katikat | NY Times.com's article about Supernatural

Love it (even though they got some details wrong ;P): link.

The series, now in its sixth season on the CW network, remains an invisibly pervasive cultural phenomenon: enormously popular and yet unknown even to many of those of us who take pride in dabbling in the literature and television of young adults. “Supernatural” is one of CW’s most watched series, this year attracting an average of 700,000 more viewers each week than “Gossip Girl,” even as none of its stars feature regularly in the pages of Us Weekly.

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So “Supernatural” is about heaven, hell, faith, revenge — and the automotive industry. But at its most basic it is about sibling devotion: no pair of brothers or sisters on television is more closely bound — not even the siblings on “Brothers and Sisters.” Proving their intimacy each week the Winchesters argue as if they were a married couple and seem conceived to correct for the existence of so many only children who must fight their battles solo in fairy tales and other fiction for the young. Single children should watch at their own peril.