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

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Blondeshavemorefun · 25/07/2023 17:26

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.

https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/thriller)

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Sasha19052 · 16/08/2023 12:18

The dream in a dream in a dream in Ep 4 is such overkill. Gets really annoying. Dreams are so pointless in a drama

faffadoodledo · 16/08/2023 12:44

@Blondeshavemorefun of
Course! They just traded us by making us think it was a simple
Good-bye note.

faffadoodledo · 16/08/2023 12:45

@Bookist May I ask which one? Am desperate to know!!

Blondeshavemorefun · 16/08/2023 13:30

@Bookist I have all 7. Will read in order but wolf is no 7 and her last book before she died

So if it says about jacks brother in 1-6 why then in book 7/wolf drama so he not know

Or has the adaption of book wolf changed to drama wolf

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PriamFarrl · 16/08/2023 13:51

The library have the books available for download. Honestly an e-reader which can borrow library books is worth the money.

butterpuffed · 16/08/2023 14:21

@Bookist So if Jack's brother's fate was covered in another book but Wolf was the last one she wrote , this drama was picking and choosing from some of her former books ??

I found some of it confusing as had to wait one week in between each episode but thoroughly enjoyed it . One of the best I've seen for ages .

Bookist · 16/08/2023 14:55

Blondeshavemorefun · 16/08/2023 13:30

@Bookist I have all 7. Will read in order but wolf is no 7 and her last book before she died

So if it says about jacks brother in 1-6 why then in book 7/wolf drama so he not know

Or has the adaption of book wolf changed to drama wolf

Yes the book Wolf is different.

Blondeshavemorefun · 16/08/2023 17:18

Ah. I look forward to reading it

But

Why do they think a book is so great and make a drama out of it but then change the bloody story 🙄🙄🙄🙄

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Blondeshavemorefun · 16/08/2023 17:18

butterpuffed · 16/08/2023 14:21

@Bookist So if Jack's brother's fate was covered in another book but Wolf was the last one she wrote , this drama was picking and choosing from some of her former books ??

I found some of it confusing as had to wait one week in between each episode but thoroughly enjoyed it . One of the best I've seen for ages .

It was good wasnt it @butterpuffed

Well done for not bingeing !!!

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butterpuffed · 16/08/2023 18:24

Blondeshavemorefun · 16/08/2023 17:18

It was good wasnt it @butterpuffed

Well done for not bingeing !!!

😇!

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 18/08/2023 08:48

DD wanted to watch this one. I watched the first episode and wasn't sure I wanted to continue but bloody glad I did!

We finished it last night, it was incredible.

I've never read the books or indeed heard of the author but will definitely be reading it very soon.

Blondeshavemorefun · 18/08/2023 20:57

@SiouxsieSiouxStiletto it was fab

im going to start book one next week

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Blondeshavemorefun · 21/08/2023 13:44

Or today 😂

Started birdman. Know why it's called that

Very good so far !!!

Timeline for those who have read all the books

Jack has been with Veronica 6mths or so and about to dump her but she says her throat hurts

We know in book 7/wolf that she was faking cancer to stop him dumping her. (I said she was awful doing that)

So what is the timeline between all 7 books - a month or so per book /case ?

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Blondeshavemorefun · 22/08/2023 11:41

No one read all the books ?

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TheHorneSection · 23/08/2023 08:22

The books are in a completely different order, they’ve moved stuff around for the show. Though I get why as the first few books are so graphic they’d be hard to put on TV.

The first two books are set in London and Jack is looking for Ewan and dating Veronica. He breaks up with her and gets with a woman called Rebecca. The Ewan storyline gets finished at the end of book 2. Then from books 3-7 he’s moved out of London and broken up with Rebecca and there’s another female police officer he has a sort of thing with. There’s years between the books and Wolf is the last one.

Blondeshavemorefun · 23/08/2023 11:46

Thanks @TheHorneSection

In 1 - birdman they are talking about a party but that was shown in wolf and her faking cancer

Why do they mix books up /take plots out of other books

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TheHorneSection · 23/08/2023 11:50

I guess it's because there is no way they are putting most of the other books on TV, but they thought those plot lines were interesting. Have you read all the books? I just re-read Birdman and the Treatment, I'd forgotten quite how terrifying The Treatment was, especially as I read it when I could see Brockwell Park out of my flat window!

Blondeshavemorefun · 23/08/2023 12:55

No. I'm only on book 1 birdman. I got them all off eBay for £20 so less then £3 a book. Bargain

I love a book

Maybe I should be blondeslovesbooks 😂

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Jessa121 · 26/08/2023 09:06

Great dark dynamic in the show .😘

Blondeshavemorefun · 26/08/2023 16:08

@Thunderpunt this was very good

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WiddlinDiddlin · 27/08/2023 17:07

Ive started teh books on the back of enjoying Wolf...

So far it seems they've taken elements from all the books to fill out Jacks background and make you wonder if he is seeing things/losing the plot etc.

Some of that worked well but I think the bits with his girlfriend didn't - it seems in Episode 1 that its rather odd she's living with him and its a long term relationship... but in the book its clear its not that long term, and she's rather moved herself in and taken over and hes not in the right place to tell her to fuck off.

Blondeshavemorefun · 27/08/2023 17:55

@WiddlinDiddlin I'm halfway through birdman book 1. Really enjoying but as you said things happening in it are also in wild which confused me with the party and lack of dye in her veins

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WiddlinDiddlin · 27/08/2023 18:00

Im wondering if they (the mysterious TV 'they') want to do more based on the series... and this is a toe in the water to see if there is an audience for it..

It seems odd to take a series and start with the last 'case' and mix in back story and plot arcs from the start...

Really enjoying Birdman though... and I really loved Iwan's part in Wolf, he is SO good at the nice/funny/creepy/fucking scary/nice... thing... really unsettling!

Blondeshavemorefun · 27/08/2023 18:19

@WiddlinDiddlin yes very good acting

He is so different in riveria

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Blondeshavemorefun · 29/08/2023 22:18

I don't watch dr who but honey aka Sacha Dhawan was him

Has this been discussed ?

Sacha will be in new thriller later on on bbc Virdee

Detective Harry Virdee, a Bradford cop disowned by his Sikh family for marrying Saima, who is Muslim.

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