The season finale of Season 11 of The CW’s long running show Supernatural is quickly approaching. However, the Winchesters still have to defeat Amara. Amidst the possibility of the end of the world, Sam and Dean (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) find themselves as family therapists for God and his son Lucifer.

Yes, only on Supernatural can something like that happen.

The May 18th episode, “We Happy Few,” raised the stakes as the Winchesters forged several alliances to take down Amara, aka The Darkness. There was God. Yet, convincing God to kill his sister wasn’t easy. God, or Chuck as he preferred to be called, didn’t want to kill Amara. Instead, he explained to the brothers that imprisoning Amara was the best strategy. Light and dark needed to coexist.

Lucifer’s help was also needed. But the Devil is angry at his father for abandoning him and for not showing that he cared. Lucifer wants an apology from Chuck. But Chuck doesn’t believe that he can give this apology because he did what he thought was best. Thus, the Winchesters arrange the family counseling session. When I was watching this scene, the first thought that came to my mind was are Sam and Dean the best people to offer advice about being open and honest about one’s feelings? The Winchesters have made keeping secrets from each other an art form. Further, Dean remarked that he apologizes to Sam all the time when he doesn’t mean it.

Really Dean? Maybe this dialogue was meant to inject humor, but I wasn’t a fan of the comment. I guess it was me but the entire family counseling scene felt off.

Later, Dean goes to see Crowley to recruit The King of Hell to Team Winchester in the fight against Amara. Crowley is less than enthusiastic. First, he has his own issues inspiring his subjects to have faith in him as a ruler. And second, Crowley thinks the plan is crazy.

Like mother, like son. Rowena is busy working on a spell when Sam visits her. She is not happy to see “giant” (as she calls Sam) and even threatened to turn him into a real moose at one point. Rowena doesn’t believe God has been found and she doesn’t want to be a part of this suicide mission.

Lucifer goes to Heaven and allows Castiel to come out to speak to his angelic brothers and sisters. Yes, the angels are also needed on Team Winchester.

I admit that I was bothered by Sam’s reaction to Lucifer. Lucifer tortured Sam. Yet, there wasn’t any hint of anger on Sam’s part.

Another thing that bothered me about this episode was that a pivotal scene apparently took place off camera. Sam tells Dean that he (Sam) and God talked about Sam taking on The Mark of Cain as part of the scheme to defeat Amara. This conversation is something viewers should have seen. We learned back in the Season 2 episode “Houses of the Holy” that Sam prays to God. Throughout the show, Sam has been depicted as having faith in God. I think that a scene where Sam and God have a heartfelt conversation wasn’t too much to ask for.

Next week is the season finale. I’m not sure how all of these plot threads will be connected. But however Season 11 ends there is no question that it will be a long summer awaiting Supernatural returning in the fall.