I recently acquired Supernatural based on a few positive mentions here on KIA2. I quite like it, but it's a bit... off. These sorts of shows are really about the banter and camaraderie, with the monster stuff being almost incidental. Somehow the chemistry/banter is not quite working for me.
Should I persevere?
It gets much better. The brothers really grow into their roles over the course of the show. It’s a “monster of the week” dynamic at first, but the overarching plot kicks in towards the end of season 1 and concludes in season 5. It’s a steady decline thereafter.
I highly recommend you stick with it.
Indeed. There is maybe a brief rough patch after season 5, since the show's creator was off doing other things at the time, and he'd mostly planned out the overarching plot for those 5 seasons.
Definitely picks itself back up after that brief slump though. Can't quite recall how long the slump lasted. Somewhere between 1-3 seasons if I'm remembering right. The Leviathon stuff was sort of the final climax of those rougher seasons.
After looking stuff up to refresh my memory, I'm almost positive it's around season 8 that it got things going proper again.
Thanks. This is what I was wondering. If the 'chemistry' gets better, then I think it'll be a fun ride.
I can’t stress enough how bad the later seasons become. You’ll still find fun isolated episodes and even decent mini arcs here and there, but the overall decline is marked and becomes fairly intolerable in the second half of the show’s run.
Aside from one serious writing blunder, the first five season arc is some of my favorite television.