Supernatural Television Series Review
By Fallon Link
The television series, Supernatural, has been ongoing for ten years and still remains to continue. The story follows siblings Sam and Dean Winchester, whose mother died in 1983 in a fire in the Winchester household when Sam was six months of age and Dean was four years old. This fire was not ordinary though. John, her husband, found her pinned to the ceiling following her screech. Shortly after this, flames engulfed the room only giving John Winchester enough time to get himself, Dean, and Sam out safely. John, who knew it was a paranormal event, sets out to find the thing that killed her. This pulls the Winchesters into the world of hunting werewolves, vampires, demons, spirits, and numerous other abnormal creatures, which they cannot escape no matter how hard they attempt to.
The show starts off with Sam, who is twenty-two at the time, at Stanford University with friends and Jess, his girlfriend. In the middle of the night, Dean comes into Jess and Sam’s apartment and, after waking them up, says that their “dad went on a hunting trip and hasn’t been home in a few days.” Although Sam claimed he was done hunting, he goes with Dean in search of their father, but must return for a law school interview.
The two set off and find a suspicious situation along the way. After investigating, they discover a “woman in white,” a spirit who murdered her children then took her own life because her husband was unfaithful to her, the proceeds to take the lives of men who are unfaithful to their lovers. The brothers get a motel room and then learn that their father was examining the same occurrence because he used the same credit card as Dean to rent a motel room for a month. Although their father is not present, Sam and Dean retrieve John’s journal, which includes information on every supernatural creature he has faced and coordinates of an area where he may be.
After Sam and Dean defeat the woman and white, Dean wants to go to where the coordinates indicated with Sam, but Sam declines by saying he has to make a law school interview. Although Dean is not pleased with this, he drives Sam back to Stanford. When Sam enters his apartment, he sees that Jess, his girlfriend, is absent, so heads directly to bed after a tiring hunting trip. When Sam opens his eyes, he finds Jess pinned to the ceiling. Sam screams while flames fill the room. Dean rushes in to save his brother, but Jess sadly dies the same was as Mary Winchester. From this, Sam is given the same determination as his father to kill the thing that killed his mother and girlfriend. Sam and Dean set out to find their father and kill the thing he has been tracking down for twenty two years, which leads to several other events such as the apocalypse. As the story grows, the protagonists develop and more characters, such as Castiel, an angel, and Charlie, a girl who is like a sister to the brothers, join sides with the Winchesters.
Personally, Supernatural is my favorite television show even over Doctor Who, which is has been ongoing for fifty years. The show takes risks other productions would never dare to attempt, such as crossing into parallel worlds where the characters are seen as the actors, having a Tuesday repeated over and over for Sam where Dean dies every day, and Sam and Dean being transported into “TV Land.” Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, and Misha Collins, the actors who portray Sam, Dean, and Castiel, all manage to make their characters dynamic and compelling, which is a extremely difficult task. Additionally, the fanbase of Supernatural is just as crazy as the cast for they dig deeply into the show and admire the relationships between characters with passion. Supernatural is a story with two hundred episodes, ten seasons, and two brothers that truly have dug their way into my heart.