Last
week’s episode was really good, like exceptionally good. Maybe my
hopes were a little high but this week just didn’t quite make it.
Don’t get me wrong, this episode wasn’t awful, it just wasn’t
great and after last week’s offering it was sorely disappointing.
That said there were some great moments hidden in what was a rather
lacklustre effort as a whole.
Derek
and Scott enlist some unlikely help to find Boyd and Cora who are
still at the mercy of the full moon. Lydia and Stiles investigate a
series of disturbing murders and Allison takes matters into her own
hands. This episode is mostly snarling and running through the woods
with a little bit of gore and a dash of harlequin romance.
Teen
Wolf doesn’t really have filler
episodes, but if it did this would be it. The search for Boyd and
Cora could, and probably should, have been completed in half the
time. While the secondary storyline of revealed significant
information that furthers the overarching season mystery, the
majority of the episode was spent watching the werewolves run through
the woods in slow motion.
Speaking of slow motion,
the director of this episode obviously had a fetish for attractive
men in walking slow motion. Now, I’m partial to the occasional use
of slow motion, especially on attractive men, but there comes a point
when it’s time to speed things up and give us something relevant.
When they were walking in slow motion they were performing excessive
and unnecessary acrobatics. There is just so much that could have cut
from this episode.
If you ignore the running
and growling there were a few things that stood out in this episode.
The classic horror elements, including a camping trip gone wrong and
a surprise dead body, were really well done. I’m actually loving
Teen Wolf’s use of classic horror tropes this season. Dylan
O’Brien was exceptional as always, especially in a particularly
poignant emotional scene.
Although the female
characters were relegated to the background they outshone the
testosterone filled hunting party. Especially Allison, who managed to
achieve by herself, what Derek, Scott, Isaac and Chris had been
unable to achieve as a team. The one highlight of the hunting
storyline was Derek’s slow decent into despair, as he loses the
last vestiges to his self-esteem but even that was undermined when he
was gifted a romantic reward for his sacrifice.
Ms Blake (Haley Webb) was
introduced in the first episode of season 3, and while we didn’t
learn much about her she appeared capable and intriguing. In this
episode most of what made her intriguing was ripped away from her so
that she could be forced into the role of damsel in distress in
preparation for meeting Derek Hale. While this episode didn’t
introduce Ms Blake’s storyline particularly well, I am hoping that
behind the romantic damsel is a dynamic character with a storyline of
her very own as more than just Derek’s ‘love interest’.
It’s
safe to say, that this episode was a bit of a let down but hopefully
it will be the exception in an otherwise amazing season.
Review by Yvonne
Popplewell
More of Yvonne’s work
can be found at her
blog.
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