Good to know about Justified - I don’t mind too much the idea of a “case of the week” so long as it’s not its staple. I love shows that evolve in that way, rewarding longer time viewers with a payoff for the foundation/structure of the earlier part of the narrative.
Supernatural is more akin to Buffy and Angel, I think - at least the first three or so seasons Overarching bad-guy with an episodic baddie of the week kind of thing. But the further you go the more you realise the key moments interwind towards something much more. The show runner, Eric Kripke, wrote a plan for how the who story arch of the first five seasons would play out and it’s easy to appreciate that kind of forward planning - even if the third (?) season was hit with the last writers’ strike.
That said, yeah, it’s definitely not as serious as X-Files. It has a lighter tone for the most part, with some episodes which are put together really well from a comedic perspective.
Good to know about Justified - I don’t mind too much the idea of a “case of the week” so long as it’s not its staple. I love shows that evolve in that way, rewarding longer time viewers with a payoff for the foundation/structure of the earlier part of the narrative.
Supernatural is more akin to Buffy and Angel, I think - at least the first three or so seasons Overarching bad-guy with an episodic baddie of the week kind of thing. But the further you go the more you realise the key moments interwind towards something much more. The show runner, Eric Kripke, wrote a plan for how the who story arch of the first five seasons would play out and it’s easy to appreciate that kind of forward planning - even if the third (?) season was hit with the last writers’ strike.
That said, yeah, it’s definitely not as serious as X-Files. It has a lighter tone for the most part, with some episodes which are put together really well from a comedic perspective.