Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ is just the right amount of kooky, mysterious, and spooky
The Addams Family’s penchant for making light of the sinister and macabre has always been entertaining, but there was always that underlying subtext of “This isn’t realistic and we’re not trying to be realistic”. Netflix’s Wednesday, however, takes on the challenge of not just bringing the campy and gothic characters into a modern setting but also putting them in a rather serious and un-campy situation while not going full Riverdale.
Murder, teenage angst, and a lot of black outfits make up Netflix’s Wednesday
The main character is Wednesday Addams, the eldest of the Addams siblings, played by Jenna Ortega
She attends Nevermore Academy, a school for outcasts
A bunch of murders begin happening around Nevermore, and they seem to be connected to her family
Wednesday may be a unique and independent teenager, but even the morgue-loving adolescent faces a bit of adjustment in her new school
Teenage angst is very much present all throughout and the usual clichés of the Queen Bee, Queen Bee’s ex, awkward nerd, and the lovable innocent town boy that falls for the gothy main character are all there
Tuesday’s family, including Fred Armisen’s Uncle Fester, are only featured for a little bit
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