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Hollie C. (hollie) from MCMINNVILLE, TN
Reviewed on 10/10/2016...

would have enjoyed it more if my copy hadn't skipped through half of it

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K. K. (GAMER)
Reviewed on 9/23/2016...

Outstanding TV series. Great acting, action and horror at its best for TV.

1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Katy S. (ktyspray) from LAKE OSWEGO, OR
Reviewed on 6/22/2011...

I LOVE this series! The kitchy monster of the week story begins to turn into a much larger, much darker plot that is so incredibly engrossing that you become an addict before you even notice that you've been bitten! The brothers have a great chemistry and are so relatable that by the end of season 2, you feel like you've known them for years!

5 stars!!

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Lezlie R. from DALY CITY, CA
Reviewed on 2/6/2010...

The storyline keeps building as Dean and Sam finally meet up with Dad to hunt the Demon. Smart writing, good action, scary and funny all in one.

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My Favorite Show on TV.

Jennifer Ortiz | Morristown, NJ United States | 06/01/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Season 2 of Supernatural has far exceeded my expectations and it has far surpassed it's debut season, which I didn't think was possible. Dean and Sam have matured and bonded over countless "hunts" protecting strangers from creatures they couldn't even imagine in their worst nightmares. The acting in this season has been superb. Both actors, Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) and Jared Padelecki (Sam Winchester) have put in tremendous performances. I think they both deserve Emmy's! My favorite eposides for each would be Jensen's performance in "In My Time of Dying," "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things," "What Is and What Should Never Be (aka I Dream of Genie)," and "All Hell Breaks Loose Part II." Jared has blown me away in "Hunted," "Houses of the Holy," "Born Under a Bad Sign," "Heart," and "All Hell Breaks Loose Part I." There are some fantastically funny episodes "The Usual Suspects," Tall Tales," "Hollywood Babylon," and "Folsom Prison Blues." The mix of suspense and humor are well balanced.



I love the way that Eric Kripke, et al, add just the right music/song to foreshadow what is coming or what has happened in the episode. It all just ties together making the music almost another character on the show.



Another great thing about this season is that the brothers meet with some new friends and reconnect with some old ones making recurring roles from Bobby, in particular, very enjoyable. There have been some fabulous guest stars on the show from Linda Blair in "Usual Suspects," Tricia Helfer was amazing in "Roadkill," and Emmanuelle Vaugier in "Heart" was just perfect. There are so many surprises this season that just keep you on the edge of your seat. After watching the season finale it looks like Season 3 promises to continue the thrills.



Here is a list of the episodes:

1. In My Time of Dying

2. Everyone Loves a Clown

3. Bloodlust

4. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

5. Simon Said

6. No Exit

7. The Usual Suspects

8. Crossroads Blues

9. Croatoan

10. Hunted

11. Playthings

12. Night Shifter

13. Houses of the Holy

14. Born Under a Bad Sign

15. Tall Tales

16. Road Kill

17. Heart

18. Hollywood Babylon

19. Folsom Prison Blues

20. What Is and Never Should Be (aka I Dream of Genie)

21. All Hell Breaks Loose: Part I

22. All Hell Breaks Loose: Part II



The DVD is packed with special features. Of course they include the gag reel (which is always fun). There are unaired scenes and commentary from the directors, producers, and Jared and Jensen. I even heard it will have Jared Padalecki's original screen test. It will be interesting to see how he interpreted the character from the beginning and compare how his character has grown over the two seasons.



I already have the episodes downloaded on my Ipod, but will definitely buy the season for the DVD features.



- Jennifer"

Awesome continuation of a promising series

trashcanman | Hanford, CA United States | 05/30/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In the midst of this television season's coverage of "Lost"'s fall from grace and eventual comeback and the big waves made by "Heroes", not to mention the slew of increasingly brazen reality TV saturating the market this gem of a show got lost in the shuffle. Season one was a solid start for the show, full of monster-and-hottie-of-the-week stories that stood alone while very slowly giving us an inkling of a larger plot at work before ending with a glorious cliffhanger. The music was wonderful, the guest stars brilliant, and the homages to classic and modern horror were thick. If you missed it, now's the time to catch up because season two is a winner in every possible way. The first episode is among the greatest season openers I've ever had the pleasure of viewing and it shakes this show to it's very core and sets the tone for the entire year's events. From there, Sam and Dean set out to get revenge for their deceased family members and save as many people as they can along the way. Second verse, same as the first, right? Well, no, not quite. We still get our monsters-of-the-week and our cute guest stars and our classic rock soundtrack, but the tone of this season is so much darker and the events so traumatic that the stakes just seem to be on a whole other level. Friendships are made and broken, loyalties are tested, long-standing beliefs are challenged, all three Winchesters fight for their very souls, and almost nobody's getting out whole. This season is a tooth-and-nail battle for survival and while it still has a hefty dose of the humor that made the first season so much fun, it's obvious that this show is no longer just playing around at having a larger plot. This is the real deal. Among the baddies met along the way are more vampires (one played by an almost unrecongnizable Amber Benson of "Buffy" fame), a rogue hunter, a living dead girl, a female werewolf (in the most heart-wrenching episode of any show I've seen this season), a deal-making demon for those who remember the legend of Robert Johnson, some of Sam's fellow "gifted" children (we do learn their secret), and a Norse trickster god to name a few. The music, if anything, has gotten better this season and so have the guest stars. My favorite guest performance has got to be the loveable Katherine Isabel from cult-classic werewolf flick "Ginger Snaps" who shows up twice and inspires adoration in every frame she's in. If you missed this show on the CW, shame on you; now buy this set. If you missed the first season buy that set too. This show is so good I'd hate to see it die because nobody bothered to watch it for themselves. These kinds of shows are notoriously short-lived and the television big-wigs have little patience for them so when one of this caliber gets on the air and stays on the air, we need to keep it that way in every way we can. Support horror, sci-fi, and fantasy television now, and we'll be rewarded with more later. I hope."

No witchcraft involved in the success of the second season--

Wayne Klein | My Little Blue Window, USA | 09/15/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Special Features: "The Devil's Roadmap", "Webisodes", three commentary tracks, gag reel, deleted/unaired scenes



There was no witchcraft involved in the success of "Supernatural". The show benefited from top notch writing, direction and performances with just the right dash of quirky humor to offset the horror elements of the show. The second season of the show picks up right where the first ended. Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) have located their dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and have the fabled gun fashioned to kill demons in their possession. The trio confront the Demon that killed Dean and Sam's mom only to find it leaping from person to person finally possessing their father almost forcing the boys to kill him. Driving the Demon out of their father the trio escape with the gun believing that they can still track down the creature, find out why it has harvested children with special psychic abilities and how it plans on using them in its "war" against humanity. Then a truck hits Dean's 1967 Impala. Sam is injured but alive and Dean is on the cusp of death with internal injuries. John makes a deal with the Devil or, in this case, the Demon they were pursuing--take his life for Dean's. Before he dies John whispers something to Dean which will resonate throughout the rest of the second season.



We get three commentary tracks on "In My Time of Dying" (director Kim Manners and actors Ackles & Padalecki), "What Is And Should Never Be" (writer Eric Kripe) and the first part of the season two finale "All Hell Breaks Loose" (Kripke, Manners and writer Sera Gamble) along with deleted/unaired scenes on three episodes.





"The Devil's Road Map" is exactly that; a map of the United States showing where each episode takes place in the country You can click on each spot and see material from John's book with writers like Whitley Striber discussing the various monsters. We also see behind-the-scenes footage of the writers/producers discussing the creation of various episodes such as "All Hell Breaks Loose". These are essentially featurettes on each episode and they are kind of cool. We also get Jared Padalecki's original screen test on videotape. The quality of the screen test is typical for home video cameras as it was really never intended to be shown. It's kind of cool to be able to contrast his first take on the character vs. the final performance from the pilot episode and subsequent character development over the course of two seasons.





We also get three "webisode" featurettes including "The Inside Scoop with Ivan Hayden/VFX Supervisor" discussing the visual effects of the show, the overall look of these effects and how he approaches integrating the visuals into the show. "Inside the Writer's Room" which also aired on the "Supernatural" website during season two features writer/creator/producer Kripke, writer/producer John Shiban and producer/writer/director Robert Singer where the trio point out that the show uses Urban folklore as the basis for most of their episodes. Sadly we can't see the board with story ideas behind them. We also get glimpses of some of the storyboards including plenty of clips from the second season. "The Inside Scoop with Chris Cooper" is the final webisode included and features the prop master for "Supernatural" who discusses "all the toys" that the cast use on the show. Cooper discusses some of the fun stuff he gets to create including the guns and devices that Dean & Sam use. The amusing gag reel rounds things out including a very funny scene where Padalecki has a practical joke played on him during shooting.



"Supernatural" looks extremely good overall with nice color reproduction and detail. There are some digital artifacts and the images do blur a bit when there is rapid action on screen (which could be due to the fact that the show is shot and mastered in HD although it largely captures the "look" of film) but on the whole the show looks quite good.



An exceptional second season with only a few dud episodes, I'd highly recommend the "Supernatural". The show has hip humor that manages to capture much of the fun elements that made "The X-Files" so memorable (and hard to reproduce as the failed but interesting "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" from 2005 demonstrated). As with the previous the discs are housed in a fold out case with a brief synopsis and credits for each episode.



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