I'm going through Supernatural now for the first time and I'm halfway through season 7 at the moment. I actually think season 6 is a contender for my favourite. Even though it's clear they juggled several plots that they struggled to interconnect, it has several of my favourite episodes of the whole shows, less Sam and Dean conflict (which was played out by that point anyway) and the best part: more Bobby. Bobby is far and away the best character in Supernatural, so having more of him was only a good thing. Season 7 is a noticeable downgrade.

There's a lot of season 1 and 2 that feels very simple, which is to be expected when you're starting a new show and building up a mythology. It's like early episodes of Buffy or The X-Files (and probably a dozen other shows), with the monster of the week format and finding out how to kill them. Kind of like a police procedural but with monsters. When they start to delve into heaven and hell, then I think it starts to hit its stride (Kurt Fuller is great). I'm a lot less interested when it's just constant brother drama.

The problem is that I don't really care about Sam and Dean (especially Dean) but some of the side characters are great. So far, I think the episodes and seasons focused on Bobby and Castiel are some of the best ones (which is why I like season 6 so much) and it's disappointing they didn't make the most of Ellen, Jo, Ash, Rufus and more.

FYI there are versions of the show both with, and without a laugh track. The version without is way better.

One of my parents very early dates was to watch the mash finale.

My top ten, and my favorite season of each (ascending order):

Breaking Bad - S.4

Boardwalk Empire - S.2

The Americans - S.3

Six Feet Under - S.5

Better Call Saul - S.4

Mad Men - S.3

The Leftovers - S.1

The Sopranos - S.3

The Wire - S.4

Deadwood - S.2

the second season had a bunch more old fucks, so no wonder it mostly appealed to older viewers. nothing wrong with that, it just shouldn't have surprised them. they shouldn't have changed anything, season 1 was fine as it was.

If you pay 40 golfers $3m each to play a tournament and then pay a TV network to broadcast it - and no-one watches, can it still be called sports washing?

The single thing I recommend going back for is the Scooby-Doo crossover because it's a standalone.

No, seriously.

Great show

Don't bother with the truth on this sub. Some people decided they don't like the show, and will downvote anyone saying anything remotely positive about it, despite it not even being an opinion.

Bummer. Can't wait for the send off then.

Our whole family loved the show. There’s a lot of people outside of the Reddit circle jerk that feel the same.

Oh, I was talking about real life people, not on Reddit. I am always discussing shows with friends and co-workers.

DAN certainly can write a compelling story. ChatGPT is just really self limiting.

Does it matter what people on the internet talk about if the numbers are there? I remember over a decade of "Avatar is irrelevant and nobody cares or talks about" ad nauseam online. It was to the point where people tricked themselves into thinking the sequel would be a major dud. Yet today it's sequel is the third highest grossing film of all time.

I think people really need to start to understand that the majority of the world aren't the sub culture of people that like to discuss shows and television online and the mega hits pull from people that simply watch things they like a time or two and then move on and don't get in the media frenzy about it.

Honestly some of the shows and movies that get the most talked about on reddit, aren't really the most popular shows. Andor was literally known for being one of the worst performers of the Disney Star Wars lineup on Disney Plus for instance despite multiple posts a day about it. This sub always had a hard on for shows like Santa Clarita Diet despite that not being well known to mainstream people.

At the end of the day, it either gets eyeballs and retains them or it doesn't.

CW was losing money hand over fist for several years. There demo wasn't watching much either. The CWDC universe lost viewers every year and every new show was a bomb. It's amazing, they were not changed before this.

> picking a fight over whether Matlock had old fans or not takes the cake.

If it studies enough compelling stories it could

Clarkson's Farm had higher viewing numbers in the UK than Rings of Power. The UK being the birthplace of Lord of the Rings.

I love this little fact.

You’re still on that? Move on, man.

> picking a fight over whether Matlock had old fans or not takes the cake.

I watched the show for the first time in 2021 and other than a few things it holds up really well and is still a great show! Pretty sure I cried during the last like 30 minutes of the finale.

I do not appreciate being told this was 4 decades ago.

I thought you were done replying, Dung Inspector. All I said was okay.

It's Amazon. They have the money. People really don't understand that there is a WORLD of difference in how wealthy Amazon is vs something like Netflix or HBO/WB.

If Bezos really wants the show to run, it will. It's basically just being used as a motor for the streaming service. Which is just a motor for the rest of Prime.

Holy shit Cher used to such a smoke show.