8.7/1027 votes#1 - No Rest for the Wicked
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 5/15/2008
Sam, Dean, and Bobby hunt down Lilith and fight her and her demons in a final effort to save Dean's life.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.7/1023 votes#2 - Lucifer Rising
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/2009
The brothers prepare to fight the forces of the apocalypse in different camps. While Sam and Ruby hunt down Lilith, Dean joins Castiel and Zachariah to take on Lucifer.
Director: Eric Kripke
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.6/1034 votes#3 - Lazarus Rising
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/2008
Dean wakes up in his own coffin. How did he return from the dead? What caused the hand-shaped welt on his shoulder? And what happened in the four months he spent in Hell, time he can't remember?
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.3/1031 votes#4 - In My Time of Dying
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2006
In the aftermath of the car crash, the surviving Winchesters go to the hospital, where one is stalked by a Reaper while another must consider sacrificing himself to save the others.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.3/1022 votes#5 - Sympathy for the Devil
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/2009
Sam, Dean, and Bobby must deal with the aftermath of the Devil's escape from Hell, and receive startling news from the Prophet Chuck.
Director: Robert Singer
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.3/1019 votes#6 - Despair
Season 15 Episode 18 - Aired 11/5/2020
With the plan in full motion, Sam, Dean, Castiel and Jack fight for the good of the common goal.
Director: Richard Speight Jr.
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.2/1035 votes#7 - Home
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/2005
Sam is haunted by a vision of a woman trapped in his childhood house and convinces a reluctant Dean that they need to go home. Upon arrival, they meet the woman in Sam's premonition and she reveals that the house is haunted. Looking into their personal history, the brothers discover their father had visited a psychic after their mother's death and they turn to the same woman for answers of their own. Together they discover a malevolent poltergeist has inhabited the house and set out to exorcise it, but are blindsided when another unseen spirit steps in.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.2/1028 votes#8 - What Is and What Should Never Be
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2007
Dean is attacked by a Djinn... and finds himself in a new reality where his mother is still alive and a mysterious woman holds the key to everything.
Director: Eric Kripke
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.1/1031 votes#9 - Devil's Trap
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/2006
When Meg boasts that John is her prisoner, the boys visit a friend of their father's to get information about demonic possessions and ways to trap a demon. It turns out Meg is not what she appears.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.1/10124 votes#10 - Cherry
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/25/2019
The Boys get themselves a Superhero, Starlight gets payback, Homelander gets naughty, and a Senator gets naughtier.
Director: Matt Shakman
Writer: Eric Kripke
8.1/10163 votes#11 - The Name of the Game
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/25/2019
When a Supe kills the love of his life, A/V salesman Hughie Campbell teams up with Billy Butcher, a vigilante hell-bent on punishing corrupt Supes — and Hughie’s life will never be the same again.
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Writer: Eric Kripke
7.9/1027 votes#12 - The Magnificent Seven
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2007
Seven demons, based on the Seven Deadly Sins, are released into the world and the brothers must combat them with the aid of a married Hunter couple.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
7.8/1098 votes#13 - The Big Ride
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/2020
Season 2! New and improved! Now with 50% more explosive decapitations, terrorists, S&M hookers, cults, and a new pine fresh scent! But wait, there’s more! 2X MORE blood, guts and gore than the other leading brands! This exclusive offer is available only on Amazon Prime Video! Don’t delay! Order now!
Director: Philip Sgriccia
Writer: Eric Kripke
7.7/1033 votes#14 - Shadow
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/2006
Sam has a reunion with a girl he once met, Meg, but it turns out that she is using the brothers to lure their father John to his doom.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Eric Kripke
7.7/1019 votes#15 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/2011
The wall comes down in Sam’s head and all hell breaks loose. Dean and Bobby are, for once, at a total loss on how to help him and are forced to stand by and do nothing while Sam breaks. The battle for heaven comes to a head.
Director: Robert Singer
Writer: Eric Kripke
7.5/1029 votes#16 - God U.
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2023
Congratulations! You have been chosen for admission to Godolkin University! We're thrilled to be a part of your journey to discovering what kind of super you are! Since its founding in 1965, God U has produced some of the best and brightest superheroes the world has ever known, including three members of The Seven! And who knows? Maybe you'll be next!
Director: Nelson Cragg
Writer: Eric Kripke
7.1/1019 votes#17 - Two and a Half Men
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2010
Sam investigates a case about missing babies whose parents are being murdered. At one of the crime scenes, he discovers a baby that was left behind and calls Dean for help. Reluctant to leave Lisa and Ben, Dean finally agrees to meet Sam and surprises his brother with how parental he has become. The brothers take the baby to Samuel, who decides to raise it as a hunter, which infuriates Dean. However, before they can decide the baby's future, a shape-shifter breaks in and attempts to kidnap the baby.
Director: John F. Showalter
Writer: Eric Kripke
7.0/1022 votes#18 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2016
A history professor's life is turned upside down when she's tapped to join an unlikely team tasked with stopping a man bent on changing the past - and possibly destroying the future.
Director: Neil Marshall
Writer: Eric Kripke
6.8/1013 votes#19 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/2012
A family struggles to reunite in an American landscape void of electricity: a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology -- computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights -- has mysteriously blacked out forever.
Director: Jon Favreau
Writer: Eric Kripke
6.8/1099 votes#20 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/2005
Two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, witness their mother's paranormal death as children and grow up trained to fight by a distraught father who wants nothing more then to hunt down the thing that killed his wife. Sam escapes to college to start a new, normal life, but gets pulled back in after Dean shows up on his doorstep to tell him their father is missing. Following clues from an eerie phone message from him, the boys travel to a small town and encounter a vengeful spirit called the "Woman in White" who then starts to haunt Sam.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Eric Kripke
6.4/1010 votes#21 - Born in the U.S.A.
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2013
Miles, Aaron and Rachel have found themselves in a mysterious small town, in the great nation of Texas where Rachel unexpectedly encounters an important figure from her past. Charlie finds herself on a mission in the Plains Nation while Neville and Jason search a refugee camp for a lost loved one. Meanwhile, Monroe has discovered a gritty role in his new environment.
Director: Steve Boyum
Writer: Eric Kripke
6.3/1010 votes#22 - Chained Heat
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/2012
In order to rescue Danny, Miles knows he and the gang will need help. Thus, the search begins for Nora, a rebel fighter battling against the Militia. Meanwhile, Aaron confides in Maggie and Danny lays witness to what Captain Neville is capable of.
Director: Charles Beeson
Writer: Eric Kripke
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"No Rest for the Wicked" is the best rated episode written by Eric Kripke. It scored 8.7/10 based on 27 votes. It was directed by Kim Manners. It aired on 5/15/2008 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Lucifer Rising".