Supernatural Season 15: Release Date, Trailer, Cast, Plot, and News

Supernatural Season 15 was confirmed by The CW back in January, to no one’s surprise. However, it turns out that the Winchesters aren’t going to live forever, since we would later learn that said fifteenth season will be the final one for the long-running genre series, set for a 20-episode run.

Believe it or not, Supernatural is the longest-running genre series in American broadcast television history. The series is the last remaining vestige of The WB network, which merged with UPN in 2006 to create The CW. As executive producers Robert Singer and Andrew Dabb said in a statement:

“Firstly, we would like to thank all the people who have been involved with the show both in front of and behind the camera. For us it has been an experience of a lifetime. The support we have had from both Warner Bros Television and The CW has been incredible. We’d like to give special thanks to Jensen, Jared and Misha for making this journey so special. It is now most important to us to give these characters that we love the send off they deserve.”

With that bittersweet info established, here is our inevitably-updated final news hub for Supernatural, showcasing everything we know about Season 15!

Supernatural Season 15 Plot

The colossal cliffhanger of Season 14 saw the angered Chuck/God’s (Rob Benedict) apparent heel turn, in which he – after Sam, Dean and Castiel refused – killed Jack, before a having celestial tantum that unleashed the literal gates of Hell, freeing an array of evil souls back to Earth. However, in an interview with EW, stars Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins tease ambiguous motivations for Chuck in Season 15 – after all, he is God, who, as the saying goes, works in mysterious ways.

“This is, as far as we know, the most powerful being in the universe, and he’s against us,” Collins says, with Padalecki adding, “But we’re also struggling with: Is Chuck evil, or is he just trying to objectively write a story that’s exciting which controls our lives?”

However, this storyline will also contain the added element of philosophical questions of free will vs. fate. As EP Andrew Dabb explains:

“God’s been pulling the strings behind the scenes, and now Sam and Dean are really trying to break free for the first time in their lives.”

Additionally, it seems that Chuck’s hellacious jailbreak will yield Season 15 a plethora of monstrous reunions. As Ackles teases:

“There’s specific characters that we’ve dealt with in the past that will reprise their role.” Adding, “That doesn’t necessarily mean that everybody’s walking out though. Even though the doors are unlocked and people are walking out of hell, not everybody is quite as eager to jump ship. That begs a question of ‘why’ and it begs a question of ‘when will they?’” As Ackles also cheekily teases of the unnamed returnees: “I guess they age the same in Hell [as] they do on Earth, because the actors look a little older.”

So, in the very least we should expect the return of Fredric Lehne as the show’s original big bad, Azazel, a.k.a. Yellow Eyes, right?

In the meantime, you can check out this first image from Supernatural Season 15, which EW provided in the interview piece (seen in this tweet from the author).

Of course, Supernatural has a lot of loose ends to tie up, and we’re not just talking about what happened in the Season 14 finale. With more than a decade of storytelling to conclude, how will showrunner Andrew Dabb go about it?

As Dabb previously told Entertainment Weekly:

“God was not kidding when he said it was the end of this story. And by the end of this story, it means the end of the world. The question of what that looks like, the question of how Sam and Dean deal with that, I think those are the big things that we’re going to explore going into season 15.”

Supernatural Season 15 Trailer

We’ve yet to get a trailer yet for Supernatural Season 15, but Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and Misha Collins did release this video message to the fans following the big announcement…

Video of Supernatural Ending with Season 15 – Announcement

Supernatural Season 15 Cast

Jake Abel will return as Sam and Dean’s long-forgotten sibling, Adam Milligan (or, if you will, Adam Winchester), in Season 15, as showrunner Andrew Dabb confirmed in a post-Comic-Con panel presser. You can read more about Adam’s return right here.

Matt Cohen will reprise his role as Young John Winchester, as revealed via TV Line, during the Comic-Con festivities. No further details were disclosed about the return.

It’s still a bit early in the game for further Supernatural Season 15 casting announcements, but you can bet your life that Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki will be returning for the final run. We’d also expect Misha Collins (as Castiel) to be back in the fold. But what about Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who returned for the series’ 300th episode?

No word on whether we can count on one more apperance from Papa Winchester, but Morgan had this to say on Twitter about the final season being announced:

One more twit for the day, it’s late. I just want to say to all of @cw_spn family… that was one hell of a run. I hope this last year is enough time to wrap up a story that deserves only the best. My love to cast, crew and fans. @JensenAckles and @jarpad ya done us proud Xojd

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan (@JDMorgan) March 26, 2019

Here’s to hoping we get to see him back on the show one more time.