Flashback: ‘Supernatural’ (2005)
After losing their mother to a supernatural force, brothers Sam and Dean Winchester (played by Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) were raised by their father to track mysterious creatures. Created by Eric Kripk, the show debuted on network WB on September 13, 2005, and subsequently became part of the lineup when the network switched to become CW.
The series was going to end with its fifteenth season—but with production delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the final season was split into two half-seasons.
Here’s a promo from when the series began…
A mind-bending sci-fi western bearing shades of The Murderbot Diaries: “Bad things are happening, BUT I don’t want to write about a hopeless world.”
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The award-winning author known for writing zombies, outer space epics, thrillers, and more, now turns his attention to a different kind of hero. “He’s a civilized man pushed out of every aspect of his comfort zone.”
Japanese film director Ishirō Honda is one of the key figures who brought the world Godzilla—and the launch of kaijus as a whole movie category.
A private detective that has to face crooks, corruption, and—well, gods, vampires, wizards, elves, centaurs, and the like. These fantasies are totally for fans of detective fiction.
Want books that mix urban fantasy and crime fiction? Including books from Charlaine Harris, Kevin J. Anderson, plus Hellboy, Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, X-Files, Supernatural—and more.
What sets these two 1960s fantasy sitcoms apart? Bonus points when we talk about crossover details with pop rock legends Boyce and Hart! And The Monkees!
Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.
If this is true, actor Dwayne Johnson tried working behind the scenes with his Black Adam movie. And his schemes to run the show made the whole DC movie series come crashing down…