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Calling all wolf girls! It’s time to delve into one of the teen dramas of all time, MTV’s Teen Wolf. Whether you watched the show back in the day or were (un)fortunate enough to completely miss this particular animal, this is the Teen Wolf video for you. Take a walk down memory lane with me as we recap the silly and often homoerotically charged antics of werewolf boy Scott McCall (Tyler Posey), comic relief best friend Stiles (Dylan O’Brien), and weirdo loser Derek Hale (Tyler Hoechlin). Plus a few token women and minorities whose inner worlds you will never truly know!
Because this show is just packed to the brim with werewolf antics, this video is the first in a 3-part series and covers seasons 1-3.
0:00 – Intro
6:56 – Season 1
25:02 – Season 2
45:55 – Squarespace
47:37 – Season 3A
1:27:34 – Derek rant
1:39:31 – Season 3B
2:11:59 – Miscellaneous funny stuff
2:27:10 – Conclusion
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All the shirts I wear in this video in case anyone asks:
‘Just a Girl Who Loves Wolves’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0823KBDD5/ref=pe_27063361_485629781_TE_item
Wolves + planets: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GT75493/ref=pe_27063361_485629781_TE_item
Derek Hale shirt: For some reason the page I bought this one from doesn’t exist anymore, but several similar ones seem to be available on Etsy. Just google “Derek Hale shirt” lmao
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Hay, you’re so funny and fab. Love it.
started watching teen wolf somewhere in the middle of when s1 aired (unrelated but i remember catching up on the eps i missed thru the mtv website before i knew what torrenting was lmfao) & stopped after s3 ended. i find it so funny how i just didn’t retain any of the plot points & just felt confused w/ what was happening the whole time. i wanted to blame this phenomenon on watching it weekly & forgetting what happened in the last episode by the time the new one aired (my 13 yr old brain just didn’t care i guess?), but maybe i can also blame the bad/convoluted writing lmao. ANYWAYS, i have no intention of ever revisiting this show & will be “watching” it vicariously thru u, godspeed 🫡🙏🏽
tbf with scott half of the reasons he sucks can also apply to any ya supernatural romance heroine ig it just comes with the tropes
I am genuinely curious about the werewolf media studies list you mentioned. I couldn't find a link to your website anywhere, can I have it?
jane this video came at the perfect time i just started rewatching teen wolf 😁😁😁
If she finds the japanese internment camp story insensitive, I cannot wait until she meets the nazi werewolf/lion that was essentially hibernating for several decades before awakening and continuing his quest for world domination beginning in beacon hills 😂
EDIT: You mentioned how in 3b they should have had to connect emotionally with stiles to bring him back but this type of thing happens in the season with the nazi lol
I am living for this scott mccall haterade
I came for degrassi content, but im so glad I stayed for this!
i was deeply obsessed with teen wolf when i was like 16 and i’m having so much fun reliving it through this vid thank you!! can’t wait for the next ones, very excited to hear your thoughts on theo
Absolutely love this and can't wait for the rest of the videos! In regard to Derek and Jennifer in season 3A, I remember a lot of fandom talk about her essentially casting a spell(?) on him to make him fall in love with her. I don't know if it was something the creator said at some point (he said a lot of garbage, so it's always a possibility) or if it was a weak headcanon to wipe out the romance from Derek's history, but it seemed worth mentioning. Season 3A was a mess. lmao
God blesssssssss
Was at work thinking about this all day and when I could go home to watch it
thank you so much for making this 2.5 hour video. it compelled me to finally clean my room 🫡🫡
This show was my everything in high school, and it still means a lot to me. I'm excited to see you covering it!
I also absolutely ADORE the original movie and its absolute absurdity, I can't wait to see you get to it!
Ohhhhhhh my God I feel like I haven’t seen any YouTubers really jump into Teen Wolf. Thank you for your sacrifice.
Honey, wake up, Jane just posted a 2 and a half hour video on Teen Wolf
Girl, I hope you're becoming a writer/filmmaker
Are you for serious? A two and a half hour video on the wolf teen show? One of my faves? We love to see it. Thank you for your service.
Also, Scott might be a garbage protagonist but he's my garbage protagonist.
this is your breakthrough video i can feel it in my bones
I've been saying that about Allison's mom for YEARS. Killing her off was a huge mistake and I wish they could've brought her back somehow. The Argents honestly became pretty boring to me later on, and having one of their own be a werewolf could've been really cool and add a lot more depth.
The fact that I clicked i m m e d i a t e l y . Derek is the best. They make him look so cool but he lowkey loses every fight. I love it.
The hallucination scene in season 2 really just hammers home that it seems like the writers were flying by the seat of their pants with these characters and their motivations because Scott has so much fucking baggage later on in the series that would have been perfect to insert there, but no. Let's just have it be some stupid goddamn jealousy thing while the rest of the characters are having genuine existential crises.
Words cannot describe how excited I am for this behemoth of a video
The destiel meme is actively traumatising me
"Frankly I'm in favor of taking everything from Scott" LMAO okay yea that got me
My first year of university I got really into Degrassi spurred on by your video which led me down a path of watching more teen shows I’d missed. This ended in a huge obsession with teen wolf where I watched so many video essays praising it and tearing it apart so this is just the perfect crescendo to that chapter of my life, thank you for the laughs and I’m glad I’m not the only one who found 3a incomprehensible.
I loved loved loved this video, thank you for making it 🎉
The longer the Jane Mulcahy video, the better
Ryan kearns is so good!
If you love Stiles then read the fanfiction
not only did the hales give us sisters laura and cora, they gave us aunt and niece talia and malia.
So excited to watch this video! Teen Wolf was the first “edgy” show I watched live as a tween so it will always have a special place in my heart 🐺
I have never seen teen wolf (and somehow largely missed the fandom on Tumblr), but am delighted to add yet another piece of media to my list of early/mid 2000s shows I only experience through movie-length youtube videos.
Thank u for ur service, I’ve been waiting for this one since like 2014
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teen wolf was one of my favorite shows when it was first airing! my friends and i would watch it and the aftershow together on monday nights. at the time tumblr was my only socmed but i joined twitter just to live tweet during new episodes. i never ended up finishing the show though, i quit around season 4 i think bc one of my favs was no longer around, i cant quite remember. i have watched through s1-s3 multiple times either on my own or with friends and thats probably the only reason i can recount the bonkers plot with any clarity
there's something i've seen people say a lot in anime circles that before recommending a series to someone who is maybe not that well versed in anime, u need to gauge their tolerance for "anime bullshit": the cheese, schlock, and silliness inherent in a particular series. and it definitely feels like someone shouldve given u that warning before s3. not that you arent used to teen drama cheese, but so much of the lore and rules of the universe introduced that season feel completely nonsensical, and the answer to a lot of the questions raised was essentially "don't think about it," that i can understand why it was a frustrating watch, or simply not as fun. i agree with your point (and it wasnt something id ever picked up on) that the change in filming location between s2 and s3 does make the show feel less grounded. and the plot really starts to go off the rails in s3 lol i am still able to look back on those episodes (mostly) fondly, primarily bc dylan obrien gets so much time to shine. he's my blorbo
stiles and derek were my main cast favs and so of course sterek shipping was also a huge part of my teen wolf experience. i never had any delusions that they would actually be canonized but they were fun to think about and remain an evergreen ship for me. now that this video has awakened me like a sleeper cell, i might actually revisit some of my favorite authors from that time just for nostalgia's sake! the kind of derek characterization you were craving was more preset in fics, im sure because other fans wanted the same thing. and i was very happy to see him get so much love in this video! hes such a funny character and i most enjoy when he's silly and cringe rather than turning on the charm. idk who that is but it's NOT my derek
also i really didnt like the derek & jennifer romance either, it made no sense at the time and i remember the friends i was watching the show with as it was airing hated that development too. im in camp kali/jennifer 5ever im reading between the lines jeff davis and i know they were real </3
When I tell you that I've been eagerly waiting for you to put this one under the microscope…
Because you asked, I would like to expose myself as a Season 3A enjoyer. This is primarily because, in much the same way you're a Derek stan, I'm an Isaac stan, I guess because I like putting myself in agony. I think Isaac is a more compelling character than Scott (admittedly a low bar), and he gets done very dirty in Season 3B so for that reason I find the front end of the season more tolerable. All of your observations surrounding the bullsh*t world-building are on point though.
One point I've seen very few people critique about the show is the casual misogyny and laziness evident in the characterization of the female cast. You won't find any single or lesbian women in the show; they all have to be attached to a man. Also, I want to point out that a stunning amount of male antagonists, like Peter, Jackson, the twins and Deucalion all get redemption arcs and join team good no matter the body count they've racked up, whereas all the female villains (Kate, Victoria, Kali, Jennifer) remain murderous, unrepentant sadists to their last breath. Idk, it's just a pattern I noticed. Can't wait for Parts 2&3!
I came a little late to "Teen Wolf Party" (I watched the first season and bits of season 2 then fully started watching in season 3) and it's my guilty pleasure show. I love it despite its flaws. I honestly shipped Stydia and Sterek because I just wanted good things for Stiles.
One thing I will say about the Derek/Ms Blake romance is that the reason he might have been attracted to her is because the form she took was of an adult Paige. The Darach could change their form and picked it specifically to make sure Derek would protect her when crap hit the fan. It's my headcanon and I'm sticking to it.
I FEEL SO BLESSED WITH THIS CONTENT THANK YOU
Stiles was teen wolf, you know?
This is the kind of 2 hour and 30 min content I need! Also; Yes! Scott sucks as character, Thank you! I could never get into him and the show just gave me more reasons than I could count in season alone and as the series went on but especially hated him by the time all the stuff with Stiles went down and he didn't have his supposed brother and best friend's back once.
I don’t work overnights anymore so I don’t have hours and hours to do nothing at work anymore but I will watch this, on the weekend.
I went to a school in suburban Australia called – Beaconhills. Needless to say, my friends who watched the show LOVED that coincidence
You are a national fucking treasure
Omg degrassi now teen wolf you are covering all my favorite adolescent shows I love it.
"Please, give me the lesbian werewolf-druid romance" is going straight to the favorite jane quotes list
A huge TV-pet peeve of mine is when teachers just tell their students everything they have to know about the piece of literature they are reading. That's not how teaching works 😭 So, no, Derek, she shouldn't start by flat out telling her students what kind of allegory The Crucible is, her students need to come to that conclusion on their own 😤
No this is great bc I took it upon myself to rewatch the entire series this summer and now thiiiis. Looking forward to the other parts of this series ❤️
I only know about this show from being 16 and on tumblr in 2011 and the fact that stiles isnt the main character is for real blowing my mind. I remember hearing the name tyler posey but i do not remember hearing about a character named scott literally at all 😂
the gasp that came out of my mouth seeing this omg i watched teen wolf religiously up to a certain point so im beyond excited to see the insanity i missed wow