All-Female 'Supernatural' Spinoff Finally Debuts
by EG
The seeds of an all-female spinoff from Supernatural were planted years ago, and they've finally broken ground. The mid-season premiere of Supernatural this week served as a backdoor pilot for Wayward Sisters, which should hit The CW soon.
Lay your weary head to rest and don't you cry no more, Supernatural viewers. The long road for the spinoff series Wayward Sisters has finally paid off.
The all-female potential spinoff about a chosen family of hunters aired its backdoor pilot Thursday as the midseason premiere episode of The CW's Supernatural, and it literally has been years in the making. Ever since Sheriff Jody Mills (Kim Rhodes) adopted her first wayward daughter Alex (Katherine Ramdeen), viewers have been clamoring for the secondary female Supernatural characters to get a series of their own. And when Jody adopted fledgling hunter Claire (Kathryn Newton), befriended Sheriff Donna Hanscum (Briana Buckmaster) and took in psychic Patience (Clark Backo), the what originally started out as a fan campaign grew too big to ignore.
The CW doubled down on its longest-running series and decided to take a second stab at a Supernatural spinoff series (after Bloodlines failed to go a few years back). Wayward Sisters was officially born.
The two-part introduction to the potential spinoff began in the Supernatural midseason finale when Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) accidentally got thrown by inexperienced dream walker Kaia (Yadira Guevara-Prip) into The Bad Place, an alternate dimension full of monsters. The midseason premiere, appropriately titled "Wayward Sisters," picked up in a familiar way.
"It's Sam and Dean, they're missing," Jody tells Claire, who had been off hunting on her own. "They were on a hunting trip and I haven't heard from them for a few days. It's time to come home." That phone call is how the series first started 13 seasons ago when Dean brought Sam back into the family business of hunting when their dad John Winchester (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) went missing. It was a clever homage to the roots of what has become a massive franchise.
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