Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) drops some friends in for a bite.
So, I watched WEDNESDAY and was entertained, but it had several issues.
If you are an Addams Family fan, this show focuses on Wednesday Addams and Thing (who's her literal right hand man), with periodic minor appearances from most of the other regular characters, with Lurch and Pugsley coming off with the least to do.
If you are an Addams Family fan, this show focuses on Wednesday Addams and Thing (who's her literal right hand man), with periodic minor appearances from most of the other regular characters, with Lurch and Pugsley coming off with the least to do.
The show's setup is a gene-splicing of Hogwarts
and Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, with the teen angst one
expects from a CW tweener drama series, and it cannot make up its mind
if the overall tone is meant to be humorous or horrifying with the
assorted shenanigans bearing potentially serious and even lethal
consequences. (We are informed that Wednesday's revenge prank involving
dumping hungry piranhas into her previous school's swimming pool costs
the offending swim team jock a testicle, and there are several savage
mutilations and murders.)
If you ask me it's not quite sure what it
wants to be, but I found the cast engaging — Jenna Ortega as Wednesday
and Emma Myers as late-blooming werewolf Enid Sinclair are my favorites —
and the "monster rally" aspect was a lot of fun, so I will be back for
more when the second season drops. When that comes to pass, I hope
more time is taken and more thought is put into really figuring out a
cohesive flavor and tone for the proceedings.
Oh, and extra points for supporting actress Gwendoline Christie (aka GAME OF THRONES Brienne of Tarth — YUM!!!) as Principal Weems, and also for the superb deployment of the Cramps' classic "Goo-Goo Muck" during a school dance sequence.
Oh, and extra points for supporting actress Gwendoline Christie (aka GAME OF THRONES Brienne of Tarth — YUM!!!) as Principal Weems, and also for the superb deployment of the Cramps' classic "Goo-Goo Muck" during a school dance sequence.
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