Wednesday (2022)

Scripted "Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside."TV Show
Audience Score
85
Wednesday Addams is sent to Nevermore Academy, a bizarre boarding school where she attempts to master her psychic powers, stop a monstrous killing spree of the town citizens, and solve the supernatural mystery that affected her family 25 years ago — all while navigating her new relationships.
DirectorsTim BurtonGandja MonteiroJames Marshall
WritersAlfred GoughApril BlairKayla Alpert

Wednesday Season 1 Review

Now showing on Netflix, ‘Wednesday’ represents the latest attempt to bring ‘The Addams Family’ to screens, and one that succeeds partly because of its star.The Addams Family, which originated with Charles Addams’ single-panel cartoons and strips in the 1930s and 1940s, have long since been adapted in different formats, including TV series, a successful pair of movies and animated films.

Now comes ‘Wednesday’, which, rather than featuring the entire family (though they’re there at the start and in a key episode midway through), focuses instead on their eldest child.Jenna Ortega stars as Wednesday, here presented in traditionally dark clothing and darker moods, more likely to be found studying autopsies that on social media like her classmates.

As the show opens, she’s been kicked out of her latest school for punishing the water polo bullies who picked on her brother Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) by releasing piranhas in their pool.Despairing of finding a place where she might actually

TV Show Details

Air Date:November 23rd, 2022

Last Air Date:November 23rd, 2022

Network:Netflix
Status:Returning Series
Original Language:English
Production Companies:MGM Television, Millar Gough Ink, Toluca Pictures
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