Supernatural Renewed for 6th Season

February 17th, 2010 | Posted in News, Supernatural | No comments

It is now official. Supernatural has been renewed for a 6th season…but there’s a catch. Smirking smiles

The showrunners, Eric Kripke and Robert Singer, will no longer be at the show’s helm after season 5. According to Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly, they will continue to play active roles as executive producers, but someone else will take over the reins in season 6. This is likely to be Sera Gamble, an executive producer and writer who has been with the show since it’s first season.

This change in leadership means that Kripke will be concluding the current storyline at the end season 5 as scheduled; fans will finally get the see the long anticipated end of the apocalyptic, Winchester story; and season 6 will launch a whole new chapter for Supernatural and the Winchesters.

Like other fans, I am excited about a conclusive season 5 finale, cautious about the changes to come after that, but happy that the Winchesters will still be around for yet another season.

Michael Shanks to Guest Star on Supernatural

January 25th, 2010 | Posted in News | No comments

It’s been a while since I reported on an upcoming guest star on Supernatural, but I am so thrilled with this one, that I just had to write a post about it.

Michael Shanks–Dr. Daniel Jackson from Stargate: SG1–will be in an upcoming episode of Supernatural!

There has been other SG1 alums on the show, including Shank’s wife, Lexa Doig, who played a hunter and future Dean’s love interest in the awesome season 5 episode, The End. But, Shanks will be the biggest SG1 star to make a guest appearance on the show. He will be joining the ranks of famous SciFi/Fantasy-genre star to guest star on Supernatural, including Tricia Helfer of “Battlestar Galactica”, who was in the season 2 episode, Roadkill, Ted Raimi of “Xena: Warrior Princess”, from season 4’s Wishful Thinking, and Mitch Pileggi of the “X-Files” and “Stargate: Atlantis”, who played Samuel Campbell/Azazel(YED) in season 4’s, In the Beginning.

Here is the link to the “Keck Exclusive” article on TvGuideMagazine.com. No details on the episode, his role, or when it will air, as yet.

And the Winner is…

January 10th, 2010 | Posted in News, Supernatural | No comments

SUPERNATURAL!!!

Yes, it is really true. Supernatural has won the People’s Choice Award 2010 for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show. Woo Hoo!

Congratulations to Eric Kripke, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Jim Beaver, the excellent writers, and all the cast and crew of Supernatural. You truly deserve this award.

Here is a video produced by The CW congratulating it’s Thursday night winners:

[PCA Winner vid preview]

Supernatural News-Fall 2009

November 11th, 2009 | Posted in News | No comments

Supernatural has made the list of People's Choice Nominees for 2010! For the second time in as many years, Supernatural has been nominated in the category “Favorite TV Sci-Fi/Fantasy Series”. Supernatural has yet to win a major award in the USA and this could be our last opportunity before the show ends it run, so please vote. To cast your vote for Supernatural and your favorite movies, music, and other TV shows, visit www.peopleschoice.com/pca/vote/. A list of all the TV Shows nominated can be found at TVGuideMagazine.com

Supernatural star, Jensen Ackles, is engaged to be married.
JA and DH in Ten Inch Hero
The news broke on Monday that Jensen is engaged to fellow actor and
Ten Inch Hero co-star, Danneel Harris. According to E!Online, Jensen Ackles publicist has confirmed that the news is true and the couple was seen together at the Breeder's Cup with Danneel sporting an engagement ring. I wish them both well. They make a stunning couple.
Does this mean the Supernatural engagement curse has been lifted and, unlike his co-stars, Jared Padalecki and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jensen will actually make it to the alter? I hope so.

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5.02 Good God Y’All - A Review

October 18th, 2009 | Posted in Reviews | No comments

Good God, Y’All

Scene from EpisodeSupernatural Season 5, episode #02.
Airdate: Thursday September 17, 2009.
Written by Sera Gamble.
Directed By Phil Sgriggia.

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  • Synopsis: Click here to read the episode summary.

  • Praises: The Winchester brothers were back doing what they do best: roaring into town in the Impala, stopping a scary supernatural baddie, saving people (a beautiful girl), with snarkish humor and machismo (Dean), plus angst and drama (Sam), while listening to classic rock and looking really hot (both). Simple right? Not anymore. Kripke ramped up the stakes when he started the apocalypse in the season premiere. Now, the supernatural beings are even badder and almost impossible to kill, the brothers are out of sync as a team, and Sam is fighting his own addiction demons. And that made this episode was both exciting and interesting.

    There was angst, there was tension, there were scary moments, there was humor and snark, family moments, and even a hug (from Ellen). The scary part was not the supernatural being, but how easy it was for neighbor to turn against neighbor, for an entire town to become unraveled, based on appearances. As bleak parallel, we saw the Winchester brother’s relationship also unraveling. Like the townspeople, arguing, fighting (almost) and lack of trust has replaced their once tight bond. Their relationship has deteriorated so badly that for the first time ever, Dean did not immediately try to rescue Sam when he was captured by demons. To make things more complicated, Sam Winchester is still drawn to the superior power and strength that demon blood gives him and almost surrendered to that temptation after killing a couple demons.

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5.01 Sympathy for the Devil - A Review

September 20th, 2009 | Posted in Reviews | No comments

Sympathy for the Devil

Scene from Episode #5.01Supernatural Season 5, episode #01.
Airdate: Thursday September 10, 2009.
Written by Eric Kripke.
Directed By Robert Singer.

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  • Synopsis: Click here to read the episode summary.

  • Praises: This season premiere episode was all about the show’s mythology with strong tie-ins to past episodes. It is also the first season opener since season one that was not directed by the late, great Kim Manners and his absence was noticeable. Nonetheless, Robert Singer did a great job taking over this responsibility. He kept the show tension filled and his strength in character development was nicely showcased in the heartbreaking backstory about Nick, the man chosen to be Lucifer’s vessel.

    The caliber of the actors on Supernatural has gotten better with each season and this episode had some of the best. Jensen Ackles (Dean), Jared Padalecki (Sam), Misha Collins (Castiel), Rob Benedict (Chuck), Kurt Fuller (Zachariah), newcomer Mark Pellegrino (Nick) were awesome in their roles. Mark especially rocked as grief-stricken Nick. I am looking forward to seeing more of him as Lucifer.

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Season 5 Start Date and News

July 20th, 2009 | Posted in News, Supernatural | 2 comments

Supernatural's season 5 will begin airing on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 9/8c on The CW Network in the USA.

This is the earliest season launch ever for Supernatural in all it's seasons on The CW. Significantly, this early start means that the season premiere episode will air unchallenged by new episodes from the other major TV networks' regular Thursday lineups. [supernatural season 5 sign]Hopefully, if Supernatural attracts a portion of those networks' audience and if enough new viewers stick around after the daunting competition from The Office on NBC (9/17), Fringe on FOX (9/17), CSI on CBS (9/24), and Grey’s Anatomy on ABC (9/24) return from their summer hiatus, then The CW may dip into their pockets to keep Kripke around for a 6th season of Supernatural. I am keeping my fingers crossed for this to happen.

Filming for season 5 has already begun at the Vancouver, BC studios in Canada. The premiere episode, preliminarily titled, Sympathy for the Devil, will introduce the new recurring character of Lucifer to be played by Mark Pellegrino, currently of Lost and formerly of Dexter. I saw Pellegrino in his former role as Layla's (um, I mean Rita's) abusive ex-husband in the first season of Dexter and he was outstanding. I think he'll be just as “grate” on Supernatural. […spoiler text hidden…]

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4.22 Lucifer Rising - A Review

May 18th, 2009 | Posted in Reviews | No comments

Lucifer Rising

Scene from EpisodeSupernatural Season 4, episode #22.
Airdate: Thursday May 14, 2009.
Written by Eric Kripke.
Directed By Eric Kripke.

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  • Synopsis: Click here to read the episode summary.

  • Praises: My first reaction to this season 4 finale was…HOLY SH*T!!! Who would have thunk it. Kripke managed to trump season 1’s and season 3’s finale cliffhangers with one that is even more suspenseful. The ending was WOW, just WOW!

    Backing up a bit, I have to say that the acting was top notch. Jared and Jensen did a fantastic job. Jim and Misha are masters of their craft. Even Cortese’s Ruby was convincing. Kripke knows best how to bring his characters out of the actors. His directing style, though not as edgy and dramatic as Kim Manners’ was, had me totally engaged throughout the episode. At times, he had me gripping my chair for several OMG moments. I even screamed aloud to tell Sam “DON’T DO IT!”.

    Kripke presented some interesting dualities in this episode and for the season as a whole…from the title “Lucifer Rising” as a counterpoint to the premiere’s title, “Lazarus Rising”; then the fact that it was one Winchester who broke the first seal and another Winchester who broke the last; the continuing contrast of an angel-Dean duo versus a demon-Sam duo; and, of course, there’s that “small thing” where the season ends as the end-of-the world begins.

    One of the high points of this episode for me was seeing Dean reenergized, trying to save his brother as well as the world. I missed my hero terribly. I had stopped enjoying this season when Dean’s armor was revealed to be badly tarnished, when he was laden down with guilt and self-loathing. But Kripke finally returned to us the man who would sacrifice himself to help others, the man who knows what’s right from what’s wrong better than even the angels!

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