The Winchesters — Maybe A Bit Too Long In The Tooth?

By Mike Alexander

Supernatural got just an upgrade — well a prequel series anyway. The CW are going all in on that shared universe money and it’s time to see if it paid off. Let’s take a look at………..The Winchesters. And Jensen Ackles. Damn homie.

We recently covered the legacy of TV witches. Charmed, Sabrina, Bewitched, all of that good stuff. However, the legacy of these beloved TV shows could just as easily be extended into shows with any kind of supernatural bent. The 90s were awash with them, with shows like The X-Files and Buffy ruling the screens in living rooms for many years.

However, just as these shows were reaching their end in the mid-2000s, another show rose up to take their place and put a whole new generation of TV viewers under its spell. A show that boiled down the entire genre with its very title: Supernatural.

The adventures of Sam and Dean Winchester went on for FIFTEEN YEARS. FIFTEEN SEASONS of ghosts, ghouls, demons, and all other kinds of monsters every week. The show’s creator Eric Kripke only served as its showrunner for the first five seasons, but the show was so successful that The CW puppeted its corpse for another ten.

Supernatural was finally laid to rest in 2020, but it only got to enjoy a few years of peace before its…