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15 Shows Like Supernatural — Monster Hunting, Brothers, and the Long Road
Finished all 15 seasons of Supernatural and need a replacement? These shows deliver the same monster-of-the-week format, family bonds, and dark mythology that made Sam and Dean iconic.
15 FILMS·April 2026·By MoviesPack
Section 1
The Supernatural Formula
Fifteen seasons. Hundreds of monsters. Two brothers who kept dying and coming back anyway. Supernatural worked because it wasn't just a horror show — it was a story about **family, sacrifice, and the weight of destiny wrapped inside a weekly monster hunt.** The lore deepened, the stakes escalated, and Dean Winchester's cassette tapes became genuinely iconic. Finding something that scratches the same itch isn't easy, but these 15 shows come close. [Use our tool: Shows Like Supernatural](/shows/similar/supernatural) — algorithmically matched
Section 2
The Closest Matches
01
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1997–2003
★8.1IMDb
A teenage girl in Sunnydale, California finds out she's the one person alive chosen to fight vampires, demons, and the apocalypse — and she'd really rather not. She does it anyway, with her friends, across seven seasons of escalating stakes. Each season builds toward a "Big Bad" who turns out to be more personal than the last, and the show is never afraid to break things that matter. Episode 5x16 "The Body" is the most honest TV depiction of sudden grief ever made. The musical episode earns every revelation it makes.
Why it matters
Same DNA — found family, escalating mythology, a world where the monsters are real and the hunters pay a personal price. Seven seasons of a show that never phones it in.
02
Grimm
2011–2017
★7.7IMDb
A Portland homicide detective starts seeing people's faces shift into creatures from fairy tales and learns his bloodline is that of a Grimm — a hunter whose family has been killing these "Wesen" for centuries. He has to do his regular police job while secretly managing a monster world layered underneath the city. His partner is a reformed big bad wolf who becomes his closest ally. Six seasons of solid, underrated urban fantasy that keeps deepening its lore.
Why it matters
The "detective discovers the monster world" hook is fresh, and the Wesen mythology — drawn from actual Grimm fairy tales, each with German names, biology, and social hierarchies — keeps accumulating into something real rather than just creature-of-the-week handwaving.
03
Wynonna Earp
2016–2021
★7.9IMDb
Wynonna Earp is the great-great-granddaughter of Wyatt Earp, and that bloodline comes with a responsibility: every outlaw he killed returned from hell as a revenant, and only she can send them back. She does this in Purgatory, a cursed small town, with her sister Waverly and a rotating crew of allies who become family. It has Supernatural's blue-collar monster-hunting energy and a sharp feminist edge. The fanbase kept it alive through cancellation threats multiple times — that tells you something.
Section 3
The Demon & Angel Shows
04
Lucifer
2016–2021
★8.1IMDb
The Devil himself got bored of hell and moved to Los Angeles, where he opened a nightclub and started consulting for the LAPD because humans fascinate him. He can't lie, which makes police work surprisingly effective. What begins as a quirky procedural becomes progressively more ambitious about its mythology — God, angels, celestial politics, and genuine questions about whether a being can choose to be good. Tom Ellis's charisma is the whole engine, and seasons 4 and 5 (post-Fox, on Netflix) are legitimately great.
05
Constantine
2014–2015
★8.0IMDb
John Constantine is an exorcist, occult detective, and chain-smoking disaster of a human being carrying a sin he can't undo. He investigates supernatural cases in a world where demons are real, the Rising Darkness is coming, and every tool he uses to fight evil costs him something. The mythology is dense, the tone darker than most network TV dares, and Matt Ryan nailed the character from the comics so precisely it's still painful the show was cancelled after one season.
06
Dominion
2014–2015
★7.0IMDb
Twenty-five years after the archangel Gabriel led a war against humanity, human civilization survives in fortified cities while Michael sides with the people his brother wants to destroy. In Vega — the city that used to be Las Vegas — a young soldier named Alex discovers he's the Chosen One prophesied to end the war. Faction politics, angel mythology, and survivalist tension that scratches the heaven-and-hell itch Supernatural built in its later seasons.
Section 4
The Witchy and Magical Shows
07
Charmed
1998–2006
★6.8IMDb
Three sisters in San Francisco discover they're the most powerful witches alive — the Charmed Ones — and spend eight seasons protecting innocent people from demons and warlocks while trying to hold their lives together. The sisterly bond drives everything. The show has the same warm-but-dark tone as early Supernatural: genuine danger wrapped in family dynamics, and a mythology that keeps expanding season by season.
08
The Vampire Diaries
2009–2017
★7.7IMDb
A small Virginia town called Mystic Falls sits on a supernatural hotspot, and Elena Gilbert — a teenage girl who just lost her parents — falls for a vampire who's been hiding there for 145 years. His brother is there too. Then the werewolves show up, then the witches start dying, then the original vampires arrive, and the stakes keep expanding for eight seasons. The lore compounds in genuinely clever ways and the show isn't afraid to kill characters you love.
09
The Originals
2013–2018
★8.2IMDb
The Mikaelson siblings — the world's first vampires — arrive in New Orleans, a city they helped build centuries ago and abandoned. Witches, werewolves, and a vampire faction now fight for control of it, and Klaus Mikaelson intends to take it back. The show is darker and more operatic than TVD and built around the idea that even the oldest, most monstrous beings can be broken open by family. Klaus Mikaelson's arc from antagonist to something more complicated is one of TV's best.
Section 5
The Road-Trip Hunters
10
The X-Files
1993–2018
★8.6IMDb
Two FBI agents — Mulder, who believes in everything, and Scully, who needs evidence — investigate cases the Bureau would rather not acknowledge. Some cases are standalone monsters. Some are pieces of a vast government-alien conspiracy. The monster-of-the-week episodes are often better than the mythology arc, and the chemistry between Duchovny and Anderson carried the whole thing for eleven seasons. If Supernatural owes a debt to any show, it owes it here.
11
Ash vs Evil Dead
2015–2018
★8.4IMDb
Ash Williams — the bumbling, chainsaw-handed chosen one of the Necronomicon — accidentally unleashes the Deadites again and has to fight them across three seasons with a crew of reluctant sidekicks. He never gets more competent. The show knows exactly what it is: gleeful horror-comedy that takes the logic of Evil Dead seriously while refusing to take Ash seriously at all. Self-aware, gory, and oddly heartfelt. Cancelled too soon.
Section 6
The Dark Fantasy Shows
12
American Gods
2017–2021
★7.9IMDb
A man named Shadow Moon gets out of prison and is hired by a mysterious man who turns out to be the old Norse god Odin. The job: recruit America's forgotten gods — the ones immigrants brought over and then stopped believing in — for a war against the new gods of technology, media, and surveillance who are replacing them. Based on Neil Gaiman's novel. Visually stunning and filled with mythological imagination.
13
Carnival Row
2019–2023
★7.7IMDb
In a Victorian-esque city where magical creatures — fairies, fauns, and others — live as refugees and second-class citizens, a series of murders targets the immigrant community and only a human detective and his fairy former lover care enough to investigate. Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne in a world mixing urban fantasy, noir mystery, and the politics of who gets to belong. The world-building is exceptional.
14
Midnight Mass
2021
★7.8IMDb
A small island community off the American coast gets a new priest after their beloved old one goes missing — and the priest's arrival brings what seem like miracles. A paralyzed girl walks. A dying man recovers. The congregation grows fervent. Then the miracles start looking like something else. Seven episodes of slow-burn theological dread that interrogates faith, community, and what people are willing to accept when they want to believe. The monster mythology is handled with Supernatural-level seriousness.
15
Legacies
2018–2022
★7.2IMDb
Hope Mikaelson — daughter of Klaus, granddaughter of two of the most powerful bloodlines in the supernatural world — attends the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted, a boarding school where witches, vampires, and werewolves train together. A new monster threat arrives almost every week, the school is always almost destroyed, and the students are always almost expelled. A direct spinoff of The Originals and TVD, lighter in tone but delivering the monster-of-the-week format as faithfully as anything on this list.
Section 7
Quick Match Guide
| Want... | Watch | |---------|-------| | Most similar monster-of-the-week format | Buffy, Grimm | | Brothers/family as the core | The Originals, Charmed | | Heavy angel/demon mythology | Lucifer, Constantine, Dominion | | Dark humor + horror blend | Ash vs Evil Dead | | The OG that inspired it all | The X-Files | | Witchy and supernatural drama | The Vampire Diaries, Charmed | | Grittier literary fantasy | American Gods |
Section 8
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