Wolf Like Me is an Australian comedy-drama television series produced by Stan in association with NBCUniversal and Peacock. It premiered on both streaming services on 13 January 2022. In April 2022, Peacock renewed the series for a second season. As of January 2024 it is not clear if there will be a third series.
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Plot
Gary (Josh Gad) is a single father living in Adelaide, Australia with his 11-year-old daughter Emma; both of them are still emotionally traumatized by the death of Emma's mother, Lisa, seven years earlier. They meet Mary (Isla Fisher), an isolated advice columnist recovering from her own complex emotional baggage. Despite her attempts to stay away, they keep meeting again and again, in a cluster of coincidences that imply the hand of destiny. While Gary struggles to connect to his daughter, for Mary reaching Emma is all but effortless. However, Mary's baggage involves a deadly secret that she fears might hurt the two: she is a werewolf.
Cast
Main
Isla Fisher as Mary
Josh Gad as Gary
Ariel Donoghue as Emma
Recurring
Anthony Taufa as Ray, Sarah's partner
Alan Dukes as Trevor, Emma's psychiatrist
Emma Lung as Sarah, Gary's sister-in-law
Justin Rosniak as Robert
Robin McLeavy as Caroline
Guests
Caroline Brazier as Principal
Catherine Văn-Davies as Melaine
Edgar Ramirez as Anton
Emily Barclay as Charlotte
Geoff Morrell as Peter Stenning
Helen Thomson as Jackie
Jake Ryan as Shane
Josh Quong Tart as Homeless Man
Michael Denkha as a Taxi Driver
Nash Edgerton
Rahel Romahn as Kaos
Robyn Nevin as Gwen
Sarah Roberts as Tara
Episodes
Production
The six-part series was produced by Jodi Matterson, Bruna Papandrea and Steve Hutensky. It was written by Abe Forsythe, who also directed all 6 episodes. In April 2021 it was announced that Isla Fisher and Josh Gad would star in the series. In December further cast members were announced with Ariel Donoghue, Emma Lung and Anthony Taufa, and guest roles for Jake Ryan, Robyn Nevin and Nash Edgerton. The series was filmed in the Inner West of Sydney in the suburbs of Forest Lodge, Glebe, Ashfield and Ashbury, Western Sydney, Menai, Sutherland and regional NSW. On 26 April 2022, Peacock renewed the series for a second season.
Release and reception
On 4 January 2022, a trailer was released, with it being described as "genre-bending." The series released all six 30-minute episodes on Peacock and Stan on 13 January 2022.
The series became available to view in Canada on Amazon Prime on 12 January 2022.
Overall, the series has been met by a positive reception. Metacritic, based on eight reviews, assigned the first season a rating of 69 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Rotten Tomatoes gave the Season 1 a 65% critical approval rating and an average rating of 6.3/10 based on 20 reviews, though filtering for "Top Critics" the score rose to 75%. Stating that the Critic's Consensus of, "Wolf Like Me's mixed bag of occasionally disparate elements takes time to gel, but Isla Fisher and Josh Gad make it easy to be patient."