Bitten Episode 1 Recap: Hot Werewolves, Sign Me Up! (Series Premiere)

"Bitten" premiered on the SyFy channel last night at 10 ET. Episode 1 was entitled "Summons". Like many of the other supernatural shows on TV now, it's based on a series of novels ("Women of the Otherworld" by Kelly Armstrong).

Elena Michaels (portrayed by Laura Vandervoort) is apparently the world's only female werewolf. I'm not sure how that works. Hopefully they'll tell us later. Anyway, Elena doesn't want to be a werewolf. She wants to have a normal "human" life.

Jeremy Danvers (the pack master of her wolf family) calls her back to Stonehaven (which is their wolfie compound in upstate New York). Some unknown "mutt" is infringing on their territory and killing people. So Elena lies to her human boyfriend Phillip and begrudgingly heads home. Other pack members include Logan (her therapist), Antonio (Logan's father) , Nick, and Jeremy's son Clayton (who used to have a thing with Elena but we dont know what caused their breakup). Oh and did I mention Elena eats a lot? Is that to try to keep her wolf alter ego under wraps?

So what did you think of the show? I enjoyed it. There was plenty of eye candy, actors who sold the story, and fun special effects (OK they were kinda hokey). Of course no matter how top notch the rest is, the key is a compelling story. I fear they may make this show too serious (which is a shame since it could be great campy fun). We'll see if they can keep up the tension between revealing the mystery wolf, Elena trying to keep the humans from finding out who she really is, and the back story with her pack.

"We are animals, all of us. The only difference between humans and anything else is the persona, the mask behind which we hide all desires, everything that scares us about ourselves."- Clayton Danvers.

Grade: 4 Monsters (out of 5). A howling good first episode. I'll definitely be watching again.