The Winchesters (Season 1)

The Winchesters (2022) is an American supernatural drama series you can watch online on iFILM. It is a prequel to Supernatural — the origin story of John and Mary Winchester, the parents of Sam and Dean, set in 1972 before they became the hunters their sons would grow up knowing. Jensen Ackles narrates as Dean, framing the story as something he had to go looking for himself.

John Winchester has just come back from Vietnam, carrying questions about the world that his upbringing did not prepare him to answer. Mary Campbell grew up in the hunting life and has been trying to find a way out of it. They meet when a new category of threat starts surfacing — something bigger and stranger than the creatures Mary's family has tracked for generations. Drake Rodger and Meg Donnelly play the leads.

The show sits in two registers at once: a standalone story about two young people pulled into an impossible fight, and a long piece of connective tissue for anyone who spent fifteen seasons with Sam and Dean. The 1970s period setting gives it its own texture — muscle cars, Vietnam-era disillusionment, a world where the hunters' network is still being built. Stream every episode of The Winchesters online on iFILM.