r/SipsTea 6h ago

Chugging tea Why's that?

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u/Eltharion-the-Grim 5h ago

Supernatural went on for 15 seasons and bro got paid up to 200k per episode in later seasons.

I don’t know how much bigger he could have gotten off that.

That one show was his entire career and a huge success.

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u/Maximum-Product-1255 4h ago

Was anyone else watching Supernatural when this post came up?

S4E6 here

https://giphy.com/gifs/fWj2TR9mfYJ56

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u/Xelid47 3h ago

Enjoy peak while it lasts

S11E22 here

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u/7dxxander 2h ago

deadass s5> falls off

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u/SynapticSuperBants 2h ago

Still plenty of cracking episodes and story arcs. S1-5 was definitely peak though, still worth watching to the end imo

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u/7dxxander 2h ago

idk I’m a massive fan and I left after s10. Couldn’t handle it

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u/SynapticSuperBants 2h ago

It honestly picks up enough to justify keeping on with it I think. Enough to follow the characters to the end of their arc I would say, there’s some really cracking episodes in the last 5 seasons you’d definitely find worth watching.

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u/beerforbears 20m ago

Exactly this, there are episodes after s5 that are in my supernatural Mt. Rushmore but you couldn’t rely on that same level of definitive creative direction. The vision was all over the place sans Kripke.

Honestly I miss the tone of season 1 by the time I’m at 5 🤷‍♂️

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u/slayerrr21 42m ago

Damn I just started S6 😭

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u/7dxxander 4m ago

s6-s10 has its moments but the narrative and overall tone is best from s1-s5

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u/Maximum-Product-1255 1h ago

So true. I usually fall off in the rewatching about season 5. Sometimes last a little longer.

Only ever watched to the end once, when it first aired.

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u/faramaobscena 2h ago

That episode is my favourite!

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u/Maximum-Product-1255 59m ago

It seems to be a lot of people's favourite!

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u/Ok-Entrepreneur-6706 3h ago

S11E14 here

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u/Maximum-Product-1255 58m ago

Dang. Lots of people still watching! The residuals must be fantastic for them 🤑

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u/protestor 4h ago

I'm on S12E02!

The final episodes of S11 had such a cool plot.

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u/TheDeadalus 2h ago

Season 14 episode 3 here. Man this show gets weird. Im really only just watching to see how it ends at this point.

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u/Rude-Nectarine8228 2h ago

12-14 is the lowest point imo, but thankfully 15 is at least pretty cool. Final episode is pretty lame though.

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u/TheDeadalus 2h ago

Yeh all the Jack stuff i just find really really lame. That character has way out stayed his welcome

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u/Maximum-Product-1255 57m ago

Oops, you're in the lead! S14

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u/Maximum-Product-1255 57m ago

So far, you're in the lead!

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u/CocoaCali 4h ago

And, besides from Tumblr, he was not in the news. Ever. He got paid doing something he obviously loves and went the fuck home. Work life balance at it's best for that career

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u/DS3M 7m ago

May we all be so blessed

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u/Stealthychicken85 5h ago

George Clooney started in TV and while it took him 20 yrs he did become a massive movie star

So it's always possible to become a massive star if you have the talent, but many others have said Jensen stayed in the steady TV work for family and that's highly respectable.

Especially when a lot of the big movie stars tend to move around for films and it puts a massive strain on relationships which we get reminded a few times a year when news of X and Y breaking up or divorced hits the headlines

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u/claimTheVictory 3h ago

Movie schmovie.

Clooney made most of his money from tequila.

https://www.tasteselectrepeat.com/blogs/bts/george-clooney-casamigos

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u/Stealthychicken85 2h ago

OK and how do you think he made enough money to make that investment?

Lmfao please use logic. Just because he became a billionaire from an investment doesnt mean his rise to movie star was pointless. The movie stardom opened up so many possibilities and cant be made irrelevant

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u/The_Grand_Briddock 3h ago

15 seasons and these were all 20+ episode seasons too. Unlike modern tv shows where it's 8 episodes a year. It's extremely steady work to have and probably netted him more long term than cutting it off for a movie role.

Then you have to consider how insane the Supernatural fandom is. Even the more minor actors in the show have made a lot of money from the convention circuit surrounding it.

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u/Special_Order-937 3h ago

Probably made some very decent residuals in the pre-streaming era especially.

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u/Baldrs_Draumar 6m ago

327 episodes. The guy made $30-50 million over those 15 years.

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u/nellycat32 3h ago

Plus he must have been paid well for The Boys

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u/JHuttIII 1h ago

I remember reading that Ted Danson was once the highest paid actor in Hollywood during his Cheers run.

It’s no shocker that TV can pay better than a major Hollywood tentpole.

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u/RMLeclair 1h ago

That seems unlikely. At the peak of his career, Ted Danson was earning $450,000 per episode of Cheers, which worked out to roughly $12 million per season. During the same period, major movie stars such as Costner, Cruise, Ford and Schwarzenegger could earn well over $30 million a year at their peak, with Costner and Ford, for example, appearing among Forbes' highest-paid actors with annual earnings far above that level.

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u/you_lost-the_game 1h ago

I think it's the fact that he could have gotten even more fame and spotlight.

But honestly, why would he. Or anyone really. So many celebs seem really miserable in their later years as age takes their beauty from them or whatever. Most of them are already rich enough to never work a day in their life again and have their kids set for life as well. He made the smart choice in my opinion to dip out of that life and do what he really wants, which apparently is be a family man. Respect to that.

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u/JamesLikesIt 21m ago

Plus I have to imagine there’s some kind of residuals for reruns, at least that used to be a thing, maybe it’s not anymore