Werewolf shows and movies have been done to death but this is living up to my expectations.
The first episode alone was all I needed to seal the deal and then I just kept watching it from there. The plot is intriguing and always thickens. It's getting better and better as each episode passes and has me super excited for the next episode as I binge watch this series. It's nice to not have all of the information about these characters laid right out at the start of the show. I also appreciate that for most of the season, the characters are relatively unknown about Werewolf lore, since they've had to figure it out all on their own. It's a nice shakeup of the All Knowing Mentor trope. Wolf Pack is set in the present day.
I really like how they're going about this that sets itself apart from Teen Wolf and Marvel's The Wolf Man shows the last two big werewolf shows we've gotten. The premise of these werewolves are more like; American werewolf in London and Lycans in Underworld. It seems more realistic and horrifying and that these are the werewolves that you sure don't wanna keep as pets, take for walks and cuddle. The opposite of werewolves found in Twilight and Hemlock Grove.
The show's creator has said in interviews that he doesn't want to show the story of someone 'fixing' an issue like anxiety or depression, he wants to show someone learning to cope with them. That's something that I really like. Wolf Pack is extremely current, dealing with topical issues like; the California wildfires, teens' relationships to technology and social media, anxiety in young people, how women can be abusive towards men, biological family vs family of choice. This show has the perfect blend of dark, gritty, and current trends among our youth and current society and culture. Werewolves are hard to do because you either need a convincing puppet/costume or else rely on CGI, which rarely works because werewolves require hair, eyes and all these things that are tricky to render. This show chooses CGI, which looks exactly as you'd expect. But the story and its effectiveness allows you to forgive it, just like we were able to do with Buffy whenever it had to try SFX. It's quite effective as a horror series, and is dripping with atmosphere, helped by the uniqueness of the wildfire backdrop.
It's great to see Sarah back! She proves that she can elevate any kind of horror story.
I'm extremely glad that I listened to the audience score and not the critic score. Its strengths outweigh its flaws, and it definitely deserves another year to prove itself.