Supernatural season 13: Flurry of Wayward Sisters spin-off details!
Let’s start things off with what the base logline for what the show is, according to a release that was put out today by studio Warner Bros. TV:
“Scheduled to air as an episode within Supernatural’s 13th season, Wayward Sisters is written by Andrew Dabb and Robert Berens, who will executive produce along with Robert Singer and Phil Sgriccia. Centered on the character of Sheriff Jody Mills and a group of troubled young women — all orphaned by supernatural tragedy — these ‘wayward sisters’ emerge as a formidable force against the supernatural, under Mills’s training and protection.”
There are many familiar faces beyond Jody (Kim Rhodes) who you are going to be seeing on the new show, including Sheriff Donna Hanscum (Briana Buckmaster), Claire Novak (Kathryn Newton), and Alex Jones (Katherine Ramdeen). There is also a newcomer coming on board the spin-off in the form of Patience Turner (Clark Backo), described as a “high school over-achiever whose life is turned upside down when she discovers she’s a powerful psychic, a gift she inherited from her estranged grandmother (and season one Supernatural character) Missouri Moseley. Hunted by dark forces for her power, Patience finds refuge with Jody and her wayward family.”
All of this sounds exciting, and we like that even with the Patience character you are getting someone who is tied back to the show’s mythology. Note that there’s no guarantee this gets picked up, but cross your fingers and hope for the best!
This spin-off feels as a whole a great way for the series to give many diehard fans something that they’ve wanted for a long time: A significant female presence. That hasn’t happened on the flagship, but if we get a full series about some badass female hunters, we’re all about that. These characters are also by and large well-liked (in the land of the internet, nobody is loved universally), and the basic architecture is here for this to work in a way that it really wasn’t for Supernatural: Bloodlines. That was the last time in which we saw an attempt from the show to cultivate something else using the universe and characters who could live and breathe in it. The problem there was that the spin-off came almost out of nowhere using people we knew effectively nothing about.
In the end, though, the success/failure of this show is going to come down to the writing and making sure that these people all have stories that are creative and separate from the flagship. It’s easy to see how there could be collision courses between this and the main Supernatural, so hopefully, these characters will turn up in multiple series in the future.
For the record, we also wouldn’t be opposed to Wayward Sisters taking on a more serialized structure with multiple episodes geared more towards taking on a singular threat — it’s something that it can do that we really couldn’t see on the series proper with its relatively small cast and the high episode count.
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