Supernatural
When I first caught a glimpse of Supernatural I dismissed it as derivative and more of the same. All of this territory had been covered before by the X-Files, Buffy, Angel; and Medium and Ghost Whisperer of late. But the TV universe of the undead is very big and there is plenty of room in the genre for shows like Supernatural to eek out a corner. The show is bizarrely self-aware of its place within the the genre and often makes references to other shows and movies. One character is prone to visions and the other compares him to Patricia Arquette and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Although the X-Files had its share of monsters and mutants, most of them had a pseudo scientific explanation. Agent Scully was always on hand to find a mutant gene or toxic chemical to explain them. The other worldly elements of the stories were literally from another world, rather than inhabiting some place between this world and the next. The other story arc of a massive an...