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The prize: ending the Apocalypse. The price: Sam’s life. Season
5’s horrific finale left Dean alone, as Sam descended into Hell.
Now a different man, Dean vows to stop hunting and devote himself
to building a family with Lisa and her son Ben. Then,
mysteriously, Sam reappears, drawing Dean back into the old life.
But Sam’s a different man too. He’s returned without his soul.
How the Winchesters confront this greatest challenge yet to their
powerful bond is the troubled heart – and soul – of the profound
and thrilling 5-Disc, 22-Episode Season 6. As the brothers
struggle to reunite, they must also battle deadly supernatural
forces. Demons. Angels. Vampires. Shapeshifters. And a terrifying
new foe called the Mother of All.
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Season six of the fantasy-horror-drama series Supernatural
continues its almost perverse streak of setting the bar at the
end of each season so impossibly high that its successor could
never surpass the roadblocks in its path, only to leap over them
with the same a of omb, wit, and complexity the program
has shown throughout its network run. When audiences last saw the
Winchester brothers at the end of season five, Dean (Jensen
Ackles) had abandoned hunting demons in favor of family life,
while Sam (Jared Padalecki) had apparently lost his battle with
Lucifer in the season finale. But as season six reveals, Sam is
alive and well, though missing a soul, which makes his subsequent
hunts with a reluctant Dean merciless and focused on a plan not
entirely understood by either man. As the brothers grapple with
shape-shifting infants ("Two and a Half Men"), vampires (the
unfortunately titled "Live Free or TwiHard"), leprechauns (Robert
Picardo in "Clap Your Hands If You Believe…"), horror icon H.P.
Lovecraft ("Let It Bleed"), and a variety of homegrown
monstrosities, they discover that Sam's soul is in the possession
of the demon Crowley (Mark Sheppard), who is using it to
manipulate Sam into locating the souls of Purgatory, which could
turn the tide of a civil war raging in Heaven towards Crowley and
renegade angel Castiel (Misha Collins). The Winchesters must then
stop the infernal duo's scheme before an even greater apocalypse
can occur. With such high stakes and grim es hanging in the
balance, it's a wonder that Supernatural can spare a moment for
its trademark quirky humor, but such episodes as "The French
Mistake," where the brothers arrive in an alternate reality where
they assume the identity of Ackles and Padalecki, or the
aforementioned "Two and a Half Men," display the producers' knack
for combining the lighthearted with the show's trademark depth
and darkness. Most impressively, the season sets up Supernatural
for a seventh go-round that promises--yet again--to top its
predecessors.
Extras are again substantive and plentiful, with "Jensen Ackles:
A Director's Journey" focusing on the actor's debut as helmer on
"Weekend at Bobby's," perhaps the most interesting of the lot,
with plenty of behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast
and crew. Somewhat weightier in tone and content is "Soul
Chasers: Supernatural and the Quest for the Soul," which explores
the concept of the soul from religious and philosophical
perspectives. Writers and executive producers Sara Gamble, Ben
Edlund, and Bob Singer are featured on commentary tracks for
"Clap Your Hands" and "The French Mistake," while the latter is
covered in collections of alternate takes and outtakes and a
stand-alone blooper reel. Two episodes of Warner Bros. Japan's
Supernatural: The Anime series, both featuring Padalecki and
Ackles as the voices of Sam and Dean, bring the set to a
satisfying conclusion. --Paul Gaita