Wednesday

Wednesday season two is an absolute delight… though she’d kill us if she heard us say it.

This show is mayhem in the best way possible, finally living up to the unparalleled popularity that season 1 (perhaps unfairly) earned.

With Ortega electrifyingly glum throughout, Wednesday is worth watching any day of the week.

Thanks to Ortega’s wildly entertaining blur of arch broadness and subtlety, plus creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar’s refusal to over-explain or over-evolve the eternally nihilistic goth favorite, Wednesday gets to come into her own here. Though the overall series is rarely quite at its leading lady’s level — adjust your expectations for more of an above-average CW dramedy — there are enough promising elements that I hope Wednesday gets the opportunity to make a second season with some refinements.

More focused on morbid humor, for sure, and, like “Smallville,” reasonably well executed and entertaining. But still, teenage melodrama. ... This will not be what real fans of Charles Addams and his characters are looking for, and “Wednesday” is satisfying only on the level of formulaic teenage romance and mystery. On that basis it’s pretty tolerable, though.

Shockingly good casting (and a typically Gothic score from Danny Elfman) aside, there’s little to recommend about Wednesday. It feels like a reconstituted mush of Tim Burton’s late-career apathy, the vagaries of the Netflix streaming show model, and the unholy resurrection of the corpse of IP.

The show’s dialogue is flavorless at best and laughable at worst. ... Though she has zero to work with, horror-movie fave Ortega does what she can with her character, nailing the deadpan delivery Christina Ricci perfected in the ’90s movies. ...Others caught up in this dreck include Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, and Fred Armisen. What’s more, horror legend Tim Burton directed half the season’s episodes; but the show’s visual language is so flat that you’d never know.

Wednesday is a masterpiece of modern television. Tim Burton created a world that feels both gothic and alive, like a living cartoon brought to reality. Jenna Ortega delivers one of the best performances of our generation – she doesn’t just play Wednesday Addams, she becomes her. The supporting cast is equally strong, especially the dynamic between Wednesday, Enid, and Agnes in Season 2. What I love most is that the show avoids cheap romance and focuses on identity, individuality, and clever storytelling. It’s dark, funny, and inspiring. Wednesday deserves all the praise, and I proudly rate it 10/10.

Decent but wayyy over rated. Jenna Ortega is great in the main role, however the other characters are kinda meh. There are a few twists which I enjoyed, but overall the CGI is very cheap looking (why does the monster look like that, like c'mon) and the show can be cringey at times. I did like 'thing' though. 6.5/10.

Who doesn't know them, the funny creepy Addams Family, a TV series from the 60's and the really well done movies from the 90's. Now this Netflix show is mainly about daughter Wednesday, who has to solve a case at boarding school. Tim Burton directed the first four episodes. Hence the high quality at the beginning of the series, unfortunately this weakens noticeably in the course of the last few episodes. Nonetheless, the series is worth watching. Unfortunately, as with many Netflix series and films of the last two or three years, there are many woke elements here, too, a bit weaker, but the undertone of misandry is there. If you ignore these slight flaws, it's a successful series that entertains, nothing more.

Adams's Family being back again is pretty exciting, yet overly cliche gen Z characters in a high school setting is absolutely disappointing.

Another show infected by the "agenda" and "the message". Removed from my list and stopped watching around episode 4 when the "parents" of a schoolboy appeared on screen...