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

The Winchesters
Genre	Action Adventure Drama Fantasy
Based on	Supernatural by Eric Kripke
Developed by	Robbie Thompson
Starring	Meg Donnelly Drake Rodger Nida Khurshid Jojo Fleites Demetria McKinney Bianca Kajlich
Narrated by	Jensen Ackles
Composers	Jay Gruska Phillip White
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	5
Production
Executive producers	Jensen Ackles Danneel Ackles Robbie Thompson Glen Winter David H. Goodman
Production location	New Orleans
Cinematography	David Moxness
Editor	Hilary Bolger
Camera setup	Single-camera setup
Running time	42 minutes
Production companies	Chaos Machine Productions Wonderland Sound and Vision Here There CBS Studios Warner Bros. Television
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	Supernatural

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

Main

• Meg Donnelly as Mary Campbell
• Drake Rodger as John Winchester
• Nida Khurshid as Latika Desai, a young hunter-in-training[2]
• Jojo Fleites as Carlos Cervantez, a confident fighter against demons[2]
• Demetria McKinney as Ada Monroe, a bookstore owner who takes interest in the occult[3]
• Bianca Kajlich as Millie Winchester, John's mother[4]

Recurring

• Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester (narrator)[5]
• Tom Welling as Samuel Campbell[6]

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.[7]

On March 21, 2022, it was announced that Meg Donnelly and Drake Rodger were cast as Mary and John.[8] On May 12, 2022, it was announced that The CW ordered it to series[9] and premiered on October 11, 2022.[10] 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.[11] Principal photography for the rest of the series began in New Orleans on July 25, 2022, and is scheduled to conclude on December 15, 2022.[12]

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date [13]	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	"Pilot"	Glen Winter	Robbie Thompson	October 11, 2022 (2022-10-11)	T15.10162	0.78[14]
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[15]
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[16]
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[17]
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)	TBA	0.46[18]
The Monster Club investigate a series of strange deaths that they believe to be the work of a djinn. 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, but Tony reveals that the Akrida are actually responsible, having injected the victims with a mind control toxin that ultimately proved fatal to them. While protecting the Akrida's next victim, 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. 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"[19]	Geary McLeod	Jess Kardos	November 22, 2022 (2022-11-22)	TBA	TBD
7	"Reflections"[20]	John Showalter	David H. Goodman & Robbie Thompson	December 6, 2022 (2022-12-06)	TBA	TBD

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.[21] On Metacritic, it has a score of 51 out of 100 based on 5 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[22]

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.[23]

Viewership and ratings per episode of The Winchesters

No.	Title	Air date	Rating (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[14]	0.1	0.51	0.2	1.29[24]
2	"Teach Your Children Well"	October 18, 2022	0.1	0.46[15]	0.1	0.43	0.2	0.89[25]
3	"You're Lost Little Girl"	October 25, 2022	0.1	0.55[16]	0.1	0.32	0.2	0.87[26]
4	"Masters of War"	November 1, 2022	0.1	0.57[17]	0.1	0.36	0.2	0.93[27]
5	"Legend of a Mind"	November 15, 2022	0.1	0.46[18]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

References

External links

• Official website
• The Winchesters at IMDb 

На других языках

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- [en] The Winchesters

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[ru] Винчестеры

«Винчестеры» (англ. The Winchesters) — американский телесериал в жанре тёмного фэнтези и драмы созданный Робби Томпсоном, Дженсен Эклсом и Дэннил Эклс. Является спин-оффом и приквелом сериала «Сверхъестественное». Премьера сериала состоялась 11 октября 2022 года на канале The CW.

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