If you are new to Supernatural, you might want to stop here and look into the first two seasons, because a lot has happened since the show kicked off (if you can't tell by the opening paragraph). Basically, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) have taken up the family business. They go around the country looking for various supernatural activities and try to stop them. Sometimes its vampires, sometimes its ghosts or werewolves, but most of the time they have to exorcise some demons.
In The Complete Third Season, Sam looks for some way to get Dean out of his deal, while Dean insists that he shouldn't, especially since trying to weasel out of it in any way will result in Sam's immediate death. Having just lost their father (again), this is something Dean is adamantly against. But despite Dean's warnings, Sam refuses to just let him waste his one year of life without trying to find a way out.
Their journeys this year will introduce a new pair of girls in the Winchesters' life. First, Sam will meet a female demon named Ruby (Katie Cassidy), who behaves very much atypically to the rest of the damned that they have met. Namely, she seems bent on helping and saving Sam and Dean. Ruby's part in the season's over arcing story is very important, and it is her past that will reveal not only who has Dean's contract, but who this new force that is bent on killing Sam is, and whose side she is really on.
The other new addition to the cast is Bela (Lauren Cohan), a black-magic, black-market dealer who has a knack for grabbing mystical artifacts and finding just the right (read: most profitable) new owner for them. The pair first meets up with her when she hires some thugs to break into their dad's storage box and steal a lucky rabbit's foot (that works all to well). Needless to say, she and the boys don't really get along all that well, as their constant head-butting leads to some mutual betrayals, and eventually the theft of Sam and Dean's Colt (the only real weapon they have against demons).
While I don't want to give away the season's pretty shocking cliff-hanger, I will say that it all comes together in a major showdown with the new demon big-wig, known only as Lilith, and there are quite a few shocking revelations along the way. They will again run into the F.B.I. Agent who has been tracking them, Gordon Walker (Sterling K. Brown), and the Trickster who sends Sam into a demented version of Groundhog Day that has each loop ending with Dean's death. The brothers will also face a few vampires, a person who has seen one-to-many Nightmare on Elm Street movies and even a group of desperate housewife witches.
Another episode that I found pretty amusing is when the two characters who previously fancied themselves The Hell Hunters return. This episode, "Ghostfacers" is the pilot for the new series they are creating. Here they will go around the country investigating haunted houses with cameras and strange equipment (a la Ghost Hunters style). When they find Sam and Dean at their filming location (the most haunted house in the world every February 29th), they are upset at first, but thankful when the spooks start to appear and the Winchester brothers help to keep them alive.
Special features for Supernatural: The Complete Third Season include, but are not limited to, a couple of featurettes that talk about the changes the creators made to the series in this season. One of the interviews talk about Bella and Ruby and how hard it is to introduce a pair of reoccurring female characters into a series that so closely focuses on the brotherly bond that Sam and Dean share. All of the collection's extras were entertaining, but only big fans of the show will pay any attention to them.
Each episode has a good share of comedy, action and Buffy-like situations. If you haven't gotten into this series yet, but it sounds interesting, then you won't want to start here at Season Three, but definitely check it out from the start.
