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Twenty-two years ago, in Lawrence, Kansas, something evil visited Sam and Dean Winchester’s home. It took their mother in a fiery blaze and sent their father on an obsessive hunt for her killer—a killer who is not of this world.
After a childhood of living in cheap hotels and being dragged all over the country on ghost hunts, Sam (Jared Padalecki) wants something normal and safe. He broke away from the only family he had left, and now he plans to attend law school and marry his girlfriend, Jessica. Then his brother, Dean (Jensen Ackles) shows up and tells him their daddy went on a hunt and hasn’t been home in a few days. Sam agrees to help find their father, but that’s all.
While Sam is gone, the same evil that took Sam and Dean’s mother, takes Jessica. And so begins the story of two brothers fighting supernatural spirits while looking for their father, drawing them closer and closer to a demon they might not be able to destroy.
If Ghost Whisperer is for the chicks, then Supernatural is for the guys. This is an edgy, hard-hitting, graphic television series. If you’re not used to the paranormal, these stories will scare the dickens out of you. I’ll admit I even had mild nightmares the first night I started watching Supernatural. My brother said he jumped at shadows and noises, and neither one of us scares that easily.
Sam and Dean’s characters clash, but in a good way, which makes for great entertainment. Sam is the more sensitive of the two. He gets things done with a softer touch and with his intelligence, which is good when dealing with people who don’t believe in monsters in the closet. It comes in handy when Sam has to make those visited by mean spirits believe they aren’t crazy in order to save their lives.
Dean, on the other hand, goes in with guns blazing and asks no questions. It’s a demon. Kill it. Period. He drives a muscle car and listens to ‘80s metal—or greatest hits of mullet rock, according to Sam—on cassette tapes. He’s sarcastic, often belligerent, but funny and charming. You can’t help but to like him. Not to say that he doesn’t have a sensitive side—because he does, which makes him even more likable—but he’d rather face all the demons in hell at once than show it.
The brothers fight often, bringing humor to dark subject matter. Though they appear to hate each other at times, you know beyond a doubt they would die for each other and their father.
“Provenance” gave me the chills, and it was my favorite episode. A painting of a creepy-looking family sells at an auction and later that night one of the members of the family creeps out of the picture and murders whoever had the misfortune of hanging it above their fireplace. It also has a wicked twist of an ending, which y’all know I love.
Another eerie episode, “Bloody Mary,” made me not want to go near a mirror ever again. Though this episode is scary, however, the whole sinister girl with long, black hair hanging in her face as she crawls out of a mirror, a well, or a wall and walks toward you with hitching steps is becoming old-school. You see her in movies such as The Ring, The Ring Two, and The Grudge. Time for something different.
Supernatural’s episodes are based on legends, myths, true ghost stories, and even urban legends. Ever hear of the lady in white who gets picked up on a dark, deserted road and asks the driver to take her home? When he gets her there, the house is broken down and abandoned, and the lady in white has disappeared. The pilot episode of Supernatural goes a bit beyond that—and the men who pick her up disappear, too.
If you want a good scare and haven’t been able to find it in a while, Supernatural might just be what you’re looking for. Filled with the unexplained, the demented, the uncanny, this series is sure to please.
