God, I didn't see that coming, Shawn falling to alcohol because of Cory and his brilliant idea of drown his sorrow on alcohol and to not feel alone, makes his buddy of soul drink with him. I hate drunk people more than anything else in the world so definitely it was tough for me to watch him fall on this junk, mostly him. And it opens a new perspective of his father which explains a lot of things : Chet was an abusive alcoholic that's why Jack's mom left him and probably Shawn's mum too. It does make more sense about his way he has treating Shawn his entire life to be honest. Not that he has ever been physically abusive to him but that explains a lot of his actions and reactions towards him as the way he was totally disconnected about his son life and the responsibilities he had towards him, it totally makes sense know and reaches a higher level to his relationship with Jack.
Anyway, I hoped it would be the last one we saw him in that state but I have some doubts of it. But I have to say that the realization spreading all over his face after having shoved Angela against the door and realized that it was indeed getting out of control was intense as hell as much because of him than because of her. The fact he got into sense because of her is also quite relevant of how important she really became in his life in so little time. Their reconcilation melted me inside and his unbearable need to apologize over and again to everybody who got affected on this was incredibly touching.
After the brilliant Halloween episode, we had a darker one but still as brilliant and once again thanks to Rider Strong acting, he is really stunning as an actor.
