11 Beloved TV Shows With More Bad Seasons Than Good

Although it will seemingly never be cancelled now, there was a time where every season of Supernatural was a fight to stay on the air, resulting in the creative team putting out some of the best genre material TV had seen in years. The true spiritual successor to shows like The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the first five seasons of the show (under the tutelage of Eric Kripke) were pretty damn flawless.

However, Supernatural was always planned as a five-season story, and once the original creator had wrapped up his narrative by having the protagonists literally prevent the end of the world by beating the Devil, the show had written itself into a corner it couldn't get out of.

Consequently, season 6 experimented with a few ideas to reboot things, but ultimately only created a web of convoluted narrative threads that didn't come together in the end, while the seventh run marked the show's biggest dip in quality to date, boasting a main villain who was literally a walking dick joke.

Under the guidance of a new showrunner, season 8 picked up the pieces a bit, but repeated plots and a disregard for the series' lore meant that, year after year, Supernatural slowly transformed into a pale imitation of its former self.