Night School (1×07)
This episode, in my mind, is where the show began to, simply put, become a good show-and I mean good beyond the irony of enjoying the first few episodes for how ridiculous (and kind of dumb) it was. Bringing all of the core cast together and sticking them in the same place allows for their chemistry to flourish. It also was the episode where the characters’ strengths began to be highlighted. This was at a point where Scott had yet to be turned into a classical, “cool guy” hero and was still, for all intents and purposes, a dumb teenage boy, and when no one but Stiles and Derek knew that he was a werewolf. Characterization had been okay up until this point, and “Night School” took an episode to refocus. Lydia was more than what she let on and was secretly a bit of a genius; Allison was already beginning to show signs of her independence and ability to take care of herself and her friends; Stiles began to show signs of maturity as well as impatience and anger towards people like Jackson. Also, it was a fun episode, one that took typical horror plot lines (teens locked in a location with a monster on their tails) and added some much needed humor.
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