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    ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to Supernatural
    ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to Supernatural
    ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to Supernatural
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    ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to Supernatural

    By The Editors of Entertainment Weekly

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    Saving people and hunting demons: It's the family business

    For 12 seasons, no demon, ghost nor monster has been safe from Sam and Dean Winchester, the daring brothers and heroes of hit television show Supernatural. Combining elements of horror, thriller, drama and comedy, this fan favorite explores the world of the paranormal, with brief forays into heaven and hell-and family relationships-every week. As the longtime hit from the CW enters its lucky 13th season, now is the time to time to catch up with an all-new special edition from Entertainment Weekly, The Ultimate Guide to Supernatural. Packed with photographs from each season, a who's who of heaven and hell, and a full episode guide to all 12 seasons-plus exclusive interviews with stars Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins, along with a guide to the guest stars, the top 10 guests, and our expert ranking of each and every episode, this is a must-have for all Supernatural fans. There's even a superfan set-visit diary from S.E. Hinton, the renowned author of The Outsiders. You should pick up your copy now . . . because you always have a choice.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEntertainment Weekly
    Release dateSep 29, 2017
    ISBN9781683309468
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      ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to Supernatural - The Editors of Entertainment Weekly

      The Road Ahead

      ILLUSTRATION BY KAGAN MCLEOD

      What’s waiting for the Winchesters

      Saving People, Hunting Things

      The Boys are Back in Town

      Sam and Dean Winchester have spent 12 years on the road together, traveling into Hell, Heaven, Purgatory and beyond. As season 13 of the hit drama dawns, they have yet another destination to worry about: An apocalyptic alternate world where they’ve trapped Lucifer. By Samantha Highfill

      Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki)

      Sam and Dean Winchester know weird. Their entire life has been weird, ever since the moment a demon claimed their mother’s life. In case anyone has forgotten over the course of the show’s past 12 seasons, Supernatural tells the story of the Winchester brothers, portrayed by Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, who fell into the family business of hunting creatures after their mother’s murder. What began as their father’s journey for revenge has evolved into endless monster slayings, near-death experiences and more than a few actual deaths.

      By this point the Winchesters have been to Hell and back, killed Death himself, come face-to-face with God and prevented the Apocalypse. But perhaps more impressively, the series has survived three network presidents, five showrunners, a writers’ strike and five different time slots. Turns out the only thing harder to kill than the Winchesters is the series itself. It’s one of those shows that has moved a lot, and yet each time it has found that core audience and built on it, Warner Bros. Television president Peter Roth says. It’s been an unsung hero.

      If anyone knows about being an unsung hero, it’s Sam (Padalecki) and Dean (­Ackles), who’ve dedicated their lives to saving others and asked for nothing in return. Seriously, how many nights have they spent sleeping in their car? And yet that on-the-road lifestyle has paved the way for a number of the show’s riskier episodes, which play a crucial role in keeping the audience engaged. In 2015 Baby was told entirely from the perspective of their beloved 1967 Impala, and that’s not even close to the craziest thing the show’s tried.

      Aside from the rules the show creates within its canon—yes, they have a historian in the writers’ room to keep them honest—not even the sky is the limit when it comes to story ideas. [Show creator] Eric [Kripke] used to say, ‘Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em,’ which meant: Anything crazy, don’t be afraid to run it by us, executive producer Robert Singer says.

      That motto led most famously to season 6’s The French Mistake, in which Sam and Dean found themselves in an alternate universe where everyone mistook them for Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, the stars of a show called Supernatural. Our show’s not bound by reality, Ackles, 39, says. We’re rooted in reality, but we’re not bound by it. That gives us a fifth wall almost.

      But Supernatural’s season 12 finale managed to raise the stakes by somehow introducing the boys to something they’d never seen before: a world in which they don’t exist and Heaven and Hell are locked in an eternal war. By episode’s end, their allies Castiel (Misha Collins) and Crowley (Mark Sheppard) were dead, and their mother, Mary (Samantha Smith), who was resurrected—by God’s sister!—in the season 11 finale, found herself trapped in this new reality with the Archangel Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino). If that doesn’t seem bad enough, the birth of Lucifer’s son is the very thing that opened the rift to this apocalyptic realm. The world in which Sam and Dean were never born is not a good world, showrunner Andrew Dabb says. It speaks to the importance of our guys. The world Sam and Dean live in is certainly not perfect, but it’s a whole hell of a lot better than the alternative.

      Dabb describes the new run of episodes as more melancholy than last year’s, with new threats including some long-dead characters. And somehow Scooby-Doo has a role to play. (More on that later.)

      Last season was, in some ways, a very upbeat season for us, says Dabb, who goes on to explain that season 13 will be darker. In their grief the boys will butt heads when it comes to both Lucifer’s son Jack—Dean wants nothing to do with him; Sam thinks he’s worth trying to save—and Mary, whom Sam refuses to give up on despite Dean’s having lost hope that she’s still alive. The Apocalypse world hangs over our guys a little bit like a sword of Damocles, Dabb says of the season's beginning. We’re definitely going to spend a little time there.

      And of course Sam and Dean have this new responsibility thrust upon them before they’ve had the chance to properly grieve their many losses, including Castiel, who Dabb says will appear, though maybe not the way fans are expecting. We’re not looking to hit the reset button, Dabb says. We want to give both our guys an opportunity to react to that and ask the question: How would that affect them if their closest friend sacrifices himself for them? There is a certain amount, especially when you look at Dean, of survivor’s guilt.

      That being said, there will be at least one (animated!) moment of levity, though it’s in the season’s back half. Episode 16 will be a much-anticipated Scooby-Doo crossover, for which Ackles, Padalecki and Collins have already recorded the audio. "They’ve often talked about Supernatural crossing over into something, Ackles says. I love that it’s Scooby-Doo."

      But even with exciting new ideas on the agenda, there’s always the lingering question of how much longer the show can continue. According to CW president Mark Pedowitz, the answer is as long as the guys are happy and the ratings are relatively stable. As for Ackles and Padalecki, they are focusing on the next milestone: hitting 300 episodes (something that would take them 13 episodes into season 14). However, if Sam and Dean have taught the actors anything, it’s that Death can be lurking around every corner (and he’s usually eating pizza). If we don’t make it to 300, I think Ackles and I will both be truly bummed, Padalecki, 35, says.

      Ackles adds, They’re paying us to bring that little bit of magic to what they wrote, and I still feel that magic. The day that I don’t feel that magic will be a very sad day, and I hope that day never comes. I’d like to get to 300 before that day comes.

      One thing everyone can agree on is that they

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