Supernatural (TV Series) Sharp Teeth (2014) User Reviews

Garth should not have been in this episode OR the main concept should have been revised

[CubsandCulture · 7/10 · 18 September 2020]

This episode suffers greatly by sticking Garth into a situation that is inherently serious. I do not mean him becoming a werewolf. That's fine and depending on how it is written it could have been a standard goofy Garth episode. Instead, the werewolf church and the sectarian violence that forms the main drama of the episode is not comedic. Add in the intense family dynamics at play and it is a serious (enough) episode. The werewolf church ties in thematically pretty clearly with the Angel war and it feels correct to explore a concept like the wolf church this season. But Garth does not belong here.

The Garth-abet with a little bit of melodrama-is written exactly the same goofball he always is. That stuff is within the normal range of amusing but in the end it stands outs as off in this episode. Qualls does a lot to smooth over the tonal conflict-I don't have a problem with Garth being apologetic for being missing, Kevin-but the character is *comedic.* Perhaps if Garth was in the show more (he's in all of 6 episodes, ~10 more if you count off handed references) they could have wrote other more serious episodes involving him but this is the only one that is remotely serious in the overall tone.

Lame Garth

[danajs24 · 6/10 · 13 September 2016]

This was the lamest of all of Garth's appearances I think. This episode lacked quite a bit in original content, revisiting werewolves again. I feel like each monster can only be the main monster 1 episode, and everything after that is doomed to be boring. The ulterior motive in some of the wolves was very predictable, and getting to the point that it was revealed seemed to take forever. Also, while this episode wasn't great, it seems to be the end of Garth being a recurring character in the series, as he has a new life now. Bummer all around. Hopefully we get back to the main story line after this episode and they don't take a break, as I feel there is a lot that can still happen in it.

Werewolves or something

[shwetafabm · 8/10 · 30 June 2020]

I missed Garth so it was nice seeing him The classic monsters not always bad dilemma I don't even know what the last of Sam meant but we have gone down this road too many times to know its meaningless drama in the end. I liked the feel of the ep atleast

Another Dean character development story!

[mm-39 · 7/10 · 30 January 2014]

Sharp Teeth episode is one lame story. Another Twilight series style story! Instead of feuding vampire family/community the story-line is replaced with a feuding werewolf family/community. One of Sharp Teeth's made subplots is the ongoing character development of Dean Winchester. What we learned about Dean's character is: Dean will go it alone and do his own thing. He thinks he can do it on his own and sometimes does not realize he can use help or that people care for him. He has the "that's my problem attitude". Dean takes on all responsibility and blames himself. Dean apologizes roughly and does offensive actions for the right reasons. He acts like a heroic martyr. The brothers reunite in this episode for hunting reasons. What more will we learn about Dean as the brothers relationship evolves. I forgot Dean hides his emotional soft spot, but it comes out.

It was okay

[wolfordcheyenne · 7/10 · 21 March 2020]

I was hoping for a better storyline. Garth is a great character, but this episode was not the best. I didn't watch any previews, so I had no idea Garth would be in it. I also didn't know that it was a werewolf episode. I was hoping for a new kind of monster, to add a little variety to the show. Werewolf and vampire plots are getting kinda stale.

Not exactly what I was hoping for...

[Shane3182 · 5/10 · 28 January 2014]

As the promo already spoiled to the audience, Garth (aka the new Bobby) is a werewolf. Sam and Dean (reluctantly) start working together to figure out what is really going on.

There were a handful of things I enjoyed about this episode. I did enjoy having Garth back, since he did vanish out of the blue last season, leaving Kevin to fend for himself. It was good to have some answers. I enjoyed some of the Sam and Dean moments where they talk about what happened and "deal" with their issues (the Winchester way). As for the case itself, well, it definitely felt like a filler. At no point in this episode, besides the Dean and Sam moments, did I think "wow this is important".

The idea of "friendly monsters" has been a bit of a theme the last few seasons, with the occasional monster being nice to humans. And while I am all for friendly monsters and side-characters, this episode did nothing to pull me in and make me care about the people (or rather, werewolves) in this episode. There have been times in the past where single-episode characters tugged at my heartstrings and left me feeling emotionally attached to them by the end. I'm not sure what it was about the characters in this, but I didn't care much for them. I couldn't bring myself to care about who was the bad guy, who was the good guy, or even who died in the crossfire.

Something else that bothered me was the really bad teeth and eyes of the werewolves. We've had werewolves in previous Supernatural seasons, and even though it was often clear that they had fangs just put on top of their teeth, they never looked awful. The teeth and eyes of this episode reminded me of something I might see a child wearing on Halloween. Which was especially strange because at one point we see a CGI version of werewolf fangs and eyes, which looked really good. The only thing I can conclude is that they used up their whole budget on that one scene and were forced to use plastic fangs for the rest of the episode.

After an episode where Dean gets the Mark of Cain, how can the writers expect me to honestly care about a few werewolves sitting around a piano singing songs? I would much rather see them tracking down a character like, say, Abaddon? Or Bartholomew? When was the last time he was even mentioned? Has he become a forgotten villain already?

On top of that, Castiel was not even mentioned /once/ in this episode. I understand that this was supposed to be an episode about the brothers, but Sam honestly just left Cas at the bunker for no reason. The least they could do is say "Cas is at the bunker" or just confirm that Sam didn't just ditch him to go run after a few werewolves.

So, it's not that I hated this episode, but I was really hoping for something more, especially following a massive plot turn like we had last episode. So far this season, only about half of the episodes have actually been related to the plot. And when you have not one, but THREE villains running loose, it's probably a good idea to focus on that instead of a group of religious wolves.