SUPERNATURAL's not ending next season after all, or maybe it is

Supernatural creator Erik Kripke is apparently trying to drive fans nuts. Not long ago he was adamant that the upcoming fifth season would be the show's last. Now he's telling Entertainment Weekly that the series could quite possibly continue beyond the fifth season... While still leaving open the possibility that it could all be ending next May!

“I did set out [to] tell a five-season storyline,” the exec maintains. “Quite frankly, I never expected [the show] to make it to five years. But now that we’re in our fifth year, I have every intention of ending the story with a bang and not drawing it out or watering it down.”

Relax, Supe Nazis. Here’s that catch I promised you…“That having been said,” Kripke continues, “I’m looking at this season as the last chapter in this particular story. That doesn’t mean there can’t be a new story. Buffy did it. The X-Files did it. You close a chapter on a big mythology storyline and then you begin a new one.

My guess? The show will continue, because it's a critical darling and the closest thing the CW has to a hit. Kripke himself will probably continue with the series, but he'll hand a lot of the control over to somebody else. Sera Gamble, perhaps.

At the very least, here's hoping we get a Ghostfacers spinoff.

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