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- Peacock
- Jan 13, 2022
- Peacock
- Jan 13, 2022
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
- Peacock
- Jan 13, 2022
- Peacock
- Jan 13, 2022
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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Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
69
89% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
11% Mixed
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0% Negative
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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.
Wolf Like Me is pretty good television. It’s bad luck that it’s premiering in a time where if it’s going to be remembered, it needs to be great.
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.
Series creator/director Abe Forsythe gives “Wolf Like Me” some occasionally funny moments, but it’s mostly a somber downer, careening from one traumatic event to another.
Wolf takes its traumatic situation so seriously, I kept wanting it to let its hair down. [17 - 30 Jan 2022, p.9]
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