# Reaper (2007)

> A lazy twenty-one-year-old learns his parents sold his soul to the Devil and must become a bounty hunter retrieving escaped souls from Hell.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/4848

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 31
- Episode runtime: 60 min
- Status: Canceled
- Genres: comedy, science fiction, drama
- Created by: Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas
- Network: The CW
- Cast: Bret Harrison, Tyler Labine, Rick Gonzalez, Ray Wise, Valarie Rae Miller, Missy Peregrym, Andrew Airlie, Donavon Stinson
- TMDB rating: 7.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0955322/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: irreverent, breezy, comic, lightly dark, cheerful

## What critics say

Audiences rated the series positively, with its irreverent comedy and supernatural premise winning a loyal following, though it did not sustain a broad mainstream audience.

## Synopsis

Reaper (2007-2009) is an American supernatural comedy-drama series created by Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas for The CW. Bret Harrison plays Sam Oliver, a twenty-one-year-old slacker who discovers that his parents sold his soul to the Devil before he was born, and who must now repay the debt by hunting down souls that have escaped from Hell. Ray Wise plays the Devil himself, a petty and bureaucratic boss who hands out errands with mock-authority, while Tyler Labine as Bert 'Sock' Wysocki supplies the comic sidekick energy alongside Rick Gonzalez as Ben Gonzalez and Missy Peregrym as Andi Prendergast. The engine of the show is simple: Sam wants to coast through life, but each week a new escaped soul forces him into a chase across the Seattle area, where his errands turn up mortal temptations and family pressures. Episodes are largely self-contained case-of-the-week outings, with light serialized threads about Sam's obligation running across its two seasons. The tone is irreverent and breezy, with a young adult sensibility and a comic take on hell as a dull office. Set in contemporary Seattle, Washington, it is a cheerful, lightly dark romp in the vein of Supernatural, Dead Like Me and Lucifer, and fans of those shows will find the same mix of devilish mischief and everyday ordinariness.

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