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 New Faces for Season 5

We’re still months away from filming but already we see new Season 5 faces at Teen Wolf Headquarters in Northridge, California.

Filming on Season 5 is scheduled to begin by February meaning cast and crew will return to set in the first few weeks of the new year to prepare. Before that, the writers are already at work laying out the details of the action to come.

Joining the Teen Wolf Family this month are Talia Gonzalez and Bisanne Masoud. The writing team made their debut with the biting 2009 play FaceSpace. It took a comedic look at the then-nascent social media movement.

Teen Wolf will be the team’s first time working in a TV writers’ room but they've been writing screenplays and spec scripts, nibbling on the edge of success together for a few years now.


 * “I have finally landed my dream job! TV writer!” Gonzalez exclaimed. “MTV Teen Wolf Season 5, here we come. Let the werewolvery begin!”

Teen Wolf is known for giving writers their first break in television -


 * Angela Harvey (Time of Death, I. E. D., Frayed) joined the TW family early in the run, writing the scenarios for Teen Wolf: The Hunt online game. She is now a senior writer for the show.


 * Andrew Cochran (Shape Shifted) also had his first TV gig with Teen Wolf during Season 2 and has since gone on to write and produce on several projects including the Evan Peters, Emma Roberts pic Adult World.


 * Luke Passmore (Ice Pick) went straight from his Teen Wolf experience to writing for The Walking Dead.


 * Eoghan O’Donell (Galvanize, 117) moved from working in the writers’ room for Teen Wolf to running his own as Executive Producer on the upcoming CW show The Messengers.

 META Movies

Wikia User Calicokat continues this week with her series of articles introducing folks to the "META" concept of Teen Wolf. It is proving to be one of the more interesting aspects of Teen Wolf Fandom.

There are many facets (as there are with each portion of the fandom) but the simple premise behind the META movement is that there is a hidden narrative across the seasons. These articles are not designed to be a comprehensive treatise on the subject. We're only touching on the basics.

Part 3: Layers of Celluloid

By Calicokat


 * The previous two articles I did on the meta side of Teen Wolf were about popular fan theories on what might be going on within a secret subtext of the show. Today I want to talk about the more obvious meta layer the writers have placed within the show by writing in popular culture, specifically film, to add depth.


 * There's a lot going on in the background in Teen Wolf. In a subtle example, viewers who look closely at the blackboards and walls of Beacon Hills High School will find them covered in details and subtle commentary on events that play out on screen.


 * However, it's the extended bibliography and filmography, shown through specific scenes and within dialog, that's really captured my attention.


 * "One of the first ideas we had when developing the show was to give it an opening that was a kind of an homage to Stand by Me – kids going out into the woods to find a dead body." – Jeff Davis


 * What we're seeing on screen is a concerted effort, both vocally and visually, to honor the material that inspires the writers and directors.

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 Posey Sings – YouTube Swoons

Teen Wolf Tyler Posey returned to YouTube this weekend with a barrage of activity Saturday and Sunday.

In just 24 hours, Posey populated the old Lost in Kostko YouTube channel with almost an hour of new songs. He’s calling these solo cover tune performances "Music for your Ears to Bleed To" and, for a little while, was rolling out a new piece every few hours.

While the music is good enough - it is the actors’ interaction with the camera (the audience) that makes these priceless. Posey isn’t known for holding back. His stream of conscious is blasting on 10 most of the time and that is always fun to watch.

He doesn’t get any of the songs exactly right the first time, often stopping, cursing himself and once turning to his laptop to check the words. This too is part of the appeal of this collection. Posey is being real here, there’s no acting in these videos.

The selection includes this exuberant version of Dumpweed from Blink 182.



He seems a little melancholy as he runs through this set including Blink’s Dammit, Somewhere Over the Rainbow and You are my Sunshine.



Posey dips into his childhood memories for the blues rock classic I’m Your Captain/Closer to Home from Grand Funk Railroad, a song about loss, loneliness and longing.



His most earnest effort on the album comes with a cover of The Beatles Blackbird. He struggles across three different videos to get the simple-seeming song right because he loves it so much.



As to why the actor has turned to YouTube as his artistic outlet - he explains in this video covering Third Eye Blind’s Motorcycle Drive By.


 * “I love to play music and it’s so much fun but I’m not the best at it and I don’t give a shit. It’s just so much fun and I want music to be in my life so I’m going to put it out there. I’m going to record myself playing music and show you guys.”

 The Sheriff’s New Case

Actor Linden Ashby is just back from Seattle, Washington where he filmed for two weeks on something called Beta Test.

Linden is alongside some familiar faces including Actors Manu Bennett (Deathstroke from the CW series ARROW) and Larenz Tate. It is believed that Bennett plays the villain up against Linden’s good guy.

Writer/Director Nicholas Gyeney describes the film as:


 * “A sci-fi action thriller described as a cross between Die Hard, Gamer, and The Firm. This story deals with corporate conspiracies, and greed, and the power of video games in the 21st century. I wanted to make a film that is socially relevant while fulfilling my fantasy of a 90s throwback action movie.”

We’ll hopefully learn more about the effort in the coming weeks and bring you an update.