Supernatural (TV Series) Heaven and Hell (2008) User Reviews

Wanted to review the Final Scene and give a shout out to Jensen for his performance

[shweta-51657 · 8/10 · 23 May 2022]

I am here just to review the last scene of this show. Where most of the show is slightly cheesy, comedic, silly, action packed, the rare time they do do emotions on Supernatural, it kind of takes your breath away. We dont expect too much from our lead actors in this series, but its scenes like this that confirm Jensen Ackles truly understands the nature and character of Dean Winchester. The performance he gave in the last 3 minutes of this show is certainly worth an Emmy nod, if not worth the Emmy itself.

The premise of the episode is excellent as well, with twists you wont expect.

8/10.

Loyalty, Forgiveness, & Love

[Carpediem6891 · 10/10 · 21 November 2008]

This episode was one of the season's best in my humble opinion. My impressions are still too fresh in my memory to give a full report or to even begin trying to give an objective opinion. The performances of/from ALL are brilliant in this episode. Pamela is delightful. Anna transforms in more ways than one. Sam shows his sympathy, nerdiness, and bad-ass/recklessness all in one episode. Castiel and Uriel are unflinching and powerful. Alastair is turning out to be fantastic as far as villains go - did anybody else get a Hannibal Lector vibe? Ruby takes a major one for the team, and brings some wit to the episode. And Dean... if you've watched the episode, then you'll know why I'm lost for words.

The Songless Bird

[ttapola · 9/10 · 29 July 2011]

After the tremendous "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (nice idea to name it after such a lousy movie!), does "Heaven and Hell" (great Black Sabbath note there!) measure up? Pretty much. But as the cliffhanger *has* to be resolved, and the episode *also* has to provide answers to questions surrounding the character of Anna, it unfortunately means that things calm down for a while. This is a fantastic episode, but it cannot match the ever-increasing intensity of its predecessor.

The character moments are top-notch. The most important of them is that Dean finally *shows* interest in wanting to know what the angels are planning for him, after eight episodes of what seemed like indifference – when *nothing* should be more important to him! Mark Rolston and Julie McNiven prove that their memorable performances in the first part were not just down to luck – Alastair and Anna become some of the most memorable recurring characters thanks to them.

Since the first part belonged to Sam, there is a nice balance in the second belonging to Dean. And Jensen Ackles seizes the moment. His scenes especially with Julie McNiven are electrifying, but *that* shot (you'll know when it comes) is just ill-judged, effectively ruining the mood. Thankfully it's just an exception in an otherwise expertly thought out episode. And the final scene is one of Ackles's finest acting moments in this series ever.

Mytharc-wise, this episode is very crucial. The viewers already know Lilith's endgame, but what about the angels? And how does Ruby fit in all of it? If one has seen the arc all the way to the end of Season 5, re-watching "Heaven and Hell" is a pleasure, because the events and hints in it make sense when considering the big picture. It's very close to being as good as the first part, but that unfortunately means it is closer to 9/10 than 10/10. Still, essential.

In the Arms of an Angel

[claudio_carvalho · 10/10 · 4 June 2010]

Castiel and Uriel intend to kill Anna Milton, but she uses a powerful spell to displace them somewhere. Dean and Sam investigate the historic of Anna Milton and discover that she went to a psychologist when she was two years old claiming that Mr. Milton was not her father. They travel with Anna and Ruby to visit Pamela Barnes that hypnotizes Anna that recalls that she is a fallen angel that had thrown her grace away to become human. While the quartet is pressed by the selfish and emotionless angels and the evil demons to deliver Anna, they seek her grace to make Anna a powerful angel again.

"Heaven and Hell" is another awesome episode of this excellent Fourth Season of Supernatural. In this show, Dean finally discloses to Sam how he was tortured and tormented in hell. The surprising revelation that Anna Milton is a fallen angel and the way the Winchester brothers plot a scheme to resolve the complicated situation that they are evolved are among the greatest moments of this unforgettable show. My vote is ten.

Title (Brazil): "Céu e Inferno" ("Heaven and Hell")

This season is my favorite

[wrathhhh · 10/10 · 7 December 2008]

The dark and somber feeling of this season is somethings that i have been waiting for this series to reach for a little while, the others are similarly so but this one is far more dark. The grey area of religion portrayed through god and angels being ruthless contrasted by how some demons are able to sacrifice their own well being to help humans is spectacular and something no television show has had the guts to try and do in the US yet. Fallen angels and all the other twists this season has through makes it stand out as the best so far, easily.

in contrast to the super religious person who wrote one of the previous reviews of this season complaining that it wasn't portraying the "FACTS" about god!?!?!, when their are none, not that you can't believe things based on faith, but that does not make them facts.

Godzilla and Mothra

[ulrikekalb · 10/10 · 21 January 2020]

An Angel and a Demon riding on the back seat...what a development! I really like the interesting way the Angels are presented... Definitely extraordinary! I also liked the Dean and Anna connection...

Excellent Episode

[galet09 · 10/10 · 15 August 2014]

Although I enjoyed this episode very much, and there was a really tense scene near the end involving, the boys, Castiel, Uriel, Anna, Alastair and Ruby, I would like to talk about something else.

It's regarding the Christianity aspect of this show in response to other viewers who were offended by the inaccuracies.

Speaking as a born again Christian, I once felt like that.

Then there are others who ignorantly think that this is how Christianity really is, and have even stated that the series story about Angels, God, Lucifer etc. is from the Christianity angle.

Um not really.

Although the show loosely follows certain elements from the Holy Bible, it is often a distorted and made up view of God and Christianity.

At first this bothered me, being a Bible based Christian myself, but when I realized the show is NOT to be taken seriously regarding the ideas and plots concerning the Bible or Christianity and remember it's simply FANTASY and entertainment then there's no problem.

I mean come on now, God is not really how they portray him, nor are angels, Archangels or Lucifer.

In the series they're portrayed like flawed humans, power hungry and who have mental issues for the most part. Heaven in reality is a HOLY place without sin not some horrid battleground with political agendas.

That could never happen. Even the final battle of Armageddon that will take place in the future, between God, Satan, and Michael is not in Heaven.

The Archangels, Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Balthazar and the others in the show, the way they are portrayed, you'd think they were working for Satan not God. Simply put, the angels are missing the "holy" factor in the series. The only Archangel of any merit is Castiel though he was tempted and erred in judgment as well. At least he is basically good. The only other angel I thought was good was Anna.

And to suggest God is dead or missing too which comes up in later episodes, is plain ludicrous. That was a real stretch for me.

Lastly if you remember this is nothing but entertainment, fantasy at it's best, it's easy then to take. It's a show with great imaginative writing as well as terrific acting by all the actors involved. And still even with the distorted religious view it's basically nothing more than a battle between good and evil and I appreciate it on that level.

Angels and demons

[shwetafabm · 8/10 · 12 June 2020]

I love spn, its brilliant and witty, it has always been dark but it balances itself well. This is just a very dark episode. I don't mind the representation of angels but clearly they change this concept of angels can't feel anything, since it changes we just have to assume they can but they have been taught not to for eternity and don't have emotional bonds thus don't feel but are somewhat capable. I really like the Ruby arch and that's developed more here and in the previous episode. We get in Dean's head a bit more. Now... This mythology of angels and demons made the show better, more interesting but it took something away, the fight sequences in most tv heroe shows are luck and ridiculousness but...maybe it's the fact that its the same ridiculously overpowered people involved who could snap there neck with a twist just end up fist fighting...hate it, as the mythology develops angels and demons become more pathetic, given the future information i know of the show i just have to say it pans out and gets even more excused than "well they are the heroes"... I do miss the simpler times but the arch is very entertaining and good.

Angels Demon and Heartbreak

[melly-94919 · 10/10 · 14 October 2021]

Deans admission at the end of this episode had all the feels and my eyes may have started sweating. I really liked the connection between Anna and Dean and the Angel/ Demon clash. All in all a great episode.

Anna is awesome!

[hnt_dnl · 10/10 · 7 April 2022]

I think I've found a new favorite character. Actually introduced in the episode prior to this one, Anna (superbly played by Julie McNiven) is exactly the jolt of electricity that this show needed. In this episode it's revealed that she's a fallen angel who was one of the most powerful, high-ranking ones in Heaven. The climactic battle in this episode between the angels and demons was tense and powerful. Finally, Dean and Anna have an amazing and genuine chemistry. I think of all the females that the writers have tried to pair Dean off with, Anna is easily my favorite.

The secret reveled

[zombiehigh18 · 7/10 · 25 November 2011]

I know after Sam's back story last episode it's time for Dean to reveal his secret to his brother. Apart from the amazing as always performance of Jensen Ackles, I was a bit disappointed with this episode. It was not bad but not great also. I didn't like the Supernatural version on Angels and what the Hell is the deal with Anna's grace?, Kripke are you serious man?! And in what world would Dean go help Ruby before checking up on Sammy first? That made me angry. Besides the way Anna could to relate to Dean seemed way too forced to me and unreal. I still can't like Anna very much. On the other hand, it's was nice to see Pamela again and know she still keeps her perky attitude despite her disability.(That's someone I like to see again).

Alastair continues to be scary and menacing but I liked him better before and I really can't stand his accent. Sam, Ruby and Uriel were pretty much the same, nothing extraordinary, While Castiel continues to shine and he seems to steal the camera every time he shows his face.

And finally what can I say about Ackles' performance, I loved his reaction when Anna told Dean what she knew about his time in Hell But we all knew if Dean is gonna open up to someone about it, it would be Sammy. And the guy can literally break your heart.

Eh.

[AnnaShade · 21 November 2008]

Parts of this episode were OK, but I really wasn't very happy with it. I mean, what was all that about about cutting out her grace and then losing it? I thought at first she was joking, but then I doubted whether Anna could joke. I mean, come on.

Normally I am a huge fan of the show, but I hope this episode isn't an indication of what's to come. What happened to the fun from the first seasons? Now it's all demons and angels everywhere. They pop up like daisies in every episode. And I realize there is a war going on with them, but angels and demons are kind of boring to me. I liked the legends and lore associated with the other monsters the Winchesters face.

I guess Anna is an OK character, and I would tolerate her under normal circumstances. However, what I don't like is that for some reason, she has driven kind of a wedge between the brothers. I don't think it's technically supposed to be there, but it is. They were kind of separate through both episodes with Anna. The new Ruby seems to be doing almost the same thing, even to the point that Dean helps up a fallen Ruby and sidesteps unconscious Sam after they are all attacked. I mean, I know and he knows Sam can take care of himself, but that's never stopped Dean from making sure his brother was OK. It's kind of his MO.

Anyway, not a fan of this episode. Like the show, though.

Not good.

[callmebeelz · 2/10 · 21 January 2009]

I'm a big fan of Supernatural, and I was even liking this season for the most part up until this episode, which is just unfortunate. The writing was kind of faulty, really predictable and cheesy.

For instance, during Dean's (boring) sex scene with Anna, they do the Titanic dragging the hand down the foggy window thing. They also changed the demon character from the previous episode's voice so he sounded like the Godfather and I couldn't take him seriously.

There was a bunch of little problems, but my biggest issue with the episode was how easy it was for Anna to get back her "grace" after supposedly ripping it out and becoming a fallen angel. Actually, she stole it back, from a grace necklace of all things. Thus, they are treating grace, not as something intangible that comes from within, but as an inanimate object that you can just take back and put on, like a sweater.

Unlike the show's other questionable episodes, like say Bugs or Route 666, it wasn't just easily ignorable filler, but legitimately changes the mythology of the show (for the worse in my opinion), and is actually cringe-worthy in its inherent terribleness. All in all, incredibly disappointing, and an awful way to end before the series's winter break.

One great scene does not a good episode make

[CubsandCulture · 6/10 · 5 March 2020]

The final scene in this episode is Dean's "it was 40 years..." confession. I swear most people who rate this episode highly are almost exclusively thinking of that scene. It is one of the best scenes in the show-acting, writing directing all come together to make a heartbreaking scene. Unfortunately, nothing else in this episode is worthwhile.

Like the prior episode, the Anna storyline exists to hang the flashback material on . It is underdeveloped and frankly dull. These two episodes are an early example of the show treading water-something that got much worse in the later seasons- because of the mythical arch being overstuffed and yet underplanned. Add in the forced sex scene and the episode *overall* is quite bad. It would have been better to just slam the flashback material into one episode.

disappointing...

[mrozkiewicz · 5/10 · 11 May 2009]

after a wonderful couple of years, the gloss is wearing off. keeping mythology accurate is important when telling stories (don't even get me started on 'merlin'!!), so the 'reinterpretations' of religious stories bothers me. bluntly put - heaven and hell could have been much, much better. ideally, if a storyline is based on religious tales (regardless of the faith in question) then those tales should be represented faithfully, without losing the details. i think this is what the previous writer means by 'facts'. if writers wish to use the scenarios of heaven and hell and angels and daemons within a predominantly Christian context, then these should be kept to.

Angry with Supernatural

[merry_78 · 7/10 · 1 January 2009]

I'm angry with some things that nowadays are happening in the series. I have never liked the way of making eliminate some characters of the series. The reasons have been always ridiculous. They dismissed Jeffrey Dean Morgan without any motive. Why? He was a good actor, could give more game. The series was based on two brothers who travel the country looking for their missing father, and when they find him, he dies? Please! Later other characters have appeared and same. What's the problem with Ellen? And Jo? Or Ash? I know many people who see the series and loved these characters. But the worse thing, has been to dismiss Ruby and Bela for economic motives and then make the contradiction of "contract" 6 news characters (Castiel, Uriel, Anna Milton, Ruby II, Alastair and Pamela). Someone are good characters(especially Castiel), it's only the previous ones also were good.

Kripke, again I feel cheated. And also I think: where is the humor of the two first seasons? Finally, I don't liked the last scenes of sex either, I see them unnecessary. Though I know that the 13-year-old girls are charmed with, more than anything for seeing the Dean's back. But, they fall in love with two supernatural girls? Why not human girls? It's not serious and is stupid. I believe that they mistake the subject matter of the series and that they do not go for good way. Of being still like that, they are going to lose some fans who have been faithful from the first season.

And this is where the series starts to drag...

[lkm1900 · 2/10 · 11 May 2020]

Once the show becomes primarily focused on the demon/angel war, each episode drags on.

No editing??

[brookessb · 7/10 · 22 March 2022]

In season 4 episode 10, I was so annoyed when Dean was telling Sam about what he did in hell. He said that Alastair came to him every day with an offer, and he told him to "stick it where the sun shines." How did no one involved in production notice this? The phrase is "stick it where the sun don't shine!" I think he messed up another saying in an earlier episode, but this one really bugged me lol.

Disappointing!!!!!!!!!!

[revba · 5/10 · 11 September 2021]

This episode really disappointed me. I understanding they writers takes creative licensing in a really bad way. I do understand also that there is NOTHING biblical about the reimagined Heaven & Hell. I don't like that a demon can seamlessly bring down Castiel the Angel. That is for real NOT the case. Grace is INTANGIBLE so it can't be taken away or stolen as acted.

I really don't like the way evil is winning over big time and if this is the way the series will continue to play out, I will stop watching.