Bitten

Plot synopsis:
Jack, a paramedic, is frustrated with his life after he breaks up with his girlfriend. He discovers a girl (Danika) in an alleyway covered in blood, clinging to life. Jack takes Danika in and soon discovers that she is a vampire.
Jack and Danika try to find a way to feed her cravings to drink blood while killing as little as possible. All their attempts end without success because a vampire needs fresh human blood. Jack also must find places to hide the bodies in his apartment, including the body of his ex-girlfriend, who had gone to his apartment to reclaim several of her possessions before Danika had bitten and killed her. Jack discovers upon his ex-girlfriend's corpse reanimating into a vampire (and having to kill her when she attacks him in a rage) that only a stab to the heart will kill a vampire.
When Danika becomes more violent, killing several people, including a young woman, Jack is forced to kill her with the help of Roger, his paramedic co-worker and friend. Roger stabs Danika in the heart while she attacks Jack and kills her, but not before Jack is bitten. Jack becomes a vampire, cared for by Roger, who feeds him from a dish of blood.

Tags: paranormal, murder

Review:
I originally read the Kelley Armstrong Book "Bitten - Otherworld 1" about 5 years ago and was impressed with the way the characters unfolded in the book.And as with anyone who reads a good book you try to visualize what you read, and because of this you tend to be disappointed with the transition between book and screen.
To my great surprise this first episode has followed and brought to life the original work,and moreover has kept true to the written word unlike many other book to TV attempts in the past.I look forward to watching this series unfold and hope that i can say the same of the future episodes.I would caution parents as some of the future content if it follows the book may need to be viewed before allowing children to see it first.But above all any lover of very well written stories this is a must view and i can only recommend that you accompany the series with the original book..
While they may not be my idea of the character, again, I don't expect a TV or move to meet my expectation of what I think Clay or Jeremy or any of the others might look like.
It's too bad they didn't do more of the flash backs during the first show because I think people who don't know the history may not get some of the relationships, but I'll still be watching all of them and I am pretty sure I'll enjoy it, along with some of my friends..
Glancing over the book series it seems like there is an interesting plot line for the show to follow if it chooses to do so and hopefully they will.
I enjoy this program but Elena's character alsways speaking in hushed tones or whispers is done right annoying, I mean come on who constantly speaks like that she should start her own ASMR channel.
(Clay Danvers is hot, hot, hot!) So far the writers are sticking close to the book "Bitten" written by Kelley Armstrong.
My only complaint as a fan of the books is, since I already know what happened from the book, it's moving a little slow for me, but ignoring the book, the show is doing a great job of setting up all the characters and plot.
However they have managed to keep the story line well on track, and I will continue watching and keeping an eye out for future series on this set of books.
The plot from each episode never progresses or changes, and from what I can tell there is no plan for it to.Save yourself from the disappointment of yet another attempt to turn a horror genre into love triangle based bullshit..
How the hell this has received a rating of 6.6 is completely beyond my comprehension,from the word go you could see it was just a copy of many other shows out there,CGI is a joke,the writing and acting (if you can call it that)is appalling.Cheap lame sex scenes put in here and there to grab SOME viewers really had no reason or point for being there.Main character seems quite dull and uninteresting and no others to really even mention,may have done a better job with a few store dummies I think.They either had a lot of bots vote for this or they rigged it I was generous with a rating of 1.I would highly recommend you Don't waste your time bothering with this one..
OK why is this show so bad, corny visual effects, acting is like they are extremely tired and any threats around them too having ones loved die is like taking a crap on the dunny, you cannot feel any tension and when the characters get angry is like watching a hissy fit only.I cannot give this show praise, having perfect looking people isn't an asset if they cannot show any real sense of the situation they are facing.
The aspect of having a werewolf that changes at whim could have done well but having this lot really the saying only the strong survive, they have no chance.This show tries to imitate the Vampire Diaries meets Dawsons Creek, I don't see this show going anywhere and would be surprising if it makes it into another season..
As someone who loves all things Supernatural, I feel many people have failed to do a series strictly about werewolves, right.
However in regards to Bitten, I was a bit apprehensive to watch the series, due to reading some bad reviews.
It seems like I have been wanting to see a good werewolf show for years and unfortunately Bitten is not the one I have been waiting for.
It's a twilight TV series and the only redeeming quality is Laura's pretty face.A better show to watch for a werewolf fix is Being Human, if you're looking for a good werewolf series keep looking as will I..
Didn't really get under my skin, I haven't read any books and maybe that is the fault, I can see that many believes it is a good transition to the series.The characters seem a bit too ordinary, yes they have special powers, but it is all too Twillight like, it is just with grown ups and not teenagers and seriously, who wants to see that if it is not more extravagant like x-men or something.
So people trying to live ordinary lives but with powers they can't entirely control and some don't want etc.This is just another nothing special TV series and you have to be liking this mindless nonsense that isn't serious enough, but takes itself very serious, it just isn't working for me anymore..
I'm figuring that next week, in an effort to make the show even MORE boring, the only thing left for them to do would be to have all of the actors sit around a big table in the movie studio and read their scripts.The following week of course they'd top that by having the cast sit around a big table in the movie studio and read their scripts to themselves.Then they could follow that with an episode where the cast don't even show up to the script table and just phone in their lines.Then after that as a season finale they could just run footage of the scripts sitting on the table to fill up the time..
I honestly believe with different actors the show could actually be a lot better - as the story lines, plot twists are really good.
Another in a long line of overwrought fantasies penned by sexually frustrated female novelists targeting an audience of vapid teenaged girls.After a somewhat limp and bargain-basement pilot, featuring truly awful CGI wolves, the first season found its feet within three or four episodes and actually became quite good (for someone in the mood for this sort of show).What kept me watching was the unique lack of teenagers in the cast, making the whole thing more grown-up and less of the mindless angst-fest that one is generally obliged to endure.
Despite an obviously restrictive budget it was really quite watchable.Then season two arrived, and for reasons presumably book-based (I haven't read them), it abandoned the grown-up storytelling of the first season and plunged headfirst into a poor imitation of The Vampire Diaries, complete with teenagers (the annoying, pouty, petulant kind) and worse, witches, (and all the irritating chanting and writhing around in trances that modern depictions seem to demand).The narrative, when not bogged down with prophecies (yawn), dream-sequences (yuck), dead-eyed cultists (mega-yawn), and, of course, objects floating around (oh, boy!), was all but abandoned in favour of teenaged girls writhing, grunting and whining through endless mind-numbing minutes, sometimes with white contact lenses (how original!)Season three, by comparison, was a welcome relief, returning to less arcane storytelling.
For a werewolf series, As an adaption of Kelley Armstrong's books, it is extremely poor.
I had the feeling the writers for the show read the books only to get the names of the characters in the book.The two story arc's in the first season presented are way out in left field.
Clay in the book is mostly wolf, in the series he is completely human.
None of the characters in the series seem like werewolves at all.
I just don't understand the rather low 7.1 rating this show has had from people (who most likely by in to the whole 'hollywood needs more tears than story' thing).The first few episodes made me believe this would be yet another 'Twilight' or 'Vampire Diaries', but 5 episodes in you can definitely see the differences.
When you meet elena in the books her backstory hinges on how hard she worked to gain her major and be taken seriously, so by making her a photographer they have change her entire character.
Clay bites Elena & sires/turns her into a werewolf & according to the show that like makes them betrothed when it sounds & looks more like straight up incest to me which is just wrong & disgusting.
Other shows that have werewolves in them like The Gates, Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Hemlock Grove, & a few more or almost all others are way better the Bitten..
There are loads of interesting characters, the actors are pretty decent and the story line is always changing.
it supposed to come from the books some of the changes i can understand like Logan being psychologist but what i don't understand if this show will still be adaptation of the books every Elena leading books contains or mentions Antonio but at season 1 he is dead how they are gonna make other books now?
The first few episodes were promising but by the time I tortured my senses through B Grade acting and a plot that is better suited to Days of our lives, (I think 1/2 the cast probably tried out for that too) I really have to say that this is the most ludicrous load of crap.
not what i did expect,the acting is alright but it has nothing to do whit werewolf it is more like a shape shifter, the werewolf looks like a normal wolf/dog, They should have used a bit more time on the werewolf partif you don't have any clue what are werewolf is or don't care, Then the series are alright.the "Otherworld" books are alright many because there you don't see the werewolf.
but this is one of the series that are building up and could get very god at some point if they mange to keep it close to the books.i don't even know how they mange to use horror in the Genres because there is no horror only Drama | Fantasy, but it could be worth watching just to see if you might like it..
I've watched the entire first season now and, honestly, the last episode is the best BY FAR because the plot actually manages to plod along somewhere; it's exciting, action-packed in a good way, not in the let's throw in some random fight scenes because even we can tell this is boring as fcuk way of the rest of the series, and you actually care to find out what happens ...
By the second season, Every thought, action and decision Elena makes and every outcome of every episode is dictated by the male characters.
I have read almost all of the books and stories by Armstrong written in the Otherworld and I am a big fan, so when I found out there was going to be a TV series I was super excited.
People died who shouldn't have died and there were characters in the first season that you don't even get to know in the tenth book.
I was really angry and told my friends that they shouldn't watch the series before reading the books first.
After watching the whole first season I decided I should write down what I ACTUALLY thought of the series itself and shouldn't compare the series to the books, since it's an adaption.
Bitten is just the first in the series and Clay is definitely my favorite character in all 13 books of the series.
I must first admit i haven't read the book, whether or not that has any bearing on my review i do not know but i must say the series is pretty amazing.
It's disappointing that there hasn't been more publicity on the series, i only found it by researching new series to be aired and so most people i know haven't had the opportunity to view it yet and get as hooked as i am.Let me say i wasn't immediately drawn in from the first episode, even with the cast being so stunning and so good at what they do.
After around the third episode however, i found myself wanting more..i think this is mostly because that's when you start to relate to the characters,you're slowly getting to know them.
As I read the books I developed images in my mind of what the characters would look like and these actors fit those images perfectly.
If you like this show, read the books and not just the Women of the Underworld, but all of the books because the characters cross over so if they follow the story line of the books, we will see witches, warlocks, demons, and necromancers....all of my favorite things..
For us who have read the books, of course some changes are made, they to what they can to make the story less complicated, but they work for the show :-) and if you think there is a lot of sex i the show, there is just as much as in the books ;-).
Probably this issue will be less visible if she wouldn't be dressed almost like a prostitute, I mean, come on, we want to see a film about werewolves not a sex / romance SOAP opera.
3. Too many and too long sex scenes and too much romance, every time there was a sex scene or romance I had to skip forward, same wake up call you get from those too.Overall the film seems interesting but with these issues I mentioned before it's pretty hard to keep going, the werewolf plot kind of keeps me going so far, I've only watched the first season.
Just a shame that every time I see an Apple logo thrust into my face I feel irked to the point where I want to turn it off.The product placement in this show is so sickening that it will probably make people remember it for being so pathetic due to it.Going so hardcore with the product placement can actually make people lose love for the story and the direction.
But when they started killing off characters that were alive for the entire book series and keeping characters alive that were supposed to be dead, I just couldn't watch anymore.
I have read the books this series is based on although I didn't mind them necessarily swapping some storylines as obviously books and TV are very different mediums.What put me off this show is the terrible acting from pretty much every character, the disastrous CGI for the wolves and the fact that everyone in it is extremely unlikable.There is literally nothing about this show I enjoyed and I couldn't even make it past episode 6 of season 1 before giving up in disgust.
The series got 3 seasons and had a pretty good fan base from what I heard.
Especially when they torment them and use them as a food source I mean if you would've made it where the werewolves actually got killed and eaten by Chinese people because they look like dogs then at least it would've been a lot more entertaining than it is right now.
I think so far the picking and choosing what been used in the script has failed, the story is not providing enough detail to explain what's going on to the new audience they have also left out key details of the books that makes the fans of the books unimpressed.
Elena doesn't wanna go home because she's sort of estranged from the Pack and doesn't enjoy werewolf life, but Logan tries to convince her it's for the good of the Pack.While this story is way more fun when told by Elena herself, it's always interesting to see a book brought to life on TV or film.
Laura Vandervoort plays the main character Elena Michaels, a werewolf journalist in Toronto, with the same passion as one wakes up on a Monday morning to go to work.Vandervoort is a terrible actress and unfortunately there's no one in this cast that can help.
The pilot was OK, this could have turned into a pretty decent series....but as the "story" continues the more you start seeing: bad acting, horrible action scenes, soft porn "love scenes" and it just makes me wanna carve out my eyes instead of watching another minute....In the previous episode i watched there was an ambush of the mighty alpha and his pack....I thought to myself: finally some action!
Over all the 1st season was great, the plot is interesting, the actors are good, and the mood is pretty strong.
He wasn't thinking of consequences, because that's Clay; he is a true werewolf, more animal than man, and the bittersweet romance of the entire series rests on Elena's coming to terms with that fact - he has no excuse for what he did, except that he loves her, absolutely.
Clay's wayward love of Elena makes him who he is, and one of the best characters of the books, and part of their charm is being able to sympathise with both of them simultaneously even though they are at such odds.
I thought this was a really good adaptation of the book series.
The Actor playing Clayton looks like he stepped from the cast of True Blood - and I thought the actress playing Elena was soooo good.