The Winchesters

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The Winchesters
File:The Winchesters Intertitle.png
Genre <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Based on Supernatural
by Eric Kripke
Developed by Robbie Thompson
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Narrated by Jensen Ackles
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Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 7
Production
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Production location(s) New Orleans
Cinematography David Moxness
Editor(s) Hilary Bolger
Camera setup Single-camera setup
Running time 42 minutes
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Distributor Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network The CW
Picture format HDTV 1080i
Audio format Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release October 11, 2022 (2022-10-11) –
present (present)
Chronology
Related shows Supernatural
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

The Winchesters is an American dark fantasy drama television series developed by Robbie Thompson and is a spinoff from and prequel to Supernatural. The series premiered on October 11, 2022, on The CW.

Synopsis

Set in the 1970s, Dean Winchester narrates the story of how his parents, John Winchester and Mary Campbell, met, fell in love, and fought monsters together while in search for their missing fathers.[1]

Cast and characters

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Main article: List of Supernatural and The Winchesters characters

Main

Recurring

Production

Development

On June 24, 2021, it was reported that a prequel series of Supernatural, titled The Winchesters that focuses on Sam and Dean's parents, John and Mary, was in development at The CW. The series is executive produced by Jensen Ackles, his wife Danneel Ackles (who portrayed Anael on the series), and Supernatural writer Robbie Thompson. Ackles also reprise his role as Dean Winchester as the narrator.[1] A pilot order for the series was confirmed by The CW on February 3, 2022; the pilot was directed by Glen Winter.[8]

On March 21, 2022, it was announced that Meg Donnelly and Drake Rodger were cast as Mary and John.[9] On May 12, 2022, it was announced that The CW ordered it to series[10] and premiered on October 11, 2022.[11] In August 2022, it was confirmed that Ackles would reprise his role as Dean in a physical appearance in the first episode.[5]

Filming

Filming for the pilot episode began in April 2022 throughout New Orleans.[12] Principal photography for the rest of the series began in New Orleans on July 25, and concluded on December 15.[13]

Episodes

No. Title [14] Directed by Written by Original air date [14] Prod.
code		 U.S. viewers
(millions)
1 "Pilot" Glen Winter Robbie Thompson October 11, 2022 (2022-10-11) T15.10162 0.78[15]
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. On March 23, 1972, John Winchester returns home to Lawrence, Kansas from the Vietnam War where he meets Mary Campbell whose father, Samuel, has recently disappeared. Receiving a letter from his long-missing father, Henry, John is drawn to a Men of Letters clubhouse where Mary saves him from a demon. Introduced to the world of the supernatural, John learns that his father was a Man of Letters and joins Mary's search for Samuel who was looking for a magical box that can trap and destroy monsters. With the help of Mary's friends Latika and Carlos, they track the box to a New Orleans cemetery where they face both a loup-garou watchdog and a demon possessing Ada Monroe. While John kills the monster, the others are able to use the box to exorcise and destroy the demon. In the aftermath, Ada explains that the box is the only thing that can kill the Akrida, monsters from another world that seek to invade Earth. With the Men of Letters gone and unable to stop them, Samuel was seeking the box to stop a coming invasion. Deciding to become a hunter, John joins the others in traveling to Savannah, Georgia in pursuit of another lead. Narrating these events, Dean Winchester reveals that, unbeknownst to the group, the Akrida are a threat to all of existence and he intends to continue searching for more information on this lost chapter of his parents' lives.
2 "Teach Your Children Well" John F. Showalter Robbie Thompson & David H. Goodman October 18, 2022 (2022-10-18) T13.24102 0.46[16]
In Savannah, the group finds the files on the Akrida gone, but signs of Samuel having been present, including a newspaper clipping directing them to a case in Topeka, Kansas. Upon returning home, John clashes with his mother over his hunting and storms off. In Topeka, kids have begun vanishing from a hippie commune, taken by a shapeshifting monster. Mary's desperation to solve the case and resume the search for Samuel leads her to clash with the others, putting John in danger when the monster assumes the form of Millie and kidnaps him. The group identifies it as La Tunda, an abusive mother who was transformed into a monster and which consumes disobedient children. Locating La Tunda's lair, they rescue her victims and kill La Tunda with a piece of her own wooden leg. John reconciles with his mother while Ada uses a potion and automatic writing to access the echoes of the demon that had possessed her, searching for information on the other demon that the group had fought in the hopes that it will have information on the Akrida and the box. At the same time, the Akrida leader enters La Tunda's lair, absorbs a piece of her essence into a vial and is followed by several Akrida as it leaves.
3 "You're Lost Little Girl" Claudia Yarmy Gabriel Alejandro Garza October 25, 2022 (2022-10-25) T13.24103 0.55[17]
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mary's neighbor Carrie is abducted, leading Mary, John and Lata on a search for her while Ada and Carlos hunt for Slick, the partner of the demon that had possessed Ada. Slick reveals that he and his partner, convinced that the Akrida can't be stopped even with the box, had made a deal to trade the box for their lives. However, he doesn't know anything about how the box itself works or about the Akrida aside from the fact that the Akrida leader has taken a human vessel. Rather than exorcise the demon, Ada magically traps him in a bonsai tree. After Carrie's brother Ford is also abducted, it's discovered that the culprit is Bori Baba, an Indian boogeyman who lures children in using items that they are seeking. Mary enters Bori Baba's bag to rescue the children while Lata learns from an estranged relative that the victims must destroy the items that they are seeking in order to be free. John is able to communicate this to Mary using a CB radio, forcing her to face her fears of life after hunting. When the monster follows them out, John is able to kill it. During this time, John is reunited and makes amends with his ex-fiancé Betty while Mary enjoys a date at the movies. The appearance of La Tunda and Bori Baba, two rare monsters from other cultures, worries the group about the implications while an Akrida brings Bori Baba's bag to its leader who absorbs a piece of the monster's essence as she did with La Tunda. The Akrida leader is revealed to be possessing Rockin' Roxy, a local DJ.
4 "Masters of War" John T. Kretchmer Julia Cooperman November 1, 2022 (2022-11-01) T13.24104 0.57[18]
The Monster Club investigates the death of Patches, a World War II veteran, leading John and Carlos, who is revealed to be a former Navy Corpsman, to join a therapy group that Patches had been a part of. Mary learns from her movie date, a reporter named Kyle Reed, that there has been a number of similar veteran deaths across the country. The case forces John and Carlos to confront their trauma from the Vietnam War while Mary and Lata confront their grief over the loss of Mary's cousin Maggie. It's discovered that the culprit is Mars Neto, a Celtiberian deity who posed as one of the group members. Mars reveals that a war is coming with the Akrida and that he believes that John, as both a hunter and a soldier, could be sharpened into a powerful weapon to defeat them. As John fights Mars, Mary, Lata and Millie find and destroy Mars' amphora, rendering him vulnerable and allowing John to kill him. However, the dying Mars tells John that he is now ready for the war with the Akrida. In the aftermath, Mary cleans out Maggie's old room, Carlos continues to attend therapy and John breaks down crying as Millie comforts him.
5 "Legend of a Mind" Lisa Soper Sehaj Sethi November 15, 2022 (2022-11-15) T13.24105 0.46[19]
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Monster Club investigate a series of strange deaths that they believe to be the work of a djinn. At an abandoned warehouse, the hunters encounter Tony, a half-djinn who is Ada's estranged son from her relationship with a djinn named Ali who was killed by hunters. While the rest go off the search for leads, Ada and Carlos stay behind to confront Tony. However, Tony confronts Ada while she's sleeping. Still angry about her lying to him, and hurt that she thinks he is killing people, he informs Ada that he has actually been using his djinn abilities to help people face their fears and heal, while only feeding enough to get by. He reveals that the Akrida are actually responsible, having encountered one during his attempt to help one the victims and that he was lured to the town by a strange sound that only monsters can hear. The team learns that victims were all injected with a mind control toxin that ultimately proved fatal to them. While protecting the Akrida's next victim, whose name Tony passed along to Ada, Mary is injected with the toxin. Ada convinces Tony to use his dreamwalking powers to help John enter Mary's mind where she faces the trauma of the night that her parents told a five-year old Mary that she would grow up to hunt monsters, allowing her to destroy the Akrida stingers. In the aftermath, Tony reveals that the Akrida are collecting the essence of rare monsters and the group deduces that the victims are all connected to a radio tower project that the Akrida are using to broadcast a signal to draw in rare monsters. Ada, having finally reconciled with Tony, decides to leave with him to make sure he gets to a safe place far away from the Akrida. From records of the project, they identify Rockin' Roxy as the Akrida leader. Another Akrida warns Roxy that Mary has failed to fall under their control, but she is unconcerned, believing that the Akrida will get the hunters the way that they want eventually. Throughout these events, John continues to develop romantic feelings for Mary, but he chooses not to reveal them in favor of encouraging Mary to follow her dream of leaving town to find a new life after she eventually quits hunting.
6 "Art of Dying" Geary McLeod Jess Kardos November 22, 2022 (2022-11-22) T13.24106 0.50[20]
7 "Reflections" Richard Speight, Jr. David H. Goodman & Robbie Thompson December 6, 2022 (2022-12-06) T13.24107 0.41[21]
The Monster Club finds the Akrida's radio tower abandoned and signs that Samuel has been captured and Roxy demands an exchange of the box for Samuel. Ada finds files on the box in another abandoned Men of Letters office in Ann Arbor, Michigan with the notes having been written by Henry Winchester. The notes, deciphered by Millie, reveal that the box is actually the Ostium, a portal that can banish monsters from this plane of existence as well as the fact that the Akrida are all connected to their queen. If the queen is banished back to the Akrida's universe, the others will all die. The group performs a seance to summon Henry's ghost for more information and he reveals how the box can be recharged while getting to say the goodbye to his wife and son that he never had before. Assaulting Roxy's new base, Mary and John succeed in banishing the Akrida leader with the Ostium, but it fails to affect the other Akrida, revealing that Roxy wasn't actually their queen. Cornered, John and Mary kiss before an injured Samuel uses the Ostium to banish the rest of the attacking Akrida. Throughout these events, the Akrida's mind-controlled servants dig for what is revealed to be the Akrida queen. Finding her, the servants bring the queen the monster essences, promising to make the queen strong again so that she can bring the others and the Akrida can make this world their own.
8 "Hang on to Your Life"[22] Amyn Kaderali Nic Chatree Sridej January 24, 2023 (2023-01-24) TBA N/A
9 "Cast Your Fate to the Wind"[23] Kristin Windell Rachel Lynett January 31, 2022 (2022-01-31) TBA N/A

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 8 critic reviews for The Winchesters are positive, with an average rating of 6.9/10.[24] On Metacritic, it has a score of 49 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[25]

Ratings

The Winchesters had the most-watched series debut during the 2022–23 season for The CW. It was also the most-viewed premiere for the season.[26]

No. Title Air date Rating/share
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)		 DVR
(18–49)		 DVR viewers
(millions)		 Total
(18–49)		 Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Pilot" October 11, 2022 0.1 0.78[15] 0.1 0.51 0.2 1.29[27]
2 "Teach Your Children Well" October 18, 2022 0.1 0.46[16] 0.1 0.43 0.2 0.89[28]
3 "You're Lost Little Girl" October 25, 2022 0.1 0.55[17] 0.1 0.32 0.2 0.87[29]
4 "Masters of War" November 1, 2022 0.1 0.57[18] 0.1 0.36 0.2 0.93[30]
5 "Legend of a Mind" November 15, 2022 0.1 0.46[19] 0.1 0.38 0.2 0.83[31]
6 "Art of Dying" November 22, 2022 0.1 0.50[20] TBD TBD TBD TBD
7 "Reflections" December 6, 2022 0.1 0.41[21] TBD TBD TBD TBD

References

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