Teen Wolf and the Problem of Puberty
The moral case for coming to terms with what puberty does to you.
Puberty is weird.
Your body goes through all kinds of changes. Things grow in places that they never did before. Not just on the outside either. You start to feel things you never felt before. It's very confusing and can screw you up in all kinds of ways. Because of these feelings, you're going to make lots of decisions that you never thought you would. Like you have no real control over your body or the way it's telling you what to do. Of course, you do have some control but it doesn't really feel like you do. Almost like you've been completely transformed into an entirely different person. Maybe even a whole new animal of some kind. You're no longer the human you thought you were up until this point.
Of course, humans go through this process by default. Everyone knows that they do but not one experience is exactly the same. We all end up in a different place after puberty. This makes relating to other people really difficult. Yet at the same time you really want to get to know other people, in part because of what you've been through. Part of the whole point of puberty is to make you ready to get involved, emotionally and physically with other people. But because we all come out of it differently, we're never quite sure who had enough of a similar experience that you can come together happily. What makes it even weirder is that we tend to put everyone who is going through it together in the same place at the same time, mainly high school.
Having so many people all going through such massive changes to their bodies all in the same place only really adds to the confusion and uncertainty. Emotions are high and bodily functions are raging. With all of them together in the same place, you're likely to rip each other apart if you're not careful in being able to manage it. You might as well stick a bunch of animals in a cage together who don't get along and see what happens. Spoiler alert, it probably won't end very well.
Teen Wolf is very much about what happens when you're transformed thanks to puberty. Scott McCall, as played by Tyler Posey, is a raging hormone machine. He has all kinds of feelings he doesn't know how to deal with. Urges that he wants to control but circumstances beyond his control simply won't let him. People around Scott want him to give in to the way he's feeling and enjoy the carnage it creates. But he doesn't want to do it. He doesn't want to be the kind of crazy person that other people who have gone through this process have become. His body has other plans though and he has to find a way to keep not only the people around him but his own feelings in check.
Do yourself a favour and go through the process of puberty by checking out Teen Wolf as soon as you can.
Check it out on Amazon Prime as well as Hulu. The Teen Wolf movie was also just released on Paramount Plus.