Supernatural Season 15 Part 1 Review

Major Spoilers are included in this season review. Please read with caution.

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Supernatural’s final season was effectively cut into two parts. The first part—13 episodes—aired originally from October 2019 to March 2020, with the second part—the final 7 episodes of the series—starting to air on October 8, 2020. For those who are somehow unaware, Supernatural is about two brothers named Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) hitting the road and hunting monsters.

Season 15 has the boys hunting their most fearsome monster yet: God (Rob Benedict). Not all that surprising to learn God—as Chuck the writer—had been manipulating events since the series’ inception to get the best story possible for his own entertainment. The stakes are higher than ever, with death not being the worst possible thing that could happen to the Winchesters (especially since they’ve died more times than I can count).

The season’s first three episodes were dedicated to fixing the mess God made when he ripped open a hole in Hell, allowing millions of souls to escape and wreak havoc. The three-episode arc was an interesting approach to taken, given that most of Supernatural’s season premieres downplay the problem in one episode or stretch it out over the course of the season. The three-part story was a nice balance and a way to show God being weakened from getting shot by Sam with the Equalizer gun during season 14’s finale.

Sam and Dean continue hunting monsters after the Hell problem is resolved, assuming God had left their Earth to play somewhere else. The episodes leading to the mid-season finale also dealt with Castiel (Misha Collins) trying to find new purpose after Jack’s death and Sam having visions—season 1 callback—about God’s alternative worlds with different Sams and Deans playing out horrific endings. Dean is on the verge of giving up this fight though because… well, because it’s God. How do you fight against God?

God’s main goal for the final season isn’t to kill Sam and Dean. He wants to end their story his way, trying to force the “brothers kill each other” ending on them all. Once again, Sam and Dean must remind themselves that not even God can control them; they have the free will to choose their own fate. The stakes for the brothers are higher than ever, as they have shown time and time again over the course of the last fifteen years that they will always choose each other—choose family—over everything else.

Jack’s (Alexander Calvert) surprise resurrection—not really, more like expected at this point in the show—gave the Winchesters and Castiel a chance to finally kill God for good, since he’s the son of Lucifer with his own godly firepower. The problem was Jack needed time to power up—by eating angel hearts, gross—and if God found out he was alive before then, God will just come back to their Earth and kill Jack again.

However, Jack’s lack of a soul and what he did to Mary Winchester—Sam and Dean’s mother—also created tension between him and Dean for the last few episodes. I did enjoy how Season 15 Part 1 did end with Jack’s soul being restored and him begging for forgiveness for accidentally killing Mary, who he viewed as a mother figure.

Season 15 Part 1 had a filler episode here and there—the one where Dean went to hang out with an old buddy felt unnecessary—but the God storyline, the payoff to Adam-Michael returning from Lucifer’s Cage after ten years and resolving their story, and the Sam and Dean doppelgangers was incredible to watch as always. The only difference between this season and previous seasons is the finality of everything coming to an end.

Sam and Dean’s story is truly coming to end. I never thought this day would come, but now I’m wishing it came sooner in May like it was supposed to. The last 7 episodes will air on October 8, 2020 and end on November 19, 2020. I will not be doing weekly episodes for Supernatural—except maybe the series finale—but I will have a Season 15 Part 2 Review by Thanksgiving. Thanks for reading this season review, everyone! Let’s prepare ourselves for “The End”.