For
my money, television doesn’t come any better than Supernatural (sorry,
Sopranos, The Walking Dead, Dexter, Breaking Bad…). The brothers Sam and Dean Winchester in an
existential fight against evil, with God looking on and not particularly caring
which side wins, really is my cup of tea.
No
one plays air guitar with his leg better than Jensen Ackles, and no other show
has ever done an episode from the perspective of a car, as happened this season
with the Winchesters’ black ’67 Chevy Impala.
(Note: my first car was a gold ’67 Impala convertible.) And the episode where the boys’ exploits are
turned into a high school musical? Pure
genius.
As
are the inside jokes. Some of them
involve the aliases Sam and Dean use, especially as FBI agents; if you know
your rock groups—hint, Bon Jovi and Styx—you’ll get it and laugh. Or they might pull a fast one with the names
of other characters. A few weeks ago,
the fake agents were interviewing a kid by the name of Brock Buckner. I thought I was going to die.
Any
baseball fan with a sense of irony and humor will know what I mean.
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