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- 2022
- TV-MA
- Peacock
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Peacock
Summary Widower and single father Gary (Josh Gad) meets Mary (Isla Fisher), who has a secret she is keeping from everyone in this romantic comedy written and created by Abe Forsythe.
Created By: Abe Forsythe
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Peacock
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Peacock
Wolf Like Me
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 13, 2022
69
6.0
Summary Widower and single father Gary (Josh Gad) meets Mary (Isla Fisher), who has a secret she is keeping from everyone in this romantic comedy written and created by Abe Forsythe.
Created By: Abe Forsythe
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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91% Positive
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9% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
69
91% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It goes funnier, delves deeper, expands its own world, develops its relationships, and launches the series into even more unexpected territory than before. In other words, Wolf Like Me transforms itself — into something better and more brilliant.
Wolf Like Me is more drama than comedy, but it works either way, despite its strange premise. Much of that is thanks to Gad and Fisher, but it’s also because Forsythe has ground the show’s more supernatural elements in reality.
It’s a show of broad metaphors, perhaps one or two too many, that don’t always feel fully realized in the moment, but come together with pleasantly amusing potency after six episodes. ... The Wolf Like Me finale, shot to great effect in the Australian outback, pulls off the tough trick of being unresolved in a satisfying way.
Wolf Like Me may not do enough to cement itself in memory, but it's an unexpectedly heartfelt tale about a person overcoming the inherent fear of rejection and loss in order to try for love, and what happens when someone with those same fears is willing to reach out and meet them halfway.
While the show wouldn’t introduce something so messy, so tied up in grief and horror tropes only to betray it with an overabundance of schmaltz, the eventual conclusion for both Gary and Mary feels true to its overall spirit.
“Wolf Like Me” should become more intense and take us into even darker territory, and on some level that’s what happens, but there’s something curiously muted and underwhelming about the resolution of this promising story.
Wolf takes its traumatic situation so seriously, I kept wanting it to let its hair down. [17 - 30 Jan 2022, p.9]
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 User Ratings
6.0
60% Positive
9 Ratings
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13% Mixed
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27% Negative
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Production Company:
- Fifth Season
- Made Up Stories
Initial Release Date: Jan 13, 2022
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 5 Nominations
Casting Guild of Australia Awards
• 1 Nomination
APRA Silver Scroll Awards
• 1 Nomination
