The rest of the family misses the warnings too, wrapped up in something much more pleasant – the school dance that Stella and Augie are both going to. And Liam is much too preoccupied with his own stormy relationships to listen to the news warning about the actual storm coming. Liam promises that he’s going to tell Walker the truth, and we can all imagine just how difficult that conversation is going to be – for both of them. That person is now targeting his brother and his captain. I understand how hard it is, but this isn’t your secret to keep. (I’ll admit that name for the gang makes me want to either roll my eyes or giggle each time someone says it, especially after that weird truck round up of kids playing soccer scene, but it is what it is). Her research shows that forensics on the bomb matches Northside Nation’s MO. He does have a confidante in Micki now, though. Liam insists he won’t risk putting anyone’s life in danger and is terrified that they could have been followed back to Austin. It’s a brief scene but it shows the progress Cordell has made in keeping to his resolve to be a dad to his children, as he makes pancakes and even flips them deftly.
The episode opens, as it often does, with the core family – Walker and his kids. For those of us who watched Supernatural for many years, “Walker” sometimes feels like a fandom reunion, since many “Supernatural” fans are now watching and interacting around a new shared TV show. Watching this week was extra fun because Jared Padalecki and some other cast members live tweeted along with the fandom, adding some behind the scenes insights and some priceless dad jokes. Somehow the writer managed to weave those stories in and out of the storm context deftly enough that they all spooled out realistically. This was a complex episode, with serious emotional arcs playing out within the context of a natural disaster – the lingering effects of Abeline’s infidelity, Trevor caught between his feelings for Stella and his loyalty to his father, Micki still trying to avoid the reality of Adriana’s revelation by keeping it from Trey, Cordell making his first awkward and tentative steps toward envisioning a new relationship, and a guilt-stricken Liam wanting to come clean to his brother but trying to protect his fiancé and hurting him in the process. Black for keeping the pace slow enough to let that sense of danger build, at first from newscasters warning of the coming storm (a warning mostly missed by the characters caught up in their own emotional challenges) and later from the flurry of phone calls back and forth, which seemed a realistic way of depicting what we all would do in that kind of situation. Kudos also to the show’s writer Katherine Alyse and director Stacey K. That worked in the show’s favor, because the sense of danger was palpable. Last week’s episode of “ Walker” was the most eventful one ever, with many of the emotional storylines laid out in the first seven episodes getting put to the test as that time-honored raise-the-stakes moment of television and film takes over – a tornado! As much as a sudden storm and people being caught in it, allowing us to find heroism in the show’s characters, is a common way to bring suspense and danger, somehow being in the middle of a real-life pandemic and the very real effects of climate change make it all seem a bit more serious.
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