Bend This Spoon: Nightmare’s Mind Games, Telekinesis & Tragedy (Supernatural 114) Nightmare

“You're Right.” — The Two Most Devastating Words. Max only wanted the pain to stop.

In Supernatural’s “Nightmare,” trauma becomes the monster, and the most chilling horror isn’t a ghost—it’s what a broken boy is capable of. Sam’s psychic visions take a disturbing turn when he sees a man die in what looks like suicide, but feels like something else. That “something” leads Sam and Dean to Max: a deeply abused, telekinetic young man with a startlingly similar backstory to Sam’s.

Steph and Jeff dive deep into the emotional resonance and visual storytelling of one of the strongest episodes of the season. Steph brings her insider knowledge to unpack performance choices, VFX strategies, and what it really means when a character "acts from their body." Jeff is fascinated by Max’s restraint—and has questions about windows, casseroles, and whether Sam might’ve accidentally fired that final shot.

It’s a haunting, high-stakes episode that finally swings the mythology door wide open.

You’ll hear...

• How trauma keeps you emotionally frozen in time
• The heartbreaking kinship between Sam and Max
• A brilliant (and subtle) guest performance by Brendan Fletcher
• Telekinesis that actually looks good on a CW budget
• That knife-to-tear VFX shot—and the morality behind it
• Why Dean’s "truth face" is the real window into his soul
• Sam's guilt, and the devastating possibility that he's... not alone
• A casserole table full of mystery and very confusing celery logic

Also: Dean’s jacket continues its reign as an endless prop pocket. And keep an eye out for that final close-up on Alice, the stepmom—because no one can quite decide what it means.

This is the episode where everything starts to click—and everyone starts to crack.