10 Best Supernatural Episodes

by Josh Brown

1. Swan Song

Supernatural Swan Song
The CW

For a lot of fans, Supernatural ended with Season 5. While that was in part because it was the end of original creator Eric Kripke's run, it was also because its finale, Swan Song, capped off the main storyline in such an elegant way. Paying homage to the past five years, the climactic episode was essentially a love letter to Sam and Dean's relationship, with it being their bond - not any spell, weapon or trinket - that ended up saving the world.

Watching these two regular guys (well, regularish) go up against the strongest warriors both Heaven and Hell had to offer paid off pretty much every question the show posited about free will vs. determinism. It helped that it was a bloodbath as well, with Bobby, Castiel, and even Sam all being killed off (albeit temporarily) before the episode was over.

Consequently, it's undermined a touch from having to undo some of its larger narrative moments to continue the story in Season 6, but even in spite of that, Swan Song offered the perfect end to one of the best horror shows on TV.

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Josh has over 11 years of experience as a published writer, having worked nine of those years as a full-time content producer at WhatCulture. In that period he has created hundreds of articles, videos and podcast episodes for multiple WhatCulture channels, specialising in gaming, horror and film & TV. He now primarily works as a senior content producer and presenter on WhatCulture Gaming where he co-hosts the WhatCulture Gaming Podcast, a top 3 UK most listened to gaming podcast that he co-created in 2018. Over the years he has reviewed several high-profile gaming releases, covered industry events with on-site reporting, opined on breaking news, and even kicked off his interviewing career by chatting to childhood hero, Tommy Wiseau.