That being said, there were a few individual moments that shone through the fairly ordinary narrative, largely thanks to the cast and the odd visual and directorial flair. The problem with many of the individual episodes sort of blurred into one another due to the similarity of their storylines and it feels like this episode will share that fate. It’s been a common theme of this season that the individual episodes were reminiscent of the first season, but this is the first time this has been to the show’s detriment. However, the plot’s derivative nature stops it from excelling beyond anything other than an ordinary monster of the week episode.
It’s been a fair while since the boys dealt with a regular ghost or poltergeist, or at least it feels that way, so it was refreshing to see them take on something so first season.
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There’s an interesting clash of the ages to be found there and the episode hints towards it on a couple of occasions, particularly with Dean’s lack of knowledge regarding the latest apps, but instantly knowing how to get rid of a poltergeist, but it’s never pushed any further. It feels incongruous within their world of Latin incantations or Enochian symbols. Outside of the obvious use of phones, Sam researching on his laptop or Dean using it to look up Busty Asian Beauties, Supernatural doesn’t really do massive amounts of technology. It does feel as if the episode could have gone further with that though because social media and technology are not often explored within the realms of Supernatural.
It certainly produced a chuckle from this viewer when I realised I was watching the episode on one device whilst surrounded by three others. For the most part, Halt & Catch Fire handles it well whilst providing an underlying wry commentary on our society’s reliance upon our machines and the great god of wi-fi. You only have to look back at Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s infamous I Robot, You Jane to know what a terrible tech-supernatural looks like. ‘Ghost in the machine’ episodes are always a tricky affair because technology moves so fast, the episodes can quickly become obsolete.