Enjoy Life while it lasts, it is *not* doing well in the ratings and the network it is on is struggling. NBC has already shelved out quite a bit to keep Friday Night Lights alive.
Regarding Supernatural - the show takes place in a fictional universe like Buffy did. Where demons, ghosts, ghoulies exist and urban folklore and legends are true (which may explain why I enjoy it - I had a minor in urban folklore and collected these stories). The set-up is that the brothers travel around the country in a beat-up Impala Convertible solving ghost-stories and killing demons - it is in some respects tongue firmly in cheek and owes a lot to B-Westerns and B-Horror movies made by folks like John Carpenter and Howard Hawks and the like. IT is not supposed to be taken literally - high on metaphor, and not realistic. You can't really compare it to Life which is hyper-realistic - much like Homicide Life on the Street, Sopranoes, and The Wire - a sort of nice guy cop version of House with a bit of the grit of Homicide thrown in.
Comparing Supernatural to Life is a bit like comparing Buffy to well Prime Suspect or Six Feet Under or the Sopranoes. Totally different fruit. ;-)
I love both of them for different reasons. And I well, scare easily or more easily than a lot of people do. There were Angel and Buffy and Doctor Who episodes that unnerved me. I found Blink, for example, scary and it gave me nightmares. Part of it is my imagination - I tend to extrapolate off of things. Last week's Supernatural unnerved me, not sure if this week's would bug me or not, haven't seen it yet. But the cursed rabbit's foot legend reminds me a bit of the infamous monkey's paw that scared the bejeesus out of me as a child. From the previews? I'm thinking its probably not going to be scary and just played for laughs.
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Regarding Supernatural - the show takes place in a fictional universe like Buffy did. Where demons, ghosts, ghoulies exist and urban folklore and legends are true (which may explain why I enjoy it - I had a minor in urban folklore and collected these stories). The set-up is that the brothers travel around the country in a beat-up Impala Convertible solving ghost-stories and killing demons - it is in some respects tongue firmly in cheek and owes a lot to B-Westerns and B-Horror movies made by folks like John Carpenter and Howard Hawks and the like. IT is not supposed to be taken literally - high on metaphor, and not realistic.
You can't really compare it to Life which is hyper-realistic - much like Homicide Life on the Street, Sopranoes, and The Wire - a sort of nice guy cop version of House with a bit of the grit of Homicide thrown in.
Comparing Supernatural to Life is a bit like comparing Buffy to well Prime Suspect or Six Feet Under or the Sopranoes. Totally different fruit. ;-)
I love both of them for different reasons. And I well, scare easily or more easily than a lot of people do. There were Angel and Buffy and Doctor Who episodes that unnerved me. I found Blink, for example, scary and it gave me nightmares. Part of it is my imagination - I tend to extrapolate off of things. Last week's Supernatural unnerved me, not sure if this week's would bug me or not, haven't seen it yet. But the cursed rabbit's foot legend reminds me a bit of the infamous monkey's paw that scared the bejeesus out of me as a child. From the previews? I'm thinking its probably not going to be scary and just played for laughs.