{"id":1722,"date":"2026-08-20T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:30:14","slug":"supernatural-meets-wednesday-in-the-cws-underrated-4-part-fantasy-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"Supernatural Meets Wednesday In The CW&#8217;s Underrated 4-Part Fantasy Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While fantasy fans have been crying out for a show that blends the monster-of-the-week structure of early <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/supernatural\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Supernatural<\/strong><\/em><\/a> with the magical school setting of <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Wednesday<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, one spinoff of <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/the-vampire-diaries\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Vampire Diaries<\/strong><\/em><\/a> fulfilled this promise and went largely ignored. <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/the-x-files-good-reboot-1990s-sci-fi\/\" target=\"_blank\">The \u201890s cult classic <em>The X-Files<\/em><\/a> has a lot to answer for. Without that series popularizing the premise of a sleuth who investigates paranormal threats instead of conventional criminals, viewers might never have received subsequent spins on this setup like <em>Grimm<\/em>, <em>Evil<\/em>, <em>Supernatural<\/em>, and <em>Fringe<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While fantasy fans have been crying out for a show that blends the monster-of-the-week structure of early Supernatural with the magical school setting of Wednesday, one spinoff of The Vampire Diaries fulfilled this promise and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}