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 How to Get Your Friends to Watch Teen Wolf

A visitor to our site asked me today how I got into Teen Wolf. Their reason was to find out what attracted me so that they could convince their reluctant friends to give the show a try.

I got into Teen Wolf for the very simple reason that I give anything supernatural/SciFi one episode.

I watch the first episode and if they grab me with something, anything really because there is so little quality genre stuff on TV, I'll come back.

Teen Wolf grabbed me with the writing and specifically the humor. It reminded me of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the way it played supernatural threats against high school angst.

Again, I'll try anything in this realm once.

I've only given up on a few such shows. I gave up on Heroes in Season 4 or whenever they went to the carnival.

I gave up on Secret Circle after 1 and a half episodes cause the writing was pretty bad and the plot was trying to do too much all at the same time.

The key to your question about getting people to watch Teen Wolf is to get people to WATCH Teen Wolf.

I know that sounds odd but I didn't like X-Files, Lost, TVD or Supernatural UNTIL - I watched all the episodes of a couple of seasons back to back on netflix.

Each year, usually between December and February, there is a long drought of reruns and weird specials in place of television's usual fare.

During these periods I find some series that I didn't watch the first time around and watch all the episodes all in a row. I have fallen in love with the all shows listed above (except that 4th season of Heroes and Secret Circle) and watch new episodes faithfully.

Good writing sometimes takes time to sink in and episodic television doesn't work well for telling big stories - watching several episodes without commercials or a week wait in between can let those stories play out in a way that the easily bored/distracted/whatever can appreciate.

So my advice is to wait until your friend's favorite genre show goes on hiatus over the holidays give it a week until they are really jonesing for their show and then sit down with them and watch Wolf Moon(Pilot) and Second Chance at First Line on Netflix or DVD.

It's your best shot to get them hooked.