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באינטרנט.. Hooked on horror Sarrah Le Marquand delves into the new cult series Supernatural March 09, 2006 DON'T have the patience to wait another couple of years to see how things get resolved on Lost? Perhaps you're frustrated by the eternal cliffhangers that characterise dramas such as Prison Break and Desperate Housewives. Rest assured that despite current trends, primetime fiction is not all about intricate plots and slowly unravelling mysteries. Take Supernatural, for example, centred around the old-fashioned premise of two genetically blessed brothers fighting the forces of evil week after week, with the storyline reaching a tidy conclusion at the end of each hourly instalment. "Each episode is a bit of a horror movie in itself – in each episode these two guys go to a different town and they deal with a whole new subject," says Jensen Ackles, who plays Dean Winchester on the youth-skewed drama. "It's a story that's discovered and dealt with and then tied up at the end. There are the hooklines and the running storylines, but I think we differentiate from those shows that keep cliffhangering you in at the end of every episode because we do kind of wrap it up. It's like another episode in these guys' lives and then it's on to the next town and on to the next problem." And along the way, they try to scare the hell out of you. Supernatural is unabashedly pitched at a young audience. As a cross between Charmed and The X Files, the show explores urban legends, demons and haunted houses, all with the intention of scaring the life out of anyone watching at home. "I think it goes along with why we like to laugh and why we like to cry – we like to feel things and being shocked and being terrified is another of those addictive feelings that people like," muses Ackles. "And obviously audiences have really responded with all these horror movies that have come out in the past couple of years and done really well. It's a bit of an adrenaline rush when you get scared – it's really fun and we definitely try to make that a major part of the show. "Our goal setting out was we wanted to scare the hell out of audiences every single week." It's given Ackles a newfound respect for what separates a good horror flick from B-grade schlock. "I'm definitely learning some of the tricks of the trade as far as the horror genre goes. I'll know if that was an easy shot to do or not an easy trick to pull off. I was watching The Amityville Horror on DVD the other day and there were a couple of scares in there that I thought were really good and I thought, 'Oh that was nice'," he laughs. "As opposed to jumping back on my feet and covering my eyes, I was thinking, 'Oh, I want to rewind that and see it again, that was really good'. "So I'm dissecting it much more now, rather than really being terrified by it." Supernatural began with a flashback into the formative years of Dean and his onscreen sibling Sam, played by former Gilmore Girls regular Jared Padalecki. The boys lost their mother to a fiery supernatural force, leaving them to be raised by a father obsessed with the force that claimed his late wife. Their father is now missing and the all-grown-up Winchester brothers have reunited to track him down in a mission that finds them encountering all things mythical as they criss-cross the US. "It brings that element of family into it and that camaraderie of brothers that get along and butt heads at the same time," says Ackles. "It makes for a nice dynamic - it's not two buddies or a boyfriend/girlfriend or a husband/wife type thing; you have two alpha males who obviously have two very different outlooks on the way life should go but are thrown into this situation together and have to make the best of it." Ackes says. Television being television, Supernatural's casting directors happily turned a blind eye to the less than startling physical resemblance between Ackles and his younger, taller co-star. "But it is television so we're allowed a little leeway," laughs Ackles. "Jared's last name is Polish so I think he comes more from a Slavic background whereas I've got more of an English/Irish/Scottish background. He's got about three inches on me height-wise, but I'm actually bigger than my older brother so it worked out." More importantly, the two have struck up a friendship off-screen that enables them to convincingly portray siblings - not to mention peacefully work alongside each other during long days on set. "We met the day we were reading for the network and then the network liked both of us together so it was kind of an immediate thing. It's a lot of hard work - with two characters it's a bit of a gruelling schedule - but we have a good time. It's a great crew and we've got some fantastic directors and they're bringing in a lot of guest-starring roles."