SUPERNATURAL {3rd. Season} (DVD Review) - 25/0/08

Unluckily this was another show hit by the Writer's Strike which shortened the third series to just 16 episodes and that's a real pity as I certainly could have easily watched another 4-6 episodes! The 3rd. Season is just as consistently good as the first & second as the Winchester brothers plow across the States trampling all over various different folklore and taking on a variety of religions and cultures as they pursue demons released from the gate but every now and then coming up against something that isn't quite demonic. Questions and reality are revealed on a number of big issues and logic with one demon casts a perspective that doesn't fit in at all well with the show as it doesn't make any sense? We also get an unpleasant episode called "Ghostfacers" in which a distasteful thread is used as bait throughout the show. That aside the malevolent uneasiness of the run of episodes has you on the edge of your seat at most times and set me thinking of another classic show called "Millennium" which Supernatural reminds me a lot of; except there is a streak of dark humour in Supernatural and none in Millennium. I also wonder just how much of the graphic gore and violence makes it to TV with Supernatural as I can only presume the blood & guts is reserved for the DVD release? Nothing is ever what it seems with this show and this season ends on a downbeat turn leaving you begging for more. Fully reminiscent of "Buffy" & "Angel" at it's best - Supernatural just gets better and better as it leaves the competition behind. Running the cast ragged from it's emotional roller-coaster the shades of grey keep getting thinner and thinner that you really start to question yourself and who is wrong and who is right?

A handful of micro-featurettes and a couple of larger featurettes pad out the Special Features and also included is an incredibly mediocre and tiresome Gag/Bloopers Reel which I usually find most amusing - This time around my finger was firmly pressed on the Fast-Forward button.