The second season of Supernatural is as good as the first season. The quality of the episodes seems a bit more consistent, where are the first season can be touch and go at times. There are still a lot of ghost-oriented episodes, but fewer demon oriented ones. They encounter vampires again, a djinn, a zombie, another shape shifter (in a really good episode), an actual full-fledged werewolf, and several more ghosts.
The ghost episodes seem to be amping up the originality factor. You may end up labeling the episodes as ‘The Hollywood Ghost” or ‘The Prison Ghost’, but these episodes are still entertaining.
The episodes that introduce new creatures are the most interesting. Seeing the spin that the Supernatural universe puts on some of these beings is interesting. The methods to kill them are often based on older legends. The abilities of the beings are often altered to be darker in some ways. The djinn (which is what genies are based off of) doesn’t actually grant wishes, but gives you dreams of your deepest desire while feeding off of your blood slowly for days until you die. The way to kill the djinn is through lambs blood on a blade, which is bizarre, but kind of cool at the same time.
The beginning of the season ties up some of the questions left in the season one finale. There’s a pretty big loss and the first episode is one of the best of the season. Sam finds more people with abilities through several episodes and the plot culminates in the two-part season finale. The season finale, not to spoil anything, is well done and wraps a lot of story points up. In the process it also start two new plot threads that will have to be tied up. One of the plot threads will 100% have to be tied up by the end of season 3 (the reviewer has not viewed season 3 as of yet).
One thing that’s apparent is that there is a lot of crying in this season. Not to make fun of people’s emotions in harsh or insane situations, but the last half the season, every episode has someone tear up. It’s not a critique, but just an observation. Most of these instances are understandable and one of them is the character acting as if they are emotionally fragile, when they’re really not.
There was one episode though that the Winchester brothers were hunting what they thought was an angel. Dean said they've never seen or heard of one. Though they use religious methods in some instances to deal with demons, Dean doesn't buy into the concept of god/gods or angels. They find out that the angel was a ghost of a priest. Dean then sees something unlikely happen to a bad person at the end of the episode. Now at the same time the priest ghost was leaving for the next world (which Dean and Sam say they don't know what that is). The most likely scenario is that the ghost committed one last act of revenge before it left this plane of existence. Dean then says it was god's will and he changed his mind. This is quite a cop out and happens in almost every episode of any show when someone is not a believer. Though they deal with religious things all the time and being an atheist in their world is a bit unlikely, it still feels like pandering.
This season was well done and improved on several things since season one. There were a lot more one shot, monster of the week episodes, but that kept things interesting. If you enjoy horror, this season is definitely worth checking out.
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