Supernatural Reminds Us That Families Are Awful

There's nothing more disappointing than an episode that isn't bad enough to ridicule or good enough to load heaps and heaps of praise upon, and that's how Supernatural opted to follow up on the mythology-bending shenanigans of "Stuck in the Middle (With You)." Mark Pellegrino is totally back as Lucifer, chained up in Crowley's (Mark Sheppard) basement, sassing the King of Hell and gleefully making the point we were all thinking, Okay, so your best and brightest demons figured out how to basically build a portable cage for Luci so that...something something revenge...but srsly, YOU KNOW HE'S GOING TO ESCAPE. -- Maybe Crowley should take important intel-filled phone calls about his undead time-traveller son and Luci's antichrist baby momma on-the-run in another room. Because THAT obviously isn't going to bite everyone in the butt later. The meat of "Family Feud" forced the not-as-buried-as-we-thought hatchet between Crowley and Rowena (Ruth McConnell) back to the front of their relationship because when Lucifer inevitably breaks out of his time-out chair, it would be entirely too convenient to have a competent witch on our side to clean the mess up. Remember when messing with timelines had actual serious repercussions on this show and sending someone back in time wasn't something so simple that Sam could throw the spell together in their freaking living room?