A couple of weeks ago
Teen Wolf told us that “This Might Hurt” but it was only
with the release of the first full length trailer for the show’s
third season that fans actually understood just how much it was
actually going to hurt. The heart attack inducing two minutes led
fans to lament the choice they made when they decided to engage with
what was supposed to be a silly MTV show about teenage werewolves.
Those of you that have
not yet fallen under Teen Wolf’s spell might be wondering
why I’m getting so emotional over something that sounds so utterly
ridiculous but I’m going to have to ask you to take a leap of faith
and just trust me on this one. Teen Wolf is actually one of
the best supernatural dramas on television at the moment and the
trailer this week suggests that it’s only going to get better.
Video title: Teen Wolf
Season 3 Preview
Fade in, Stiles runs down
a corridor cut to Derek bloodied, beaten and being comforted by an
unknown woman. Derek’s voiceover states: “everyone around me gets
hurt” and the next 2 minutes proceed to prove his point. All is not
well in the town of Beacon Hills; the Alpha pack is here with their
charismatic leader Deucalion and they are not looking to make
friends. No one is safe including Scott’s mother who is shown
getting her throat ripped out. In the final moments of the trailer
Scott’s eyes shift from their familiar amber to Alpha red.
Those of you that are
familiar with this show’s first two seasons will notice that this
is a much darker and more dangerous Teen Wolf than we’re
used to. While the familiar romantic plot is still visible it’s
definitely taken a back seat to the suspenseful horror narrative. The
budget has definitely increased and the few glimpse we had of fight
scenes and stunts were a vast improvement on what we’ve seen
before. This is Teen Wolf all grown up and it’s not so much
shedding it’s innocent past as obliterating it.
It’s
seems ‘might’ was not a strong enough warning because this
already hurts and something tells me it’s only going to get worse.
Sorry, I guess I’m not really hiding the fact that I’m a fan of
this show but I’m ashamed to admit it. This show is so much better
than it appears on paper and if you just give it a chance you will be
seduced by it’s charm as well. You should probably just watch it
because I am not going to stop until everyone has fallen into the
same trap as me.
Teen Wolf season 3
returns June 3rd in the US and airs on FOX8 in July.
By Yvonne Popplewell
More of Yvonne’s work
can be found at her
blog.
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