9/23/2023 0 Comments Supernatural![]() “Supernatural” was created by Eric Kripke in 2005 with DNA from “The X-Files” and “Route 66” and a tincture of “Twin Peaks” - a horror road show with a strong dose of Americana, with powerful cars barreling down country roads at night and frequent stops for pie at retro diners. After the Season 4 revelation that Sam and Dean had inspired a series of “Supernatural” comic books and were minor celebrities with a fanatical following among young women, clever stand-alone episodes placed them at a fan convention and a production of a high school “Supernatural” musical.Ī similar audaciousness applied, with more mixed results, to the show’s continuing story lines. “Supernatural” was always comfortable poking fun at itself, and it had a relaxed, amusing touch with high-concept episodes like an animated “Scooby-Doo” crossover. ![]() They were willing to throw things at the wall, and some of the things that stuck were highly entertaining. This willingness to go out with an idiosyncratic (and possibly divisive) flourish was in keeping with another notable aspect of the show: No one had expected it to last more than five seasons - what had been planned as the series finale came and went - and there was a palpable sense that the producers had been playing with the house’s money for a decade. Cast, crew and car assembled for a final thank-you to the fans, which was followed by the words “And - cut,” symbolizing the very thin line the show had always kept between fiction and fandom, art and audience. The prominence of the Winchesters’ Impala and the Kansas anthem “Carry On Wayward Son” (the episode’s title was “Carry On”) celebrated the iconography, visual and aural, that had been central to the show’s texture. It honored the gorgeous British Columbia landscapes that had stood in for every corner of the United States and served as Jensen’s and Padalecki’s second home. It was an odd, awkward, maudlin and, in keeping with the show’s habits, self-referential exercise. The hunt was finally over, though heaven’s trout population was probably endangered. His old comrade in arms, Bobby (Jim Beaver), and his beloved muscle car, Baby, were waiting for him, and eventually Sam joined him. They took care of their bloody business, as always, and saved a Winchester-like pair of young brothers in the bargain.īut the warrior Dean died ignominiously, impaled on a nail, and woke up in heaven, formerly a viper’s pit of scheming angels but now a sylvan wonderland. ![]() ![]() Thursday’s series finale was an earnestly sentimental coda that felt as if it were less about Sam and Dean Winchester than it was about Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, the actors who have spent much of their adult lives playing those demon-slaying brothers, and the extensive “Supernatural” family - producers, writers, cast and crew - that revolves around them.ĭispelling any hope offered in the penultimate episode that the brothers’ long-awaited takedown of God, also known as Chuck (Rob Benedict), had freed them of their hunting duties - their goal through most of the series - the finale sent them on a routine mission to clean out a nest of vampires. It had taken care of business the week before, wrapping up its final story line - the Winchester brothers staving off the apocalypse one last time - and gifting its singularly devoted fans a snappy retrospective montage slyly set to “Running on Empty.” “Supernatural,” the CW’s seemingly ageless monster-hunting show, ended its 15-year run Thursday night on its own terms. ![]() This article contains spoilers for the final episode of “Supernatural.” ![]()
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