Shows Like Supernatural
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
Ranked by shared creators, cast, themes, genre, and network — not just generic recommendations.
Supernatural: The Anime Series
Direct anime adaptation of the same show, same Kripke universe, follows Sam and Dean on the same monster-hunting road trips.
The X-Files
Monster-of-the-week investigations plus serialized mythology arcs — the template Supernatural was directly built on.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Serialized supernatural monster-hunting with apocalyptic season arcs and deep character investment — the genre's gold standard alongside SPN.
Helstrom
Sibling duo hunting demons while managing a complicated family legacy — the closest structural twin to Supernatural's core premise.
Wynonna Earp
Chosen heir hunting supernatural revenants with a dysfunctional found-family, serialized mythology, and the same CW-adjacent cult fanbase.
Angel
Vampire-turned-hero battles demons in a serialized noir-tinged supernatural drama — Buffyverse spinoff with the same dark mythology tone as SPN.
The Vampire Diaries
CW supernatural drama with serialized mythology, demon and vampire lore, and strong sibling bonds — shared audience and network DNA with SPN.
Outcast
Serialized demonic possession drama with apocalyptic stakes — shares SPN's horror tone and slow-burn mythology about fighting evil from within.
Grimm
Monster-of-the-week cases layered over a serialized supernatural mythology — same creature-hunter formula as SPN with a mythology-heavy arc.
Midnight, Texas
Supernatural creatures, demons, and psychics in a small Texas town — shares SPN's lore palette and was a direct CW-audience crossover pick.
Reaper
CW show about a young man hunting escaped souls for the Devil — same network era, demon-hunting premise, and tonal blend of horror and dark comedy.
Shadowhunters
Demon-hunting warriors battling supernatural creatures with serialized lore — shares SPN's monster taxonomy and young-adult supernatural drama audience.
Charmed
Sibling team fighting demons with witchcraft in a serialized supernatural drama — same WB/CW era, same fighting-evil premise, overlapping fanbase.
Good Omens
Angels, demons, apocalypse, and Four Horsemen — shares SPN's entire theological mythology layer with a lighter comedic register.
Stranger Things
Supernatural monsters threatening a small American town investigated by a tight-knit group — shares SPN's Americana horror atmosphere and monster lore.
The Sandman
Dark fantasy mythology with angels, demons, and afterlife lore — shares SPN's cosmic-scale supernatural universe and Neil Gaiman's lore overlap.
True Blood
Supernatural creatures woven into American small-town life with dark drama — shares SPN's creature roster and serialized supernatural world-building.
Timeless
Co-created by Kripke — shares SPN's buddy-team chemistry and serialized adventure structure, though the threat is historical rather than demonic.
American Horror Story
Premium horror anthology with demons, witches, and apocalypse — same dark supernatural subject matter as SPN but anthology format and adult cable tone.
Dark Shadows
Gothic supernatural soap with vampires, ghosts, and curses — ancestral DNA for SPN's haunted-Americana aesthetic, though a very different era and pacing.
How Good Is Supernatural?
Ratings across IMDb and TMDB, plus our verdict.
Where to Watch Supernatural
Streaming, rental, and purchase options across 40+ countries.
United States
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Amazon Video
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Frequently asked about Supernatural
Common questions people search for, with answers written by us at MoviesPack.
What is the Yellow-Eyed Demon's plan for Sam Winchester?
Azazel, the Yellow-Eyed Demon, fed his blood to Sam as an infant to give him psychic abilities, grooming him as a potential vessel and soldier for Lucifer's army. He did this to dozens of special children, intending the survivors to fight among themselves until only the strongest remained to open Lucifer's cage. Sam's powers — telekinesis, demonic visions, and eventually the ability to exorcise and kill demons with his mind — were all part of this long-term plan to use him as Lucifer's true vessel.
Why does Dean become the First Blade's wielder and what does the Mark of Cain do to him?
Cain passed the Mark of Cain to Dean in Season 9 so he could kill Abaddon, a Knight of Hell immune to conventional weapons. The Mark is both a curse and a key — it was originally placed on Cain by God as a lock to contain the Darkness (Amara), and it grants immense power while also corrupting the bearer with uncontrollable bloodlust. When Dean dies with the Mark still on him in Season 9, it resurrects him as a demon, specifically a Knight of Hell, because the Mark refuses to let its host stay dead.
What is the significance of the Winchester family's connection to the Apocalypse?
Sam and Dean were specifically engineered by angels over generations to be the perfect vessels for Lucifer and Michael respectively, intended to fight the final battle of the Apocalypse on Earth. The angels, particularly Zachariah, manipulated events throughout the brothers' lives to ensure they would say 'yes' to possession. Sam's decision to say yes to Lucifer in Season 5 was ultimately used to defeat him — Sam retained enough of his own will to drag both himself and Lucifer back into the cage, sacrificing himself to avert the Apocalypse.
What is the Empty and what rules over it?
The Empty is a primordial void that existed before God and Amara, where all angels and demons go when they die — a place of absolute nothingness and dreamless sleep. The Empty is sentient and ruled by a cosmic entity simply called the Shadow, which resents any intrusion into its domain. When Castiel sacrifices himself in Season 15 by expressing a moment of true happiness (his love for Dean), the Empty takes him — but this was part of a deal Castiel had made earlier, exchanging his own soul to save Jack, meaning his death had been long foreshadowed.
How does Chuck's role as God reframe the entire series?
Chuck Shurley, introduced as a prophet in Season 4, is revealed in Season 11 to actually be God himself, who had been living among humans and writing the Supernatural books as a way of chronicling — and enjoying — the Winchesters' story. In Season 15 it is revealed that Chuck has been manipulating events across all realities as an author who destroys worlds when their stories stop entertaining him, making the brothers' entire lives a scripted narrative. The final arc centers on Sam and Dean breaking free from Chuck's authorship by refusing to follow his script, ultimately stripping him of his power and leaving him mortal.