Is ‘The Messengers’ Set to Become The CW’s Next ‘Supernatural’?
It’s the end of the world as we know it!
Full disclosure time: the first time I watched Supernatural, I was only mildly-impressed.
I remember buying the first season on DVD, getting about halfway through it, and then trading it in. It was interesting, but not what I was looking for at the time.
It wasn’t until season three, the season in which Sam and Dean had to race against time to hunt down the spirits that had escaped from the Devil’s Gate, that the story of the Winchester boys really grabbed my attention. At that point, Supernatural became the show I had wanted to see all along, with a fully-formed mythology and storylines that became truly apocalyptic over the next few seasons.
Something about the Apocalypse gets me all fired up, so I am eagerly looking forward to The CW’s upcoming series, The Messengers, which will premiere on April 17.
When evil rises, good awakens. #TheMessengers will be chosen Friday, April 17 at 9/8c! pic.twitter.com/5yLsq8h2pa
— CWTheMessengers (@CWTheMessengers) March 18, 2015
The problem is, of course, that this show could wind up heading in one of two directions. If we’re lucky, The Messengers will take its cast of pretty faces and follow the footsteps of the Winchester boys by leading the audience down a dark path where death is everywhere and victory is anything but certain.
Of course, there is always the chance that the show will become more like The Vampire Diaries or The Originals. I don’t mean to hate on those shows, but as much as I want to enjoy them so I can have another batch of shows to enjoy with my wife, I’m not looking for soap operas with vampires, witches and other supernatural creatures subbing in for mortals. I give these shows for being a little edgier than the Twilight series, but both are too moody for my taste.
Supernatural kicked ass and took names when it served up seasons involving the apocalypse, Lucifer, the Four Horsemen, warring angels and demons, and all sorts of crazy, end-of-days ****. Can The CW give me a compelling reason to stick with The Messengers, or am I going to wind up watching a bunch of moody, brooding angels talk a lot while a misunderstood villain complains a lot? We’ll see soon enough!
Read the plot synopsis of The Messengers, and then check out the preview video below!
"“THE MESSENGERS”Premieres Friday, April 17 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET)“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.”(Revelation 9:1)In the white-hot sun of the New Mexico desert, scientist Vera Buckley watches in fascination as a mysterious object plummets to Earth and explodes in a blinding flash, sending out a shock wave that briefly stops Vera’s heart and panics her techie coworker, Alan Harris.Vera is not the only one affected by the blast; she is instantly and mysteriously connected to four other strangers, who also collapse only to miraculously come back to life: Erin Calder, a young mother desperate to protect her 7-year-old daughter from an abusive ex-husband; Peter Moore, a troubled high school student who finally lashes out to end the constant bullying he can no longer endure; Raul Garcia, a federal agent looking to escape his undercover assignment in a violent Mexican drug cartel; and Joshua Silburn, Jr., a charismatic second-generation televangelist following in his father’s footsteps – all awaken after the blast with extraordinary gifts, from inexplicable strength to the ability to heal others.Most mysterious of all is the figure known only as The Man, who offers Vera the one thing she wants most in life – to be reunited with her kidnapped son – if she will help him with one morally complicated task. That task puts Vera on a collision course with nurse Rose Arvale who, after a seemingly random act of violence left her in a coma for seven years, suddenly begins to stir. As Joshua Jr. prophesied, the wheels of Revelation have begun to turn, and these five newly christened Angels of the Apocalypse may be the only hope for preventing the impending Rapture.The series stars Shantel VanSanten (“Gang Related,” “One Tree Hill”) as Vera Buckley, Jon Fletcher (“City of Dreams”) as Joshua Silburn, Jr., Sofia Black-D’Elia (“Betrayal,” “Gossip Girl”) as Erin Calder, JD Pardo (“Revolution”) as Raul Garcia, Joel Courtney (“Super 8”) as Peter Moore, Anna Diop (“Everybody Hates Chris”) as Rose Arvale, Craig Frank (“Mixology”) as Alan Harris, and Diogo Morgado (“Son of God,” “Sol de Inverno”) as The Man."