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Wolf Like Me is a comedy-drama series about two strangers who find each other after a tragedy. See the trailer, cast, and ratings from critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Jan 13, 2022 · A romantic comedy about a man and a werewolf, with dark humor and baggage. The series has chemistry between Josh Gad and Isla Fisher, but the story is flabby and contrived.
Jan 12, 2022 · Wolf Like Me. Isla Fisher and Josh Gad play an emotionally vulnerable couple whose chances at romance are complicated by one very strange secret in Abe Forsythe's dark comedy series.
Critics are mixed on this romantic comedy series starring Isla Fisher and Josh Gad as two strangers who find each other after a car accident. See the ratings, trailers, and show information on Rotten Tomatoes.
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- January 13, 2022
- Isla Fisher, Josh Gad
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Jan 14, 2022 7:35 pm
Posted: Jan 13, 2022 4:00 pm
All six episodes of Wolf Like Me debut Thursday, Jan. 13 on Peacock.
Despite sometimes feeling like writer/director Abe Forsythe's elaborate, expensive attempt to get you to listen to Queens of the Stone Age's "Fortress" (which you will awkwardly hear in its entirety at one point), Wolf Like Me is a surprisingly earnest go at a love story between a man and a werewolf. Yes, that sounds like logline for a parody, or in the very least a horror-comedy, but Wolf Like Me is its own beast (pun intended). It's a drama(dy?) and it works.
Josh Gad and Isla Fisher star in this bold genre take on relationships wherein the aforementioned monster is both a metaphor for emotional baggage, vulnerability, the fear of inviting someone new into your life, and all the anxious floaters orbiting a budding romance while also literally being a werewolf who goes berserk every full moon. Bottom line, Gad and Fisher, as Gary and Mary, make this peculiar project work. They're both so grounded and effective that they can sell both the wrenching heart of this story as well as the occasionally goofy lines that feel like they're included for trailer purposes.
Both characters are struggling terribly with loneliness and loss, in ways that are unique and also relatable, as Gary finds himself floundering so much after the death of his wife that he can't communicate with his troubled 11-year-old daughter Emma (Ariel Donoghue) and Mary...well, she got American Werewolf in London'd (in Prague, though) and has been transforming into a wolf ever since. As a U.S./Aussie co-production, Wolf Like Me takes place in Australia, which functions as the place Gary lived with his late wife and the far-off realm Mary exiled herself to in order to stay away from loved ones.
Again, all our instincts tell us that this show should play things way dopier than it does. It should function like 1988's My Stepmother Is an Alien or 2006's My Super Ex-Girlfriend, which mix together fantastical elements with rom-com farce, but Wolf Like Me plays it straight. It runs so against the grain, in fact, that there are times you forget Mary is a werewolf and that that's the problem being discussed. In fact, sometimes the broader elements here, ones that feel like they would play better in a rom-com, feel out of place because the drama is rather domineering (and it works way better). Except, that is, for the gruesome goings-on in the sixth episode -- the finale -- which all feels appropriately heightened.
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Wolf Like Me is a delightful surprise. As as monster love story that resonates with genuine emotion and sharp psychology, it plays against type by being a drama first and foremost. Its leads, Josh Gad and Isla Fisher, are more than adept at comedy but they're used here to take the outlandish premise and chisel it down into something relatable and p...
A drama about a man and a werewolf who fall in love, starring Josh Gad and Isla Fisher. The show balances the supernatural element with the characters' emotional struggles, but suffers from some tonal inconsistencies and a Queens of the Stone Age obsession.
Jan 13, 2022 · Wolf Like Me is right up there with the likes of Russian Doll for just smart and fun storytelling that brings the surreal into the very real. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17,...
Jan 13, 2022 · 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.
