everybody loves a clown WHAT an episode. dean halfheartedly trying to hit on jo and just stopping halfway through, for once not up for putting up an act. and then turning her down again at the end of the episode after acknowledging that normally he’d be hitting on her ‘fast enough to make her head spin’. but sure yeah his dad just died it’s just not the time, right?
except he then immediately turns around and gets SO flirty with ash. and it’s so obviously genuine and doesn’t feel at all performative! like, dean already seems interested and impressed by ash at the start of the episode. but then at the end of it ash makes a queer movie reference that sam doesn’t get, and then shoots dean a look to see if he clocked it. and right after that dean angles in and turns on the eyelashes and gets flirty and it feels so REAL and subtle and different from the interest he’s generally expressed in women up to this point.
