Wolf Is The New BBC Crime Thriller To Get Obsessed With
When it comes to crime thrillers, the BBC is still one of the best for nail-biting dramas that’ll have you glued to your sofa and waiting impatiently for the next episode to release. The broadcaster has already had a strong start with not only Happy Valley’s final series but also the high-stakes heist drama The Gold– and they’re looking to keep up that streak with the upcoming series Wolf. Set on the Jack Caffery series of novels by Mo Hayder, the Wolf TV series is set to arrive later this year and we can tell it’s going to be a hit.
What We Know About The New Wolf TV Series So Far
The novels focus on the cases of Detective Inspector Jack Caffery, beginning with Birdman in 1999 and ending with Wolf in 2014. The Caffery novels are often dark and disturbing in content, but won critical praise, and became best sellers. This new TV version sees the detective obsessed with a neighbour who he’s convinced killed his younger brother in the 1990s. However, this path of revenge and righting wrongs takes a bigger toll than he imagined, as he grapples with the cost of pursuing justice. Jack is played by Ukweli Roach, who’s best known for his roles in Blindspot, The Midwhich Cuckoos and Humans. He’s a young man searching for himself and constrained by the limits of his job.
Running parallel to Jack’s story of a search for justice is another narrative, of a wealthy family who find themselves trapped in a maze of cruel games at the hands of a psychopath. The Anchor-Ferrers are thrown into disarray as these increasingly disturbing games play on their psychology- and their story will collide with Jack’s in what the BBC describes as a thrilling race against time. The Achor-Ferrers consist of Oliver (Owen Teale), Matilda (Juliet Stevenson) and Lucia (Annes Elwy).
While we don’t know much about them, the preview images show the affluent family in the house, with Lucia chained to the fridge, and each of them look as though they’re going to have to make some hard choices.
Also in the mix are Honey and Molina, two “mismatched professionals forced together on a job”, played by Doctor Who’s Sacha Dhawan and Game of Thrones’ Iwan Rheon, and Sian Reese-Williams (Line of Duty) as DI Maia Lincoln, “a woman with a case to prove.” There’s no definite release date for Wolf yet, but given the preview images you can expect it to arrive sometime later this year- and stay tuned for the trailer.
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