Since the conclusion of Buffy and Angel there has been a vacuum at the smart and sexy end of genre television. This McG-produced series about ghoul-hunting brothers travelling the US with a Chevy Impala and a trunk full of weapons was welcomed by mournful Whedonites as the show to fill that gap. Expectations were duly met, too the pilot is a truly chilling experience, with a roadside phantom preying on unsuspecting travellers.
Unfortunately, subsequent episodes dont do the first one justice, the myths and urban legends that fulfill the weekly spook quotient conjuring only the occasional scare. Supernatural attempts to carve its niche somewhere between Buffy and The X-Files. But, lacking the wit of the former and the consistent creepiness of the latter, it ends up more like a darker Charmed with added testosterone.
