Supernatural (TV Series) The Scorpion and the Frog (2017) User Reviews

Great Fun

[blackmagpie-62368 · 9/10 · 21 May 2018]

Although this episode does not strictly deserve a nine, I gave it one because it was among other things, a welcome break from all the other episodes in this season and a real step up from the droll apocalypse world. This episode offers something a little different, it is a little more entertaining and it provides a lot more action. Overall great fun.

Fun episode, and a good demon got smoked too fast

[jackiehedstrom · 9/10 · 5 September 2022]

Always good when Dean gets to complain and then connect with a side character, as he does here. A different episode, with none of the horror element, which I always prefer at a bare minimum (or none alltogether!)

Also, David Cubitt as the new crossroads demon was excellent - a real presence and has that unextinctable humanity in the eyes - the same thing that made Crowley so easy to flip between good and bad. This guy should have been used as a long-running foe, instead of for example Asmodeus (who is just ridiculous with the "Southern slave-driver in white suit" persona). Instead, our new promising crossroads demon gets smoked in an ending that tells me that the writer Davey Perez was told "remember - this is a filler episode, nothing in it can go beyond that episode".

I guess it is no surprise they would waste a good character - after all , these are the same people who thought that "Wayward Sisters" was well cast and had a shot... They sure knew better back when they cast leads with Jansen, Jared , Misha and kept Crowley going for 8 years (should have never killed him off at all).

Crowley and Charlie 2.0

[shwetafabm · 8/10 · 31 July 2020]

I liked the ep, had fun moments, i felt the character was a little too much like a Charlie replacement tho, the end scene even is the exact same as Charlie's, i did like her tho, the action was a bit lame.

Wasted potential

[CubsandCulture · 6/10 · 16 July 2021]

The episode plays better the first time you see it and it is one of the more fun episodes of season 13. I find the heist material-while fun-doesn't really gel with the show's overall vibe. Charly's intro episode is really the only time they were able to stick the landing on a heist story. This one is more rote and yeah I didn't need the injokes about Game of Thrones.

But my biggest issue with the episode is how it wastes Barthamus (the demon). No demon will ever fill Crowley's shows but Barthamus was a fun character; he was just a slightly more brutish version of Crowley and I think there was a chance for the character to have developed into a foil for the Winchesters. But instead the writers stick a "happy" ending onto this episode and Barthamus gets his just desserts. What could have been is rendered moot.

Entertaining

[Semicolon1999 · 6/10 · 8 December 2017]

A quite entertaining, but rather superficial episode. Padalecki & Ackles are hired by a demon to steal something. They person they need to steal from has an intriguing history. The demon wants to Winchesters for a specific reason. Though entertaining, this ep does nothing to progress the overall story of the season, and is strictly a filler.