What is it about?
Everett and Blake find their lives changed forever after a California wildfire is awakened by a terrifying supernatural entity. Distraught, the adults are inexplicably attracted to each other.
But they are also attracted to two other young people, fraternal twins Harlan and Luna, who were adopted sixteen years earlier by a forest ranger after another mysterious forest fire. As the full moon rises, four teenagers come together to face the mystery that binds them: a werewolf bite and blood.
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Iconic Buffy Summers, Sarah Michelle Gellar returns to television in the Wolf Pack series as an actress and executive producer. This time he plays one of the adults who tortures young teenagers and hunts not vampires but… werewolves! Among the other famous adult faces of the series, we find Rodrigo Santoro, who stood out in Love, Lost or even in the Western world.
The Wolf Pack series draws on four new talents to portray the main characters. Young Werewolves includes actors who have already made their mark in the series, such as Armani Jackson, seen in Grey’s Anatomy, and Bella Shepard, seen in The Wilds and Two Sides, but also youngsters who are making their debut as actors. Like Chloe Rose Robertson and Tyler Lawrence Gray.
Is it worth checking out?
Sarah Michelle Gellar’s presence in the Wolf Pack cast was enough to draw our attention to this fantastic new series for teenagers. The iconic Buffy is making its big return to television in the genre that brought it into the mainstream, passing the baton to the next generation.
Once he arrives in the (bad) first episode, we can’t help but be reminded of good memories of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from which the Wolf Pack borrows a few codes. A new series from Teen Wolf creator Geoff Davis uses lycanthropy and its mythology as metaphors for the psychological and physical transformation of teenagers.
Social anxiety, recognition by peers, physical changes, isolation, first emotions, family conflicts are the main themes of the series, which treats them with some care and relative modernity.
The young actors recruited to portray the characters in the series bring a certain freshness and fragility that suits their characters well, even if it goes through shaky performances in the beginning, which all improve as they go along.
Where the rub is the special effects and staging, which are pretty dated and don’t seem to have changed much since Teen Wolf. The fault, of course, is the budget, which doesn’t match the height of the series’ meager ambitions.
Still, The Wolf Pack suffers in comparison to other recent adult fantasy series with sharper special effects and more sophisticated staging.
If you have fairly simple expectations and imagine you’re in for a classic, unpretentious teen series with fairly limited MTV production facilities, then you’ll have to have a good time watching Wolf Pack, which remains entertaining. For the most demanding, go your way.
The Wolf Pack series is available on Paramount+ from February 23rd.
Source: Allocine
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