Teen Wolf: Season 1

Normally I wouldn't watch a show that had the words "Teen" and "MTV" associated with it because I haven't been a teen in nearly two decades and I haven't watched MTV since they stopped airing actual music videos. But, I watched the first couple episodes of Teen Wolf on Netflix after some friends recommended it and I was hooked! I went through both seasons in about four days of marathon watching, and now I'm impatient for season three. You really can't compare it at all with the cult classic movie, but if you enjoy this show for what it offers -- it totally delivers! It has some sharp writing, fantastic characters and the actors are very talented. I love the romance between Allison and Scott because it really feels like a teenage relationship, albeit complicated by the whole werewolf problem. I love the supporting cast who manage to shine through even bit parts, but my favorite character by far is Stiles. Dylan O'Brien really brings him alive, and the writers have given him a lot of great material to work with. He lights up every scene he is in and totally steals the entire series for me. No TV show is perfect, of course, and this show does have its problems with some heavy handedness, some character portrayals and continuity issues. But, for the most part the show works on a lot of levels. I hate to compare it to any other TV show because it needs to be appreciated for what it has to offer. For instance, it's not as deep or expansive as Buffy was, but if you liked the play of relationships and characters in Buffy, I think you should give this show a shot. I'm so glad I wasn't put off by the name and gave it a try. I'm totally addicted!

Surprising is a good word to describe this show. I went into it expecting to just have a good time with lots of laughs and excellent eye candy and then I got hit with a 2x4 with how quality this show is. It sneaks up on you just how good Teen Wolf really is. There's such amazing character growth, supported by superb writing and acting. It has an excellent mix of drama and humor with a splash of horror thrown in. There are no "special issues" episodes, which seem to be part and parcel for shows aimed at teens. It does an excellent job handling homosexuality, female sexuality, and money issues without shoving it down our throats. It has a very believable light touch and not only do I wish more shows aimed at teens could handle stuff like this, I actually wish real life was more like this. It also showcases a variety of family relationships; there's a single mother, a single father, a divorced couple, an adopted child, and a nuclear family. The music on the show is, of course, quite good. The special features are lovely, I've actually watched the episodes with commentary and they are just too cute. If you give this series a chance I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Teen Wolf is by far, my favorite tv show. Since episode one, the first season of Teen Wolf is amazing and constantly keeps me coming back for more and more. I have watched every single episode multiple times and I have to say, I am impressed. Immediately, I fell in love with these characters and their personalities, each with their own story to tell that only adds to the plot. This is the supernatural show to watch and I'm glad that aI found it. I love the creatures and villains that Scott and his pack must face, the ideas of this show is awesome, and really keeps me on the edge of my seat. This show does a fantastic job of adding just enough of everything, it has humor, action, adventure, drama, romance, horror, and the realistic concepts and characters that makes Teen Wolf enjoyable and relatable. I absolutely love this show! All in all, Teen Wolf will forever be my absolute favorite show on planet earth and I can't wait to continue watching this show grow.

Alot of people will throw this show down before they even watch it because of the fact that it looks something similar to "Twilight". Well let me be the first to tell you that this show is in no way shape or form related to those films. This show is amazing, I was suprised when I saw the first episode because I knew it was hooked! I have always been a MASSIVE SMALLVILLE (Tom Welling, Kristin Kruek) fan and was dissapointed when it ended because I didn't think there would be a show with a similar plot to come around, Vampire Diaries is a chick drama and romance type show, Supernatural never caught my attention...though to be honest I have never given it a solid chance. But seriously watch this show, there was an interview with the producer (if you go to the Wiki Page of the show)and he states that they are planning to run this show for a lot more seasons. Even after the "High School Era" the characters are currently in. Thats good news for us who are hooked. The acting, lighting, directing, and all the rest of the making of this show is extremely good. Give it a shot, if after the 5th or 6th episode you don't like it...so be it. This to me would fall under the Genre of Dark Comedy/Supernatural Drama. Cheers Mate! Do Not let the Cover scare you away. lol

I loved the show when is was on the air and while I know you can stream anything now, but I like physical media on things I like so I had to finish my collection and this is part of that.

Since it's summer and there aren't a lot of shows to watch I decided to watch Teen Wolf. I wasn't very sure about it when it originally premiered, so I skipped it, but now that I started watching it I can't stop! Teen Wolf is maybe too good for MTV, it has blood, a little bit of comedy (without being too cheesy), horror, and a great talented cast. The storyline of season 1 is so well told, and you're hooked since the beginning. There isn't a bad episode on this show. The chemistry is there, and you never know what's going to happen next, this show is definetely filled of "OMG moments". With each season the show gets better, but the first season was pretty solid and addicting. It's good to finally have this show on DVD, it's worth it and I can't wait to see what's next.

I had Teen Wolf in my Amazon Prime Video queue for over a year. I just had too many other dramatic series I was watching at the time TW premiered in 2011. And while I like werewolves, my supernatural creature of choice has always been vampires (and, more recently, "the fae" and specifically succubi -- I've developed a love of the wacky, sensual fantasy series Lost Girl and the succubus Bo played by Anna Silk, plus Dyson and Kenzi, her side kicks). I'm not in Teen Wolf's target demographic (I'm 45+) but I've always loved fantasy/supernatural/scifi subjects, movies and series, so I knew I would get around to Teen Wolf eventually. I just didn't mean for it to take this long. But in the last year I've been catching up with and rewatching Boardwalk Empire and Mad Men (oh my GOD I will miss those two series!), Californication (all available via Netflix now, yay!), True Detective (S1 and S2), Hannibal, Penny Dreadful, Lost Girl, Hemlock Grove, OITNB, and David Duchovny's new series Aquarius, plus the sadly short-lived Dean Winters/Josh Duhamel series Battle Creek -- plus I have a full time job and a life! So I didn't have a lot of time to spare for my distant second favorite supernatural creature. In the last 2 years, though, I quit watching Vampire Diaries because it just became so disappointing after S3 (the best season, imho) and went utterly off the rails in late S4/early S5 (when I stopped watching completely). There's a ton of fanfic that writes (or re-writes) Vampire Diaries starting in S3 with more continuity and character consistency than the show itself, so I just gave up on that show (and, honestly, it was never very well written to begin with). So I just started watching TW about a month and a half ago. I binge-watched Seasons 1-4 on Amazon Prime. Then I caught up on Season 5 via Hulu. Now I must say, right off the bat, there is simply no comparison to TV series like Boardwalk Empire, Mad Men, True Detective, and Californication -- and shows like Teen Wolf and The Vampire Diaries. There just isn't: they are apples and oranges, so I won't even attempt to justify watching MTV and CW shows at my age, lol. I watch them for the supernatural creatures and the prime time drama that ensues when you are a supernatural creature with special powers or you're involved with one as a friend or lover. The drama of being or being involved with a supernatural creature is bound to get silly sometimes because it just does. Even Lost Girl about Bo the succubus gets incredibly silly at times, despite it's target demographic of adults, not children/tweens/teens (in Canada, Lost Girl airs on Showcase, a premium cable network like Showtime or HBO). Penny Dreadful, also for adults (and only available via Showtime or purchase) can sometimes border on campy, and I say that despite the fact that I utterly love the brooding, hypnotic atmosphere of dread that Penny Dreadful creates and sustains with all its macabre horror material. The problem with all of these supernatural serires is that the mythologies of the creatures eventually become kind of unwieldy for the writers -- largely because the writers always mess with the original mythologies for dramatic purposes. The other problem is that, for those of us who've been watching TV for 30-40 years, there isn't much we haven't seen (so we can spot the formulaic tropes quickly). Maybe most significantly, all of these recent supernatural TV series and movies will forever live in the shadows of two shows that more or less paved the way and brought fantasy/horror and scifi into the popular culture and mainstream entertainment -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer and The X-Files. Both BTVS and XF also sometimes veered into silly or campy at times -- and sometimes the writers themselves directly acknowledged skirting the fringes of camp and silliness with episodes of the X-Files like Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose or Jose Chung's From Outer Space, or BTVS eps like I, Robot... You, Jane and Some Assembly Required. The problem is that BTVS and the XF were very well written shows that managed to expand their mythologies while maintaining continuity and character consistency. The term "big bad" actually originated with BTVS, but now the common formula for these teen supernatural shows is "a new big bad every season" (which didn't originate with BTVS, of course -- many other dramatic series did that way before Buffy). The constantly changing writing and production teams of shows like The Vampire Diaries means the plots and mythologies are frequently inconsistent, the characters behaviors are incongruous and then later explained with deus ex machina devices and simply bad writing, until your ability to suspend disbelief is ruined because people are so frequently killed and brought back to life, and the deaths cease to have any dramatic impact for the audience. Many people compare TW to Vampire Diaries and there's a reason for it: they both aim at similar demographics (tweens, teens, 20somethings), they both have supernatural/horror themes, but they're both really dramas (or evening soap operas) focused on young people who learn about the existence of supernatural creatures around them (or who become supernatural creatures themselves). But werewolves haven't gotten as much exposure as vampires in popular culture. (Sadly, the mass market is simply over saturated with vampires these days.) And while I've only seen parts of the original Teen Wolf movie with Michael J. Fox, it was played for comedy and the special effects were terrible. Teen Wolf's first season manages to be dramatic, sweet, charming and fairly witty. The witty dialogue most often seems to be Stiles'. By the middle of S1, the characters' relationships, the conflict, the villains and the distrusted-but-grudgingly-accepted characters have solidified without too much predictability. TW S1 also manages to avoid most of the pitfalls of the poor/predictable writing that marred TVD's first season. I think there are a few reasons for this -- Jeff Davis (show creator) seems to have a very specific vision for Teen Wolf (or did, circa Seasons 1-3), whereas Kevin Williamson did not (despite starting with the book series as source material). Also, Teen Wolf doesn't typically do a full season of 22 episodes the way Vampire Diaries does. Well, it stands to reason that the more episodes you make, the more likely you are to wind up with "filler" episodes due to having to maintain the hectic pace of writing for a weekly series. Teen Wolf doesn't have to do that (the way that Vampire Diaries did), so TW has fewer "dud" episodes and the story proceeds more efficiently and with more consistent, less cliche-ish writing. Scott McCall, the newly bitten boy, is the central protagonist. He starts out as kind of a loser who, due to his new werewolf abilities, suddenly becomes a sports success on his lacrosse team and rapidly becomes a social success because of his new jock status. There are the usual "what's happening to me?!" moments in the early episodes, while Stiles tries to help Scott figure out what's going on with him, and then tries to help him control it so he doesn't hurt anyone. Scott has a strong moral compass but has to deal with the new beast within himself. Of course initially, it's a great advantage, as his physical abilities and senses expand exponentially because of his new werewolf status and he becomes the new star player on the lacrosse team. His best friend Stiles (as the Sheriff's son -- like any son of a preacher, teacher or cop) has a more elastic sense of morality at least as far as lying to all adults (especially his father) goes, but he is truly a great best friend and he's always there for Scott, often at great risk to himself and his mere human physical powers. Stiles' social status remains more on the fringe than Scott's; if he moves up in high school's tricky social scene, it's largely because of association with Scott and his new popularity. The new girl, Allison Argent, whom Scott ends up involved with, ends up being as star crossed with Scott-the-new-werewolf as Romeo and Juliet themselves (but this is not foreshadowing -- or, not exactly). Jackson, the jerk super jock on Scott and Stiles' high school lacrosse team, is a threat to Scott because he knows something is up with Scott but can't figure out what it is. Derek, the local werewolf with the tragic past, is both suspected by Scott and Stiles to be the bad guy and the wolf who bit Scott, but he's also a source of werewolf knowledge, though he clearly knows it and only lets Scott have information in dribs and drabs, because Derek also has great reason not to trust anyone. Lydia, the school beauty who is also secretly a brain, is Jackson's cool, hip girlfriend who takes new girl Allison under her wing and they become BFFs. This, and his new found lacrosse success, are the only things that allow Scott to move in higher social circles. While Scott is clearly the heart of the show, I would have to say the soul or anchor to the show is the character of his best friend, "Stiles" Stilinski. He is a great friend, supportive and warm. As a character he's adorkable. He has his own tragic past and both boys are being raised by single parents (Stiles' mother died, and Scott's parents are divorced and his mother, a nurse, raises him alone). Stiles has had an unrequited crush on Lydia since childhood but he's also more keenly observant of her than her cool jerk boyfriend Jackson, perhaps because of his ADD. His sense of morality is a little looser than Scott's, but then that's to be expected (as any kid of a cop, teacher, or preacher can tell you). In terms of the actors, there is pretty good chemistry between them all, especially between Tyler Posey/Scott and Dylan O'brien/Stiles, as well as Crystal Reed/Allison and Tyler Posey/Scott. There's also great chemistry between Tyler Posey/Scott and Tyler Hoechlin/Derek. By far, though, the greatest chemistry is between Tyler Hoechlin/Derek and Dylan O'brien/Stiles. Whenever these two are on screen together, they just play off each other really, really well -- and the writers and directors often exploit this both for suspense and for great comedic effect. Some people will surely see homoerotic subtext to their chemistry; others won't. The bottom line is these two actors clearly "click" with each other on screen. Every time Derek threatens Stiles or otherwise physically imposes himself on Stiles, and Stiles twitches or says some smartass comment, it's clear these two actors work together really well. I am planning to buy the Season 1 DVDs because (1) they're cheap right now and (2) I would love to see footage of Tyler Hoechlin and Dylan O'brien goofing off together on the set because I got the strong feeling that they did that whenever the cameras weren't rolling. Normally when I get the sense that the actors were having difficulty staying in character for a particular scene, it's annoying and ruins my suspension of disbelief. However, in the case of Tyler Hoechlin and Dylan O'brien, in some scenes there is a vibe that their off-screen working relationship bleeds into their on-screen chemistry in unexpected ways. By mid-season it becomes apparent that the writers, directors and camera operators recognized the spark between these two as well, and began incorporating more material and scenes for the two to play off each other, to wonderful comedic effect and furthering the story arcs for both characters. I would give the first season of Teen Wolf an A for effort and a B for execution. The special effects are clearly somewhat low budget, although the decision to minimize the werewolf transformation is a good one -- it also allows the actors more facial expressiveness than full horror werewolf masks would, which is good. The writing is a little uneven, but it's not as cliche-ed as The Vampire Diaries' first season was. It's also not as good as BTVS, but then, nothing is. It's not hard to see the metaphor for adolescence/young adulthood and suddenly becoming a (or discovering the existence of) a supernatural beast. At that age you're at the mercy of your hormones, you go through rapid physical changes related to sexual maturation and a whole sensual world you've never known about opens up in a very mind blowing way. You don't have control over your body -- things happen to it that you have no ability to stop or change back; you can't control your impulses much of the time and the body you've gotten used to throughout childhood suddenly changes. You become idealistic and energetic but you're totally inexperienced at life and there's so much you're not allowed to do until you reach 18 and become "legal" (and even then you can't legally drink in many parts of North America). Being suddenly transformed into a vampire or werewolf -- or being involved with someone who is -- is a wonderful metaphor for all of the uncontrollable changes that adolescence wreaks. But supernatural beasts have also always been a metaphor for the violent, darker impulses in humans -- rage, fear, and the instinct for self-preservation and self-defense. Humans are, after all, one of the most savage and violent species on the planet; we kill each other so often and in quantities no other species does, despite the fact that we've developed tools and technology and "civilization." Vampires and werewolves are metaphors for the bestial side of homo sapiens, the animal part of our species that we've never left behind, the beast inside all of us that wants to come out when we're terrified or enraged or think we're about to die. So that's the appeal of supernatural/fantasy/horror creatures for me and many others, I think.

1st off the DVDs themselves. Up to professional standards. Now the content- That's where the AWESOME comes in. The current season, 3 part 2, was my first experience with the show other than just seeing it listed in TV guide thing. I was hooked right off. After my second episode I bought and watched the previous seasons in descending order. Now, season one. The series only gets better! That said, the first season is just as exciting as where the later seasons are. And that's exciting. It's a like Buffy The Vampire Slayer without the angst and SUPERCHARGED with ENERGY. Everything has it's lag moments here and there to tie scenes and story line together. But here they are few and far between with very little 'lag' to them. Decent to very good acting 97ish% across the board. Cool music. Lots of mood. There are a few so so effects but there are some exceptionally great effects too. If you like the genre I'd be very surprised if you didn't LOVE this.