Have you ever wondered what Dean Winchester could have been like had he not been pulled into the world of hunting in Supernatural? Countdown is going to give us a small look at that. The new trailer is out, and Jensen Ackles’s new character is very much another Dean Winchester.
The trailer makes it clear that there is a high stakes event that Ackles and the rest of his team will need to solve. They’re being overseen by Eric Dane’s Nathan Blythe, who shares that the team has been put together in an attempt to prevent a 9/11-like event. Someone wants to set of a bomb that has a Chernobyl-like disaster written all over it.
Meet Mark Meachum in Countdown
One thing that the Countdown trailer does is give us a good look at Ackles’s new character, Mark Meachum. Supernatural fans will see many signs of another Dean Winchester in this, which wouldn’t be too bad if it wasn’t for the fear that Ackles is about to get typecast in this role. He’s tried to break away from Dean a little with the likes of Soldier Boy in The Boys and Beau Arlen in Big Sky, but in the end, he is Dean Winchester!
Mark is the man that Dean likely would have been had he not been pulled into the world of hunting. He’s a bit of a risk taker, willing to jump off and onto moving vehicles if it means saving the day. This is a man who gets deep into his undercover role to be able to sell it, and we’ll get to see him dressed in prison garb and ready to go to a ball — I will say, he looks a little more comfortable in a tux than Dean did!
The fears of a Chernobyl-like bomb in Los Angeles
The trailer also gives us a look at other characters in the series, as well as the main threat. We know that a Department of Homeland Security officer is killed in plain sight, and that leads to LAPD detective Mark Meachum being recruited onto a top secret task force. He’ll join other undercover agents as they track down the murderer.
According to Blythe, there’s an event being planned that involves a Chernobyl-like bomb. In other words, this bomb is set to make Los Angeles an uninhabitable wasteland for decades due to radiation. There is a much bigger conspiracy, but can each member of the task force trust each other? It looks like one hasn’t been undercover before, although she says she has.
Countdown premieres on Wednesday, June 25 on Prime Video.
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