Teen Wolf has played the long game with style in its expertly paced fifth season, which leaves us with a packed mid-season finale...
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5.10 Status Asthmaticus
This is the end of the summer television season. There are a few stragglers yet to close out, but by this time next week the summer shows will be gone, with some of them never returning to television again. Fortunately, Teen Wolf isn't one of those shows; it's coming back for the second half of its fifth season at some point this year, probably after the holidays, but I can't help but compare it to another summer show that first appeared five years ago, Falling Skies. I cover both shows for Den of Geek, so they're kind of linked in my mind, and it lends itself to easy discussion on my part.
Falling Skies went into its final season promising a darker outlook,...
This review contains spoilers.
5.10 Status Asthmaticus
This is the end of the summer television season. There are a few stragglers yet to close out, but by this time next week the summer shows will be gone, with some of them never returning to television again. Fortunately, Teen Wolf isn't one of those shows; it's coming back for the second half of its fifth season at some point this year, probably after the holidays, but I can't help but compare it to another summer show that first appeared five years ago, Falling Skies. I cover both shows for Den of Geek, so they're kind of linked in my mind, and it lends itself to easy discussion on my part.
Falling Skies went into its final season promising a darker outlook,...
- 8/26/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
After season four's lack of focus, Teen Wolf is much improved and really building towards something in season five...
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5.6 Required Reading
One of the strongest points of the third season of Teen Wolf was the fact that, at any point, you couldn't really be sure if you were looking at something real or if you were looking at some sort of hallucination. Particularly when it came to Stiles and his delusions. The Nogitsune was awesome at making viewers question everything they were seeing, and it's interesting to see Teen Wolf going back once again to this familiar territory, once again to great effect. Granted, what's happening now isn't exactly delusion, but it may as well be.
Malia, the girl who was a coyote for most of her life, was the first of the Teen Wolf bunch to actually bother with reading that book that might be...
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5.6 Required Reading
One of the strongest points of the third season of Teen Wolf was the fact that, at any point, you couldn't really be sure if you were looking at something real or if you were looking at some sort of hallucination. Particularly when it came to Stiles and his delusions. The Nogitsune was awesome at making viewers question everything they were seeing, and it's interesting to see Teen Wolf going back once again to this familiar territory, once again to great effect. Granted, what's happening now isn't exactly delusion, but it may as well be.
Malia, the girl who was a coyote for most of her life, was the first of the Teen Wolf bunch to actually bother with reading that book that might be...
- 7/29/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The hot, young torsos on display in Teen Wolf are only eye-candy until something disgusting and unnerving bursts out of them...
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5.4 Condition Terminal
Teen Wolf has a complicated relationship with the human body. On one hand, the show clearly loves it. After all, any excuse to get a Teen Wolf hunk to take his shirt off seems to be a good one, from Parrish's inability to keep clothes on (keeping up the tradition of Derek Hale's shirtlessness) to random shirtless cage-dancing hunks in their underwear at some sort of weird underground rave orgy club. Any excuse for some lubed-up guy abs. Of course, to counterbalance the lusty gaze on the male form is a deep, consistent vein of body horror. That hunky guy just might have a tail rip its way out of his spine or weird talon-like protrusions come bulging out from beneath the skin on his forearms.
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5.4 Condition Terminal
Teen Wolf has a complicated relationship with the human body. On one hand, the show clearly loves it. After all, any excuse to get a Teen Wolf hunk to take his shirt off seems to be a good one, from Parrish's inability to keep clothes on (keeping up the tradition of Derek Hale's shirtlessness) to random shirtless cage-dancing hunks in their underwear at some sort of weird underground rave orgy club. Any excuse for some lubed-up guy abs. Of course, to counterbalance the lusty gaze on the male form is a deep, consistent vein of body horror. That hunky guy just might have a tail rip its way out of his spine or weird talon-like protrusions come bulging out from beneath the skin on his forearms.
- 7/14/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
This week's Teen Wolf sows the seeds for the season's remaining episodes. Here's Ron's review...
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4.11 A Promise To The Dead
Since his return as a quipping, sarcastic guy who never met an ulterior motive he couldn't keep hidden somewhere beneath a too-tight v-neck shirt, Peter Hale has proven time and time again to be one of the most fun characters in the Teen Wolf universe. He's clearly becoming the bad guy, and probably has been for a while, but he's just so funny and charming that you can't help but appreciate him and be thankful that he's out there plotting to kill pretty much everyone not himself. He has a lot in common with Kate Argent in that way.
Kate brought a very interesting dynamic to Teen Wolf's first season that the show had trouble recapturing. She was both sexy and dangerous (remember Peter essentially seducing Lydia?...
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4.11 A Promise To The Dead
Since his return as a quipping, sarcastic guy who never met an ulterior motive he couldn't keep hidden somewhere beneath a too-tight v-neck shirt, Peter Hale has proven time and time again to be one of the most fun characters in the Teen Wolf universe. He's clearly becoming the bad guy, and probably has been for a while, but he's just so funny and charming that you can't help but appreciate him and be thankful that he's out there plotting to kill pretty much everyone not himself. He has a lot in common with Kate Argent in that way.
Kate brought a very interesting dynamic to Teen Wolf's first season that the show had trouble recapturing. She was both sexy and dangerous (remember Peter essentially seducing Lydia?...
- 9/3/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Chaotic, violent and messy, Monstrous is the latest impressive episode of Jeff Davis' Teen Wolf...
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4.10 Monstrous
The promise all season long is that The Benefactor's identity would be tied into Teen Wolf's first season. Somehow, someway, it was all going to go back to the beginning, and it seems that the circuitous journey from Peter Hale as secret hospital werewolf to Peter Hale snarky buddy and dad of Stiles' girlfriend to Peter Hale super villain has finally drawn to a close. As it turns out, the man who wasn't The Benefactor (because it was too obvious) actually was The Benefactor. Well, after a fashion.
But first, we have to get some violence out of the way. In the impressive cold opening, a couple of random kids are fleeing through the rain. Since they're at school, they're probably fleeing someone trying to kill them. It...
This review contains spoilers.
4.10 Monstrous
The promise all season long is that The Benefactor's identity would be tied into Teen Wolf's first season. Somehow, someway, it was all going to go back to the beginning, and it seems that the circuitous journey from Peter Hale as secret hospital werewolf to Peter Hale snarky buddy and dad of Stiles' girlfriend to Peter Hale super villain has finally drawn to a close. As it turns out, the man who wasn't The Benefactor (because it was too obvious) actually was The Benefactor. Well, after a fashion.
But first, we have to get some violence out of the way. In the impressive cold opening, a couple of random kids are fleeing through the rain. Since they're at school, they're probably fleeing someone trying to kill them. It...
- 8/25/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Teen Wolf's excellent visuals continue to shine in season four. Here's Ron's review of The Benefactor...
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4.4 The Benefactor
I was very hesitant about the new additions to Teen Wolf's regular cast. They seemed a bit too young, truthfully. Late teens playing teenagers is one thing, even 23-year-old high school students can pass - though there are some background extras who look like they should be teaching rather than attending classes - but there's something that comes along with teenagers playing kids their age that's a little... not unnerving, per se, but worrying. I'm not sure why, because the new additions seem like they're going to be just as good as the previous cast members.
Scott, despite himself, has a new progeny. To save the life of Liam (Dylan Sprayberry), he had to sink his teeth into him, quite literally. The full moon is approaching.
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This review contains spoilers.
4.4 The Benefactor
I was very hesitant about the new additions to Teen Wolf's regular cast. They seemed a bit too young, truthfully. Late teens playing teenagers is one thing, even 23-year-old high school students can pass - though there are some background extras who look like they should be teaching rather than attending classes - but there's something that comes along with teenagers playing kids their age that's a little... not unnerving, per se, but worrying. I'm not sure why, because the new additions seem like they're going to be just as good as the previous cast members.
Scott, despite himself, has a new progeny. To save the life of Liam (Dylan Sprayberry), he had to sink his teeth into him, quite literally. The full moon is approaching.
- 7/15/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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