Oct 30, 2024
people bitch about the bunker and the way the late seasons lose the nomadic element that was so vital and inherent to the kripke era but have you considered. the bunker as a sound stage for the denouement of chuck’s winchester saga. the world becoming smaller and smaller as the narrative flattens and collapses in on itself. dolls in a dollhouse. the gothic ancestral house and sitcom interior all in one, equal parts warm and bleak, simultaneously labyrinthine and claustrophobic.
the bunker invites its own sort of horror within the broader context of the metanarrative: you’re too distracted by the comforts of the home you’ve craved all your life to notice that it’s just set dressing.
