Teen Wolf Review: Genotype / Broken Glass (Season 6 Episodes 18-19)

It’s difficult to imagine how Beacon Hills comes back after the events of Teen Wolf Season 6 Episode 18 and 19, “Genotype” and “Broken Glass.” Before it was a small group of people. Now it’s the whole town.

The caregivers, police officers, and nurses we are taught from a young age care for us and have a code that they honor are collecting information and weaponizing themselves against a town and people who they’ve known for years or their entire lives.

Fear is a huge driving force this season, and the creature who now walks around Beacon Hills is at fault for it. But deep inside, these people have always had the capacity to kill, just waiting to be cultivated.

It’s difficult to think how you can come back from that.

Logically, we know that things like this take time. Germany faced, acknowledged, and never forgot what almost destroyed them. Right now, in the fray and when everything seems to be going to hell in a handbasket, it’s hard to see a future for this town.

They’ve broken each other and the trust that they had is gone.

How can you go back to simpler times and live at each other’s side? As friends? As classmates?

You don’t forget the pain. Mason surely remembers what Theo did and is more afraid of him than anything else that goes bump in the night.

Pain lingers for a long time after.

When they inevitably destroy this monster of fear, reparations are going to have to be made from the humans to the supernaturals. Scott’s pack is one trying to save people, no matter who or what comes their way. The humans need to step it up and prove they themselves aren’t monsters who butcher and destroy the unknown because they fear it, instead of giving it a chance and trying to understand.

While there is some hope for the pack and the town, there is none for Kate Argent, the most loathsome character on Teen Wolf — and one that the writers continue to bring back even when no one wants to see her.

The continued screen time that is being given to her tells me two things about Teen Wolf. One, they continue to have problems writing, understanding, and dealing with issues of sexual assault. And two, they do not think that Kate Argent’s crimes are enough to finally end her.

For the first time this season, I am so happy that Teen Wolf is ending, because they won’t get another chance to continue this narrative. She doesn’t get to come back the way she did, either.

The opening music makes it seem like she’s a badass woman who does whatever she wants and that we should aspire to be as liberated as her. She does do what she wants and women like me do not claim her or need her to be walking out with a song like that.

We do not want to be like Kate Argent and are tired of her continuous presence in Derek Hale’s life. After this little opening, the only endgame that I want is for Kate Argent to finally pay for her crimes and be finished.

Derek Hale, and any survivor of sexual assault, deserves better than this lazy writing. He deserves to be out of Beacon Hills and not looking over his shoulder continuously for the next attack or for the next time Kate appears to take away what he loves and cares for.

This brooding, brave, supposedly eight feet tall werewolf, deserves all the nice things and I think it’ll take the end of Teen Wolf for him to have it.

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Teen Wolf airs Sundays at 8/7c on MTV.

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