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* TerrifiedTransformationWitness: In the second episode, Gary goes to Mary's house to ask for his keys back, but in the middle of their argument, she locks herself in her basement vault. Gary looks through the viewport and is visibly horrified by what he sees. In the following episode, it's revealed that she turned into a wolf and slaughtered two chickens and a goat.
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The first season premiered in 2022, and the second season premiered in 2023.

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The first season premiered in January 13th of 2022, and the second season premiered in October 19th of 2023.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mary was bitten by a werewolf while in Prague, then turned into one and ([[NeverFoundTheBody most likely]]) ate her husband at a rock concert that happened to be the night of a full moon. Then she transformed again while in Italy and ate an Italian family, before she fled all the way to Australia.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mary was bitten by a werewolf while in Prague, then turned into one and ([[NeverFoundTheBody most likely]]) ate her husband at a rock concert that happened to be the night of a full moon. Then she transformed again while in Italy and ate an Italian entire family, before she fled all the way to Australia.
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* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2 has her [[spoiler: maternity]] wedding dress get ruined by [[spoiler: her unborn baby turning into a werewolf, [[ChestBurster ripping its way out of her womb]], and]] attacking everyone at the wedding. Emma's flower-girl dress in the same nightmare also gets drenched in blood.

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* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2 has her [[spoiler: maternity]] wedding dress get ruined by [[spoiler: her unborn baby turning into a werewolf, transforming and [[ChestBurster ripping its way out of her womb]], and]] attacking everyone at the wedding. Emma's flower-girl dress in the same nightmare also gets drenched in blood.



* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: In the season 1 finale, Mary is OK with telling Emma about her being pregnant, but can't muster enough courage to tell Emma that she's a werewolf. Rendered a moot point the next evening when Emma sees Mary's wolf form in action]].

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* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: In the season 1 finale, Mary is OK with telling Emma about her being pregnant, but can't muster enough courage to tell Emma that she's a werewolf. Rendered a moot point the next evening night when Emma sees Mary's wolf form in action]].



* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mary was bitten by a werewolf while in Prague, then turned into a werewolf and [[NeverFoundTheBody presumably ate]] her husband at a rock concert that happened to be the night of a full moon. Then she transformed again while in Italy, and apparently ate an Italian family, before she fled all the way to Australia.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mary was bitten by a werewolf while in Prague, then turned into a werewolf one and [[NeverFoundTheBody presumably ate]] ([[NeverFoundTheBody most likely]]) ate her husband at a rock concert that happened to be the night of a full moon. Then she transformed again while in Italy, Italy and apparently ate an Italian family, before she fled all the way to Australia.



* FairyTaleWeddingDress: Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2 has Mary in a Fairy-Tale [[spoiler: maternity]] wedding dress, that gets [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress ruined]] when [[spoiler: her unborn baby turns into a Werewolf, [[ChestBurster rips itself out of her womb]], and]] attacks everyone at the wedding.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Emma's SecurityBlanket being a plush wolf foreshadows Mary's Lycanthropy, which is first revealed at the end of the first episode.
** That same plush wolf being placed [[spoiler: in the baby crib]], and Mary's affectionate treatment of it while she's in wolf form, also foreshadows [[spoiler: Gary and Mary's then-unborn baby is also a Werewolf]].

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* FairyTaleWeddingDress: Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2 has Mary in a Fairy-Tale [[spoiler: maternity]] wedding dress, that gets [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress ruined]] when [[spoiler: her unborn baby turns into a Werewolf, [[ChestBurster rips itself out of her womb]], and]] attacks everyone at the wedding.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Emma's SecurityBlanket being a plush wolf foreshadows Mary's Lycanthropy, lycanthropy, which is first revealed at the end of the first episode.
** That same plush wolf being placed [[spoiler: in the baby crib]], and Mary's affectionate treatment of it while she's in wolf form, also foreshadows [[spoiler: Gary and Mary's then-unborn baby is also a Werewolf]].werewolf]].
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* CampingEpisode: The Season 1 Finale starts with Gary, Mary, and Emma out camping in the Australian Outback, only for their car to break down before they get home. [[spoiler: The full moon rises before they can get home, and Mary eats two carjackers who try to exploit the situation]].

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* CampingEpisode: The Season 1 Finale starts with Gary, Mary, and Emma out camping in the Australian Outback, only for their car to break down before they get home. [[spoiler: The full moon rises before they can get home, fix it, and Mary eats two carjackers who try to exploit the situation]].
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* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: In the season 1 finale, Mary is OK with telling Emma about her being pregnant, but can't muster enough courage to tell Emma that she's a Werewolf. Rendered a moot point the next evening when Emma sees Mary's wolf form in action]].

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* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: In the season 1 finale, Mary is OK with telling Emma about her being pregnant, but can't muster enough courage to tell Emma that she's a Werewolf.werewolf. Rendered a moot point the next evening when Emma sees Mary's wolf form in action]].
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* CampingEpisode: The Season 1 Finale starts with Gary and Mary out camping in the Australian Outback, only for their car to break down before they get home. [[spoiler: The full moon rises before they can get home, and Mary eats two carjackers who try to exploit the situation]].

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* CampingEpisode: The Season 1 Finale starts with Gary Gary, Mary, and Mary Emma out camping in the Australian Outback, only for their car to break down before they get home. [[spoiler: The full moon rises before they can get home, and Mary eats two carjackers who try to exploit the situation]].
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The season 2 finale ends on this note. Mary [[spoiler: successfully gives birth to her pup and acts gentle with it]], but [[spoiler: the police are at their door]].



** [[MassOhCrap Gary, Mary, Emma, Sarah, and Ray]] when [[spoiler: Mary starts turning into a Werewolf ''while in labor, at the hospital, in broad daylight'']].
*** Sarah and Ray when [[spoiler: they witness first-hand that Gary was ''not'' kidding about Mary being a Werewolf]].

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** [[MassOhCrap Gary, Mary, Emma, Sarah, and Ray]] when [[spoiler: Mary starts turning into a Werewolf werewolf ''while in labor, at the hospital, in broad daylight'']].
*** Sarah and Ray when [[spoiler: they witness first-hand that Gary was ''not'' kidding about Mary being a Werewolf]].werewolf]].
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* ScreamingBirth: [[spoiler: Played Straight in the first half of Mary's labor. Averted once she transforms].

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* ScreamingBirth: [[spoiler: Played Straight in the first half of Mary's labor. Averted once she turns into a Werewolf]].

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* ScreamingBirth: [[spoiler: Played Straight in the first half of Mary's labor. Averted once she turns into a Werewolf]].transforms].


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* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: After Gary discovers that Mary is a werewolf, she asks is he's going to tell anyone. While he ''is'' terrified, he brings up that nobody would believe him.
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** [[spoiler: As of the season 2 finale, Lycanthropy is also shown to be hereditary, and female Werewolves apparently give birth while in wolf form, on the night of a full moon that is nearest their due date]].

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** [[spoiler: As of the season 2 finale, Lycanthropy is also shown to be hereditary, and female Werewolves werewolves apparently give birth while in wolf form, on the night of a full moon that is nearest their due date]].
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* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: As she is quick to tell Gary when he assumes otherwise, Mary can't recall her actions as a wolf. [[spoiler: Mary's ex-boyfriend Anton, who is also a Werewolf, also has this issue when he appears in season 2, basically confirming this to Gary]].

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* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: As she is quick to tell Gary when he assumes otherwise, Mary can't recall her actions as a wolf. [[spoiler: Mary's ex-boyfriend Anton, who is also a Werewolf, werewolf, also has this issue when he appears in season 2, basically confirming this to Gary]].

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* GoryDiscretionShot: Mary's transformations into a werewolf are always given this [[spoiler: until the season 2 finale]].

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* GoryDiscretionShot: Mary's transformations into a werewolf are always given this [[spoiler: until the season 2 finale]].GoryDiscretionShot:



* TransformationSequence: Averted most of the time, Mary's transformations are given a GoryDiscretionShot. [[spoiler: Played Straight when Mary transforms ''when in labor'' in broad daylight during the season 2 finale]].

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* TransformationSequence: Averted most of the time, TransformationDiscretionShot: Mary's transformations into a werewolf are always given a GoryDiscretionShot. this [[spoiler: Played Straight until the season 2 finale]].
* TransformationSequence: Mary doesn't get an on-screen one [[spoiler: until the season 2 finale,
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In Adelaide, Australia, Gary (Gad) is a widower with a 12-year-old daughter named Emma, both of them struggling with depression after Gary's wife passed away from cancer nearly a decade before. Into their life comes Mary, a much more energetic woman whom Emma latches onto and Gary falls in love with.

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In Adelaide, Australia, Gary (Gad) is a widower with a 12-year-old daughter named Emma, both of them struggling with depression after Gary's wife passed away from cancer nearly a decade before. before; Emma also spends a lot of time with her aunt Sarah and uncle Ray, when Gary isn't up to taking care of her. Into their life comes Mary, Mary (Fisher), a much more energetic woman whom Emma latches onto and Gary falls in love with.


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* LettersToTheEditor: Mary's day-job is as a writer who responds to "Dear Adelaide" letters in the local paper. Some of Mary's monologues at the beginning of episodes are also presented in this format.

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* ShoutOut: Mary gifts Emma a copy of Literature/{{Contact}} as an apology gift for the car crash in the pilot episode. Author Creator/CarlSagan is also name-dropped, as is his relation to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record the Voyager Golden Records]].

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Mary gifts Emma a copy of Literature/{{Contact}} as an apology gift for the car crash in the pilot episode. Author Creator/CarlSagan is also name-dropped, as is his relation to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record the Voyager Golden Records]].Records]].
** Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2 shows [[spoiler: a baby werewolf [[ChestBurster ripping itself out of its mother's womb]] ]]. [[Film/GoodManners Where have we seen that before]]?
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* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2 has her [[spoiler: maternity]] wedding dress get ruined by [[spoiler: her unborn baby turning into a werewolf,[[ChestBurster ripping its way out of her womb]], and]] attacking everyone at the wedding. Emma's flower-girl dress in the same nightmare also gets drenched in blood.

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* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2 has her [[spoiler: maternity]] wedding dress get ruined by [[spoiler: her unborn baby turning into a werewolf,[[ChestBurster werewolf, [[ChestBurster ripping its way out of her womb]], and]] attacking everyone at the wedding. Emma's flower-girl dress in the same nightmare also gets drenched in blood.



** FairyTaleWeddingDress: Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2 has Mary in a Fairy-Tale [[spoiler: maternity]] wedding dress, that gets [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress ruined]] when [[spoiler: her unborn baby turns into a Werewolf, [[ChestBurster rips itself out of her womb]], and]] attacks everyone at the wedding.

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** * FairyTaleWeddingDress: Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2 has Mary in a Fairy-Tale [[spoiler: maternity]] wedding dress, that gets [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress ruined]] when [[spoiler: her unborn baby turns into a Werewolf, [[ChestBurster rips itself out of her womb]], and]] attacks everyone at the wedding.

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* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2 has her [[spoiler: maternity]] wedding dress get ruined by [[spoiler: her unborn baby turning into a werewolf,[[ChestBurster ripping its way out of her womb]], and]] attacking everyone at the wedding. Emma's flower-girl dress in the same nightmare also gets drenched in blood.



* CatapultNightmare: Season 2 opens with Mary having one, in which her wedding gets ruined by [[spoiler: her unborn baby turning into a werewolf, [[ChestBurster ripping its way out of her womb]], and]] attacking everyone at her and Gary's wedding.
* ChestBurster: Mary's CatapultNightmare has [[spoiler: her unborn baby turning into a werewolf and]] doing this [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress at her wedding]].



** FairyTaleWeddingDress: Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2 has Mary in a Fairy-Tale [[spoiler: maternity]] wedding dress, that gets [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress ruined]] when [[spoiler: her unborn baby turns into a Werewolf, [[ChestBurster rips itself out of her womb]], and]] attacks everyone at the wedding.



* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: [[spoiler: Mary is worried that her and Gary's baby will also be a werewolf. Also notable in that this is the way that Mary's pregnancy is announced to the audience in season 1]]. Ultimately, the season 2 finale [[spoiler: confirms the baby to be a werewolf]].

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* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: [[spoiler: Mary is worried that her and Gary's baby will also be a werewolf. Also notable in that this is the way that Mary's pregnancy is announced to the audience in season 1]]. 1]].
** [[spoiler: This trope is the reason for Mary's CatapultNightmare at the beginning of season 2- notably, the nightmare ends with Emma, [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress her flower-girl gown as drenched in blood as Mary's wedding dress]], exasperatedly asking why Mary got pregnant]].
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Ultimately, the season 2 finale [[spoiler: confirms the baby to be a werewolf]].

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* GoryDiscretionShot: In season 1 episode 2, Mary turning into a werewolf and eating two chickens and a goat happens entirely off-screen- all we see is Gary's reaction.

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* GoryDiscretionShot: Mary's transformations into a werewolf are always given this [[spoiler: until the season 2 finale]].
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* ShoppingCartOfHomelessness. Gary accidentally runs over a homeless man's shopping cart in season 2 episode 5, but then (assuming the homeless man was the same one that Emma gifted a sandwich to in the pilot episode), he goes through the effort of getting him a new cart.
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** Mary when [[spoiuler: another Werewolf, her ex-boyfriend Anton, crashes her baby shower]].

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* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: As she is quick to tell Gary when he assumes otherwise, Mary can't recall her actions as a wolf.

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* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: As she is quick to tell Gary when he assumes otherwise, Mary can't recall her actions as a wolf. [[spoiler: Mary's ex-boyfriend Anton, who is also a Werewolf, also has this issue when he appears in season 2, basically confirming this to Gary]].



* BrickJoke: In season 2, Gary procures a pig for Mary to eat on the night of a full moon. It gets let loose when Sarah and Ray turn up. [[spoiler: That same pig watches everyone get arrested at the end of the season 2 finale]].



* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler: Mary's secret is let out at the end of season 2, first when she starts to transform in public, then the police arrest everyone at the end of the episode]].



* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: In the season 1 finale, Mary is OK with telling Emma about her being pregnant, but can't muster enough courage to tell Emma that she's a Werewolf. Rendered a moot point the next evening when Emma sees Mary's wolf form in action]].



* DisposableVagrant: Averted. Emma gifts a sandwich to a homeless person in season 1 episode 1, and Gary gifts a replacement ShoppingCartOfHomelessness to another homeless person (whom Gary assumed was the first one) in season 2 episode 5.



** [[spoiler: Deconstructed when this gets them named as suspects for a double homicide by the police]].



* {{Foreshadowing}}: Emma's SecurityBlanket being a plush wolf foreshadows Mary's Lycanthropy, which is first revealed at the end of the first episode.
** That same plush wolf being placed [[spoiler: in the baby crib]], and Mary's affectionate treatment of it while she's in wolf form, also foreshadows [[spoiler: Gary and Mary's then-unborn baby is also a Werewolf]].



* GoryDiscretionShot: Mary turning into a werewolf and eating two chickens and a goat happens entirely off-screen- all we see is Gary's reaction.

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* GoryDiscretionShot: In season 1 episode 2, Mary turning into a werewolf and eating two chickens and a goat happens entirely off-screen- all we see is Gary's reaction.


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* HeroInsurance: Gary and Mary liberally engage in theft, [[DrivesLikeCrazy reckless driving]], Assault, and property damage, all to [[TheMasquerade keep Mary's Lycanthropy a secret]]. [[spoiler: Averted when they all get arrested at the end of season 2]].


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* TheMasquerade: The show starts with only Mary [[spoiler: and her ex-boyfriend Anton]] knowing that Mary is a Werewolf. Gary and Emma find out over the course of season 1, and resolve to keep it a secret. [[spoiler: Sarah and Ray find out during the season 2 finale, and [[BrokenMasquerade the police find out]] when they come to arrest everyone at the end of the episode]].
* MaternityCrisis: [[spoiler: A pregnant Werewolf going into labor the day before the night of the full moon, ''and starting to transform mid-day during labor'', definitely qualifies]].


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** In season 2, [[spoiler: Mary kept a loaded gun in the glove box of Gary's car so that he could give her one if she ate their baby]].


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** Gary and Mary when they find out that Emma is in trouble for standing up to a bully at her new school in the first half of season 2.
** Gary when [[spoiler: he accidentally unlocks the basement door instead of the front door, meaning that Mary's wolf form is loose in the house and he can't pick up Emma from Sarah and Ray's]].
** Gary when [[spoiler: the Police question him on Mary eating the carjackers, which is being considered a double Homicide]].
** Mary when [[spoiuler: another Werewolf, her ex-boyfriend Anton, crashes her baby shower]].
** Gary when [[spoiler: Mary cheats on him with Anton while they're both in wolf form]].
** Mary when she realizes [[spoiler: she left a loaded gun in the glove box in Gary's car... which the police have just seized in an investigation related to the deaths of the two carjackers]].
** [[MassOhCrap Gary, Mary, Emma, Sarah, and Ray]] when [[spoiler: their arguing causes Mary to go into labor]].
** [[MassOhCrap Gary, Mary, Emma, Sarah, and Ray]] when [[spoiler: Mary starts turning into a Werewolf ''while in labor, at the hospital, in broad daylight'']].
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** [[spoiler: As of the season 2 finale, Lycanthropy is also shown to be hereditary, and female Werewolves apparently give birth while in wolf form, on the night of a full moon that is nearest their due date]].


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* ScreamingBirth: [[spoiler: Played Straight in the first half of Mary's labor. Averted once she turns into a Werewolf]].


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* TimeSkip: At least three months pass between the end of season 1 and the beginning of season 2, since [[spoiler: Mary is in her first trimester at the end of season 1, and already has a large bump by the beginning of season 2]].
* TransformationSequence: Averted most of the time, Mary's transformations are given a GoryDiscretionShot. [[spoiler: Played Straight when Mary transforms ''when in labor'' in broad daylight during the season 2 finale]].
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* NotUsingTheZWord: Season 1 only describes Mary's condition as "turning into a wolf" with the only use of the word "werewolf" said once for episode 5. Subverted when Season 2 came along, with Mary being referred to as a werewolf more frequently.
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* OhCrap: At least OncePerEpsisode.

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* OhCrap: At least OncePerEpsisode.OncePerEpisode.
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* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: As she is quick to tell Gary when he assumes otherwise, Mary can't recall her actions as a wolf.


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* MonsterDelay: Mary's wolf form is obscured from the audience completely for around 5 episodes. [[spoiler: She is revealed by the climax of the Season 1 finale, and becomes more visible in Season 2]].
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The catch is that Mary is a Werewolf, and has to work her romantic life around the full moon.

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The catch is that Mary is a Werewolf, werewolf, and has to work her romantic life around the full moon.



* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mary was bitten by a Werewolf while in Prague, then turned into a Werewolf and [[NeverFoundTheBody presumably ate]] her husband at a rock concert that happened to be the night of a full moon. Then she turned into a Werewolf again while in Italy, and apparently ate an Italian family, before she fled all the way to Australia.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mary was bitten by a Werewolf werewolf while in Prague, then turned into a Werewolf werewolf and [[NeverFoundTheBody presumably ate]] her husband at a rock concert that happened to be the night of a full moon. Then she turned into a Werewolf transformed again while in Italy, and apparently ate an Italian family, before she fled all the way to Australia.



** Averted with ''actual dogs'', a half-dozen of whom are shown happily approaching Mary in the park.
* FreakOut: Emma has a panic attack after the car crash in the pilot episode [[spoiler: and again when she sees Mary's Werewolf form kill and eat two people in the season 1 finale]].
* GoryDiscretionShot: Mary turning into a Werewolf and eating two chickens and a goat happens entirely off-screen- all we see is Gary's reaction.

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** Averted Inverted with ''actual dogs'', a half-dozen of whom are shown happily approaching Mary in the park.
* FreakOut: Emma has a panic attack after the car crash in the pilot episode [[spoiler: and again when she sees Mary's Werewolf werewolf form kill and eat two people in the season 1 finale]].
* GoryDiscretionShot: Mary turning into a Werewolf werewolf and eating two chickens and a goat happens entirely off-screen- all we see is Gary's reaction.



* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Subverted. Mary ''initially'' seems like this, coming across in public as a cheerful happy-go-lucky girl, only to be revealed to be a Werewolf with a DarkAndTroubledPast.

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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Subverted. Mary ''initially'' seems like this, coming across in public as a cheerful happy-go-lucky girl, only to be revealed to be a Werewolf werewolf with a DarkAndTroubledPast.



** Gary when he follows Mary home to retrieve his car keys... and witnesses Mary turning into a Werewolf.

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** Gary when he follows Mary home to retrieve his car keys... and witnesses Mary turning into a Werewolf.werewolf.



** Mary's dialogue with Gary in episode 5 reveals she had one off-screen [[spoiler: when she found out she was pregnant, worring [[WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe if the baby will also be a Werewolf]] or if she might accidentally eat her own child]].

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** Mary's dialogue with Gary in episode 5 reveals she had one off-screen [[spoiler: when she found out she was pregnant, worring worrying [[WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe if the baby will also be a Werewolf]] werewolf]] or if she might accidentally eat her own child]].



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The normally vegan Mary willfully eating meat when not a Werewolf [[spoiler: is one of the first [[WackyCravings signs that Mary is pregnant]] to the audience]].
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Mary is pretty much a bog-standard Werewolf, with the standard Werewolf origin story (bitten by a Werewolf, then became one herself), is a mindless hungry brute as a wolf (she takes the precaution of locking herself in the basement with some chickens every night of the full moon), and [[spoiler: is shown as quadrupedal when her wolf form is finally shown on-screen in the season 1 finale]].
* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: The inevitable result of a female Werewolf getting pregnant, as two would-be carjackers find out the hard way]].

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The normally vegan Mary willfully eating meat when not a Werewolf in wolf form [[spoiler: is one of the first [[WackyCravings signs that Mary is pregnant]] to the audience]].
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Mary is pretty much a bog-standard Werewolf, werewolf, with the standard Werewolf werewolf origin story (bitten by a Werewolf, werewolf, then became one herself), is a mindless hungry brute as a wolf (she takes the precaution of locking herself in the basement with some chickens every night of the full moon), and [[spoiler: is shown as quadrupedal when her wolf form is finally shown on-screen in the season 1 finale]].
* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: The inevitable result of a female Werewolf werewolf getting pregnant, as two would-be carjackers find out the hard way]].



* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: [[spoiler: Mary is worried that her and Gary's baby will also be a Werewolf. Also notable in that this is the way that Mary's pregnancy is announced to the audience in season 1]].

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* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: [[spoiler: Mary is worried that her and Gary's baby will also be a Werewolf.werewolf. Also notable in that this is the way that Mary's pregnancy is announced to the audience in season 1]]. Ultimately, the season 2 finale [[spoiler: confirms the baby to be a werewolf]].

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* CampingEpisode: The Season 1 Finale starts with Gary and Mary out camping in the Australian Outback, only for their car to break down before they get home. [[spoiler: The full moon rises before they can get home, and Mary eats two carjackers who try to exploit the situation]].



** Mary also unintentionally causes a car to crash into a bus station in the pilot episode.

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** While panickedly running home in the pilot episode, Mary also unintentionally causes a car to crash into a bus station in the pilot episode.station.



* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mary was bitten by a Werewolf while in Prague, then turned into a Werewolf and presumably ate her husband at a rock concert that happened to be the night of a full moon. Then she turned into a Werewolf while in Italy, and apparently ate an Italian family, before she fled all the way to Australia.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mary was bitten by a Werewolf while in Prague, then turned into a Werewolf and [[NeverFoundTheBody presumably ate ate]] her husband at a rock concert that happened to be the night of a full moon. Then she turned into a Werewolf again while in Italy, and apparently ate an Italian family, before she fled all the way to Australia.



* EvilDetectingDog: Sarah and Ray's cat is afraid of Mary, hissing and fleeing to the roof of the house.
** Averted with ''actual dogs'', a half-dozen of whom are shown happily approaching Mary in the park.



** [[spoiler: Mary eating the two carjackers]] happens while the camera is on the other side of the car.



* LockedInARoom: Self-imposed by Mary, who locks herself in her basement with some chickens to avoid eating people.

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* LockedInARoom: Self-imposed by Mary, who locks herself in her basement with some chickens to avoid eating people. [[spoiler: When she's unable to do this in the Season 1 finale, Gary and Emma keep themselves locked in the car while Mary eats a pair of would-be carjackers]].



* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Subverted. Mary ''initially'' seems like this, only to be revealed to be a Werewolf with a DarkAndTroubledPast.

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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Subverted. Mary ''initially'' seems like this, coming across in public as a cheerful happy-go-lucky girl, only to be revealed to be a Werewolf with a DarkAndTroubledPast.



* OhCrap: At least OnceAnEpsisode.

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* NeverFoundTheBody: The fact that Mary's late husband's body was never found is why Mary believes she ate him. She also thinks she ate an Italian family for the same reason.
* OhCrap: At least OnceAnEpsisode.OncePerEpsisode.



*OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The normally vegan Mary willfully eating meat when not a Werewolf [[spoiler: is one of the first [[WackyCravings signs that Mary is pregnant]] to the audience]].



* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: the inevitable result of a female Werewolf getting pregnant, as two would-be carjackers find out the hard way]].

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* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: the The inevitable result of a female Werewolf getting pregnant, as two would-be carjackers find out the hard way]].



* SurpriseCarCrash: Mary's CrashIntoHello with Gary and Emma is this, happening completely out of nowhere.

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* SurpriseCarCrash: Mary's CrashIntoHello with Gary and Emma is this, happening her jeep T-boning Gary's car completely out of nowhere.nowhere. Fortunately, nobody is killed, though Emma has a panic attack.



* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: [[spoiler: Mary is worried that her and Gary's baby will also be a Werewolf. Also notable in that this is the way that Mary's pregnancy is announced to the audience]].

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* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: [[spoiler: Mary is worried that her and Gary's baby will also be a Werewolf. Also notable in that this is the way that Mary's pregnancy is announced to the audience]].
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* ShoutOut: Mary gifts Emma a copy of Literature/{{Contact}} as an apology gift for the car crash in the pilot episode. Creator/CarlSagan is also name-dropped.
* {{Streaking}}: Downplayed. Mary walks out into the street to keep talking with Gary, covered only in her ModestyBedsheet, while marathoners [[NotDistractedByTheSexy run by while paying no attention to them]]. The other time she's naked in public, [[spoiler: she's in the Australian Outback, completely alone except for Gary and Emma.

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* ShoutOut: Mary gifts Emma a copy of Literature/{{Contact}} as an apology gift for the car crash in the pilot episode. Author Creator/CarlSagan is also name-dropped.
name-dropped, as is his relation to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record the Voyager Golden Records]].
* {{Streaking}}: Downplayed. Mary walks out into the street to keep talking with Gary, covered only in her ModestyBedsheet, while marathoners [[NotDistractedByTheSexy run by while paying no attention to them]]. The other time she's naked in public, [[spoiler: she's in the Australian Outback, completely alone except for Gary and Emma.Emma]].

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[[caption-width-right:1000: [[{{Tagline}} Love can be scary]].]]



* OhCrap: Practically OncePerEpsisode.

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* OhCrap: Practically OncePerEpsisode.At least OnceAnEpsisode.



* ShoutOut: Mary gifts Emma a copy of Literature/{{Contact}} as an apology gift for the car crash in the pilot episode.

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* ShoutOut: Mary gifts Emma a copy of Literature/{{Contact}} as an apology gift for the car crash in the pilot episode. Creator/CarlSagan is also name-dropped.
* {{Streaking}}: Downplayed. Mary walks out into the street to keep talking with Gary, covered only in her ModestyBedsheet, while marathoners [[NotDistractedByTheSexy run by while paying no attention to them]]. The other time she's naked in public, [[spoiler: she's in the Australian Outback, completely alone except for Gary and Emma.


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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A man and a woman arguing in the street, the latter only wearing a ModestyBedsheet, [[NotDistractedByTheSexy are completely ignored]] by a group of passing marathon runners.
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''Wolf Like Me'' is a Creator/{{Peacock}} Paranormal Romance series, starring Creator/JoshGad and Creator/IslaFisher.

In Adelaide, Australia, Gary (Gad) is a widower with a 12-year-old daughter named Emma, both of them struggling with depression after Gary's wife passed away from cancer nearly a decade before. Into their life comes Mary, a much more energetic woman whom Emma latches onto and Gary falls in love with.

The catch is that Mary is a Werewolf, and has to work her romantic life around the full moon.

The first season premiered in 2022, and the second season premiered in 2023.

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!!This series contains examples of the following:

* BadSamaritan: A pair of carjackers pose as auto help when Gary, Mary, and Emma are broken down in the desert, only to show their true colors when Gary tells them to leave. [[spoiler: Mary ends up eating them]].
* BrokenBird: Underneath the ManicPixieDreamGirl persona she has on in public, Mary is quite clearly broken and dysfunctional.
* CarMeetsHouse: Gary accidentally crashes his car into an Italian restaurant while trying to pull away from Mary's car.
** Mary also unintentionally causes a car to crash into a bus station in the pilot episode.
* ChronicallyCrashedCar: Gary's blue SUV is heavily dented and visibly rusting, and Gary gets into three separate car crashes (and one breakdown in the middle of the desert) in season 1 alone.
* CrashIntoHello: Gary meets Mary in a car crash at the beginning of the pilot episode, when Mary accidentally drives her car into Gary and Emma's. Gary unintentionally returns the favor at the end of season 1 episode 3.
* CensorShadow: [[spoiler: Mary's return to the car in the season 1 finale shows her outline in the night, using the darkness to hide her nudity]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mary was bitten by a Werewolf while in Prague, then turned into a Werewolf and presumably ate her husband at a rock concert that happened to be the night of a full moon. Then she turned into a Werewolf while in Italy, and apparently ate an Italian family, before she fled all the way to Australia.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Both Gary and Mary are accident-prone drivers, and Gary's car is clearly busted up as a result.
* EatsBabies: [[spoiler: Mary specifically tasks Gary with trying to prevent her from invoking this trope on their own baby]].
* FreakOut: Emma has a panic attack after the car crash in the pilot episode [[spoiler: and again when she sees Mary's Werewolf form kill and eat two people in the season 1 finale]].
* GoryDiscretionShot: Mary turning into a Werewolf and eating two chickens and a goat happens entirely off-screen- all we see is Gary's reaction.
* HadTheSillyThingInReverse: PlayedForDrama when Gary accidentally setting his car's stick-shift to third gear [[CarMeetsHouse puts him into an Italian restaurant]].
* LockedInARoom: Self-imposed by Mary, who locks herself in her basement with some chickens to avoid eating people.
* MamaBear: Mary quickly becomes one for Emma. [[spoiler: she later becomes one for her unborn baby, tasking Gary with keeping her from eating it]].
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Subverted. Mary ''initially'' seems like this, only to be revealed to be a Werewolf with a DarkAndTroubledPast.
* MercyKill: Subverted- the goat that Mary ate in episode 2 had some sort of nerve infection, and was going to be put down anyway. The goat would have probably preferred euthanasia to being eaten.
* MissingMom: Gary's previous wife (and Emma's mom) died of cancer when Emma was a toddler.
* ModestyBedsheet: Mary wears one in the opening of episode 3, having changed back from wolf to human but not having gotten dressed yet.
* OhCrap: Practically OncePerEpsisode.
** Mary when she realizes that it's almost sundown on the night of the full moon, so she has to run all the way home and lock herself in her basement.
** Gary when he follows Mary home to retrieve his car keys... and witnesses Mary turning into a Werewolf.
** Gary when he accidentally backs his car into Mary's jeep in Episode 3. And then again when he [[CarMeetsHouse crashes into the Italian restaurant]] in the opening of episode 4.
** Mary's dialogue with Gary in episode 5 reveals she had one off-screen [[spoiler: when she found out she was pregnant, worring [[WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe if the baby will also be a Werewolf]] or if she might accidentally eat her own child]].
** Mary and Gary when their car breaks down in the Australian Outback on the night of the full moon.
** Gary and Emma when they get carjacked while their car is broken down, [[spoiler: and then again when Mary shows up and eats the carjackers]].
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Mary is pretty much a bog-standard Werewolf, with the standard Werewolf origin story (bitten by a Werewolf, then became one herself), is a mindless hungry brute as a wolf (she takes the precaution of locking herself in the basement with some chickens every night of the full moon), and [[spoiler: is shown as quadrupedal when her wolf form is finally shown on-screen in the season 1 finale]].
* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: the inevitable result of a female Werewolf getting pregnant, as two would-be carjackers find out the hard way]].
* RedHerring: Emma's panic attack after surviving an automobile accident, combined with her MissingMom, leads the audience to believe that Emma's mom died in a car crash. Gary mentions to Mary that she died of cancer instead.
* SecurityBlanket: Emma's is a plush wolf.
* SelfHarm: Emma is hospitalized in episode 2 after Gary walks in on the aftermath of her self-harming. It's also heavily implied to have been a BungledSuicide.
* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Mary has to quickly strip all her clothes off whenever she turns into a wolf.
* ShoutOut: Mary gifts Emma a copy of Literature/{{Contact}} as an apology gift for the car crash in the pilot episode.
* SurpriseCarCrash: Mary's CrashIntoHello with Gary and Emma is this, happening completely out of nowhere.
* SwearJar: Gary's in-laws, Sarah and Ray, have one at their house. Gary and Mary run afoul of it in episode 5.
* TimePassesMontage: Three months pass between episode 4 and episode 5 of season 1, shown by three full moons, each followed by a shot of Gary standing at the top of the basement stairs with a bathrobe for Mary.
* TraumaButton: Italian food is one for Mary, after she ate an Italian family in her backstory.
** Meat in general is also apparently one for Mary, since she became a vegan as a human, presumably to dissociate from her wolf side.
* WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe: [[spoiler: Mary is worried that her and Gary's baby will also be a Werewolf. Also notable in that this is the way that Mary's pregnancy is announced to the audience]].

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