Sunday

My favourite television series at the moment is Supernatural. Yes, the plot is silly, it takes itself too seriously, and sometimes the humour is puerile. It could never succeed as cinema. As light entertainment, however, it is perfect. Now in its second season (here in the UK at least), the characters and the writers have really grown into their roles. The main relationship is between two brothers, Sam and Dean, who travel around America, staying in cheap hotels, hunting the supernatural. One is sensitive and intelligent, the other isn't. It's the classic double-act. They never take anything they encounter seriously, verging on the post-modern, but staying safely the sane side of it. As a taster, in tonight's episode Sam wakes up in a motel not remembering the last week of his life. Dean does some research and discovers that Sam checked-in under the name Richie Sambora, which leads to the great line: 'I don't know what's more disturbing: that you lost your memory, or that you like Bon Jovi'.