I’ve been as curious as everyone else about the sudden changes in dialogue and quality between seasons 1-3 and 4-5 and even though I thoroughly enjoy the show still, it’s hard to deny the shift.
so I did some digging and, yes, it seems like the writing team did change drastically between seasons and they lost 3 major writers, including Rebecca Soninshine who wrote and was nominated for an award for the season 2 finale.
so yes, the show did change, and no, you’re not crazy for thinking so.
however i’m not denying I’m still enjoying the show.
EDIT: correction since creating a table of writers, it’s seems the biggest changes happened from season 2 to 3
source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/fullcredits/
also note Garth Ennis and Garrick Robertson are credited as writers due to them being creators of the comic
see below:
| Name | Role | seasons |
|---|---|---|
| Eric Kripke | Head writer, Showrunner, episode Writer | 1 - 5 |
| Ellie Monahan | Staff writer, executive story editor, episode writer | 1 - 5 |
| Anslem Richardson | Executive story editor, episode writer | 1 - 5 |
| David Reed | Episode writer | 3 - 5 |
| Craig Rosenberg | Episode Writer | 1 - 3 |
| Rebecca Sosenshine | Episode Writer | 1 - 2 |
| Jessica Chou | Episode Writer | 3 - 5 |
| Paul Grellong | Episode Writer | 3 - 5 |
| Geoff Aull | Episode writer | 3 - 5 |
| Judalina Neira | Episode Writer | 4 - 5 |
| Anne Cofell Saunders | Episode Writer | 1 |
| George Mastras | Episode Writer | 1 |
| Michael Saltzman | Episode Writer | 2 |
| Meredith Glyn | Episode Writer | 3 |
| Logan Ritchey | Episode Writer | 3 |