Horror movies
have developed an unhealthy habit of creating bland characters in order to
lazily ensure that the audience doesn’t turn against the film when those
characters are brutally killed. What has resulted is a genre riddled with bad
acting and one-dimensional characters, and often we don’t complain because we
were entertained enough by the scares. The same doesn’t hold true of “Supernatural,”
a television horror show. Because we are forced to remain with the same main
characters each episode, it hurts that the weakest link in the show is their
development. As much as the show tries to quickly jam in motives and feelings
into script, the only time that the show feels truthful is when the scares begin.
While most shows develop more complex characters as the seasons go by,
“Supernatural” simply puts these characters through such an exorbitant amount
of melodrama that nothing feels grounded in reality.
