Last season ended with Sam, Dean and their dad, John (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Watchmen and The Losers), being hit by a demon-driven 18 wheeler and the Impala being totaled. This event kicks off a season that isn't just about the creature of the week like the show's first season. Instead, Jon sacrifices his own life and the Colt, the only weapon they know of that can kill yellow-eyes, in order to save Dean from death.
From this point on, Dean is forced to struggle with the sacrifice his dad made for him, and we get to see many of those daddy issues come out has he takes out his aggression on everything from vampires to zombies always proclaiming that "Things that are dead should stay dead."
One of the main storylines this season involves Sam's growing powers and how the brothers handle the fact that the yellow-eyed demon claims to have a plan for Sam and the others like him. Along the way, the pair meet other people about Sam's age whose mothers died in a fire on their six-month old birthday. As it turns out, each one has started developing psychic powers. While Sam's is limited to premonitions about people's deaths, another character has the ability to convince people to do what he wants simply by asking them to.
As more and more of these characters show up, it becomes very clear that it's all leading up to something big, and those followers that have already seen the events to come know that this season's finale is only the start of Sam and Dean's troubles, and in the end, the yellow-eyed demon is just a small guppy in a very large sea.
Supernatural: The Complete Second Season had quite a few good episodes. One was the claustrophobic "No Exit." This one brings Sam, Dean and Jo (Alona Tal) to the apartment complex built by serial killer, H. H. Holmes. This man designed the building to allow him to go into the rooms and abduct people. With them in his possession, he would torture then in the spaces between the walls and leave them to die. This particular episode required some really good acting on all three characters parts and the tight spaces they had to squeeze into would leave a lot of people uneasy.
Another great episode, though a bit of a one-off, is "The Usual Suspects." Here, Linda Blair (The Exorcist) guest stars as a cop who has put a lot of the pieces together and realize that Dean and Sam seem to leave a rather long trail of dead bodies and missing people in their wake.
This season also introduces the character, The Trickster (Richard Speight Jr.), a demi-god who gets bored and likes to have some fun, usually about once a season and usually with his favorite playthings, the Winchesters. This particular episode has the brothers running into dead end after dead end as they investigate a series of odd events in a small town. When they finally realize what and who they are up against, things really begin to heat up.
Supernatural: The Complete Second Season's Blu-ray release not only comes with the special features found on the original DVD box set and the increased visual and audio quality that comes from high definition, but also an interactive menu called the Devil's Road Map. Those who picked up Season One on Blu-ray will remember a similar feature there. This map of the US has a point for each location in the season, and going to each location will not only give you a summary of the episode but some very interesting behind-the-scenes knowledge as well as retrospective discussions about those episodes.
If you've already got Season Two on DVD, then I can't really recommend picking up the Blu-ray version. While the visual and audio quality is much approved, and the Devils' Road Map is a nice bonus, it just doesn't seem like enough reasons to rebuy the season. Of course, if you are like me and have the later seasons in Blu-ray, and got the DVD versions for the first few, then you might be more inclined to upgrade in order to keep your collection on the same media, but that really does depend on how much of a fan of Supernatural you are.
