Two brothers hunt down dark, demonic forces across America with gritty, suspenseful, and witty encounters.
Pulpy, with dry wit. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Prime Video and Peacock.
For a TV-14, this one goes further: moderate sex and nudity. Beyond that, real scares and several jump scares.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
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When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
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