The tale of the Winchester brothers will continue for another year, as The CW announced today that they have officially renewed Supernatural for season 8 – but could this be Supernatural’s final bow?
Despite an unconventional seventh season, news of Supernatural’s renewal isn’t likely to shock fans of the series. With news of showrunner Sera Gamble being replaced with Syfy’s Being Human showrunner Jeremy Carver – who formerly served as a producer on Supernatural - it left little debate about its chances for renewal.
For fans, their concern lies largely in what the focus of the series will be, as it heads into its eighth year on the air. Supernatural’s season 7 nemesis, the Leviathans, appropriately became a “C” storyline rather than a direct focus, fans began to wonder what had happened to the series they faithfully watched for many years.
Instead of an overarching story that was driven by each episode, Supernatural’s seventh season quickly became disjointed with its storytelling. While nobody will argue against shifting focus away from the “evil” Leviathans and their intentions of taking over the world corporate-style, a litany of self-contained episodes that didn’t really go anywhere wasn’t really much of an upgrade.
Fortunately, Supernatural has never really been a series where continuous issues brought concerns about renewal. With mistakes largely occurring few and far between, fans of the series are typically more forgiving than fans of other shows.
Even if Supernatural can turn things around and make an amazing eighth season, could this be the series’ final run – no matter what?
When Supernatural stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles resigned their contracts for the series last year, it was for two additional seasons (7 and 8). So after next season, both actors would have to renew their contracts.
While only Ackles and Padalecki can say for sure, it’s becoming more difficult to believe that they would want to continue the series into its ninth or tenth year. And after this season, there are certainly some fans who don’t feel like it even should. Of course that doesn’t mean that it won’t – I suppose it’s something we’ll just have to wait and see in the Supernatural season 7 finale.
Now we just have to figure out a way to get Castiel (Misha Collins) back… and Bobby (Jim Beaver) back from being dead.
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Supernatural airs Fridays @9pm on The CW
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Love the show and the actors. Jensen and Jared are awesome. I’ve watched this show since day one and can’t imagine it ever ending. I’m sure there are enough stories to keep them going for many more seasons. I’d also love to see Jeffrey Dean Morgan make a comeback. Please don’t ever stop making this show. Best series on TV.
I got hooked on Supernatural through my sister. I became glued to my PC when I was watching season 1-7 and I love all the actors. They are awesome!!! I do hope they come up with lots of ideas to keep this show going. I have not watched all my other shows in the last 3 weeks, so that alone shows how addicting it is
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you couldnt leave a better comment…your comment is perfect lol i have watched it since it started also and hate to see the day it ends cause all great things do come to an end. that day will be very sad but no show has topped this one, in my opinion…just thought i would let you know that i love your comment as much as i love the show
This is my favorite i love the whole cast they do an excellant job at expressing their emotions and the way they carry themselves keep up the good work guys:) <3
Love,
Angela ur biggest number 1 fan of all times
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Show is done! No creativity anymore! Completely redundant episodes that are leading nowhere fast! One word for season 8 … BUST!
Very nice rant. Short. Simple. And completely clueless XD I have this strange feeling your not a fan, or even were. Or maybe you just like hopping around doing silly tricks.
I am a big fan of the show, and so is my mom, I hope that they keep this show going for years to come, We laugh at dean and sam all the time, And i think that humor is what makes the show, I also like the story line in each show, It has a lot of mystery to it. And i like the car too, and the music.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE SHOW!!!! PLEASE CONTINUE NEW SEASON 9-1000!!!!
SUPERNATURAL IS MY FAVORITE SHOW!!!! PLEASE KEEP CONTINUAL NEW SEASONS!!!! I WILL CRY IF IT EVER ENDS!!@!
SUPERNATURAL IS MY FAVORITE SHOW!!!! PLEASE KEEP THIS SHOW GOING FOREVER!!!!
SUPERNATURAL IS MY FAVORITE SHOW!!
Me and my boyfriend are huge fans!! Please make another season!! You gotta have a good ending. I hope to see season nine soon. I hope I can add season nine to the supernatural boxset!!!!!!!
Although I started watching supernatural on netflix I became a super fanatic! Sam and Dean are very hot! I would really like to see more! So is there a season 8 then?I guess if there is I am going to have to buy it! Anyway the show keeps me very entertain and it makes me think a lot and I ask myself a lot of questions! Like the what if’s! Anyway the show is great and I would be destroyed if they didn’t make anymore seasons!
I LOVE THE SHOW,THE MUSIC IS SO COOL.LOVE THE BROTHERS LOVE FOR EACH OTHER!! COMEDY WELL BLENDED, SO FUNNY!! THIS IS MY FAV SHOW , PLEASE CONTINUE MORE SEASONS@@!!
I LOVE THE SHOW,THE MUSIC IS SO COOL!.LOVE THE BROTHERS LOVE FOR EACH OTHER!! COMEDY WELL BLENDED, SO FUNNY!! THIS IS MY FAVORITE SHOW , PLEASE CONTINUE MORE SEASONS
I LOVE THE SHOW,SUPERNATURAL! THE MUSIC IS SO COOL!.LOVE THE BROTHERS LOVE FOR EACH OTHER!! COMEDY WELL BLENDED, SO FUNNY!! THIS IS MY FAVORITE SHOW , PLEASE CONTINUE MORE SEASONS
love love love the show— needs to continue to at least 10 seasons as all the great series do— can’t wait to collect all of them
I’m a big fan of the show. I’ve watched every episode but 10 seasons? The show has ran its course. They should finish the story while they have it set up for a good ending to the show. If they drag it out for two more seasons the story will get washed out and you’ll end up with a bunch of filler episodes. I say close the gates to hell and send the show off the right way
When Supernatural and one other show end then I will have no reason to watch the CW. No its not beauty and the butt face.
Please don’t let this be the last season. Iove this show. Everyone in my household knows not to stop the recordings of this show.
BEST SHOW EVER, watch it since i was 12 in 07 when it came out and still never missed one single episode, please dont ever let it end.
I’ve watched Supernatural from day one. Sam, Dean, Bobby, Cass, they are all part of my family, now. I just can’t imagine not having them in my life every day…..So please, keep those episodes coming!!! Your writers are Fabulous, so I know they can come up with new plots and themes to keep us all glued to the edges of our seats. It really is one of the BEST shows that is out there!!!
ive watched it for years the only.reaso. i watch that station
I do enjoy the show but Season 7 was just bad. Waaay to much left-wing psycho babble politics BS worming its way into the episodes.
i love dean omg if i ever had one chance with that bad boy i sourly will hey with the bith of them 2 for 1 special ughh i love them the show must go on they cant just take my to loved actors off t.v if you guys do read this i hope your not married or anything and i love you lol seriously
There better be more seasons I’m getting tired of watching the seasons over and over
Why is it that every decent show eventually feels like they need to get political? It ruins the episode when they pull some left wing propaganda out and try and stuff it in whether it’s promoting some left wing fringe garbage or trying to mock the conservatives. It adds absolutely nothing.