"Just My Imagination"Richard Speight, Jr.Jenny KleinDecember 2, 2015 (2015-12-02)4X62582.00[9]
A little girl's imaginary friend, Sparkle the unicorn-man, is killed. Sam is shocked to wake up and see his own childhood imaginary friend Sully (Nate Torrence) is real. Sully explains he and Sparkle are Zână who appear to lonely children to cheer them up. Sully had done so for Sam when he wasn't allowed to go on hunts with John and Dean. Sully thought Sam wanted to be something other then a hunter and encouraged him to run away. However, John changed his mind and allowed Sam to join them so Sam rejects Sully as fake and Sully leaves hurt. Sully allows Sam and Dean to see his kind to help catch the killer, but a mermaid imaginary friend is also killed. A third one is stabbed but survives and contacts Sully for help. While Dean tracks the killer, Sam apologizes to Sully and explains his fear of returning to Lucifer's Cage. Sully forgives him and says even heroes can be scared, but they are the only ones brave enough to do what needs to be done. The killer captures Dean, and is revealed to be a young woman named Reese. Reese and her twin sister Audrey were Sully's next children after Sam, but Audrey was killed by a car while playing tag in the street with Sully. Reese read the folklore and paid a witch for the ability to see Zână and a blade that can kill Sully's kind as revenge. Sully offers to die if that is what Reese needs, though the brothers talk her out of killing him. Sully agrees to check in on Reese and wishes Sam luck. Sam admits to Dean he thinks he has to go to the Cage. Dean says there must be another way, but has no idea what that could be.
2279"O Brother Where Art Thou?"Robert SingerEugenie Ross-Leming & Brad BucknerDecember 9, 2015 (2015-12-09)4X62591.90[10]
A fully grown Amara kills religious preachers in a park and a church as attempts to get God's attention, dismissing religion as manipulation. Finally convincing Dean following the visions are their only choice, Sam and Dean approach Crowley for a way to communicate with Lucifer in The Cage. Crowley has Rowena captured to read from the Book of the Damned for this purpose and they form a tense alliance. Alone, Dean investigates the church deaths and senses Amara. She transports him away to talk, claiming she only wants to hurt God who supposedly exiled her because she might be better at making creations. She claims that she would rule the world to give everyone bliss like Dean feels with her. After Dean's attempt to stab her fails, Amara kisses Dean saying they are meant to be together ever since he freed her. A low level angel rallies all the angels in Heaven against Amara. He and two others go to arrest her, saying if she resists the combined might of every angel will kill her. Amara kills the three angels and sends Dean back to safety as the sky opens up and strikes her. The others proceed with the plan and Rowena wards The Cage while Sam speaks with Lucifer. Lucifer says The Darkness is equal to God in raw power and offers help if Sam agrees to be his vessel again. Sam refuses as the warding fails to Crowley's shock, though Rowena remains calm. Sam is pulled into The Cage where Lucifer reveals the release of The Darkness weakened The Cage and he's been the one sending Sam's visions and that God was never helping them.
22810"The Devil in the Details"Thomas J. WrightAndrew DabbJanuary 20, 2016 (2016-01-20)4X62601.83[11]
Lucifer recently approached Rowena in a dream, promising her rewards if she helps him get to Sam. Dean searches for Sam and is sent by Crowley to Billie the Reaper who Sam had encountered recently. Billie lets Dean into Hell with a "witch collar" that allows Crowley to control Rowena. Castiel and a low level angel search to see if Amara survived while the angel points out Castiel is more expendable than the Winchesters. Amara survived and kills the other angel, then sends Castiel to Billie with a threat carved into his chest, though the effort of that does appear to weaken her. Meanwhile Lucifer says Sam has gone soft. Last time he fought him, he sacrificed himself to save the world. In recent years Sam and Dean only want to save each other regardless of the cost. Lucifer says making a sacrifice and being his vessel is the only way to stop The Darkness, since God is gone, Gabriel and Raphael are dead, and Michael has supposedly gone insane while imprisoned. Sam refuses, not believing its guaranteed Lucifer would win against Amara and even if it was, he'd then destroy the world himself. Lucifer pulls Dean and Castiel into The Cage and beats all three of them, though Rowena's spell seems to work to send him away. The brothers agree to find another way to stop Amara while Castiel hangs back. Castiel, having said yes at the last second to be Lucifer's vessel, goes to confront Crowley and Rowena. Lucifer makes sure Rowena is the only one who could open The Cage again and kills her, then saying he wants to talk to Crowley.
22911"Into the Mystic"John BadhamRobbie ThompsonJanuary 27, 2016 (2016-01-27)4X62611.88[12]
Thirty years ago in Ireland, a man is killed after hearing a strange noise and being attacked. His wife banishes the creature but also dies, leaving only their baby alive. In the present day Sam & Dean investigate a case in a retirement home where one of the residents died in a similar manner. A resident named Mildred sees the creature commit its second kill of the building manager. The brothers realize the creature is a Banshee, driving its victims insane with its voice before feeding on their brains. Sam is briefly captured by a a deaf woman posing as a housekeeper, Eileen. Eileen was the baby who was raised by a hunter after her parents died, her grandfather was a Men of Letters. The banshee's screams also destroyed Eileen's hearing. Posing as Castiel, Lucifer searches the bunker for a way to kill Amara and Dean admits his connection to her but asks to keep it a secret from Sam. "Castiel" agrees saying maybe they can use this to draw Amara out. Assuming Mildred is the next target, the Winchesters and Eileen protect her but are caught off guard when the banshee targets Dean. Mildred and Eileen are able to kill it. Eileen continues hunting while Mildred assumes Dean is attracted to someone out there. Later, Sam admits how Lucifer taunted him and apologizes for not looking for Dean while he was in Purgatory. Dean had forgiven him a long time ago. Sam is able to rest soundly, but Dean is still tormented by thoughts of Amara.
23012"Don't You Forget About Me"Stefan PleszczynskiNancy WonFebruary 3, 2016 (2016-02-03)4X62621.87[13]
Sam and Dean are called in by Claire Novak, now living with Sheriff Jody Mills and Alex, saying she has a case. However, Jody says Claire has attacked innocent people in a series of false alarms and is ignoring college, devoting everything to hunting. Meanwhile Alex is doing well in high school with a jock boyfriend Henry. Claire claims the disappearances of three local people must be a case. Both Winchesters caution her at diving too fast into hunting and say she should be more appreciative of Jody. Alex's favorite teacher is killed and hung up the flag pole. Realizing the case is real, the Winchesters learn the school janitor is a vampire, who kidnaps Jody and Claire. Henry is also a vampire and takes Alex. The janitor is named Rich, he was a trucker who had tried to help Alex while she was still bait for the vampire nest. Rich was turned and then killed his own wife. Rich tracked Alex down, but seeing her misery, he turned Henry and sent him to be her boyfriend to make her happy and then kill her new family of Jody and Claire. Rich and Henry had been feeding on the missing people, Henry killed the teacher as the first step to hurt Alex. The Winchesters bust in, Claire distracts Rich, allowing Dean to behead him, while Sam lets Claire and Alex kill Henry. The girls show more appreciation to Jody for protecting them, while Claire still wants to be a hunter and Alex wants to focus on her studies for a normal life. The Winchesters leave them as a newly united family.
23113"Love Hurts"Phil SgricciaEric Charmelo & Nicole SnyderFebruary 10, 2016 (2016-02-10)4X62631.83[14]
In Hudson, Ohio, a babysitter named Stacey is having an affair with her married boss Dan. Stacey's heart is ripped out while looking after his baby alone. Dan admits the affair to Dean and shows him nanny-cam footage that reveals "Dan" killed Stacey. The brothers think it's a shapeshifter but then "Stacey" kills Dan in his office. Dan's wife Melissa knew about the affair but wanted to work things out. Her hairdresser Sonya claimed to be a white witch and gave Melissa a love spell to make Dan fall for her again. The spell is actually a curse, transferred by kissing and is working its way back to the spell-caster, Melissa. "Dan" tries to kill her but Dean kisses her, making the spell target him. Breaking into Sonya's barber shop, the brothers learn the spell summons a Qareen, which has a heart separate from its body and kills while appearing as its victim's greatest desire. Sam investigates upstairs and is captured by Sonya while Dean is attacked in the basement by "Amara." Dean is able to fight back since the Qareen is not really her. Sonya explains she uses the curse to punish cheating men and the stupid women who still love them. Melissa distracts Sonya, allowing Sam to kill her and stab the Qareen's heart, destroying it. Dean admits to Sam that he desires Amara when he is around her and doesn't think he can kill her even though he wants to. Sam promises he will kill Amara for both of them.
23214"The Vessel"[15]John BadhamRobert BerensFebruary 17, 2016 (2016-02-17)4X6264TBD
23315"Beyond the Mat"[16]Jerry WanekJohn Bring & Andrew DabbFebruary 24, 2016 (2016-02-24)4X6265TBD

Production

Supernatural was renewed by The CW for an eleventh season on January 11, 2015.[17] Jensen Ackles directed the first-produced episode of the season, titled "The Bad Seed"; however, it will not air as the season premiere.[18] Emily Swallow was cast in a recurring role in July 2015, portraying Amara, a femme fatale.[19] The season features a bottle episode, titled "Baby", in which the entire episode takes place inside the Impala.[20] Richard Speight, Jr., who has a recurring role on the series as the Archangel Gabriel, directed the eighth episode of the season.[21]

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes currently reports an 86% approval rating for Supernatural's eleventh season, with an average rating of 8.1/10 based on 7 reviews.[22]

References

  1. ↑ Swift, Andy (June 24, 2015). "The CW Sets Fall Premiere Dates for Vampire Diaries, Flash, Arrow and More". TVLine. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  2. ↑ Porter, Rick (October 8, 2015). "Wednesday final ratings: 'Empire,' 'SVU' and others adjusted up, 'Arrow' holds, 'Nashville' adjusted down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ Porter, Rick (October 15, 2015). "Wednesday final ratings: 'Empire,' 'Modern Family' and 'Arrow' adjusted up, 'Nashville' adjusted down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ Porter, Rick (October 30, 2015). "Wednesday final ratings: 'Rosewood' adjusted up, 'Empire' and everything else hold". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
  5. ↑ Porter, Rick (November 4, 2015). "Wednesday final ratings: ‘Supernatural’ adjusts down, ‘The Middle’ and ‘The Goldbergs’ adjust up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  6. ↑ Porter, Rick (November 5, 2015). "Wednesday final ratings: ‘Arrow’ adjusts up, ‘Criminal Minds’ rises but still at series low". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
  7. ↑ Porter, Rick (November 12, 2015). "Wednesday final ratings: ‘Black-ish’ and ‘Code Black’ adjust down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  8. ↑ Porter, Rick (November 19, 2015). "Wednesday final ratings: ‘Arrow,’ ‘Rosewood,’ ‘Survivor’ and ‘The Middle’ adjust up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
  9. ↑ Porter, Rick (December 3, 2015). "Wednesday final ratings: ‘Arrow,’ ‘Empire’ and ‘Criminal Minds’ adjust up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
  10. ↑ Porter, Rick (December 10, 2015). "Wednesday final ratings: ‘Criminal Minds,’ ‘Modern Family’ and all other originals hold". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  11. ↑ Porter, Rick (January 21, 2016). "Wednesday final ratings: ‘Mike & Molly’ adjusts up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
  12. ↑ Porter, Rick (January 28, 2016). "Wednesday final ratings: ‘Idol,’ ‘Arrow’ and everything else hold". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
  13. ↑ Porter, Rick (February 4, 2016). "Wednesday final ratings: ‘2 Broke Girls’ adjusts up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  14. ↑ Porter, Rick (February 11, 2016). "Wednesday final ratings: 'American Idol' adjusts up, 'Black-ish' adjusts down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  15. ↑ "(#1114) The Vessel". The Futon Critic. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
  16. ↑ "(#1115) Beyond the Mat". The Futon Critic. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  17. ↑ Mitovich, Matt Webb (January 11, 2015). "The CW Renews Arrow, Supernatural, The 100, Reign, Jane and 3 Others". TVLine. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  18. ↑ Ausiello, Michael (June 24, 2015). "Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on CSI Finale, Arrow, Supernatural, X-Files, Hannibal, Secrets & Lies and More!". TVLine. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  19. ↑ Ausiello, Michael (July 20, 2015). "Supernatural Season 11: The Mentalist's Emily Swallow Joins Cast as 'Sinister' and 'Seductive' Femme Fatale". TVLine. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  20. ↑ Gelman, Vlada (July 14, 2015). "Supernatural Season 11 Preview: The Winchesters Return to Basics and Face Their Past — Plus: An All-Impala Hour!". TVLine. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  21. ↑ Ackles, Jensen (September 25, 2015). "Headin into work to start episode 1108. Hope this new director has his s$!# together. Good luck @dicksp8jr". Twitter. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Supernatural: Season 11 (2015)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 31, 2015.

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