Teen Wolf – The Dark Moon – Review

...And we are back it hasn’t been too long, only about 3 months but it felt longer. We start the new season with Allison and Aiden being killed by the Oni and the knowledge that Daniel Sharman (Isaac) has chosen to the leave the show but not wanting to kill-off his character, so they are probably going to write him off in some way.

‘The Dark Moon’, episode 1 of season 4, brought a lot of fans to the point of being excited because their teen wolves are finally back to bringing drama and mayhem to their TV or computer screens. So let it begin….

Not a lot happened in ‘The Dark Moon’ in terms of the plot line but there was a surprising ending. Throughout the episode we learnt more about the family of hunters based in Mexico named the Calaveras, that we saw pop up in the final episodes of season 3 looking for a ‘shewolf’ which we now know as it being Kate Argent, the werejaguar.

We start the episode off with Stiles, Lydia, Scott, Kira and Malia in Mexico trying to find out who has Derek and where he is. There was a flashback showing Lydia, Stiles and Scott together trying to find out where Derek might be and when Scott goes to his loft he finds bullet casing with a mark on it that leads them into going to Mexico.

Lydia, Stiles, Scott, Kira and Malia think they are outsmarting the Calaveras by showing up at their ‘secret’ base, with a banshee, fox, werecoyote and an alpha and trying to buy back Derek. However they don’t take the money and end up drugging them with wolf’s bane and capture them all.

The Calaveras seem to know everything about them, their names, where they are from and what each of them are. They tie Scott up to torture him with electricity (geez they really love to electrocute people) to question him if he know who took Derek and to see what type of Alpha he really is. While electrocuting him, Scott gets a flashback to when he first became a wolf, of Kate talking to Chris Argent about whether someone can be turned by a scratch, this is when he releases that Kate is in fact not dead and has Derek.

The head of the Calaveras is quite proud of herself because she already knew this piece of information and wanted Scott to know for himself. Just before she sends him off to find Kate and where Derek is, she gives Scott a warning, “when you take the bite of an innocent; when you make a wolf of your own, then I will cross your border and come knocking at your door”.

The Calaveras give them a guide that will help them to get Derek back, however, the guide turns out to be the mysterious Braeden, the mercenary that rescued Isaac in the beginning of season 3, which they follow with Stiles’ Jeep while she leads them to where they need to go. We get a flashback of when Kate died and we see the Calaveras get Kate’s body from the morgue and when she wakes they tried to force her to kill herself, however, she escapes and continues to be the run-around psycho she was in season 1.

On the way to the ‘church’ that Braeden described, Stiles’ jeep breaks down, so Scott jumps on Braeden’s bike to get to Derek before the sun sets. So Stiles, Malia, Lydia and Kira stay behind with Stiles trying to fix his jeep. (By ‘fix’ I mean poking at anything in the engine trying to make it work, but hey it’s Stiles we don’t judge)

Scott and Braeden arrive at some ruins, where Kate was supposedly seen and Braeden makes small talk by telling Scott that he should have kissed Kira when he had the chance because he might die. I’m actually kind of glad that he didn’t kiss her just yet because Allison just died for him and I don’t want to see him move on so quickly because that means we have to move pass her death as well.

Back at the jeep, both Malia and Kira hear something near them, so Malia takes off to see what it is and Kira follows, when they come back Malia has been scratched and they said the creature smelled like death. Just in time the jeep starts up and they start to drive up to the ruins.

Meanwhile, Scott and Braeden are being chased and followed by a monster of some sort; it kind of looked like a scorpion with bones around it. But Scott managed to scare it away by roaring at it, which also led them to the jaguar god symbol which was guarding Derek’s tomb. As Scott punches through it, a hand reaches out to them from it and Scott only reaction is ‘Oh my God!”.

Stiles, Malia, Lydia and Kira get to the ruins as Scott and Braeden is dragging Derek out, however, when the camera catches his face it’s not the rugged and scruffy Derek we know. It baby teenage Derek!!!! Dun Dun Dun!!!

In clear teen wolf style the show leaves us wanting for more in the final seconds of the episode, we look forward to another teen wold episode next week.

What did you think of the premier episode of season 4?