How many shows (like Buffy the Vampire Slayer) have threatened us with an apocalypse only to have the good guys save the day at the last minute? Supernatural’s creator Eric Kripke decided that if he was going to talk about the apocalypse, his good guys, Sam and Dean Winchester (or, well, Sam, to be precise), were going to go ahead and cause one.
Well, what’s a good apocalypse without Lucifer, aka Satan, aka the devil? Presently playing Lucifer’s vessel is Mark Pellegrino, a veteran actor with a long history of playing bad guys (not to mention a host of roles in everything from Dexter to the upcoming film Joint Body to ABC’s Lost good guy, Jacob).