Though this segment is called Fix or Nix, I am loath to recommend nixing Supernatural. I've been watching Sam and Dean Winchester send demons back to hell since '05, and its worst episodes still have a decent mix of wit and action.
Still, I feel it needs some kind of reboot, echoing as it does some of the plot fatigue that plagued Buffy the Vampire Slayer by the end. Both series played their trump cards early -- as if they expected to be cancelled tomorrow. In season one, Buffy fought and defeated the King of the Vampires, a.k.a. The Master. Subsequent seasons required bigger and badder villains than the last (Caleb, the god Glory), kind of a cheat when you're claiming each new villain is the worst imaginable.
In Supernatural, Sam and Dean (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) started by thwarting the apocalypse and sending Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino) back to H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks.
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Reporter congratulates Matthew Perry on sitcom axe In what could be one of the biggest live celebrity interview fails of all time, a Fox sports reporter congratulated Matthew Perry on the cancellation of his show “Go On” (which lasted one season) during an NHL game. The impromptu interview ... Read more
Kristen Wiig return bloody funny Welcome back, Kristen Wiig! Has it really been 11 months already? Stick around a while longer, won't you? Like, maybe a few more seasons? It's great when former Saturday Night Live cast members return to host the show, but always a little sad when you're ... Read more
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