Season 4 of Teen Wolf is a little overwhelming…if you are being nice. If you aren’t it’s chaotic and distracted. There’s a lo to like. Parrish. Scott. Styles. Malia. Even Liam and his attempts to control his new werewolf side is engaging and easy to empathize with (even if I do get the feeling that the writers are trying to set fans up to age Scott and Styles out of the show and focus on Liam instead, who isn’t as interesting.)
I really liked the overall plot. Someone has put prices of the heads of every supernatural person in Beacon Hills and our pack has to stop it.
Unfortunately the climax of that plot is vague-ish and unsatisfactory and season takes a hard skew into Big Bad #2: Kate Argent. Either plot would have been fine on their own, but they’re forced together, without actually being connected. So neither gets the proper build and attention they could have deserved.
Then the writers go full on cheesy and yawn-worthy with their tired, last minute endangering of Magical True Alpha Scott. (He would have been an awesome bad guy. It could have been an amazing season of its own. Look what Buffy did with Dark Willow!) And, of course, a last minute bit of plot armor to save Scott. Seriously, though, were they planning to kill off Scott, then realized audiences wouldn’t be as interested in Liam as a lead so they changed their minds? Because that is how it looks.
So many good ideas that never go past the idea stage.