Supernatural - The Complete Third Season
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen AcklesStudio: Warner Home Video
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Running Time: 651 minutes
DVD Release: September 2nd 2008
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The yellow-eyed demon is vanquished, but at a terrible price. The battle that brought him down released hundreds of demons from Hell into an unsuspecting world. And it cost Sam his life. But a grief-stricken Dean made a deal with the Crossroad Demon ? his soul for Sam's resurrection. Now Dean has just one year to live. One year to fight the unholy, the twisted, the ghoulish. One year to say farewell to Sam. And one year for Sam to search desperately for some way to save his brother. Mind-bending adventure awaits as the Winchester brothers continue their astonishing odyssey into the supernatural...and their personal odyssey into destiny.
User Reviews
Funny TV show - Rating: 5/5
This TV show interesting, and has some really funny moments. Not a season to skip if you're trying to catch up. The price on amazon was the best I could find. My friend bought season 2 from a retail store and paid 50 bucks. My price was 19.99 for this season. Well worth it although the season does have fewer episodes than the others.
The show continues to improve and stay interesting - Rating: 4/5
I was not a fan of SUPERNATURAL after its first season, and indeed I'm not a huge fan even after Seasons Two and Three. But there is no question that that show made some major strides forward in its sophomore and junior years, deepening the storylines and finding new and innovative ways to structure episodes. Because one of the biggest problems with the show in Season One was its episodic "demon of the week" narrative structure, the show grew far more interesting and engaging.
In these two seasons SUPERNATURAL also became a far more playful show, willing to engage in self-parody and capable of poking fun at itself. In a way, this mimics the way that one of the shows that has most influenced the series, THE X-FILES, grew. That show for the first couple of episodes was almost unceasingly serious. It was a great show despite this, but it really took off once -- especially with several extraordinary scripts by Darin Morgan -- when it began mixing in comic episodes. Season Two of THE X-FILES saw a mildly comic (though mainly jut flat out weird) scripted by Morgan, late in Season Two about circus freaks entitled "Humbug." But the first out and out laugh fest was another Morgan script, "War of the Coprophages," in which Mulder and a scientist named Bambi do battle against cockroaches. (Darin Morgan only wrote a half dozen scripts for THE X-FILES, but four of those would be among the ten best X-FILES episodes ever, one of them the Emmy Award winning episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," which is one of the finest TV episodes of all time, garnering an Emmy not just for Morgan but for guest actor Peter Boyle.) Certainly THE X-FILES seemed to be an even greater influence on SUPERNATURAL in these two seasons than in Season One. One Season Two episode, in which Sam and Dean give offer Bobby differing accounts of events calls to mind THE X-FILES episode "Bad Blood," in which Mulder and Scully give contradictory reports of events surrounding vampires in Texas (along with a sheriff played by Luke Wilson -- both episodes were among the dozens of TV episodes or movies loosely based over the years on the great Kurosawa film RASHOMON, which details four incompatible accounts of events in the woods in medieval Japan). I don't know how much of this can be credited to Ben Edlund (creator of THE TICK in all his forms, as well as a writer on FIREFLY and ANGEL) joining the writing staff. But in every way the writing in these two seasons showed a sharp increase in sophistication and flexibility. The scripts in Season One were stiff, uninteresting, and frequently just flat out boring. That was rarely the case as the show progressed. No doubt part of the improvement stemmed from the producers gaining new concessions from the CW, which surely allowed them to stray away from the standalone, episodic format that so thoroughly hampered the show in Season One.
I frankly found just about every episode in Season One of the show to be completely forgettable. But several episodes in Seasons Two and Three stand out. For instance, one particularly good episode in Season Two does some great twists on the genie legends, with the help of an excellent guest performance by BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's Tricia Helfer. That episode is emblematic of the new maturity of the show. I can honestly say that I was not surprised (nor scared) by a single thing that happened in Season One. It was almost intentionally predictable. But in Helfer's episode there were some truly interesting twists and surprises. In just about every way, the show got better in these two seasons.
I'm still not what one might term a major fan of the show. Even after three seasons it is a fairly conservative show. It certainly has done little to redefine the horror genre and it has not expanded the scope of horror or fantasy in the way that either THE X-FILES or BUFFY did. Still, there is a great deal to say for a show that is excellent even if it is not innovative. And I admire any series that gets better as it goes along. I received the first three seasons of the series as a gift, but I frankly did not think I was going to continue with the show after finishing the three sets. But now I both plan to buy Season Four come this September and DVR the show upon its return this fall (it will be going against a very similar show with what is surely a pretty substantial audience overlap, FRINGE -- why do networks do this? -- the only then that FOX assures in doing this is that both shows will get lower ratings than they might otherwise -- still, FRINGE is a show I really love, so I'll keep up with SUPERNATURAL via DVR). Hopefully I'll enjoy Season Four as much as Seasons Two and Three.
Supernatural 3rd session - Rating: 5/5
I watched this whole series in one day, I just couldn't wait until the next episode. If you like Angel, Buffy, X-Files, this is a must to have!
Cannot wait for Season 4 - Rating: 5/5
Wow. I thought Seasons 1 and 2 were great, but this one tops them all. Just cannot believe the quality of this series. It rarely, if ever, hits a lull. The story progresses, Dean and Sam grow further into their roles. The semi-regulars show up and depart as needed. There is no clutter. The brothers' relationship is the focus. The writers for this show have to be considered among the best. Also, there is nothing gratuitous about the violence, language etal. Very taut stuff. Cant help thinking about season 4 [due out on September 1st]. Of course the only drawback was shortened season.
Supernatural Season 3 Review - Rating: 5/5
I ordered this product and actually received it the next day. It was brand new, with the paperwork in the box. Supernatural is a great series and I hate that Season 4 is not out yet, but will be getting it soon. Watched the whole season in 2 days! Thanks for making this product available!
