“Wildfires in California are just the sort of peace-shattering, visually intimidating force of nature that dramas like to use as a starting point.

“What happens to the people who share the terrifying experience of being surrounded by walls of flame? How do families cope when everything they own is incinerated?

“The startlingly awful new fantasy drama Wolf Pack (Paramount+) asks a bigger, deeper question. You see that big fire? Well, what if there was a werewolf in it?

“After a fleeting introductory scene in which a park ranger sees a fire, stops his vehicle, gets out and stands square-chested in the road, looking with grizzled apprehension at the flames, we are aboard a yellow school bus in Los Angeles.”

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