10 Sci-Fi TV Shows You Can Quit Before The End

If you really want to, and are really committed, you can definitely put yourself through 15 seasons of the overly masculine brothers and their bestie angel buddy. Nobody's gonna blame you for getting utterly lost in those chiselled jawlines. But seriously, 15 seasons? That's a lot by anybody's standards.

The original vision of the Supernatural by creator Eric Kripke was for a three-season-long storyline about two brothers who hunt monsters and eventually have to avert the apocalypse. Each season would have it's principal demonic villain, starting with Azazel for Season One, Lilith for Season Two, and then Lucifer for Season Three. When the success of the first season was evident, Kripke padded it out to be five seasons long, with Azazel and Lilith getting double duty.

The fifth season of the show skilfully showed the resolution of the entire storyline, and the brothers successfully confronted Lucifer in a manner that fitted with how the series felt. The final episode of that fifth year (bar the last 20 seconds) felt like a perfect ending.

Unfortunately for Kripke's original vision, or fortunately for fans of the brooding brothers (depending on where you're sitting at the time), Supernatural's fifth season was so well reviewed that it was then renewed for a further season by The CW. Eric Kripke stepped back from being a showrunner, but kept his oar in as an executive producer. While the show did eventually soar to new heights a few seasons later, it took a painful few years to get there.

An ideal place to stop watching Supernatural is 20 seconds before the end of the Season Five finale. That way, the series feels a lot more rounded out.