Here is the summary for the show Supernatural Season 1 from imdb This television drama is about two brothers, Sam and Dean, who were raised by their father, John, to hunt and kill all things that go "bump in the night" after his wife, Mary, was murdered by something supernaturally evil when the boys were young. 22 years later the brothers set out on a journey, fighting evil along the way, to find their recently missing father who, when they finally meet up with, reveals he knows what killed their mother, a demon, and has found a way to track and kill it. Meanwhile, Sam starts to develop frightening abilities that include death visions, visions of people dying before it actually happens. These visions are somehow connected to the demon who murdered his mother and it's mysterious plans that seem to be all about Sam. When their father dies striking a deal with the very same devil that had killed his wife, the brothers, now alone and without their mentor, are determined to finish the crusade their father started. But disturbing revelations about Sam's part in the demon's apocalyptic plans are presented when John's dying last words to Dean are revealed. Written by Rachel B.
When Sam and Dean Winchester were just kids, their mother was horribly murdered in front of their father by something "supernatural". Their lives were never the same again. After their mother's murder, their father took an interest in the supernatural and the unexplained and raised the boys as warriors with skills to fight back against the unknown and protect the innocent. 22 years later, with Sam and Dean grown up, their father suddenly disappears on a suppose routine supernatural hunt. Sam and Dean search for their father and along the way help anyone with a supernatural problem with the help from their dad's journal that contains most of his knowledge about the supernatural that he had accumulated over his 22 years of none-stop obsessive hunting. Written by yatessixecho
22 years ago, John Winchester awoke in the middle of the night to find his wife, Mary, pinned to the ceiling, bleeding from the stomach, and set aflame. He managed to get his sons, 4-year-old Dean and six-month old Sam, out of the house, but Mary was killed leaving John devastated and determined for revenge against the supernatural thing that killed her. Present day, John has raised his sons to fight supernatural forces. Demons, ghosts, even cryptologic creatures. However, they can't find the thing that killed Mary. With his constant clashes with his father, Sam becomes disenchanted with the hunter's lifestyle, and goes away to college, where he falls in love with a girl named Jessica Moore. After years of estrangement, Dean shows up at Sam and Jess' one night to ask for Sam's help to look for their father who had gone missing during a "hunting trip". At first, Sam is reluctant to be roped back into the world of hunting and prefers his "safe" normal life he had managed to make for himself with Jess, but when he finds Jess dead through the same M.O. as their mother, he sets out with Dean to find their father by following any supernatural leads they can find across the country, hoping they track him down. Written by ryan_murphy
Here is a review for Season 1 of SupernaturalThe Show:
Out of the crop of SF/horror/suspenseful mystery shows to debut in the 2005 television season, the one that had the most success wasn't from ABC, NBC, CBS, or Fox. Oddly enough it was a little show that aired on WB, Supernatural. Nominated for two Emmy's as well as a Saturn Award, the show was able to do something else that its competitors, (Invasion, Threshold, and Surface) weren't able to do: Supernatural was renewed for a second season. The show's first season has now been released on DVD, and it's a show that deserves a wider audience because it's very good. It brings back quality creepiness to prime time TV.
In the middle of a calm quiet night, a young mother of two wakes up and checks on her baby Sam and sees a dark foreboding figure crouching over his crib. Screaming, she wakes up her husband who rushes into the nursery to find the baby sleeping quietly, and his wife stuck to the ceiling her stomach horribly cut open. Giving the baby to his four-year old son and telling him to run out of the house, the husband tries to save his wife only to see her burst into flames that engulf the whole house burning it to the ground.
Fast forward 22 years. Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) is now attending Stanford and has plans to attend law school. He has a beautiful girlfriend and a close circle of friends. That all changes when his older, estranged, brother Dean shows up one night. Dean informs Sam that their father, who Sam hasn't talked to in over two years, has gone on a hunting trip and is a few days late checking in.
This is bad news because their father hunts supernatural creatures. Ever since the death of his wife, John Winchester has scoured the country killing every evil demon, ghost and ghoul that he can find. He's been looking for the demon that killed his wife, and though he hasn't found the creature yet, he's not about to give up.
Dean and Sam have been trained for the past two decades to fight evil too, and were very good at it until Sam gave up two years ago to attend college. He wanted a normal life, and grew tired of the constant violence and danger. He agrees to help his brother track down the one lead they have to their father's whereabouts as long as he's back at school by Monday.
Though they don't find their father, they do rid the world of a ghost, and Dean is good on to his word and returns Sam to his apartment late Sunday night. Flopping down on his bed, Sam opens his eyes to see his girlfriend attached to the ceiling with her stomach sliced, just as his mother was years before. As she bursts into flames, Sam decides that he no longer wants to be a lawyer. He and his brother are going to find their father, and kill the demon who has been tormenting them. The slightly mismatched brothers start their journey, driving around the country in a beautiful black 1967 Chevrolet Impala, searching for their father and killing as many creatures of the night as they can along the way.
This show is a mix of The Fugitive and X-Files with just a dollop of Hardy Boys thrown in for good measure, and it works very well. There's a fair amount of continuity, mainly searching for the father and learning more about the brother's past and that keeps the show from being repetitive. It never feels like a 'monster of the week' type program. They aren't just using the same script every week and just changing the supernatural threat. This is a pitfall that a lot of horror television shows fall into, and I'm glad Supernatural has been able to avoid it. The overriding plot also advances as the series goes on, significant events take place in this season, and it's not like a series from the 50's where the heroes never get any closer to the answer that they are searching for.
The show is very creepy too. It has a dark feel, and there are moments of gore in most episodes, though this is never overboard and relatively minor. It does keep you on the edge of your seat however. Battling a mixture of urban legends and more standard horror monsters, the episodes mostly all involve a murderous creature, and while most of the vivisection and such occur off screen, they effectively imply what's going on.
There are also some nice moments of humor that are adding into the show to relieve the tension. In once scene the brothers refer to themselves as Agent Scully and Agent Mulder, and though the show is never gets silly or totally breaks the mood, the light elements are a nice touch.
Stars Jansen Eckles (Days of Our Lives) and Jared Padalecki (Gilmore Girls) work well together and have a nice on-screen chemistry. They fight and bicker quiet realistically and in general behave like real brothers. They do a good job in the show, and the only real complaint that I have it that they are a bit too attractive (and all the women they meet are bombshells.) It would be nice to see someone who looks like a real person every once in a while, but that's a minor complaint.
The DVD:
The 22 episodes that comprise the first season are presented on six DVDs. These come in one of those fold out cases, with two overlapping discs on each page. I really dislike fold out cases and overlapping discs, so this isn't one of my favorite packages. The discs are housed in a nice slipcase.
Audio:
The show comes with a Dolby Digital Stereo Surround mix that fits the show well. The program would have benefitted from a discrete 5.1 mix, but this soundtrack was adequate. One of the first things that I noticed was that they kept the original music which consists of classic hard rock by groups such as AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Iron Butterfly, among others. This music helped set a tone for the show, and I'm glad that it was included. (Presumably producers are now including the DVD rights when they clear a song for use in a TV show, which is a good thing.) As for the sound quality, it was very good. Some use was made of the soundstage, especially the front, and the dialog wasn't overpowered by the music or sound effects. Distortion, hiss, dropouts, and other audio defects were absent.
Video:
The 1.78:1 widescreen anamorphic image looked very good. The show was shot and mastered in HD and the resulting standard definition DVD has a good amount of detail. The image is sharp and the blacks are deep and dark. The show has a dark atmosphere with a lot of scenes taking place in sewers, dark warehouses, and abandoned buildings late at night. These low light scenes were reproduced very well, with details still present in the shadows and colors appropriately toned. On the digital side, things also look good with only a little minor aliasing in a few scenes. Overall a nice looking set.
Extras:
There are some nice extras included with this first season. There are two commentaries, one for the pilot with creator Eric Kripke, director David Nutter and producer Peter Johnson, and the other for the episode Phantom Traveler with stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. There are deleted scenes for seven episodes, a 21-minute featurette on the creation of the series Supernatural: Tales From The Edge Of Darkness. One rather fluffy bonis item was Day In The Life Of Jared And Jensen that followed the two stars over the course of a shooting day. The bonus material is rounded out with a gag reel and a stills gallery.
Final Thoughts:
If you're looking for a creepy show that has a good mixture of mystery, suspense, and horror, this is the show for you. One of the few horror shows on TV that really work well, it has some eerie moments and some good suspense. While it's not as intense as a theatrical horror film, it is as close as television gets. This series gets a high recommendation.
Here are the direct downloads for season 1 of SupernaturalEpisode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14
Episode 15
Episode 16
Episode 17
Episode 18
Episode 19
Episode 20
Episode 21
Episode 22
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