The students of Beacon Hills High School have a lot of things to deal with when the school year begins this fall, but those with special powers will have more concerns when "Teen Wolf" season 5 premieres on MTV.
Things will be particularly stressful for senior students like Malia Tate (Shelley Hennig), who has to deal with common academic problems like college applications and making sure that she achieves decent SAT scores, while struggling with her life as a werecoyote. Good thing Malia has Scott (Tyler Posey) and the rest of his pack to call her friends. This makes her school life more bearable.
"Malia has basically gone through school with the pack by her side. That's been fun to see. She's still not totally finished, if you will, but I like the pack has accepted her," Hennig told Zap2it.
However, the actress also shared that Malia will experience more challenges emotionally, which the werecoyote is not used to.
According to Hennig, "The challenges I have had with playing Malia this season is that she's going through emotions we've never seen her go through before -- a lot of them are very human."
Meanwhile, Posey recently revealed to E! News that the plot of "Teen Wolf" season 5 will be the launching ground for a bigger story that could be tackled in season 6. The actor shared that the new villains this season called the Dread Doctors will become more vicious as the season progresses, and they could be staying in Beacon Hills for more than one season.
According to series creator Jeff Davis, the evolution of the new baddies was inspired by the stories regarding the Plague Doctors who existed during the time of the Bubonic plague, and the human experiments conducted by the Germans during the second World War, among others.
"We drew on all those things, but this is actually one of the times were we did our own creating. We call them scientists who worship the supernatural and they have a very specific agenda in Beacon Hills and they are going to get in Scott's way quite a bit," Davis said.
"Teen Wolf" season 5 will air its first episode titled "Creatures of the Night" on Monday, June 29, and the second episode titled "Paranoia" will come out on Tuesday, June 30.
