Little C: Wayward Sisters

Oh goodness, readers, I don't know exactly where to start with this review. The backdoor pilot for the Supernatural spinoff we've been asking for, Wayward Sisters, aired last night and I am as the kids say shook. If it gets picked up it will be the first sci-fi fantasy show to center around an all female cast. There are characters on this show that we have loved for almost a decade, and there were brand new characters that we immediately loved and wanted to protect from this world...

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They can of course protect themselves, they have a lot of guns

Let's start with some context. CT and I got into Supernatural midway through season 1 when it started on what was still the WB network (a fact which makes us feel super old) and we were hooked early. The first couple seasons the show was essentially a new horror movie every week and that was and is very much our jam. We've grown up with this show, and though we fall behind and end up catching up on Netflix sometimes there's a sense of family combined with a really cool mythology that kept us coming back. But we always had one thing we wished the show would do differently. We wished they could have some consistent female characters that didn't die. Everyone dies in Supernatural (Dean has been killed approximately 8,093,205 times, bless his heart) but the girls on the show stay dead and honestly that's been a bummer.

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Enter this new pilot which focuses on the lives of Sheriff Jody Mills of Sioux Falls and her adopted daughters Claire and Alex. They hold uniquely long life spans in this world and for years some of the best side episodes have been focused on them. Add in the delightfully cheerful Sheriff Donna Hanscum who also has managed to survive the curse that is knowing the Winchesters and the two new characters Patience and Kaia. The script included a lot of throwbacks to some classic Supernatural moments that worked really well to ground the show in the same world as the original. It was a fun episode of TV that felt really well paced probably because they were allowed to put it in the middle of a season. It worked better than a standalone pilot because they got a little bit of a run up to it.

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I have to stop and remark that this is a pilot (and potentially a show *shoots the CW a pleading look*) that would star six very different, women with vastly different backstories and personalities. If that ever happens on TV it happens in a soapy setting where mansions and really tight dresses are involved, but here the characters fight monsters. We love a soapy drama but if we want to watch a fight scene we have to resign ourselves to a guy main character. The Wayward Girls are every inch the badass heroes. They have moments of vulnerability and doubt but when the big showdown came every single one of them stepped up to fight. One of them stepped up with a flamethrower! It was a pilot where other than discussing how to save the Winchesters the main characters didn't talk about boys at all.  This wasn't a 90s style girl-power show, but rather a story about six different women who all have a different personal definition of strong and brave, but come together to support and protect each other. CT and I cried several times during the episode because we have wanted this show since forever.

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The episode is currently available to watch on the CW app and if you're even vaguely interested I urge you to support it. We deserve this show. They're also taking social media in to account so if you Tweet/Facebook/Tumblr you can add the tags #Supernatural and #WaywardSisters to your requests or demands.

Stay Wayward
Little C