Supernatural (TV Series) Hello, Cruel World (2011) User Reviews

Feast in the Hospital

[claudio_carvalho · 9/10 · 13 January 2013]

Castiel is possessed by the leviathans and his vessel is about to explode. He goes to the Municipal Waters and the leviathans are released in the water. They possess a little girl, two swimmers from a high school team and a demolition worker and they are hungry. Meanwhile Sam confesses to Dean and Bobby that he has difficulties to identify what is real or hallucination and he sees Lucifer everywhere.

The girl goes to the Sioux Falls General Hospital and possesses the surgeon Dr. Gaines. However Sheriff Jody Mills that is recovering from a surgery of appendices witnesses the leviathan eating the liver of her roommate and she calls Bobby. Meanwhile the four leviathans meet at the hospital and they eat the head nurse and one administrator. Bobby goes to the hospital and rescues Sheriff Mills. Meanwhile Sam is lured by Lucifer posing of Dean. When the real Dean comes to meet Sam, he needs to know how to find what is real.

"Hello, Cruel World" is an excellent episode of Supernatural with a full of action and tension story. The apparently indestructible and shape shifters leviathans will certainly give hard time to the Winchester brothers and Bobby in this Season. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Hello, Cruel World"

One of the better psychological episodes

[CubsandCulture · 9/10 · 16 April 2020]

Perhaps cutting a bit too close to "Sam, Interrupted" this is nonetheless a fun episode of supernatural dealing with psychology horror that only a few episodes do. Halucifer is a great character and Sam struggling with the external world skepticism is nice change of pace from the normal goblins and ghouls. I feel like Edlund lost some battles in the script phase because Lucifer as Descartes' evil genius is an idea that is only hinted at in this episode and it could have been pushed further.

Leviathans as Dr. Sexy

[shwetafabm · 8/10 · 22 June 2020]

I like the throwback to Dr. Sexy but i ain't getting the chills from leviathans. I do like that we see they are organised and unkillable but ok. Sam is having a psychotic break and i think that's something they had to tackle and they do it well it's just too different for me.

A beautiful mind.

[zombiehigh18 · 10/10 · 30 December 2011]

If any episode made me glad Supernatural expanded beyond the fifth season, this is the one. Oh My God, this is just amazingly amazing.

There is nothing more scary for a some one than having to deal with his inner daemons and his craziness that can't be fixed by any supernatural mean. The poor orphaned freak kid we met on season one who desperately wanted a normal life but had to deal with the loss of his girlfriend then his father then failing to save his brother from Hell, only to fall as an easy target to a daemon's manipulations and go down a dark road addicting to daemon blood and opening the Devil's cage, redeeming himself later by sacrificing himself to save the world, but no, it wasn't over for that troubled young man as he had to come back missing a soul that is left to be tortured in Hell and now he has to deal with that time down under. After he thought everything is going down OK with him, as he is finally back with his brother hunting together again, Poor Sam is going down the crazy road like a tornado. He can't tell real from unreal and now Lucifer is giving him all the reasonable answers to his and Dean's questions, making him believe that Lucifer can be real and the world around him is not. Sam can't trust himself as hunter again, he graciously admits he is in no shape hunting again and claims his role to stay put and do his research, but when imaginary Lucifer takes Dean's form and asks him to go on a hunt, he is faced by yet another great fear as fake Dean tells him he will never be okay no matter how hard he tries, then Lucifer keeps pushing him on the edge of suicide to free himself from this eternal torture. But will Sam ever be OK again after Dean helped him tell the difference from what's real and what's not? Will his head trauma undo all Dean's efforts to save his brother, that's if they survived the Levaithans waiting for them in the hospital? I was dying to know the answer to these questions.

Dean, who has lost everything and everyone around him, he still can't get over losing Cas, Lisa and Ben and he is obviously on the verge of cracking himself, But the only one who can see that is Bobby, But Dean the "non sharing and caring" type of guy refuses to talk about his problems putting Sam as his only priority, only until he thinks he has lost Bobby too that he cracks and admits he is not really OK. Dean who is known for burying his feelings deep under whisky and porn, has to share his memories of Hell to save his brother but as always life never gives those two a break.

Misha Collins, I'm not going to dwell on the usual fan temper when it comes to that amazing actor and his endearing character Castiel. I'm not going to make a fuss and keep asking for him to come back and I'm willing to see how the events this season will unfold. But at least Castiel deserved a better way to go than this, I know the floating trench coat was heartbreaking but he really deserved more.

Finally, Call me wicked, but as much as I want Sam to get better as much as I want Mark Pellegrino to stick around more. And please don't kill Bobby.

The episode was perfect, the Levaithans are probably the scariest creatures we have met on Supernatural, they are smart, shape shifter like taking the form of it's victims as well as it's memories and experiences and apparently hard to kill. The brotherly scene at the warehouse was great, well written and acted, no matter how many times I watch that scene I never seize to marvel over it utter greatness. This is diffidently a must watch.

I like this episode.

[mm-39 · 10 October 2011]

Good storyline. The Angel character is gone, and we have a group of demons who through the water system have copied peoples' bodies and have taken over a local hospital. Sam is having problems with what is real, and if the devil is really bothering him? Dean finds a solution. The boys end up going to the hospital after an attack at Bobby's auto yard. I love the ending. A true connecting episode. What will happen to the boys? I am glued to the series. This season is starting out well compared to the last season. I did not know what they would do for this season. I thought that they had exhausted most story lines. Koodoos to the story writer and the director. Well directed, acted episode worth 8 out of 10 scares.

So boring

[darkdementress · 1/10 · 16 August 2021]

"mangled to death" dats dem dares sum gud witing! Jesus this show really got bad after season 5.