Supernatural Review: We Happy Few (Season 11 Episode 22)

Dean is right. This is the worst episode of Full House ever.

The first fifteen minutes of Supernatural‘s, “We Happy Few,” have me confused for a number of reasons.

First, why does Lucifer digress emotionally and begin behaving like a child? Lucifer, in his heyday, is frightening and chilling. He’s Satan. No one is more evil than the Devil, himself.

Lucifer’s reaction to being reunited with Chuck leaves so much to be desired. I want emotional payoff. I want the conversation to get uncomfortably real between these two characters whose backstory has been woven deeply in mythology of the series.

What did I get, instead? Lucifer, locking himself in Sam’s bedroom refusing to communicate with his, “dad.”

Part of me wonders if the reason the emotional payoff isn’t there is due to Lucifer now being played by Mischa Collins. Maybe what I’m really looking for is Mark Pellegrino’s emotional reunion with God. It’s Pellegrino’s Lucifer that I want to see have these conversations with Chuck, not Collins’ confusing Lucifer.

Adding to my state of utter disbelief is how casual and willing Sam is about sharing a living space with the Devil.

Sam spent serious one-on-one time being emotionally and physically tortured by Lucifer. It messed him up so much that we spent a season with a not-quite-right Sam.

So the very idea that Sam is just willing to put all of that aside and voluntarily work alongside Lucifer feels wrong, and it’s a disservice to the story arc that Sam experienced.

Sam is noble, yes. Sam is also, arguably, the more level-headed Winchester, ever the optimist. But in no way do I believe that he’s just “totes okay” with Lucifer now that Chuck is in the picture.

I want some type of conversation to happen between Lucifer and Sam, dealing with that torture. Or at the very least, I want to see Sam get nervous around Lucifer, or shudder in his presence. But sadly, it doesn’t seem to fit in with the bigger story at hand, right now. Maybe the writers are saving this for Season 12?

And while I like that Sam is ready and willing to take on the Mark of Cain, I’m also RELIEVED that it doesn’t stick. That story is done. It’s buried. We all hate that stupid mark. Let it die.

Bringing Crowley and Rowena into the fold to create their own rag-tag band of Supernatural superheroes doesn’t work for me.

Lucifer recently killed Rowena, and subjected Crowley to scrubbing the floors of Hell with a toothbrush. Realistically, neither of them would give Lucifer the time of day, even with God being the one asking.

Is this the series’ subtle way of showing just how powerful Chuck is? If so, it doesn’t land. It just leaves me feeling like it was a rushed way to get both of these characters back into the story in the 11th hour.

The showdown between Amara and Chuck isn’t as grand as its build-up either. All season, the writers have told us a complex tale about Amara being locked away. Her anger was irrational, but real, and felt threatening.

But in her conversation with her brother, all of that menace seems to be chalked up to, “No one understands me!”

Again, another teenage digression in a character that viewers once feared.

We’re left in the end with all of the major players knocked out (um, is Lucifer dead?), and Amara’s threat to destroy the world before God ceases to exist. I sincerely hope that this penultimate episode is not an indication of what we’ll see in next week’s finale.

The large scale of this story deserves better than a less-than-spectacular showdown.

What will it be next week that takes down Amara, if anything at all? Will it be Dean who, as Chuck pointed out, doesn’t actually want Amara dead because of their connection? Will it be Chuck sacrificing himself for his creation? Or will this story carry into Season 12, the same way that Seasons 4 and 5 go hand-in-hand?

All answers will be revealed in next week’s finale. Here is a preview for, “Alpha and Omega.”

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Supernatural airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on The CW.

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