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Sam consents to being Lucifer's vessel in the hope that Lucifer can be trapped. Like most great fantasy fiction, the show is best when the stakes are high, and you can't get much higher stakes than averting the Apocalypse. Rankings are tough, but most would still agree that that this is the finest season finale and the finest episode of Supernatural. 'Swan Song' (Season 5, Episode 22) | The CW This is truly my favorite episode of Supernatural, and I'm only placing it second so there's not a riot. The fog lifts, Sam is cured, the town is saved. It's the amulet Sam gave to Dean when they were kids, the one Castiel believed burned in the presence of God before he lost faith. Just as Sam appears to die, a light shines in his pocket. Back at the bar, Chuck hands a new draft to Metatron and goes onstage to play a folk song. Meanwhile, Sam has become infected by the dark fog, dying in Dean's arms. Even more troubling, God seems resigned to let Amara destroy the world. It turns out God is working on his autobiography, but Metatron feels the work is safe and lacking in details. That's right: we get to meet God, and even better, learn we've already known Him.ДЄlthough the background involves an entire town dying from a deadly fog released by Amara, much of the episode takes place in a bar while God types and talks with Metatron, his former scribe and editor, about two things: books, and God's place in the universe. That's because Chuck, the hack writer who's been scripting the Supernatural books, is revealed to be God. In an earlier episode, Chuck Shurley, pen name Carver Edlund, says, 'it's not really jumping the shark if you never come back down,' and Supernatural takes those words to heart here. 'Don't Call Me Shurley' (Season 11, Episode 20) Though, as Metatron put it: 'That was God's problem, y'know. That's some high-level meta stuff for a show that started off being about dreamy Hardy Boys chasing ghosts.

Then again, Metatron is a bit of a hack writer. How perfectly metafictional is this episode? Well, I couldn't help noticing that Gabriel's dialogue seems a bit off and over the top, even for him. He's telling the story, and we even see him typing it - regenerating Gabriel to push Castiel towards rebellion. We learn, however, that these developments are dependent on Metatron's plan. Here Metatron assembles an army of devout angel followers to accept him as their new God, and Castiel gathers a flock of angels to defeat him. Perhaps more than any other show, viewers can feel the Supernatural team's enthusiasm for storytelling, and Metatron, God's scribe/editor, is the character through which they get to express all those feelings. 'Meta Fiction' (Season 9, Episode 18)ДЄs with any show that has maintained such a high level of quality for over 200 episodes, writing is king. 'Bitten' (Season 8, Episode 4) | The CWДЎ3. 83rd, but if you enjoyed that stupid episode with the Ghost Ship or the one with Felicia Day going to Oz, we probably won't agree on much. There's no point quibbling over what's ranked 35th vs. Picking the top 20 was easy, and selecting the bottom ~20 wasn't too hard either - but ranking everything in between was nearly impossible, because the overall bar for quality on the show is just so high.

To break it down further, I ranked all 241 of Supernatural's episodes from worst to best (with three two-part episodes counting as one). That may sound like hyperbole, but fans know I'm actually selling Supernatural short.

Name another show with more than 200 episodes that's filled with action, horror, comedy, and pathos, and that confronts the nature of family, good and evil, God, and even humanity's place in the universe.

The oz season 4 episode 14 series#

I assumed as much myself for years it wasn't until I watched the long-running series that I realized it is among the best-written shows in television history. With its 'dreamy Hardy Boys chase ghosts' premise, you might think The CW's Supernatural is just fodder for pubescent girls.