Everyone likes a good binge, and with Netflix has it become so much easier to just sit in front of your television for the next 18 hours and forget that the rest of the world actually exists. Though it’s easy enough to settle in with a your sweat pants, hair up in a bun / beanie if you’re a dude, snack food in your lap, blanket wrapped tightly around your torso, and as horizontal as you can possibly be. That’s the easy part. The hard part comes to when you finish a show and you have nowhere else to go, but fear not my fellow tv junkies. I got just the show for you.

Do you love emotionally ‘stunted’ anti-hero men, twisted dark horror themes, loyalty so deep you can almost taste it, or really attractive men doing not so attractive things. Then Supernatural is the place for you.

-          The Winchesters / Brotherly Love

It is damned hard to not feel when it comes to the Winchester boys and their forever long sob story.

 

Dean Winchester is the older brother of the two, and hunting is all he knows how to be. According to Dean, ‘No one escapes the life’ and because it was said it shall be. Dean is the personification of a warrior. He knows how to take commands, he knows his place, and he knows his mission. He is hard and can be ugly at times, but he has quick wit and a massive appetite to help balance out his darker qualities. Sam Winchester, or ‘Sammy’ as he is so affectionately called by Dean, is the younger of the two. When first introduced Sam has assimilated into the Stanford college life, but once you’re a hunter you are always a hunter and there was no getting out it for Sam.

                       

The lengths that both of these boys will go for each other is both breath taking and heart wrenching. The dynamic between the two, monsters and demons aside, is deep and has been proven time and time again that they would both die for each other. They are loyal and their love for each other is complex and twisted, one that is due in part to the damage they both have experience has children and growing up in the life they were forced into. Though that isn’t to say that there isn’t hilarity to their dynamic, they are siblings of course and it is the way they find comfort and light in each other that keeps bringing so many back. They have an old married couple mentality and a twist mischief with one another. They are siblings through and through. They bicker, they pout, and they are flat out amazing when put together.

 

 

 

-          The Soundtrack

Being the sheltered 19 year old lady that I am, I was never one partial to the music of the 80’s and older. The soundtrack for Supernatural is considered a classic and when I first heard it my initial reaction was

I didn’t know how I felt about it. My father always listened to the soft rock, the classic rock, the things that are considered ‘good music’ while I was jamming out to my Taylor Swift and belting out ‘Teardrops On my Guitar’ as loud as I possibly could. So it took me a bit to actually get into the music, the AC/DC, the Metallica, the Kansas, and anything else thrown in was something I had to stop and pause about. But the longer I watched and the more I listened the more I found myself bobbing my head and really getting into it.

The soundtrack of Supernatural is born through the love of old rock from Dean Winchester and his father John Winchester. The song ‘Carry On My Wayward Son’ as become iconic to the Supernatural fandom. It finds its way to the main screen during every season finale and the moment the words ‘The Road So Far’ materialize you know you are going to be belting out Kansas at the top of your lungs and sobbing because your road is coming to an end for several months.

The Music is fantastic and an eye opener to a younger generation that what our parents were jamming out too was the tits.

Here’s just a little taste of what you are getting (x) – THERE ARE SPOILERS FOR LATER SEASONS SO YOU ARE FORWARNED.

-          The Inclusiveness of the Show and It’s Fans

Thanks to the magical invention that is social media, is it much easier for fans to communicate with those who have created the shows in which they have become emotionally invested in. The Supernatural fandom is a deep swirling bit of agony that will suck all new comers in and never release from this void of masochistic pleasure. The writers for Supernatural are well known for interacting with their fans. They even go so far as to create ‘meta’ episodes that critics/makes fun up their own show, along with their dedicated fan base.

There was an entire episode based on the actors Jared and Jensen playing the characters Sam and Dean who came to OUR universe and had to play themselves Jared and Jensen while acting as the characters Sam and Dean. The episode was a mind fuck in and of itself, it was great.

There are subtle hints and digs throughout the show at the writers. During the moment in which you are meeting Chuck Shurley (spoiler: prophet of the lord), he is going under a pseudo name Carver Edlund which is a combination of the two of the main writers for the show known as Jeremy Carver and Ben Edlund. Chuck as a specific line saying “It was too preposterous, not to mention arrogant. Writing yourself into the story is one thing but as a prophet? That's like M Night level doucheness.” The writers aren’t afraid to make a dig at themselves, and those who are well acquainted fans of the show would get the joke.

All in all if you are looking for something else to watch that you can binge forever on then Supernatural is the one for you. It has everything in it and more. The show is gold in many opinions, the first 5 seasons having the most series based story line and you will find yourself sobbing grossly into a tub of ice cream trying not to laugh grotesquely at the dark and a tad twisted humor they through in to try and ‘lighten’ the mood. So if you got the time, you better settle in and channel your inner bum. The show is worth it. Seriously, watch it.. please.