Teen Wolf S05E17: "A Credible Threat"

"Coming out of the dark in my opinion!" - Gloria Estefan, "Coming Out of the Dark"

For fans of yellowish-brown television, Teen Wolf's seemingly never-ending foray into Eichen House must have been a godsend, a true blessing. But personally my interest in that poorly run facility waned very quickly! Bad things happened there, but even worse than that, POINTLESS things happened there, and for way too long. Goodbye for now, you weird building! Hello again, status quo, you sexy, monster-ridden, high school-set, occasionally towel-clad status quo, you.

I am not here to dance on Eichen House's grave, only to say how HAPPY and ELATED I am that this week's episode of Teen Wolf was so wonderful. This week saw the kids return not only to their regular school lives (including lacrosse!) but it also returned to the creative, inventive, and just plain sexy adventures we've come to love and adore about Teen Wolf. Last week I had a fever, but this week I'm healthy, and I'm here to tell you that "A Credible Threat" was the best episode of the batch yet. Smart, funny, and nightmarish, it was everything I needed in life. Let's talk about it!

We began with a powerful, emotional, and important scene: Parrish sleeping with his shirt off.

Here's another angle. And I know what you're thinking: if a Parrish sleeps with his shirt off in his apartment and nobody sees, did it actually happen? That's where Chris Argent comes in:

Chris had his gun out, and he was 100 percent focused on Parrish as he slept. The idea was that at any moment Parrish might stir in his sleep and get extremely hot and then go chase after an older beast, so Chris wanted to be there when that happened. Well guess what? It happened!

Next thing we knew, Parrish had disappeared and Argent was hanging out with a group of local teens and they all couldn't stop stumbling across dead bodies at the high school! Dead bodies were just strewn from here to there, and there was even a school bus full of 'em! One dead body even asked for help and then fell out of the bus in a way that suggested he probably wasn't doing so great, health-wise:

But just when it seemed like this was something to be looked into, Parrish re-appeared and had some good advice for them all:

Because it was all a trap set by the Beast of Gévaudan! He knew teenage werewolves couldn't resist the allure of dead, bisected corpses and he would've gotten away with it if it weren't for this meddling hell hound!

So then the Beast ran away and Parrish ran after it into the night. This was turning into a fairly typical evening in Beacon Hills lately.

Meanwhile, Braeden was kicking back in Mrs. McCall's living room and warning Malia that her jerk of a mother could strike at any moment, full moon or not.

But it mostly just made me laugh because I was trying to remember if Melissa and Braeden had met before? Whether they had or not, maybe don't put your shoes on the coffee table and openly point a shotgun everywhere? Bounty hunters have no manners sometimes.

After last week's sexapalooza between a couple of tiny children, it was finally Scott and Kira's turn to rub each other sensually! They kissed on the mouth, took off their shirts and hugged. As far as romances go, this one was very sexual and horny, good job everyone.

The next morning Kira woke up to play with a sword and that is not a sexual innuendo.

What was she up to? Her inner kitsune was clearly just as horny for action as Kira was.

Corey still had a few burns left after the time in Eichen House when he was engulfed in flames. He was slightly bummed that they weren't healing very fast, but Mason seemed more than willing to help out.

I liked that Corey wanted to leave town or whatever but Mason pleaded that since Corey was a superpowered creature with a good heart, Mason and the rest of the regular humans needed kids like him to stick around and help them. That was sound reasoning, but Corey's idea to leave town was also very sound. If Corey survives the season I guess we'll find out who was right.





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