Supernatural

This has to be the best show on TV since Buffy (or Angel, since that was the last Whedon show to be cancelled). I know I said Chuck was the best show on TV before. Fine-- go tell the Hyperbole police.

I was compelled to write about it tonight because I just watched the latest episode and was completely blown away. Needless to say it was incredibly well written. It must be the Whedon influence on Ben Edlund (a co-exec producer on Supernatural) from his days on Angel. Mind you, Ben Edlund was the creator of The Tick (remember that one?) so he was no slouch in the creativity department. I don't mean to leave out the other producers or writers; Ben Edlund is the only name I knew. But man-- I was speechless watching the show unfold. The pop culture references were hilarious. I realize that Back to the Future is now a 23 year old movie that the younguns from this generation may not have seen, but the little touches and references to it were light and created some expectation in the viewer that they could play off of. I still can't tell if Castiel's loose-tie and trenchcoat look is a shoutout to John Constantine (not the Keanu Reeves movie-- look at the character as he was originally formed in Swamp Thing from the late 80's) or an unintentional reveal on his character (as he does have that mysterious warrior of the Lord/hidden-agenda conflict). Whatever, it works. And to have the "Hunter" line run through Sam and Dean's MOTHER'S side of the family was genius. The thing that really gets me-- here we are in season 4 and they are coherently paying off a mythology plotline from the FIRST EPISODE. I had thought that we'd never know what came of the yellow-eyed demon's plan but it clearly is a single thread in a larger tapestry.

I can't wait for the next episode.