SUPERNATURAL {1st. Season} (DVD Review) - 13/1/08

Thinking this was going to be a tired retread of better TV shows I was more than surprised that it is pretty compulsive viewing. Harking back to the early days of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" with a good mix of early days "X-Files" (When it was actually scary!) it comes across much like "Millennium" but lighter in tone. With it's tales of two brothers hunting their missing father and killing assorted beasties on their backroads trips across America they delve into all sorts of Urban Legends, folklore and other things from the supernatural & paranormal. From the realms of light they come up against a darkness that has been plotting for a while but nothing is really revealed until the stories gradually unfold. The story arc's bigger picture is starting to form and it is going to be really annoying now that I'm plowing into the 2nd. Season having to wait for the 3rd. to appear on DVD. It is so entertaining I shot through the first 22 episodes in no time at all. Backstories and flashbacks fill in many gaps as well as the relationship between the brothers themselves (The humour, the arguments and so forth) and their missing Dad. Unfortunately the soundtrack is only 2.0. Dolby Surround and there are no Special Features on this set - But the quality of the stories and the SFX more than make up for all that!