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09-17-2005, 12:40 AM
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spookery most horrific
New WB drama's challenge: Sustaining the pace
By Steven Rosen
The WB’s “Supernatural” is the first of the season’s five new science-fiction thrillers, and it arrives with a shockingly strong, kinetic debut. With its deftly visceral, downright scary special effects and evocative Americana settings, it sets a high standard for such others to come as “The Invasion,” “Threshold,” “The Ghost Whisperer” and “The Night Stalker.”
It may be that the broadcast networks sense an opening for sci-fi this fall because of the success of last year’s “Lost,” which has pronounced eerie elements. Or it may be they believe our national fear of things we can’t control or understand--suicidal terrorists, tsunami and now killer hurricanes--is so great that we will embrace a safely fantastical way to relieve our anxieties. That happened in the 1950s and 1960s, when sci-fi movies and TV series like “Twilight Zone” and “Outer Limits” subconsciously appealed to worries about nuclear destruction.
“Supernatural," which debuts next Tuesday at 9 p.m., is not the kind of female-oriented programming associated with the network of “Gilmore Girls,” “Reba” or, going back, even “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” In fact, some terrible things happen to some very beautiful young women in the first episode. One hesitates to even call it sci-fi. It’s closer in tone to horror.
Starring “Smallville’s” Jensen Ackles and “Gilmore Girls’” Jared Padalecki as two supernatural-fighting brothers, Dean and Sam Winchester, it has a (very tough) “Hardy Boys” meets “X-Files” quality. What remains to be seen is whether it can develop enough of a continuing narrative to make individual episodes combine to form a whole.
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Source: http://www.medialifemagazine.com/News2005/sep05/sep06/2_tues/news2tuesday.html
spookery most horrific
New WB drama's challenge: Sustaining the pace
By Steven Rosen
The WB’s “Supernatural” is the first of the season’s five new science-fiction thrillers, and it arrives with a shockingly strong, kinetic debut. With its deftly visceral, downright scary special effects and evocative Americana settings, it sets a high standard for such others to come as “The Invasion,” “Threshold,” “The Ghost Whisperer” and “The Night Stalker.”
It may be that the broadcast networks sense an opening for sci-fi this fall because of the success of last year’s “Lost,” which has pronounced eerie elements. Or it may be they believe our national fear of things we can’t control or understand--suicidal terrorists, tsunami and now killer hurricanes--is so great that we will embrace a safely fantastical way to relieve our anxieties. That happened in the 1950s and 1960s, when sci-fi movies and TV series like “Twilight Zone” and “Outer Limits” subconsciously appealed to worries about nuclear destruction.
“Supernatural," which debuts next Tuesday at 9 p.m., is not the kind of female-oriented programming associated with the network of “Gilmore Girls,” “Reba” or, going back, even “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” In fact, some terrible things happen to some very beautiful young women in the first episode. One hesitates to even call it sci-fi. It’s closer in tone to horror.
Starring “Smallville’s” Jensen Ackles and “Gilmore Girls’” Jared Padalecki as two supernatural-fighting brothers, Dean and Sam Winchester, it has a (very tough) “Hardy Boys” meets “X-Files” quality. What remains to be seen is whether it can develop enough of a continuing narrative to make individual episodes combine to form a whole.
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Source: http://www.medialifemagazine.com/News2005/sep05/sep06/2_tues/news2tuesday.html