Wednesday

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 23, 2022
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 173 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 118 out of 173
  2. Mixed: 32 out of 173
  3. Negative: 23 out of 173

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  1. Gumdrop
    Nov 29, 2022
    1
    I've been a Tim Burton fan for years. The man has brought us some amazing stuff. This isn't one of them. This is a teen drama masquerading as an Addams Family tale. It feels like it was made by people who've never seen anything Addams. They've only ever heard it described, poorly. It's like they completely misunderstood the Addams Family and their characters.

    All the characters feel    I've been a Tim Burton fan for years. The man has brought us some amazing stuff. This isn't one of them. This is a teen drama masquerading as an Addams Family tale. It feels like it was made by people who've never seen anything Addams. They've only ever heard it described, poorly. It's like they completely misunderstood the Addams Family and their characters.

    All the characters feel off. It's like they tried so hard to do something different that they took it too far and in the wrong direction. They've turned Pugsley into a snivelling wimp. Morticia and Gomez lack everything that has always made them the perfect blend of charming and twisted. There's no chemistry between them and you feel none of the trademark Addams Family love.
    And then there's Wednesday. Sure, she's always been a bit of a morbid sociopath, but it's always been in a fun, charming way. And there was always a hint that there was still something else underneath it all. That deep down, she still loved her family. But there's none of that here. They removed everything and just left the dark part without any of the charm. And that alone might be tolerable. Except that also made her just another angsty teenager who hates her mom.    … Expand
  2. darkthepro
    Nov 28, 2022
    0
    I had low expectations after watching the trailer but I wasn't expecting it to be that bad
  3. Kataklyste
    Nov 28, 2022
    2
    Why is there the barfing urge from the writers to take an established character and make him do things the character wont do?
    Addams family is about a family that deems themselves utterly normal and their clash with the modern world. Tha Addams are an Victorian era Family with a modern Boy a Victorian goth girl and a Frankenstein Monster as a Butler living a normal live in a normal    Why is there the barfing urge from the writers to take an established character and make him do things the character wont do?
    Addams family is about a family that deems themselves utterly normal and their clash with the modern world. Tha Addams are an Victorian era Family with a modern Boy a Victorian goth girl and a Frankenstein Monster as a Butler living a normal live in a normal Environment while everyone around them deems them utterly weird and makaber. There are no Werewolves, no vampires, no sirens (those are Sirens: https://study.com/cimages/multimages/16/14596508668_27ea08ee1c_w6912297373773824608.jpg) and no magic. Just good old "unexplainable things". and oddities. Wednesday doesn't rebel against her Mother or Father but likes and respects them and Gomez is not an utterly despicable blob with bad teeth. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family    … Expand
  4. Barny
    Nov 27, 2022
    0
    Great sets, costumes, photography, music. The rest is a complete perversion of the backstory and the characters. This is not a loving family, this is a dangerously perverted bunch of horrible people.

    There is no chemistry between Morticia & Gomez: she is unlovingly, cold and he is the exemplification of the sweaty pervert collecting female underwear. Wednesday is a psychopath, Pugsley a    Great sets, costumes, photography, music. The rest is a complete perversion of the backstory and the characters. This is not a loving family, this is a dangerously perverted bunch of horrible people.

    There is no chemistry between Morticia & Gomez: she is unlovingly, cold and he is the exemplification of the sweaty pervert collecting female underwear. Wednesday is a psychopath, Pugsley a spineless wimp. The high school environment is just mocking the viewers.

    In fact, the depravity of the show is exemplified by thing: instead of being a simple helpful, sometime whimsical creature, It a stitched up frankenstein-monster like assembly: it removes all the charm, the fun and the love of the originals dating 1964 and replaces it by the perverted and sick mindset of these days.    … Expand
  5. Tenraimi
    Dec 4, 2022
    3
    Where's my review? Why you removed it? No spoilers.. just some thoughts. I'm confused
  6. R_1974
    Dec 11, 2022
    0
    Wären es nicht die Addams hätte ich nach der ersten folge aufgegeben aber als Fan der Filme und der Serie habe ich es mir angetan um festzustellen....ja es ist eine einzige Katastrophe. Völlige Fehlbesetzung ,Gomez Addams ist nur lächerlich zum fremdschämen und eine Beleidigung für den leider viel zu früh Verstorbenen Raul Julia ,er und Morticia wirken wie plumpe Laiendarsteller, FesterWären es nicht die Addams hätte ich nach der ersten folge aufgegeben aber als Fan der Filme und der Serie habe ich es mir angetan um festzustellen....ja es ist eine einzige Katastrophe. Völlige Fehlbesetzung ,Gomez Addams ist nur lächerlich zum fremdschämen und eine Beleidigung für den leider viel zu früh Verstorbenen Raul Julia ,er und Morticia wirken wie plumpe Laiendarsteller, Fester hat einen unnötigen Gastauftritt aber den hätte man sich schenken können dazu langweiliges Teeny rumgezicke und eine riesen Portion Woke sche...e ,eine schlechte Scooby-Doo geschichte auf 8 folgen gestreckt. Von Tim Burton war zwar der Name zu lesen aber nix zu sehen. Hogwarts scheint auch als Inspiration gedient zu haben.Viel lächerliche Girlie/Frauen Power und Männer/Jungs entweder als Bösewicht oder als völlige Lappen, wie schon erwähnt typischer Woke Schrott.
    Disney+ ist schon gekündigt , macht Netflix so weiter sind es die nächsten.    … Expand
  7. Kobe8-24
    Dec 8, 2022
    2
    Show has trash writing and some of the characters and plotlines made my head spin. Jenna is the only thing keeping this show about a 0.
  8. lordaeron1
    Feb 13, 2023
    3
    Harry potter reskin, and not a very good one.
    cheese action, cringy acting, super predictable plot.
    this is in no way or shape Addams family related. it's like you put a sink in Fortnite nothing more. very disappointed, i have no idea why this is so hyped. overrate and overhyped.
    the only good thing i can say about it is that maybe i am too told for this, kids up to the age of 15 will enjoy it.

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#15 Most Discussed TV Season of 2022

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Metascore
66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 26
  3. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Dec 8, 2022
    62
    If CW dramas are your jam, you might like “Wednesday.” I was mostly bored and found the plot machinations predictable. “Wednesday” is at its best when it leans into the mordant humor Wednesday evinces.
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  2. Decider
    Reviewed by: Brittany Vincent
    Nov 23, 2022
    80
    It’s Ortega’s star power alone that helps drive this series from the very beginning into something that could have been mediocre into a totally watchable and exciting twist on a familiar franchise. ... While this adaptation makes some strange decisions, it ends up working in a weird way, which will interest both old and new viewers.
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  3. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Nov 23, 2022
    80
    It loses something by not setting Wednesday against normality, as the films did, and by having a more fissured version of the Addams clan. The love and unity of the family against the world was always one of the great pleasures, in whatever incarnation you met them. But it has enough wit, charm and propulsive energy for that not to matter as much as it might have.
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