After a couple of fairly
disappointing episodes Teen Wolf is back on form this week.
While it was far from perfect – the pacing issues from earlier
episodes are still causing problems – “The Girl Who Knew Too
Much” was exciting, emotionally gripping and I thoroughly enjoyed
watching it.
This week darach was
revealed, the Sheriff was brought in on all things supernatural (with
terrible consequences) and we found out that Lydia is actually a
banshee. This episode was action packed but still managed to fit in a
couple of sweet emotional moments, that have been sorely lacking from
previous episodes, including a surprisingly moving moment between
Scott (Tyler Posey) and Lydia (Holland Roden).
It wasn’t particularly
shocking to find out that Derek’s most recent romantic interest,
Jennifer Blake, was actually the big bad dark druid but that wasn’t
really a bad thing. Jennifer’s character always felt a little
forced so it’s nice to know there is more too her than just a
terrible cliché romance. Haley Webb played the reveal brilliantly,
whoever the darach really is she’s a far cry from the bumbling
English teacher Derek fell in love with.
Only time will tell how
Jennifer’s secret will affect poor Derek Hale but does it really
matter at this stage? There’s only so much manpain you can inflict
on one character before it loses its impact. More troubling is the
fact that when Jennifer fled the scene, after attempting to kill
Lydia, she took the Sheriff with her. I think is speak for everyone
when I say that killing the Sheriff is pretty much unforgivable.
There wasn’t anything
particular interesting about this episode, the story and the way it
was presented was simple but it was nice. Look I appreciate the way
Teen Wolf has been experimenting with style and technique this
season but sometimes it’s nice just to be able to focus on the
characters emotional journey, something that this season seems to
have forgotten at times.
Overall, this episode was
Teen Wolf at it’s best – sexy, a little bit camp, kind of
scary and super fun. Let’s see more of this and less flashbacks
with unnecessary manpain from now on please.
Review by Yvonne
Popplewell
More of Yvonne’s work
can be found at her
blog.
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