“Wednesday” is a teen drama as well — one with style, though not an especially inventive one — and it works best when it’s simply being funny, writes Nina_Metz.
Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams — dumping piranha in the pool at school — in “The Addams Family” spinoff “Wednesday.”
Netflix is promoting the series as “from the mind of Tim Burton” and he’s an executive producer and director here but perhaps it’s more informative to look at who’s credited as the show’s creators. That would be Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who gave the world “Smallville,” aka Superman/Clark Kent, the teen years.“Wednesday” is a teen drama as well — one with style, though not an especially inventive one — and it works best when it’s simply being funny.
Wednesday’s having none of it. This place is teen purgatory, even if her beloved Edgar Allan Poe is an alumnus.Moody and seeing visions she cannot explain, Wednesday is paired with a perky roommate who warns her that “full moons get pretty loud around here” as she shows her around campus, pointing out the various cliques: The fangs , the furs , the scales and the stoners . Wednesday has no interest in making friends or fitting in: “Sartre said hell is other people. He was my first crush.
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