Four and a Half Torches (Out of Five)
Warning: This review contains spoilers for the “Sam, Interrupted” episode of Supernatural.
Well, Supernatural came back from its hiatus with a bang!
Just like almost every episode this season, the set-up was a strong one: Sam and Dean get themselves committed to an insane asylum in order to hunt a wraith who is feeding on the patients in the facility, sure that no one will believe them when they scream, “Monster!”
How do Sam and Dean get themselves committed?
By telling the truth about their lives!
Brilliant. And hilarious.
The set-up provided the fodder for more of the show’s patented cheeky dialogue, in this case all manner of wonderful “insane asylum” references:
- “I’ve seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Next. Don’t try any of that soul-crushing authoritarian crap with me.”
- “Quid pro quo, Clarice, quid pro quo.”
They could’ve merely executed the solid premise, thrown in more of this snappy dialogue, and called it an episode. But as usual for this show, they didn’t just leave it at that.
They used the episode as a device to explore Sam and Dean’s real-life psychological issues: Dean’s crushing sense of responsibility and emotional-evasion techniques, and Sam’s sometimes uncontrollable anger.
I was genuinely touched during the finale when Sam has an (angry) moment of self-doubt and Dean gives him the secret of his success: suppress, suppress, suppress!
Perfect Sam and Dean.
Better still, the episode had a solid plot, with three terrific, very plausible red herrings before the real “killer” is revealed: the head doctor, who at first appears in the mirror to be the wraith; the “kissing” patient”; and the very real possibility that Dean (and Sam) really are insane.
God, it’s nice to have this show back. Don’t ever leave me alone this long again, okay?
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No mention of the “Pudding!” bit of dialogue? I was cracked up for an hour afterwords.
I was racking my brain trying to remember where that came from!
Good episode.
I would have liked a tad more psychological analysis of the brothers and perhaps some one-on-one sessions with each of the brothers and their respective doctors where they’re forced to talk openly about their relationship (especially since it still seems like they resolved the huge amount of issues between them far too easily).
Looks like the “rage” issue is building up to be important for Sam and his relationship with Lucifer.
I dunno — too much of the psychoanalysis might’ve been too much. Mostly, I think I liked it because (a) they started with a pretty cool set-up, and (b) didn’t just go the usual cliche place with it. It had some heft. And, of course, the one-liners were hilarious, as usual!
Now, don’t get me wrong, “Supernatural” is still one of my all time favorite shows. With that being said I don’t know if I missed something in this episode or what (I had to DVR it) but something just felt like I did. I hope I didn’t fast forward through something accidently. And then how it ended. Just felt wrong. Agent 86, I’m with you on everything!
They need to get back to the original music that was on the show instead of this touchy feely crap that has been on there. That is one thing that I love about “Supernatural” is the awesome soundtrack! I am a female but I do not like the lovey dovey touchy feely crap!!!