WOLF - bbc 1 - 9pm STARTS 31st July - Mon and Tue - TV PACED. NO SPOILERS

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This is tv paced. Sadly all will be on iPlayer - really wish they didn’t do this till all have been shown

Sighs

It’s 6 parts - on Monday and Tue x 3 weeks

Wolf is BBC One’s latest crime thriller offering, and we couldn’t be more excited.

From Happy Valley and Better toInside Man
and Crossfire,
the BBC has wowed us consistently with its recent
thriller (https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/thriller)
output.

Now, another meaty new drama is on the way and it looks like one we’ll have no problem getting our teeth stuck into.

Wolf is set to be BBC One’s major new crime drama and it’s based on Mo Hayder’s bestselling Jack Caffery novels.
Ukweli Roach (The Midwich Cuckoos (https://www.stylist.co.uk/entertainment/tv/the-midwich-cuckoos-keeley-hawes-sky/513967)) will play DI Jack Caffery, and now that the BBC has unveiled first-look images from the show, we can’t wait for this adaptation
to unfold on the small screen. With that, here’s everything you need to know about
Wolf

The upcoming six-part series will be based on the novels (https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/novel) of Mo Hayder, who rose to prominence within the crime thriller genre for her terrifying tales and shocking twists.

The BBC drama will blend a cold case (that has a personal connection to the lead detective) with some sinister parallel storylines.

“DI Jack Caffery is a young man searching for himself,” according to the BBC synopsis. “Obsessed with the neighbour he believes murdered his 10-year-old brother in the 90s, Jack finds himself trying to right the wrongs of others, but at what cost?

“In an isolated house in Monmouthshire, the wealthy Anchor-Ferrers family find themselves the victims of a psychopath’s cruel games, trapped and terrorised.

When the two narratives collide, it’s a thrilling, nail-biting and
deeply disturbing race against time.”

As well as Roach leading the cast as Caffery, the cast is jam-packed with familiar faces.
Sacha Dhawan (Doctor Who) and Iwan Rheon (Game Of Thrones (https://stylist.co.uk/tag/game-of-thrones)) will star as Honey and Molina, a pair of mismatched professionals who are forced together on a job.
Sian Reese-Williams (Line Of Duty (https://stylist.co.uk/tag/line-of-duty)) will star as DI Maia Lincoln, a woman with a case to prove; Juliet Stevenson (Bend It Like Beckham) will star as Matilda Anchor-Ferrers, an intelligent yet neurotic housewife; and Owen Teale (Line Of Duty, Game Of Thr
ones) will play Oliver Anchor-Ferrers, Matilda’s wealthy and well-connected husband.

Just watched the first one, haven't a clue what is going on to be honest, I'll watch the second one and see how it goes.

Finished it tonight. We very much enjoyed it - very different from what we normally watch. Quirky and holds your attention.

Just watched the first one. I clocked they weren’t real police right from the start.

The exposition was so clunky.

‘hello long term partner who I know well enough to live with. Why do you sleep in this room’
‘well, this is the room that belongs to my murdered brother and I live in this house that my parents left to me after they died. I’m surprised I have to explain this to you as you are my partner.’

‘do you miss your now dead parents?’
‘Not really, I didn’t speak to them that much. Again, I’m surprised that you don’t know that being my long term partner and that you live in the house with me that I inherited from them.’

And again, what is a donkey pitch? I know more than the average person about donkeys and I haven’t ever heard of a donkey pitch.

I'm Guessing we find more about the donkey pitch in e3

Priam, I thought the first episode clunky and implausible, but only because I was judging it as if it were a standard police procedural, and not the crock of deliberate extravagant daftness that it actually is.
Best to surrender to the experience and let the clunkiness clunk on by.

I've binge-watched it all now (but you will have to prise the definition of a donkey pitch from my cold dead hand). Found it enjoyable all the way to the end.

I think once you reliese it's a comedy thriller uou enjoy it even more

The eating of cake. Drinking from
The cartoon etx

Finished episode 2. Slightly better. I don’t understand the reason for the fake cancer diagnosis in episode one still.

As for the donkey pitch, I’m just going to read it as dove cote and assume someone got confused. It looked like a dove cote.

And I’m also going to assume to DCI Honey is forgetting to do a Welsh accent, not the actor.

She was just being a bitch

Was going for sympathy then say she was fine

She is sick

Sick in the head

Maybe she deserved to be decapitated on donkey pitch

Harsh...

I finished it today and loved it so much, so refreshing to have something that takes some risks with its tone. Felt sympathy for some awful characters at times. Some totally bonkers bits, loved the leads and not the usual actors they churn out time after time.

Really hope it gets re-commissioned as a lutherish series.

lolol at translating donkey pitch to dove cote. That makes sense.

A linguistic kerfuffle that could result in some terribly inhumane living conditions for donkeys.

The brick building that the young couple were in did look like a doocot - all the brick ledges on the wall. The Donkey Pitch was explained as a piece of woodland where somebody once kept donkeys.

Nearly gave up after E1. I couldn't see how anything was going to knit together and it felt clunky.
Just watched E2. Now you're talking! Excellent stuff

This is the inside of the dovecote near where I used to live. You don’t keep donkeys in a building like that.

I can't wait for Monday and 3

Yes I know all on iPlayer and can binge

But

I love the thrill and anticipation

And to absorb

Plus chatting to others the plot etx

So it seems that a donkey pitch isn’t a thing, it’s just that the area was known as that locally.
the building is a dove cote though I’m sure of that.
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a44699111/what-is-a-donkey-pitch-wolf/

Looks like Wolf was filmed at Ewenny Priory.

The building is a columbarium (dove or pigeon house).

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/ewenny-priory-900-year-long-story-delightful-complex-place-full-questions-conundrums-202798

I really liked this series, something quite different. But did anyone else find it distracting that the daughter was supposed to be 22 and the actress was just not believably that young?

But they do explain why the area is called the Donkey Pitch

I watched episode 1, which was weirdly amusing but at the end saw the trailer for episode 2 and thought ewww maybe not. Reading your comments however I think I need to catch up!

I gave up after 20 minutes of episode one but tried again yesterday and ended up watching the lot!

Loved it!

Sacha Dhawan and Iwan Rheon make excellent baddies.
Sacha played the latest incarnation of The Master in Doctor Who; a brilliant stroke of dramatic irony somewhere in episode 5 or 6. (Keeping it vague to avoid accusations of spoilering!)

Looking forward to 3 tomorrow

I'm back in the land of internet and tv and have caught up on 1&2. Absolutely bonkers. But I'm assuming it was meant to be and I quite liked it.

It has a Magpie Murders feel to it , but for younger audiences. I'm loving it .

Can't wait for tonight's

Been a while since a programme has really thrilled me

E3

Told you it was down. Tilly is ok !!!

So dad has heart surgery

Still not sure why daughter is traumatised - what happened to her at donkey fields

Fanny flaps 😂😂

Someone is def fucking with them. Buckets of intestines and cctv signs keep popping up

So they actually aren't the df killers just pretending

And the real one is strolling about minnet or something like that

I do like their comedy act of chatting to each other