It's good to have a break from the leviathan, but why did it have to be such a mediocre episode using a twist you could see from miles away that they used before? Also this episode had some terrible jokes like the necrophilia ones.
But the worst crime of this episode is the infuriating way Sam and Dean "solve" the Amy conflict. Basically it boils down to Sam being reasonably angry for a while, Dean saying Sam is wrong, and Sam realizing that Dean was "right" to kill Amy and that's it. There is soooo much wrong with it. Killing Amy served no purpose for Dean's character other than making him a huge hypocrite yet again, he learnt no lesson from it and Sam was just forced to get over it randomly because the writers didn't knew what to do with it. I expected better after being showed before in this show that monsters can be good people. Amy only killing bad people to save her kid makes her a grey character so her killing being treated as just morally right was extremely infuriating and that's without even getting into the way Dean did that because he didn't trust Sam yet again and then hid it from his brother after complaining every time Sam hid something from him. Also Dean trying to act like everything is okay between them this episode doesn't help. Dean complaining about Sam being too much of a jerk to him and saying hurtful things regarding his mental state didn't help either.
The lessons Sam and Dean learn this episode don't stick either way. Shifting the narrative to Dean's suffering over lying to his brother and being betrayed by Castiel doesn't work considering that Dean has no problem lying to Sam in the rest of the series and that we don't see that torment over what Cas did afterwards more than once or twice. It's just an obvious attempt to distract us from Sam's reasonable feelings of hurt so we will buy him forgetting Dean despite Dean not even saying one genuine "sorry". The only good thing about it is that we can now get the misused Amy drama out of the way and try to forget about it, at least until another monster friend appears.
But the worst crime of this episode is the infuriating way Sam and Dean "solve" the Amy conflict. Basically it boils down to Sam being reasonably angry for a while, Dean saying Sam is wrong, and Sam realizing that Dean was "right" to kill Amy and that's it. There is soooo much wrong with it. Killing Amy served no purpose for Dean's character other than making him a huge hypocrite yet again, he learnt no lesson from it and Sam was just forced to get over it randomly because the writers didn't knew what to do with it. I expected better after being showed before in this show that monsters can be good people. Amy only killing bad people to save her kid makes her a grey character so her killing being treated as just morally right was extremely infuriating and that's without even getting into the way Dean did that because he didn't trust Sam yet again and then hid it from his brother after complaining every time Sam hid something from him. Also Dean trying to act like everything is okay between them this episode doesn't help. Dean complaining about Sam being too much of a jerk to him and saying hurtful things regarding his mental state didn't help either.
The lessons Sam and Dean learn this episode don't stick either way. Shifting the narrative to Dean's suffering over lying to his brother and being betrayed by Castiel doesn't work considering that Dean has no problem lying to Sam in the rest of the series and that we don't see that torment over what Cas did afterwards more than once or twice. It's just an obvious attempt to distract us from Sam's reasonable feelings of hurt so we will buy him forgetting Dean despite Dean not even saying one genuine "sorry". The only good thing about it is that we can now get the misused Amy drama out of the way and try to forget about it, at least until another monster friend appears.