3.4 Unleashed Those are the kind of short-hand signifiers needed by a show that is so visual. Once again, Tim Andrew is in the director’s chair, and once again we get a pretty cool episode. Teen Wolf has defined its look, leaning heavily on the eighties music videos, and it’s a look that really works. It covers the seams of the special effects, be they digital or real, and it increases the drama of an already pretty dramatic show. Witness Gideon Emery’s super villain moment this week. With Derek on the floor, Deucalion takes the opportunity to both explain why he has a pack of alphas, how a pack of alphas can even exist, and just how and why he’s taken an interest in the Hale family (even name-dropping Peter). It goes from pretty interesting (and about what I suspected) to really over-the-top, with Foleyed-in thunder sounds as a punctuation to Deucalion’s speech about being the monster of all monsters. It’s cheesy, but it’s balanced out nicely by the various detective team-ups with Allison and Isaac working together while Stiles and Lydia continue to dance around their inevitable pair-up. One of the fears I had about the expansion of season three is that the show would run out of ideas, or maybe milk an idea for too long. However, it seems that like that’s not going to be the case. Between the serial murderer sacrificing people, the Alpha pack, the various teenage problems, and all the other longer-running mysteries that the show has (the fate of Gerard, why Dr. Deaton knows everything, who was that mystery girl in the first episode), it seems like there is no shortage of ideas in the brain of Jeff Davis. Of course, it’s still early yet, but thus far the new additions to the show are working out really well. Read Ron’s review of the previous episode, Fireflies, here. Please, if you can, buy our charity horror stories ebook, Den Of Eek!, raising money for Geeks Vs Cancer. Details here
