When we started out, we were going to make a horror movie every week. It was about the monsters, and it was about Hook Man and Bloody Mary and the urban legends and the boys… honestly, in the beginning, Sam and Dean were an engine to get us in and out of different horror movies every week. Because that’s when “The Ring” was burning up the box office, and so we were really setting out to bring the horror movie esthetic to television.
I would say right around Episode 4 or 5 [of Season 1, executive producer/director] Bob Singer and I were watching the episodes, and we just started saying, “God, those two guys and their chemistry is so much more interesting than the horror movies we’re showing.”
And then we started re-breaking story for that. And if you look at Season 1, the first half, almost it’s a little repetitive, but it really picks up and catches on right around about, I think, episode seven or eight, when they go home for the first time. That’s when we started realizing that we should play to the strengths of what’s in front of us, which is these two amazing actors who have this unbelievable chemistry. And sure enough, now that’s really, more than anything, that’s what the show’s about.
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