Supernatural

2005
4.9
24.7K reviews
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Season 1 episodes (22)

1 Pilot
9/13/05
Two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, witness their mother's paranormal death as children and grow up trained to fight by a distraught father who wants nothing more than to hunt down the thing that killed his wife. Sam escapes to college to start a new, normal life, but gets pulled back in after Dean shows up on his doorstep to tell him their father is missing. Following clues from their father's eerie phone message, the boys travel to a small town and encounter a violent and vengeful spirit called the "Woman in White."
2 Wendigo
9/20/05
Sam and Dean follow the coordinates left in their father's journal and land in the middle of the Colorado woods where they investigate the disappearance of several campers. The two brothers soon learn that they are dealing with a Wendigo, a creature made famous in Native American legends. A Wendigo is a former human whose cannibalism has transformed him into a creature with superhuman strength and speed.
3 Dead in the Water
9/27/05
In a small town in Wisconsin, Sam and Dean investigate a series of mysterious drownings officially explained as suicides. They discover that the spirit of an angry little boy with the power to travel through water is taking revenge on certain town inhabitants for a dark secret buried long ago. Dean forms a bond with another young boy who seems to have the power of premonition.
4 Phantom Traveler
10/4/05
On TransNational flight 2485, a man possessed by the spirit of the Phantom Traveler causes the plane to crash, leaving only five survivors. Sam and Dean must exorcise the angry spirit before it attacks the survivors. The brothers realize the only way to vanquish the Phantom Traveler is to battle it on another flight.
5 Bloody Mary
10/11/05
In suburban Nebraska, several partying high school teens jokingly dare their friend Charlie (MARNETTE PATTERSON) to look into a mirror and repeat "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary," not knowing that this will unleash a series of mysterious murders. Sam and Dean realize that Bloody Mary has the power to travel through all reflective surfaces when she is hunting a victim. Worried that teens are accidentally summoning Bloody Mary, Sam and Dean race to destroy the violent spirit before she can kill again.
6 Skin
10/18/05
Sam and Dean help Sam's old college buddy after he is accused of a murder he swears he didn't commit. The brothers discover a shape-shifter is adopting the likenesses of others and murdering people. The brothers' race to stop the killing spree takes a terrifying turn when the shape-shifter morphs into the likeness of Dean.
7 Hook Man
10/25/05
In a small college town in Iowa, Sam and Dean encounter the infamous "Hook Man," a vengeful spirit who kills his victims with a shiny hook that serves as his hand. Sam and Dean learn that all the victims are connected to the daughter of a local minister. They race to find and destroy the Hook Man's bones before he comes after them.
8 Bugs
11/8/05
After a construction worker is killed by insects burrowing into his brain, Sam and Dean investigate a town's history and find that the new housing development is being built on sacred American Indian land. The Native Americans put a curse on the land after their reservation was ravaged and destroyed. Sam and Dean must find a way to survive and kill the deadly swarm of bees, locusts, spiders and beetles.
9 Home
11/15/05
Sam is haunted by a vision of a woman trapped in the brothers' childhood house and convinces a reluctant Dean that they need to go home. Upon arrival, they meet the woman in Sam's premonition, and she reveals that the house is haunted. The brothers discover that their father visited a psychic, Missouri Mosley (LORETTA DEVINE - "Waiting to Exhale," "Crash"), after their mother's death, and they seek insight from the same woman. Together, the three discover that a malevolent poltergeist has inhabited the house and set out to exorcise it but are blindsided when another unseen spirit steps in.
10 Asylum
11/22/05
Sam and Dean investigate an abandoned sanitarium and discover that the patients had held a revolt against the cruel and unusual punishments inflicted by the head doctor. While the brothers search the premises for four lost college students, the tortured spirits cause Dean and Sam to go insane, turning the brothers against each other.
11 Scarecrow
1/10/06
Sam and Dean finally make contact with their father, but he tells them to stop looking for him and sends them on another ghost-hunting job. Frustrated with their father's evasiveness, Sam sets out alone to find him while Dean obeys his father and stays. Dean investigates a small town in Indiana where couples have gone missing the same day each year and discovers the farmers are sacrificing them to a pagan god who takes the form of a scarecrow. While en route to California, Sam meets Meg (recurring guest star NICKI AYCOX), a young backpacker, who unbeknownst to Sam is working for a demon.
12 Faith
1/17/06
While battling a demon, Dean is electrocuted, resulting in permanent damage to his heart and leaving him with only a couple of months to live. A despondent Sam searches desperately for a way to save his brother and believes he may have found an answer through a preacher who claims to heal the incurable. However, Dean and Sam discover that the preacher is getting help from the Grim Reaper, who is trading one life for another he feels is less worthy.
13 Route 666
1/31/06
Dean is contacted by his first love, Cassie (recurring guest star MEGALYN ECHIKUNWOKE), an African-American girl who asks him to come to Mississippi to investigate a string of racially motivated murders. Each murder is linked to a mysterious truck that seems to have no driver and leave no tracks. Sam is stunned to see this new side of his brother as Dean struggles to come to grips with the residual feelings he has for Cassie.
14 Nightmare
2/7/06
Sam has a premonition in which a man is killed, but the murder is made to look like a suicide. Sam convinces Dean that they must investigate the case, but the two are puzzled when they fail to find anything that indicates that the death was supernatural in nature--that is, until they find out that Max (BRENDAN FLETCHER), the reclusive son of the first victim, has been using his recently acquired power of telekinesis to kill the family members that once abused him. Sam also discovers that Max's mother was killed by the same fiery demon that took Sam and Dean's mom.
15 The Benders
2/14/06
Sam and Dean head to Minnesota where a young boy witnesses a man vanishing into thin air. While searching for clues, Sam is abducted by what he assumes is a supernatural being, and Dean is left to search frantically for his brother. However, both are stunned when they realize the kidnappers are human and are using the captives as human prey for a twisted hunting expedition.
16 Shadow
2/28/06
While investigating a mysterious death in Chicago, Sam and Dean run into Meg (recurring guest star NICKI AYCOX), who is thrilled to see Sam again. But the brothers soon discover that Meg is responsible for several murders and attempt to catch her. Unfortunately, Meg remains one step ahead of them and unleashes shadow spirits to ambush the brothers. Sam and Dean ultimately realize the trap isn't for them but for their father, John (recurring guest star JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN).
17 Hell House
3/30/06
Sam and Dean investigate a house haunted by the ghost of a man who killed his six daughters during the 1930s. The brothers discover a web site dedicated to the legend and realize the town is unknowingly conjuring up the evil spirit through the site.
18 Something Wicked
4/6/06
Sam and Dean investigate a small town in Wisconsin where children are falling into comas for no apparent reason. The brothers discover that a witch is creeping into the bedrooms of the children and stealing their "life force." While battling the witch, Dean recalls a past mistake that almost cost Sam his life at the hands of the very same witch, an event that has fueled Dean's protectiveness over Sam and his blind obedience to his father.
19 Provenance
4/13/06
A young husband and wife are killed in their home shortly after buying an antique painting of a family portrait from around 1910. Upon reviewing the painting's history of ownership, Sam and Dean learn that everyone who has ever bought it has been murdered, and they race to discover how the portrait is causing the deaths before it can claim its next victim.
20 Dead Man's Blood
4/20/06
After a vampire hunter who was John's (recurring guest star JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN) mentor is murdered, Sam and Dean are surprised when John himself shows up to solve the case. When John discovers that vampires have stolen an antique gun that has the power to kill all supernatural beings, the Winchester family sets out to retrieve the weapon so they can destroy the demon that took Sam and Dean's mother.
21 Salvation
4/27/06
After Sam has a vision of a family being attacked in the same manner as his mom was, the brothers and their father, John (recurring guest star JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN), head to Salvation, Iowa, to save the family Sam dreamed of and finally kill the demon using the antique gun they recently acquired. However, Meg (recurring guest star NICKI AYCOX) warns that she will start killing the Winchesters' friends unless they return the gun. John meets Meg to deliver a fake gun while the boys are left to deal with the demon.
22 Devil's Trap
5/4/06
On a mission to save their father, John (recurring guest star JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN), from Meg (recurring guest star NICKI AYCOX), Sam and Dean seek help from an old family friend, Bobby (JIM BEAVER). When Meg shows up on Bobby's doorstep, the brothers lure her into a trap and exorcise the demon from her body after learning where John is being held prisoner. During the rescue attempt, a major battle ensues between the Winchesters and the demon they have been searching for all their lives.

About this show

Supernatural takes viewers on a journey into the dark world of the unexplained. More than 20 years ago, Sam and Dean lost their mother to a demonic force. Now, searching for the demon who destroyed their family, they encounter creatures that most believe exist only in folklore or superstition – vampires, spirits, and even bloody clowns.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
24.7K reviews
A Google user
February 26, 2018
This show was amazing, literally up until you reach the end of season 5. After that, it honestly hit free fall mode. It's really challenging to explain it. Dean, remains Rock solid throughout the entirety of the show; that's not to be taken as a knock on Sam, but they really seemed to have lost direction with both he and the show following that particular season. Either way, there's far worse shows out there, so giving this one a little time, couldn't/wouldn't hurt too much.
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nat
June 26, 2021
love the first five seasons, the plot after seasons 1-5 defintely starts to deteriorate. at that point i was mostly watching the show in hopes i'd get even a slither of lgbtq representation but they could barely deliver that in a way that didn't feel like a hate crime. also not to mention the lack of poc and women characters in the show. apparently they're making a spinoff, hopefully they can learn from their mistakes and the cast won't primarily be white cishet men.
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Beatrice Chaudoin
January 1, 2015
Two boring straight white boys, and then, later, another straight white boy who squints twice as much as the first two (an impressive feat, rest assured). Manpain. More manpain. Pretend morals. Plot holes galore. Lack of continuity. You will love it, and then the mere sight of it will make you feel as though you just drank a nice tall glass of warm curdled milk. Save yourself, don't watch it.
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