Supernatural (TV Series) Live Free or Twi-hard (2010) User Reviews

A nice blend of parody and mythos

[CubsandCulture · 9/10 · 31 March 2020]

As an anti-twilight spoof the first half of this episode more or less hits the mark. The jokes mostly land without them being too mean spirited or sour. But the episode transcends the parody by the self-aware wrinkle of the vamps using twilight to build up their ranks. Add in Soulless Sammy allowing Dean to be turned and the Campbell cure and this is a good expansion of the mythos of the show.

The Lisa-Ben, domestication of Dean is still the highlight of the season and this episode story beats around that give it a little bit of emotional weight.

The Hunger

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 30 October 2012]

When six teenage girls disappear in seven days in a small town, Dean and Sam investigate the case. They go to the house of the last girl that went missing, Kristen, and they find that the girl is a vampire fan. Sam hacks her notebook and finds that Kristen had a date with a weird guy in the Black Rose bar.

The Winchester brothers go to the place and they discover that there are many vampires there. While fighting with a strong vampire, he forces Dean to drink his blood and Dean is turned into a vampire. Samuel tells that the only chance that Dean may have to become human again is killing the vampire and using his blood to revert the transformation.

"Live Free or Twihard" is another great episode of the Sixth Season that has finally taken off. The music score of Bauhaus "Bela Lugosi Is Dead" is a great tribute to the cult "The Hunger", which is one of the best vampire movies ever. Sam's attitude toward Dean is strange and intriguing and the question is what might have happened to him? My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Viva Livre ou no Crepúsculo" ("Live Free or in the Twilight")

A Twilight Supernatural crossover

[zombiehigh18 · 9/10 · 16 December 2011]

I never watched any show that left me with that much horror before as this episode did. What started out to be a casual vampire hunt, turned out very shocking, disturbing and catastrophic. The season started out with the amazing "Beautiful loser" track and it is indeed Dean that is loosing every thing. After a painful journey being turned into a vampire, Dean didn't only loose his family but also his trust for his younger brother. He has lost his trust in the only person he could rely on to watch his back. We all know something is very wrong with Sam this season, but seeing him watching his brother turned into a monster, not stepping in to help him and only watching with a smirk was very disturbing. Sam was more concerned about knowing about the vampire nest and their alpha than he was about his brothers safety, even going careless enough not to watch Dean closely and guard him at his weak point, Jeopardizing his chance for a cure and the lives of innocent people as well. Surprisingly but ironic that Samuel is the one who comes to his rescue not Sam.

Bits and pieces:

• Samuel is getting more interesting, first he knew a cure for Djinn poison now for a vampire's, but still that most troubling question: who does he work for and who brought him and Sam back?

• Vampire Dean was scary and mind blowing, It was cool he took out a whole nest by himself. And applaud to Jensen Ackles for such an amazing and intense performance.

• Kudos to Jared Padalecki for pulling out such an interesting character change on our beloved Sam and turn him into that cold uncaring dick masterfully.

• Of course Dean is a Campbell, Samuel we should be wondering if you are Winchester after all not the other way around, Yes Dean was a bit rusty but he sure had scrubbed of those traces of rust.

• Being a Twilight fan (the books not the movies, don't get me wrong) I find the way the show mocked the Twilight story and its fans strangely amusing and funny.

Surprisingly atmospheric and completely intriguing

[Red_Identity · 22 October 2010]

Looking at the title of the 5th episode of the 6th season, you have low expectations. However, I am very glad to say that the episode's title does not do any justice to the episode.

I expected Live Free or Twihard to be a spoof of the vampire saga going on at this time in 2010 (which would have been good), and while the first 10 minutes did hint jokes at it, it was otherwise a very serious episode (which was even better given the context of the show at this time). The episode was cleverly written, carefully directed, and had some really great cinematography. This was one of the most atmospheric episodes of the show I can remember, and while there have been a lot of great vampire episodes in the past, this was the best. It gave us a different world of the vampires, a more Gothic tone to it as opposed to completely dangerous. The episode was directed like a horror film. Along with that, the mystery surrounding Sam is still in the air, although a scene that shows us the character Sam has become does make us wonder what went wrong. And the bad thing is that Dean knows it, and it is painfully hurting him.

Overall, this was a very strong episode, with a unique tone to it that makes this season feel like it will be the darkest. The amazing thing is it is the best episode of the season yet, which I thought would be impossible after the episode before it Weekend at Bobby's.

Twilight spoof done dark

[shwetafabm · 9/10 · 20 June 2020]

Starts out as a parody and becomes the real thing. I like how grounded it is, shows how perverted, dark the "real" thing is. The fact that the spn world incorporated the twilight world is just genius. More of what is up with Sam and the monsters that's intriguing. Loved it. Dean looked hella cool with his murder spree but...i don't get why there isn't even an effort to make the fight realistic, that easy huh and we don't even see the final showdown, i guess that's my ever-growing problem with the show

Gross!

[Aries_Primal · 1/10 · 29 August 2023]

I don't know what was more disgusting of this episode, Samuel's bald head or fat stinky vampire's face. I really loved the Twilight mock, it was so stupid from the moment it appeared till the end, and I loved how they played it, but the rest of it was totally gross.

I wonder do producers choose the most disgusting actors and more them even less bearable in purpose.

It was a bad idea in first place to bring dead people from wherever. What's dead must be dead, remember? Anyway the whole vampire stuff really couldn't challenge the scene Sam, Dean and John frighted that layer back then. Whn you try to repeat something great, it usually turns awful.