Netflix Wednesday Addams

[DavidmeetHal]

Watching a Netflix show based on Wednesday Addams. The actress nailed her down perfectly.

[Radhruin_EU]

Watching a Netflix show based on Wednesday Addams. The actress nailed her down perfectly.

Jenna Ortega's good in the role but I'm ambivalent about the writing more generally - the tone's uneven and shifts about uncomfortably: there are some odd modernisms dropped in from time to time that I found jarring, which have to do with how this supposed mysterious-and-spooky' 'Outcast' counterculture the Addamses etc. inhabit relates to the outside world - it's meant to be tongue-in-cheek retro and playfully morbid and I couldn't, for example, square the idea of something like going to the police to report someone for stalking with that so that rang false. The 'Outcasts' thing and the harping on about bigotry seemed overplayed at times - they made that into an unsubtle thing about people who are different (seems like one of those 'for a modern audience' things) and that too clashes with the whimsical atmosphere that the source material has. Not so bad on the whole but it's the 'weird high school' trope yet again (which oddly isn't really weird enough, here) with some Nancy Drew thrown in and I thought that Wednesday as a character needs more to play off than that. (The humour could have done with being darker, too).