Supernatural Season 6 going live tonight, but is this the last season ?
Executive producer Sera Gamble recently spoke to TV Guide and it seems like my guess may have been accurate:

Gamble announces that next season deals with life after the Apocalypse. “We will have lots of meat-and-potatoes closed-ended episodes, and we also have a season-long story arc to weave in,” she says.

It is an American drama/horror television series starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, brothers who hunt demons and other figures of the paranormal. The series, which is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, debuted on September 13, 2005, on The WB, and is now part of The CW's lineup. Created by Eric Kripke, it is produced by Warner Bros. Television, in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision. The score is composed in rotation by Christopher Lennertz and Jay Gruska. The current executive producers are Eric Kripke, McG, and Robert Singer; former executive producer Kim Manners died of lung cancer during production of the fourth season.

The fifth season began airing on September 10, 2009. Featuring 22 episodes, it will conclude the series' main storyline. However, the CW officially renewed the show for a sixth season on February 16, 2010.

In the last episode (see recap), Sam made an off-handed remark to Dean, asking him if he remembered the simpler days the brothers used to enjoy when hunting wendigoes. At the time I ventured a guess that season 6 might head back to the roots of the show. With the overarching mythology of the Apocalypse complete, perhaps the boys would return to monster-of-the-week type cases and stop having to worry about the battle between Heaven and Hell.

The question is whether fans will be happy with this. I personally like the way the Heaven versus Hell mythology played out on the show. In fact, season 4 (when the Apocalypse really started and the angels were introduced) is my favorite overall season, but there are still a lot of stand-alone episodes that I like from earlier seasons and I’m actually happy about this news. I just wonder how the brothers’ relationship will be affected. It will be difficult to do the more closed-ended episodes if the brothers’ relationship is strained, especially if they’re back to spending more of their time alone solving cases. So it will be interesting to see how that factors into the storyline.




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