'Supernatural' Review: "The Devil in the Details"
Jacqueline Gualtieri ’18 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer
It’s been a long wait for fans, last seeing Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) trapped in the cage with Lucifer (Mark Pellegrino). Much of the episode relied upon that storyline of Lucifer trying to get Sam to say yes once again so that he can wear Sam’s “meat suit.” There’s a different element to this question though, which plays out in the way that it’s asked. There’s no trickery and there are no threats anymore. It’s just Lucifer, showing Sam who he used to be. The hero that wanted to save people, the guy that once stopped the apocalypse. He shows him the way that he’s changed throughout the seasons. In Lucifer’s eyes, Sam changed the moment he stopped looking for Dean in purgatory. He became docile, willing to live some normal life with a girlfriend and a dog. He stopped thinking about what was for the greater good. If you think about it, it’s hard to disagree with Lucifer’s point and you know things have gotten bad when Lucifer starts making sense.
When a spell commences, courtesy of Rowena (Ruth Connell) and Crowley (Mark Sheppard), Lucifer seems gone for good, but that would be far too easy. It seemed someone said yes; it just wasn’t Sam. When Cas appears at the end of the episode, he’s no longer Cas.
How many characters has Misha played on this show? There’s Jimmy, Cas, Emanuel, the Leviathan, himself, and now he’s set to play Lucifer. This direction is a strange and seemingly random departure from everything that has happened this season. There’s nothing that led up to this. As a twist, the writers did a pretty good job because it’s pretty hard to have seen any of this coming. At this point in the season, though, the fact that it’s so random is a little disconcerting. It’s hard to think of a one-hundred percent plot at the moment. Is Amara the enemy? Is Lucifer going to become the bigger enemy?
For all the confusion in this episode, there is a little hope and mainly that hope is in the form of Misha showing off his acting chops in a way he really deserves. If anybody can get this season on track, it’s him.