More than once have I read some of the fans' comments complaining about how often the boys tend to over share. However, I think this is pretty much the core of the show, those two have gone through much more than a normal person can handle and they are each other's support group because without sharing their problems every now and then, they would be two robots going around the country numbly killing things was being affected which I see as very unrealistic. Any way this episode provides us with the real reason.
Recovering from the death of Ellen and Jo and their failure to kill the Devil, Sam is worried about Dean since he always tends to bury his feelings till it drives him to the edge and in the same time Sam is worried about what the Devil has told him about his anger issues. So Sam decides to take a job helping one of their dad's friends to keep busy. Yet Dean is not happy with the idea which is very unusual to Dean, since he is always the one who rushes to help dad's friends much to Sam's demise. I have mentioned before that Dean tends to fit easily in any place finding the fun in every situation, he had no problem going to prison on season two's "Folsom prison blues" to work on a ghost problem, but the mental institute is another story to him, Dean never faces his problems he tends to bury them deep and try to forget about it putting on his outer "I don't give a damn" coat, but in the asylum this coat is jeopardized, this is the place where a person has to talk about his problems openly and face them. On the other hand Sam had been always comfortable speaking freely about his issues (Of course when he is not lying to his brother). The script was genius for making us have fun when the boys were speaking sincerely to the shrink about the apocalypse, the audience knew they were speaking the truth yet we never seized to laugh for we knew how would the real world react to this crazy world of them. Things got worse for the boys since they seemed to crack suddenly after being admitted in the mental institution, Sam anger issues surfaced and both the shrink and the monster of the week faced him with it. While Dean seemed to struggle with the his guilt, the weight on his shoulders saving the world as well as his daddy issues. At last when Sam shared his problems with Dean, asking for the help he knows he can't get, the answer came very disappointing to him. Dean asked him to forget about it, bury it and keep fighting, but what else would you expect Dean to say? and will this advice help Sam or his problems will keep chasing him till his doom?
The acting was entertaining, I loved drugged Sam, pretty much reminded me of his drunken state back on "Play things". Crazy Dean was sadly hilarious. And finally I love Dr. Fuller's comment about them being dangerously co-dependant on each other.
Recovering from the death of Ellen and Jo and their failure to kill the Devil, Sam is worried about Dean since he always tends to bury his feelings till it drives him to the edge and in the same time Sam is worried about what the Devil has told him about his anger issues. So Sam decides to take a job helping one of their dad's friends to keep busy. Yet Dean is not happy with the idea which is very unusual to Dean, since he is always the one who rushes to help dad's friends much to Sam's demise. I have mentioned before that Dean tends to fit easily in any place finding the fun in every situation, he had no problem going to prison on season two's "Folsom prison blues" to work on a ghost problem, but the mental institute is another story to him, Dean never faces his problems he tends to bury them deep and try to forget about it putting on his outer "I don't give a damn" coat, but in the asylum this coat is jeopardized, this is the place where a person has to talk about his problems openly and face them. On the other hand Sam had been always comfortable speaking freely about his issues (Of course when he is not lying to his brother). The script was genius for making us have fun when the boys were speaking sincerely to the shrink about the apocalypse, the audience knew they were speaking the truth yet we never seized to laugh for we knew how would the real world react to this crazy world of them. Things got worse for the boys since they seemed to crack suddenly after being admitted in the mental institution, Sam anger issues surfaced and both the shrink and the monster of the week faced him with it. While Dean seemed to struggle with the his guilt, the weight on his shoulders saving the world as well as his daddy issues. At last when Sam shared his problems with Dean, asking for the help he knows he can't get, the answer came very disappointing to him. Dean asked him to forget about it, bury it and keep fighting, but what else would you expect Dean to say? and will this advice help Sam or his problems will keep chasing him till his doom?
The acting was entertaining, I loved drugged Sam, pretty much reminded me of his drunken state back on "Play things". Crazy Dean was sadly hilarious. And finally I love Dr. Fuller's comment about them being dangerously co-dependant on each other.