You're right. I'm really loving the deliberate parallels that are driving this narrative. And I don't see who else can help Sam at this point. Provided he lets himself be helped, who else is there in his life who knows what he's feeling and loves him unconditionally?

See, I never felt the angels/demons overpowered anything. I think the story expanded this year and so it had to change to reflect that. You can't have an expanded, more epic storyline without including more points of view. It just won't work. Now by all means argue that you don't want an epic storyline, that you want to keep the story narrow and focused. But for me, that gets stale very fast. And I think the writers and actors would get stale on it too. You need a bigger engine driving the story, I think. And I also feel that once the entire story is told, we'll have a total perspective on what's going on and the narrative as a whole. I am looking forward to that. Knowing where we are now, I love looking at earlier episodes because there's a totally different perspective at work.