Said Chris Regina, Senior Vice President, Programming, Syfy: “Bitten is a fast-paced and edgy series which has found a growing and passionate fan base on our channel. We’re delighted to bring the series back to Syfy next year.”

Based on the Women of the Otherworld novel series by Kelley Armstrong, Bitten tells the story of Elena Michaels, the lone female werewolf in existence. After distancing herself from her pack and moving to Canada to start a life away from all things wolf, Elena finds herself pulled back to the States when bodies start popping up on the grounds of her pack’s estate. Once back home, she must deal with her feelings on being a werewolf and the complicated relationships she has with each member of her pack, including former lover Clay.

Bitten stars Laura Vandervoort (Smallville), Greyston Holt (Alcatraz), Greg Bryk (A History of Violence), Steve Lund (Being Erica), and Michael Xavier (The Best Years).

Production on the second season of Bitten begins this summer in Toronto. You can check out a recap of the first season finale here.

Will you be watching the second season of Bitten? Where do you think the show goes following the events of the first season finale? Is a peaceful life something that’s not in the cards for Elena?

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While Santos meets with Williams, who tells him that they have the advantage and that the plan they’ve been building towards starts right now, Logan and Rachel arrive at a hotel and check in under pseudonyms to maintain their anonymity. She’s still unsure about having to run and he assures her that they’ll be able to start fresh the following day before volunteering to get pizza. Even though Rachel wants to come with him, Logan makes her stay and get some rest. Back at Stonehaven, Elena informs Nick that her phone is in Santos’ car, meaning that they’ll know when he makes a move thanks to her GPS app, and that the Mutts did a number on Clay. She observes that Nick is angry about the Mutts killing Antonio and pledges to make them pay for hurting so many people she loves, all the while Jeremy listens from the other room.

Outside of town, Marsten tells LeBlanc about what life was like when he was first made, as he had to sleep in fields and learn hobo code before building himself up to where he is, just as Nick gets in touch with Jorge and learns that Philip is on a flight to France and the man who ran James Williams’ website is missing. Jorge offers to take Elena in, but Jeremy tells him that things tend to go south when she’s separated from the pack, so for now, she’s staying put. After tending to Clay’s wounds, Elena notices that Santos has finally started to move, with his vehicle about 30 minutes outside of Bear Valley. While it’s a chance that she’s taking, trusting that they’re all taking one vehicle and that the vehicle they’re taking is the one her phone is in, it’s one that Jeremy deems worth taking, especially since it gives them the chance to batten down the hatches at Stonehaven and prepare for the upcoming onslaught. Meanwhile, Rachel texts Logan wondering where he is and learns that he’s having car trouble that’s delaying his return from the pizza place. She gets hungry enough, though, that she leaves a note for him and heads down to the vending machine for snacks.

The Pack proceeds gathering weapons, setting traps for the Mutts, and barricading their windows in preparation for the attack. Jeremy shows Nick a secret passageway in the basement that leads to the greenhouse and shares with him memories of his mother, a tall blonde woman with a nice laugh who had Antonio spellbound from day one. He also confesses that he knows where she’s at. While Elena tries to get Clay, who can barely stand, down the stairs, Logan forces his way into Stonehaven and informs Jeremy that while he’s not going to adhere to the Pack rules concerning sons, he came back because the Pack is his family and because he doesn’t want to suffer anymore loss than what he already has. The GPS pings that Santos is right outside and when the Pack goes to greet them, they see a bound Rachel running at them with Elena’s cell phone taped to her face. Logan goes after her, only for a Mutt to begin chase; Jeremy saves him when he hurls an ax into the Mutt’s head, then pointing him and Rachel upstairs.

Logan hears of Rachel being blindfolded and put into the trunk of a car before forcing her into a crawlspace, telling her that he just couldn’t leave yet. Meanwhile, Jeremy orders the Pack to fight in pairs and always within one another’s sight line, just as Santos, LeBlanc, and Marsten wait outside the Stonehaven property line. Marsten chides Santos for not coming in with the first wave of the attack, but Santos stands his ground and simply commands LeBlac to keep his hands off of Elena. The first wave attacks, led by a smoke bomb that gets tossed through one of the windows and precedes both another smoke bomb and several Mutts bursting in through the previously barricaded windows. Jeremy ends up in a bathtub brawl, while Clay kills a Mutt that gets caught on a trap and Elena has it out with a Mutt that grabbed a pipe for a weapon. As Clay finds himself getting walloped by Samuel Boggs in the living room, a Mutt nearly finds Rachel before Nick comes in and snaps his neck following an altercation. He opens the door to where she’s at and assures her to stay there and be quiet until this whole mess is over.

LeBlanc and Marsten enter the home, with Marsten reiterating Santos’ order to stay away from Elena, while Elena finds herself losing ground in her fight against the Mutt. The two end up in the hallway and he nearly changes in front of her; outside, Williams comes down on Santos for not going inside for the battle and tells him that he needs to show Elena who the true Alpha is. The Mutt Elena was fighting gets attacked by Logan in wolf form and when she tries to suffocate it, LeBlanc grabs her; he then goes to stab Marsten after hearing how he’s not to touch Elena and Marsten throws him through a nearby window, giving Elena the opportunity to guillotine him. After LeBlanc is dead, Marsten mentions to Elena that he wants to mutiny, just as Clay fights Boggs in the kitchen, boils his arm in a pot of water, and knocks his new teeth out. Clay then comes after Marsten and Elena stops him, telling him that she wants to let Jeremy decide what to do with Marsten.

While Logan discovers Rachel’s gone and Nick comes with home to look for her, Williams leads Santos through the secret passageway at Stonehaven and the two survey the carnage the Mutts have suffered. Santos then finds Marsten and when he goes into the room to get an update as to what happened in the battle, the Pack closes in around him. Jeremy decides that Marsten is worth more to the Pack alive than he is dead, so he’s allowed to live, but Santos isn’t so lucky; Clay takes him by the arms and it’s decided that Elena will deliver the finishing blow. As much as Santos wanted her to be the most important wolf the world has ever known, the children being the very definition of perfect, Elena tells him that he doesn’t get to decide her future and sticks her hand in his chest, literally crushing his heart. Logan and Nick stop after a while of running for Rachel, since they’re not smelling anything. The two say their goodbyes, with Nick returning to Stonehaven to help with the Mutts and Logan running on to find the mother of his unborn child.

Back at Stonehaven, Jeremy carries Santos’ body out toward the front of the house and runs into James Williams – who, in actuality, is his father Malcolm. Malcolm tells Jeremy that he would have killed him had it not been for his grandfather and clues his son in on his ultimate goal – getting Elena and using her to spawn new wolves. He believes the Pack hasn’t used her to the best of her potential, yet later, Nate Parker brings Rachel to him, possibly as a next best alternative for wolf spawning. Elena pledges to resume tracking with Clay and when she returns to her room, she puts her ring from Clay on her finger and turns to see Philip’s severed head on her bed.

Additional thoughts and observations:
-Philip’s head in the bed at the end of the episode was an incredibly frustrating move that encapsulated why I was so unenthusiastic about this show before this week. It was a hell of a surprise twist, a bold decision that would have a tremendous impact on the show (and Elena) next season; more importantly, it cut what could have been a series-long love triangle short, which is a plus in my book because the romantic angst on this show was probably its weakest element and genre series rely too much on romantic entanglements as is. However, since the show is perhaps the biggest Clay/Elena shipper of them all, it was hard to feel like she lost anything of value. I liked Philip quite a bit and think he seemed like a good man, but he lacked a strong, distinct characterization for much of the season and the show didn’t seem interested in giving a full picture of what his life/love with Elena was like. While I get that at least part of her grief comes from the chances of her having a normal life dying along with Philip, there could have been much more emotional impact if they had invested more in Philip from the beginning of the season.
-Going off that, I think to fully enjoy Bitten you have to buy into Clay and Elena’s story. I don’t think you can’t find value in the show if you’re not into them; it’s just much harder to grasp when their feelings for one another are such a big part of the fabric of the show. Even though I didn’t care for the Clay hero worship and am still weirded out by the message of “I violated you for your own good, so it’s all okay,” as well as the way the show handled the outside world in general, I didn’t mind Clay and Elena. I thought the show was too invested in them at the expense of the supporting cast and anything resembling plot momentum, but overall, they were fine.
-Crackpot theory: Although the move to have Williams be the one to nab Rachel was interesting, I was expecting Nick to be behind it all as a way of keeping Logan tied to the Pack. He reiterated Logan’s plans to go off-grind when this was all over and we know how he’s the most dedicated Pack member in terms of preserving their ranks and the traditions that come along with life in the Pack; plus, he was the one who saved Rachel from the Mutt and we never saw him downstairs fighting, so he could have taken her and had enough time to get back to the rest of the Pack.
-I will say, though, that moves like Logan going back to Stonehaven and leaving Rachel hanging are the type of plot-over-character moments that I don’t like in shows like this. I don’t know that I buy that cautious Logan would leave Rachel unprotected to go back to Stonehaven; I know how much the concept of family has been on his mind with the baby coming and how he had last minute anxiety about leaving the Pack in lurch, but the show needed Rachel to be in that limo with Malcolm and did what it had to do to make it happen.
-One of the problems I had with this season is that it seemed to have no direction – neither the real villain nor the framework the season was operating under were clear, while nothing of circumstance seemed to happen. Incremental stuff did build up, but after 12 episodes, it felt like we had been treading water for much of the time; the finale, though, made all the sludgy, circular plotting worth it. Santos was a fairly compelling “villain,” despite the flimsy jealousy excuse to motivate his actions, and I like the idea of Marsten in the Pack, since numbers were comically dropping throughout the season to the point where you wondered whether Clay and Elena would be the extent of the pack by the end of the finale.
-I really liked how the episode was shot. Minus the gratuitous slo-mo, which accentuated the goofiness of the show due to how unnatural it felt, the lighting in boarded up Stonehaven was beautiful and added to the fight scenes, while the camera work was mostly strong and felt fresh without being over-the-top.
-Thank you guys for following my coverage of Bitten this season. Hopefully the show can snag a second season renewal and we can reconvene to discuss werewolf sexual politics, just how hot Nick actually is, and the Twilight of it all.

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On the season finale of Bitten, Elena doesn’t have time for self-reflection with the Mutts preparing to storm Stonehaven. Santos, already perturbed about having Clay rescued and Olson taken from his ranks, had been flying off the rails recently, his thirst for revenge outweighing his mission for the Mutts, and a loose cannon Santos is the worst kind of Santos. Since he’s typically very prepared and thorough, the Pack can anticipate what Santos is going to do, but that was all before he became lost in his quest for vengeance for his brother. Now, he’s not just a threat to the Pack’s dwindling sense of stability; he’s the threat, the one who could change the order of the werewolf world if he manages to hit Stonehaven hard enough. Could this be the end of the Pack’s reign?

Bitten airs Mondays at 8:00 on Syfy.

Will the Pack emerge (mostly) unscathed from the attack by the Mutts? Are Elena and Clay going to give their relationship another try once Santos and company have been disposed of? Should the Pack dispatch the Mutts, what will be the next big threat to their survival?

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On tonight’s episode of Bitten, Santos has taken a car battery to Clay, though things are not copacetic in the Mutt world with Victor Olson seemingly pulling away from the group that turned him in the first place. Be it the differences that exist between his ideology and the ideology of Santos or the belief that he doesn’t need the likes of Santos and LeBlanc in order to make it, Olson’s turning attitude toward his place in the Mutts could be the best thing for the Pack, as it significantly weakens their enemy without any resulting collateral damage. Olson on his own is much easier to deal with than Olson, LeBlanc, Santos, and Marsten, so if they can separate him from the herd and pick him off accordingly, it would send a message to the remaining Mutts that this rebellion they’ve started isn’t going to end well for them.

Elsewhere on Bitten, Elena gets confronted by Philip, with the encounter forcing her to come to terms with the nature of her true identity.

Bitten airs tonight at 8:00 on Syfy.

Do you think Clay will crack under pressure from Santos and the rest of the Mutts? Could Victor Olson be tiring of taking orders from Santos, possibly leading to a division within the Mutt ranks? Will Elena finally accept the path her life has taken and not try to force herself to live a certain way?

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On tonight’s episode of Bitten, that cinching of her mortality tightens even moreso when Olson and Santos burst into Philip’s apartment, thereby putting him in the center of the Pack’s conflict with the Mutts. Philip might not be directly involved or explicitly targeted, but he would make some supremely damaging collateral damage, a major loss that could help Santos and Olson bend Elena to their will by crushing any last hope she had of seeing peace and escaping the world of wolves. However, if Clay and Philip can fight off Santos and Olson, Elena will have the chance to completely separate herself from life in Toronto and give Philip the clean break necessary for them both to move on and begin the healing process – without either of them ending up in a hospital room or a morgue.

Elsewhere on Bitten, Elena embraces her kill instinct while working to free Clay from captivity and comes to terms with her true identity after Philip puts her in a difficult position,

Bitten airs tonight at 8:00 on Syfy.

Will Clay and Philip be able to protect Elena from LeBlanc and Santos? How will Elena feel after embracing who she is when she’s held her wolf at arm’s length for years? Could Elena coming to terms with who she is bring her closer to Clay?

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On the next episode of Bitten, Elena returns to Toronto with Clay at her side on the orders of Jeremy. It makes sense that he would want to keep what remains of the Pack as tight as possible, if only for the possibility of a Mutt attack, but while Elena’s physical safety might be taken care of, it’s her relationship that could suffer the most damage in this trip to the city, since Philip only knows of Clay as one of Elena’s seemingly endless array of cousins. Though he might have believed that not even a month ago, the necklace on his video and Elena weaving in and out of his life as she pleases has his antennae up and the slightest hint of sexual tension between Clay and Elena will confirm his suspicions that she’s cheating on him. But even if he does find out about Clay and Elena, will Philip chalk it up to her past causing her to self-sabotage or will he stand up for himself accordingly?

Elsewhere on Bitten, an unexpected source provides the Pack with information that could prove advantageous in their war with the Mutts.

Bitten airs tonight at 8:00 on Syfy.

Will Philip find out about Elena’s romantic history with Clay? Should Elena break up with Philip to protect him from any future Mutt attacks? Who do you think will assist the Pack in their war with the Mutts?

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On the next episode of Bitten, the Pack has an encounter with LeBlanc that puts Elena in danger, as she gets abducted on the roof of a nearby warehouse. Motivated by what happened in the diner, LeBlanc wants nothing more than to exact vengeance upon Elena, but rather than quickly killing her and disposing of the body, further weakening the already stumbling Pack, the objective is to taunt Jeremy with the idea of losing the Pack’s best tracker and someone with whom he’s developed a familial relationship. The Mutts want the Pack to feel the loss of one of their own, but more importantly, they want them to know that they’re done with taking orders and living life the way that’s become the norm in their world. They want the psychological damage that would result from yet another death in the Pack, yet Elena is the strongest member of the Pack that they’ve went after and the recent losses will make Nick, Jeremy, and Clay all the more determined to keep their small but mighty crew together.

Elsewhere on Bitten, Elena’s feelings for Clay race to the surface when she has a near death experience.

Bitten airs Mondays at 8:00 on Syfy.

Will the Pack be able to dispatch Koenig without suffering any more damage? Should the Pack attempt to recruit members to bolster the ranks that were devastated by the Mutts? How will Elena deal with her feelings for Clay resurfacing at a time when she’s mostly focused on surviving and returning to Toronto?

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On the next episode of Bitten, Clay has begun trying to glean the location of the Mutts from Kane while holding the latter in the basement at Stonehaven. Elena may be the Pack’s strongest tracker, but they don’t have the time necessary for her to use scent to find the Mutts, especially when the Mutts know that the Pack is going to be coming after them. Ergo, Clay gets to indulge in his baser instincts by torturing Kane in hopes of forcing out the location of the Mutts, only Kane didn’t rise through the Mutt ranks for nothing. It’s not going to be a quick-and-dry type of operation where Kane gives up easily and the Pack has a decent cushion of time with which to play. Bending Kane to his will is going to take some effort and, more importantly, some time, time which Clay is in short supply of due to Jeremy’s injury.

Elsewhere on Bitten, Elena sets off to find the girl who stabbed Jeremy, while a werewolf wannabe pops up on the Pack’s radar.

Bitten airs tonight at 8:00 on Syfy.

Will Clay and Elena be able to cure Jeremy? How would the Pack survive without its Alpha? Can Clay make Kane give up the location of the Mutts?

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Listed below are the dates, titles, and descriptions of the next four episodes of Bitten.

Monday, February 24th – “Stalking”
The Pack could possibly be walking into a trap when they agree to sit down and discuss a truce with the Mutt uprising and their recently revealed leader Daniel Santos.

Monday, March 3rd – “Prisoner”
A poisoned Jeremy grows weaker by the hour as Elena and Clay race against the clock to save his life, but run into hurdles as they interrogate a Mutt and contend with a werewolf wannabe.

Monday, March 10th – “Vengeance”
The Pack push personal issues aside to focus on survival after Santos sics a notorious killer on them, but Elena’s feelings for Clay race to the surface after her own close call with death.

Monday, March 17th – “Descent”
Elena returns to Toronto for her art show accompanied by Clay, who keeps a protective watch over her while camping out on Philip’s couch. Elsewhere, the Pack receive valuable information about the Mutts from an unexpected source.

Bitten airs Mondays at 8:00 on Syfy.

Will Elena and Clay be able to save Jeremy? How will Philip handle Elena bringing Clay back to Toronto? What Mutt source will help the Pack in their battle for power?

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On the next episode of Bitten, the Pack ends up agreeing to a sit down with Santos, possibly as a last ditch non-violent effort to either extract information about the Stillwells. They know that Santos has a connection to the death of a former Pack member, but before the Pack can arrive at the meeting to see about what he knows, whether he’s willing to give up any information, and if a truce is feasible at this point, they get ambushed by the Mutts on the highway. The rumors of the Pack being vulnerable and of Jeremy not being the strongest Alpha have ingratiated themselves into the world of the Mutts to the point that making a power play seems like the best move; it’s risky, considering how ruthless the Pack could be if they emerge victorious, but after years of being subjected to the Pack’s rule, the Mutts are willing to take that risk on the chance of finding their freedom and being able to live how they want.

Bitten airs Mondays at 8:00 on Syfy.

Do you think a truce between the Pack and the Mutts is possible? Who else aside from Santos was involved in the death of Stillwell? Considering the mess going on around her, should Elena have returned to Stonehaven after all?

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