Entertainment Weekly - 10.2019

OD IS ANGRY.

Wrathful, you

might say. In

Supernatural’s

season 14 finale,

Sam (Jared Pada-

lecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles)

learned that Chuck (the pre-

ferred name for the big man

upstairs, played by Rob Ben-

edict) has quite literally been

the author of their lives, orches-

trating every dramatic twist

and turn that has made them

who they are (and made the

show a hit). And the moment

the brothers stopped following

Chuck’s plan, he opened the

gates of hell, freed the many

souls Sam and Dean had

defeated over the years, and left

the Winchesters and their

angelic brother-of-sorts Castiel

out what to do.” But escaping

their current situation is only

step 1, because then the boys

have to deal with the fact that

they’re going up against God

himself. “This is, as far as we

know, the most powerful being

in the universe, and he’s against

us,” Collins says, with Padalecki

adding, “But we’re also strug-

gling with: Is Chuck evil, or is he

just trying to objectively write a

story that’s exciting which con-

trols our lives?”

SUPeRNaTUR

Returning Drama

Season 15

O C T— 10

8 pm � THE CW

(Misha Collins) surrounded by

a horde of zombies. “We start

right back up in season 15, and it

is a bit of a triage situation,”

Ackles says. “They gotta get out

of there, they gotta find some

shelter, and they gotta figure

There’s a new headmaster at

the Salvatore Boarding School

for the Young & Gifted. When

Legacies, the latest show in the

Vampire Diaries universe, picks

up for season 2, the supernatu-

ral learning institution will be

missing two major players:

Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose

Russell), the vampire-werewolf-

witch tribrid who sacrificed

herself to destroy the hell

Returning Drama

Season 2 � OCT—10

9 pm � THE CW

↑ “Supernatural’s always played with the free-will-versus-destiny argument,” Padalecki (above,

with Jensen Ackles) says. “We’re struggling with ‘Is there a point to doing anything?’ ”

↓ Alexis Denisof’s Professor Vardemus is ready for picture day

dimension better known as

Malivore, and Alaric (Matthew

Davis), the former headmaster

(and one of the unluckiest men

in all of Mystic Falls). “The first

line in the script in episode 1

says ‘Cut to Alaric Saltzman,

hair and beard growth: unem-

ployed,’ ” showrunner Julie Plec

says. “Now that he has been

removed from [the headmas-

ter] position, he’s lost.” The

school, however, will be under

new, very well-dressed lead-

ership as Angel alum Alexis

Denisof joins the cast as Pro-

LEGACIESfessor Vardemus. “He is the

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SUPERNATURAL

: DEAN BUSCHER/THE CW;

LEGACIES

: ANNETTE BROWN/THE CW