Wolf Lake

A Show Before It’s Time

Happy Saturday, Belles & Beaux!

Earlier this year I re-re-discovered one of my favorite shows, Wolf Lake. Someone has so kindly put it up on YouTube and I’m very grateful for this person as the show has not made an appearance on any TV channels since I was in middle school. Now if this show had been released in today’s supernatural obsessed world, then maybe we would have actually learned what happened in Wolf Lake. Sadly, the world will most likely never know.

Seattle policeman John Kanin proposes marriage to his girlfriend, Ruby Wilder, and she accepts. However, as she gets into her car, she is attacked. The only thing Kanin finds of his now fiancé, is a severed hand. He travels to her hometown of Wolf Lake to find some answers. His experiences there raise even more questions. What John doesn’t know is that some of the inhabitants of Wolf Lake are actually werewolves. The werewolves, or the ones who survive the change, live on the “Hill” and enjoy special treatment, separated from the normal humans.

The show opens with John and Ruby in his apartment in Seattle. She leaves to pick them up take out and is attacked in her vehicle. This leads John to spiral out of control in his search for her until he receives an anonymous phone call saying that she was in Wolf Lake, a small town outside of Seattle. When John arrives, he finds a small town with a secret… A secret that the town – whether they are on the Hill or not – keeps under what could be considered a penalty of death.

Over the course of the show, John slowly begins to start piecing together the secret of Wolf Lake. Meanwhile, Luke and the rest of the Hill kids are using their werewolf abilities to torture Sophia – nicknamed as Zoobait due to her mother being human and her father being a werewolf.

The show in general has a fabulous premise. However, due to what I would guess was a lack of good ratings, the show ended up being canceled with only the first few episodes aired. A couple other channels picked the show up and aired all nine episodes, but sadly no other production company ever decided to continue on with the show. I absolutely fell in love with the show thanks to my mother and it was my first introduction into the supernatural world that I have come to love over the years.

I truly wish someone would either pick it up or create a sequel series that takes places years down the road as well as fills in the gaps of what we missed between the original show and the current day. I think the main reason I want it so bad is because of Paul Wesley in the show as Luke Cates. And this was before he’d had the tribal looking tattoo on his right bicep turned into that gorgeous giant rose he now has. The whole cast was full of easily recognizable faces with some amazing talent along with a story line that just seems to grab you.

Would it survive in today’s world? More than likely with the likes of Vampire Diaries and The Originals having survived as long as they did.