I'm a bit late jumping on board this bandwagon.
I never bothered with Supernatural when it started showing on UK television in the mid noughties. Mainly because it looked like a sub Angel/Buffy clone starring a couple of unknown beefcakes. So it stayed off my screens for several seasons. Then my dearly beloved other half said she'd caught a couple of episodes by chance and suggested we watch the show from the beginning as it appeared to have quite an ongoing storyline.
We gave it a try and chewed through the first couple of episodes. Then a couple more the following evening, and so on, until it became a daily habit.
We're on Season 4 now and I have to say it is as much fun to watch as Moffat's Doctor Who. That is to say; it is well written, true to form, doesn't take itself seriously and hasn't dropped the ball...yet.
It is how it looked; an Angel-type premise with more testosterone and the beefcakes were unknown, at least to me. However, the fun for me comes from the pop culture references in the script. Jensen Ackles Character Dean gets to rattle off the references that would make Lost's Sawyer jealous.
