'Hemlock Grove' is Netflix's Newest Hit!

Pilot season is just around the corner, with streaming media sites (like Amazon Prime) struggling to get their originals the interest needed to keep them up and running. “Hemlock Grove,” a Netflix original series, hit the site on Friday with all 13 episodes.

The show, based on the novel by Brian McGreevy (he writes and executive produces), and developed by Eli Roth, debuted to a larger audience than even their big hit “House of Cards.” The werewolf drama focuses on Roman (Bill Skarsgard), and werewolf Peter (Landon Liboiron), their families, and their possible involvement in the murder of a teenage girl.

McGreevy said that those who read the novel will recognize the plot line, which spans the entire first season.

 “I would say that plot-wise it’s really similar with the caveat that there’s one or two major deviations that are a bit of a curveball. And, also, adapting a 300 page book into a 13-episode series requires a fair amount of expansion and invention… There’s some stuff that happens out of chronology and I think people will be pleasantly surprised by ultimately the scope of the series. We wanted to slowly unravel.”

McGreevy explains that, though his novel has been covered in the first season, that doesn’t mean there’s no opportunity for a second.

“We definitely used up everything from the novel in the first season, because we wanted to structure it so if it was one self-contained story it would leave the audience satisfied at the same time keeping the door open for these storylines….  [Viewers will] find that the characters of Roman and Peter are left at pretty decisive moments in their life, which will have a big impact on the men they’re becoming. And also, there’s a lot of freedom of creativity in exploring future storylines because we f---ing kill half the cast.”

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