Reviewing Movies

Every boy should have a best friend as true and faithful as Stiles is to Teen Wolf Scott McCall. There seem to be a lot of missing parents in this series. Stiles Sheriff Father is a single parent as is Scott’s Mother. His off and on again girlfriend Allison has a mother who makes only passing appearances.

How do all those teens manage to own, insure, maintain, and put gas in all those cars? Scott has a job but he tools around on a bike. Who knew lacrosse was a high school sport? Where exactly the series takes place has never been made clear but the casting crew came up with a parcel of buff, muscular young actors. Scott and Jackson regularly show off well developed pecs and abs, Derek to quote an actress “grew up in all the right places”. Their teachers on the other hand are a parody of every student’s worst nightmare. The acting from episode one is uniformly good.

Who the alpha werewolf might be is kept a mystery to the end of season 2. Is it the science teacher or the vet? Werewolf appearances are kept rather hazy to cover up a TV series’ rather lean special effects budget. This show obviously capitalizes on the current Vampire Craze begun by the Twilight Series but it rises somewhat above the standard fare. Certainly it doesn’t lack for eye candy.