This feature contains plot details forWolfbloodseries one and two.
Inventive humour and satisfying storytelling pay little heed to age brackets.
If you build it, they will… oh, you know the rest.
Creator Debbie Moon and co. built it, and we came.
Kids and grown-ups and everyone in between.
Well be back for series three too.
How could we not, when the second run expanded the Wolfblood world in such gratifying directions?
New characters were introduced, but not at the expense of existing ones.
Previously supporting roles were brought into the spotlight.
New menace arrived, was disarmed, and replaced by a wider threat.
The finale saw Maddy Smith forced to leave friendship, love, and the human world behind her.
Too often, young audiences are unchallenged, patronised, and worse, marketed to by their TV shows.
NotWolfblood.What is human life about, it asks its eight-to-twelve year old audience.
Tell us what you reckon; your guess is as good as ours.
Blowing out his cheeks and shrugging, Bobby Lockwood said, I dunno.
The things you do with them, fitting in, but also being yourself, just… stuff.
Youll work it out.
Youll work it out.
SomethingWolfbloodunderstands with real insight is that school-age friendships are some of the most intense relationships youll experience.
Thats how sound its politics are, and how positive its messages.
I dont mean to suggest the Stoneybridge lot are a pious group of paragons theyre not.
Theyre the kind of characters who struggle but eventually come good, and are charitably quick to forgive.
Forget about them being role models just for children, though.
Im in my thirties and want to be Maddy when I grow up.
While were on the subject of positive representation, gender cant go unmentioned.
InWolfblood, however, it just didnt happen.
These girls are defined by more than their boyfriend, and praise be for that.
Not only was Shannon developed as a character, but two other supporting players came closer to the spotlight.
If nothing else,Wolfbloodmakes cross-country running look fun, which is no mean feat.
All that, and a love story to boot.
But it was neither of those potential couples that shared the first on-screen kiss.
To sum up then,Wolfbloods second series did exactly what a sequel should.
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