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Positive:
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Critic Reviews
Aug 7, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Wednesday continues to be passably entertaining mainly thanks to its visuals and its casting, particularly Jenna Ortega in the central role. But even with a couple of trouble spots from Season 1 improved upon, Season 2 still struggles with a wildly uneven tone and comedic moments that too often falter.
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The IndependentAug 6, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Soap opera machinations drive the plot exactly where you think, when you think. What seems on the surface shiny and new is really a Frankenstein’s monster of countless teen hits: Emily in Paris meets X-Men meets Veronica Mars meets Riverdale, all stitched up in style.
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Nov 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It is often delightful, despite its deliberate darkness, but “Wednesday” is many things, including a murder mystery, a teen romance and a boarding-school soap opera with a quasi-macabre curriculum. Its heroine is all over the place and it does feel as if eight episodes weren’t enough to quite nail down what the tone of her character and story will eventually be.
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Nov 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
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.
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The PlaylistNov 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The plotting sets up numerous arcs that feel promising. And then “Wednesday” succumbs to what plagues so many Netflix shows—narrative wheel-spinning, a lack of momentum, and that sense that this would all have been a better film than a TV series. It never completely loses 100% of the energy of its premiere, but the ingenuity of the first hour fades as the season progresses like all of the colors in the wardrobe of Wednesday Addams.
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Nov 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Before Sabrina went off the rails, it had some fun preoccupying witches with comically mundane problems while ordinary high schoolers faced down terrors. Wednesday lacks that funhouse-mirror perspective on growing up, where the small problems feel bigger than the big ones. High school is just high school.
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Aug 6, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Most of Season 2’s first half — even the Burton-directed first episode — is generically dark, with effects beyond The Thing resembling standard-issue CGI in a million other shows. Overall, it looks like a follow-up made with half the budget of Season 1. That is, until the fourth episode.
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Nov 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
May as well call it “The Chilling Adventures of Enola Addams at the School for Good and Evil.” The original goth girl deserves better. ... Establishing her own sarcastic, moody adolescent iteration, Ortega is not just Wednesday but “Wednesday,” the only element that feels like what the show ought to be.
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Nov 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Despite Ortega’s fantastic performance and Burton’s active involvement, “Wednesday” as a whole never really captures what made “The Addams Family” so viscerally strange (nor is it half as visually striking). It does, however, get what makes a teen Netflix show tick. ... “Wednesday” uses the specter of its IP to lure people in and stand out among the rest. The former should prove easy enough — the latter, not so much.
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Nov 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Aug 6, 2025
Season 2 Review:
It’s not just the supporting stars who are dulled in the new episodes, which are equally split by directors Tim Burton (who also serves as executive producer) and Paco Cabezas (The Appeared, Mr. Right). Ortega is an interesting performer whose goth-girl charms are reminiscent of Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci in the late ’80s and early ’90s, but season two’s Wednesday Addams isn’t just deadpan: She’s damn near soulless, all clipped deliveries and unblinking stares.
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Aug 6, 2025
Season 2 Review:
The hit Netflix series has turned the morbidly deadpan character created by cartoonist Charles Addams into the central figure in a generic supernatural teen drama, seeping away most of what makes her such an enduring presence. That process continues in the second season of “Wednesday.”
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Aug 6, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Jenna Ortega returns for a new season as the acerbic Addams daughter, which is great, but the character’s misanthropic self is supported by an overload of the repulsive, the gruesome, the homicidal and the disgusting—or am I, like the series, being redundant? There’s also a negative side, which is the lack of much storytelling craft in a production that seems to be making stuff up as it goes along.
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Aug 6, 2025The IndependentNov 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
This is a world where everyone talks in zingy one-liners, where the creature design is too scary for children but too cartoonish for adults, where the performances are more two-dimensional than the New Yorker comic strip in which the characters first appeared. For a show about vampires and werewolves, it has very little bite.
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