Supernatural [Season 1-5] (CW, 2005-2009)IDMB LinkWhen I first watched "Supernatural", it was something to do while doing other things. My sister was watching it so I got it off her, looking for a show that I can watch in the background.
At first, "Supernatural" was a what "X-Files" would be if it was targeted for young girls. Two brothers hunt monsters every week. But not just any two brothers, but two handsome but different brothers to appeal to the demographics' likes. Dean is a wild boy who's good with girls, is not very smart, and likes food (think Joey from "Friends"), but is actually using all that as a cover to hide his sensitive inner being, a personality trait that will probably make the girl's melt. The other brother, Sam, is more emotional, sensitive, smart, and charmingly boyish, appealing to another set of girls. And their close brother love with all the sibling drama and end of the episode heart-to-heart talk is just not something I'm fond of. The story-line of the first season is that they are in the search of their father, who is also a hunter like them, but has disappeared, but the storyline is not addressed that much, as it is mainly about going from town to town and killing supernatural beings while looking handsome and dramatic.
Season 2 starts to get things rolling as things seem to get more serious. The biggest obstacle here for me was realizing the show is not as shitty as I thought it was.
But it is with Season 3 that things really get good. The stakes are getting higher with each episode. The brothers are having a more well-defined personality and the dramatic conflicts between them start making sense. Sam starts getting darker as he toys with certain dark supernatural powers (for good, he argues, but that's how it always starts, right?) while Dean tries to desperately protect his smaller brother. From Season 1, the story is always about demons as the main enemy, but as the show progresses, the enemy and the situation becomes bigger. It starts off as finding their father and killing the demon that was responsible for the murder of their brother when they were children, but soon that seems nothing with the way things go from bad to worse. By the time, you reach Season 4 and 5, it's not about two brothers out to find their father, but two brothers facing the end of the world, filled with plots involving angels and demons. I've always been fascinated with the Abrahamic religion stories, so it is fun seeing the ideas and characters being presented in a modern format.
Fans of the earlier episodes did not like that the show moved away from the monster-of-the-week silly episodes, but for someone like me who likes the idea of Michael fighting Lucifer, Gabriel being a dick, God not caring that much, fallen angels, new prophets, demons changing sides, and so on, it's a lot of fun.
The story sort of wraps around in Season 5. While there is a Season 6, I sort of consider Season 5 a nice little end to the show, because the creator seems to have considered it as the end to his story. I haven't watched Season 6 yet, but it does seem to have a different person in charge of the show and it does seem to be mainly done for contractual purposes, so I don't have much high hopes for it. But the show from Season 2 to 5 (best being 3-4) were fantastic.
4/5
