As much as I love Jensen, I just can't watch The Boys for him. I just can't do violence right now. Or jump-scares or gore, or grimdark anything. My MiL used to watch My Three Sons reruns and I mocked her (not to her, to H). After the horrors she lived through in WWII and emigrating to the US, I understand why she didn't want shows to challenge her intellect or provoke a strong emotional response. I'm there right now. I'm too twitchy to watch more than fantasy Chinese history with subtitles. And house porn, the eternal house porn.

I tried to watch The Boys, even before Jensen was cast, just because it was Kripke, and it was too violent for me too, Beverly. I've also been avoiding grim stuff.

Ted Lasso (Apple TV) was a balm for me. Only Murders In the Building (Hulu) with Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez turned out to fine. It's a murder mystery, but it's not heavy. It's really as much about how the three leads fill the gaps in each others lives.

I tried The Boys S1, too, and only got through maybe two episodes. I want to watch it, because I find the premise pretty interesting, but it was pretty grim. I don't know. I may just watch Jensen's episodes even if I don't know what's going on.

For me, watching anything but a few favorites -- Project Runway, GBBO, Riverdale for the sheer absurdity with really pretty people -- isn't working. I think it's a pandemic/general depression thing? I'm reading like crazy, though.

Same, Amy. I've been watching only Marvel shows, What We Do in the Shadows, and Brooklyn 99, and even just that much has been challenging. Reading a buttload, though.

The ads for The Boys when it first started made it look like something I wouldn't enjoy and I don't know if I am willing to fight that first impression. Walker holds no interest for me.

"Son, Your Mother and I Are Worried About the Quality of Your Supernatural Slash Fiction," by Nathan Kamal: [link]

Son, I want you to know that this isn’t a criticism. Your mother and I are happy that you’re getting your ideas for the sexual tension between the troubled angel Castiel and that wisecracking scamp Dean Winchester down on paper. That scene when they end up having to sleep skin to skin in Hell because Lucifer has extinguished its fires and they lost their clothes and they need to stay warm? That could have been straight out of the show.

Except for the penetration, of course.

X-posted with Fan Fiction, if I can find the right thread.

Bwah!

Has anyone been watching The Winchesters? What do you think?

Hey, Cindy. I feel like an awful fan because I haven't watched either Walker or The Winchesters. Walker is just not my thing, much as I love Jared, and I think I'm afraid to watch the other because I don't want it to completely suck.

That said, I am curious about how they're squaring this telling with the accepted story of how John and Mary met. Have you watched it?

Amy, I tried a couple of episodes of Walker, when it premiered, but I didn't like it.

One of the reasons I've kept watching The Winchesters, is to see how they square the John/Mary origin story they're now telling, with the events of S4.E3, "In the Beginning," and S5.E13, "The Song Remains the Same."

I don't know if it is any good or not, tbh. It is nowhere as good as Supernatural, and the music has disappointed (when it should be terrific, so I'm guessing it is a budget issue). I am fond of the John and Mary characters, so I'm a little more invested than I ought to be.

I hadn't been watching The Winchesters because I was confused by the "prequel" aspect and then how different it was from what had been established on the show. But from the reactions of Tumblr it's like AU/fix it fanfic type of thing, kind of . So I decided to give it a shot and so far I'm enjoying it, I've seen the first 2 episodes especially if I'm just looking at it as an alternate universe type thing.