“In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Josh Gad and Isla Fisher open up about their time filming the new Peacock series Wolf Like Me (all six, half-hour episodes were released on Thursday) — and why they think people will connect so deeply to the characters and the story.

“”[The story] is really about how scary it is to fall in love,” Fisher, 45, says about the series, a new genre-bending romantic comedy, created and written by Abe Forsythe, that follows an unusual love story between Gary (Gad) and Mary (Fisher).

“”We’re just putting it on the page. I think people will really connect,” she says.

“”It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read,” Gad, 40, adds about the script.”

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