The season 1 finale of The Winchesters ended the show on a high note with several surprise cameos and a happy ending for John and Mary Winchester. It was nice to see some familiar faces from Supernatural in the prequel spinoff, but the fandom is already raring for news about a potential season 2.
Showrunner and executive producer Robbie Thompson explained that they decided to treat season 1’s last episode as the series finale, but he has some details worked out for a possible second season. You can read his comments in the TV Line interview below:
That’s a great question, and I’m going to be judicious with my answer because I don’t know what will happen, obviously, [at The CW]. I don’t think anybody does at this point. These are interesting times, as the kids say.
We looked at [our first season] as chapters, and this first 13 episodes, whether we were going to get only 13 or 22, we wanted to end this chapter, both on the emotional side with Dean and on the plot side with the Akrida.
That was by design, and some of it is exactly what you just said, which was this was the big romance of the, for lack of a better word, meet-cute of it all, and to me, it was an ending [to] that part of the story.
In terms of where we can go, the scale of this was, “It’s the end of the world,” and all of the normal hijinks. But that also kind of matches the scale of what you feel when you’re in that young romance, where you’re like, “Oh, my God, it’s us versus the world.”
In success in Season 2, without spoiling anything, we certainly know where we would want to go. I think maybe you and I even talked about this as well when we spoke earlier [this season]; the romance of this was always what was most appealing to me as a writer because I’d never really written much of that stuff in my career.
The first act of that is always the meeting and the falling in love and the intensity of that. But then it’s a question of how you sustain it and what it looks like, especially in a universe where monsters are real.
And so we have an incredible opportunity, given a chance to tell more story, to really get into the meat of what it means to be in a relationship in this kind of context, what it means to sustain love, not just fall in love.
Robbie Thompson
While Thompson and CW haven’t yet greenlit season 2, the EP looks hopeful for a renewal since he explains that things are pointing towards that. The story for season 2 makes sense as well, since the finality of season 1 could only be upped by diving deeper into John and Mary’s love story. Now will Dean still serve as the narrator or even make an appearance, I’m not sure.
Since Nexstar took over the reins, it’s still too early to talk about their plans for the Supernatural spinoff.
What do you think? Will the CW go for a second season of The Winchesters? Let us know your views in the comments.
About The Winchesters
The Winchesters is a spin-off prequel series to The WB’s dark fantasy drama, Supernatural. The first successful Supernatural spin-off to be greenlit for a series order, it premiered on October 11, 2022, on The CW.
The series follows Sam and Dean’s parent,s John and Mary Winchester, telling an untold love story of how John met Mary and how they put everything on the line to save the world from the perspective of Dean.
The show stars Meg Donnelly as Mary Campbell and Drake Rodger as John Winchester.
Source: TVline
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