Supernatural Family Dynamic

Popular television show “Supernatural”, due to release its twelfth season this year, presents the audience with an interesting family dynamic; as the show is central around adult brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, who carry out the Winchester family business of hunting supernatural beings, this seems to be inevitable. Much of the abundant interpersonal drama within the show is created as a result of the complicated relationship and angst between the two brothers; the majority of this drama likely results from an interesting power dynamic (with Dean feeling the intrinsic need to protect younger brother Sam), as well as Sam’s occasional desire to separate himself from his older brother and the past relationship both brothers had with their father. This tension is heightened by the constantly life-threatening and complicated situations the two are bombarded with on a daily basis (such as when Dean becomes a demon and Sam struggles with the thought of having to kill him if the cure does not work); however, ultimately both remain fiercely loyal to each other.

The family represented serves to present a complex dynamic; father John Winchester has a presence in the show until he dies in season two, sacrificing himself to save eldest son Dean from Azazel (the Yellow-Eyed Demon), and mother Mary Winchester is dead.
Most of all, however, it shows that- despite drama, angst, and argument- family will ultimately always remain loyal to one another. Alongside the central family (the Winchesters), it also often also portrays family drama within a different context; the majority of supernatural beings that they hunt target individuals tied up in some degree of family