Teen Wolf- MTV

The Gist

Scott McCall is about as average as you can get.  He has his one best friend that he trusts with everything and his name is Stiles.  One night Scott is in his room and he hears something happen downstairs so he runs down with a bat and finds that it is just Stiles.  He tells Scott that his dad (who is a police officer) is trying to find a killer who killed a girl in the woods and only left half of her body and that Stiles wants to go and try to find the other half.  Scott reluctantly agrees to go and they embark on their journey.  As they travel through the woods they get split up and Scott starts to hear things so as Scott runs away he is attacked and bit by something on his side.  He returns safely home and readies himself for school the next day.  From the second he gets up the morning things don't feel exactly right.  He can hear things from far away, his reflexes are sharp and everything just seems a little more heightened.  That day in one of his classes Scott overhears a conversation from a girl that he has never seen before.  Her name is Allison and from the second that he sees her she is on his radar.  Meanwhile, Stiles is trying to figure out what Scott is and what is happening to his best friend.  He soon figures out that Scott is a werewolf and that the one who bit him was the mysterious Derek Hale who lives in the woods by himself.  Scott goes to confront Derek but Derek says that he was not the one to bite him and it was someone else. Now, Scott has to figure out who bit him, if Derek can be trusted, why someone would want him in their pack and if he can capture and keep Allison's heart. 


What We Think
Reviewed by The North Star
Number of Seasons: 2
I never EVER thought that I would admit the statement that....I LOVE TEEN WOLF.  The journey of Teen Wolf all started on a day where my sister and I were watching TV and we saw a commercial for Teen Wolf and laughed our heads off because it looked like one of the stupidest shows ever.  Naturally, we had to watch it so we set up our DVR recording and went on our way.  As the date of the pilot came closer and closer  my sister and I found ourselves more anxious to watch and see what a train wreck this show was gonna be.  After watching the first episode we realized that we were completely WRONG.  This show is awesome!  I never thought that I would be the person to religiously watch a TV show but after watching Teen Wolf there was no going back.  First off, the script is written by the same guy that does Criminal Minds and so in that sense you really can't go wrong.  Second, there is no one famous in this series (besides the Aunt, played by Jill Wagner from Wipeout) and I am finding this year that the less famous people in something generally, the better that it is.
The plot of this show was actually really good too although on the surface it seems really dumb and main stream.  The screenwriter did a great job of developing all of the characters and making the audience feel for them.  When one of the characters gets hurt then I was hurt watching it and I wanted all of the characters to be happy at all times (except the bad characters).  The script was also good because it was witty and believable.  Unlike most shows about teenagers on television nowadays this show has the teens talking like actual teens.  Conversations that the characters in this show have are conversations that me and my friend would have on a regular basis.  Each episode also has me hooked from beginning to end and my eyes are glued to the TV.  This is something that is rare nowadays because half way through each episode I lose interest and start staring at random things in the room and completely forget that I am watching an episode.  This has never happened with Teen Wolf and the only time I have ever taken away my eyes from the TV was to talk to Dream or Living about what was happening.


The characters of this show are awesome!  My favorite character on this show by far is Stiles.  He is Scott's best friend who is the comic relief of the show and helps relieve Scott's stress in tense situations.  Every time there is a scene with Stiles my friends and I anxiously wait for his lines and usually end up having to pause the episode because we are laughing so hard and can't hear anything else going on in the scene.  After every episode there is always one line of Stiles that we repeat for a straight week and there are jokes that we still talk about today and laugh just as hard at as if it were the first time we had heard the joke.  The main character of the series is Scott and he is probably my third favorite character in the series just behind Derek.  Scott is a great character because he is very true to a lot of teens in high school.  He is caring and loyal to his friends but sometimes he is extremely stubborn and ignorant.  Scott is also going through the most changes out of everyone in the series and so it arguable that he has the most right to be upset out of all of the characters.  Tyler Posey (who plays Scott) is a really good actor and makes you believe that one minute he is happy and the next he is extremely upset about something.  Derek is my second favorite character in the series and I'm not really sure why.  He is a complete jerk to everyone but on the outside but on the inside he really cares about Scott and Stiles and wouldn't want any harm to come to them.  There is something about his character that I really like and whenever he is onscreen I believe that the actor is Derek and no one else.  It is really funny to see pictures of the cast behind-the-scenes because Derek never smiles but in all of the photos he is smiling and that was really shocking.  My forth favorite character in the series is Allison and she plays Scott's girlfriend.  She is a good actress and at points I really like her character but then at other points I can't stand her character and she annoys the heck out of me, but that is what she is supposed to be doing at that point in time.  After Allison there really is no list all of the other characters (Lydia, Jackson, Kate and more) are all kind of equal and they are all special in there own little way.
If you are reading this and you have never watched Teen Wolf, then you must go home and record or go to the store and buy Teen Wolf.  I guarantee that you will not regret it and you will like it even more if you start watching it with friends.  Bottom line. Teen Wolf is absolutely fantastic.
Real Teen Rating~ A+:  MOST DEFINITELY SHOULD WATCH!