Wednesday: The new TV Series about the Iconic Addams Family Teenager

Wednesday

The new TV Series about the Iconic Addams Family Teenager

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Kerry J. Keston

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE PLOT

THE CAST

TV SERIES EPISODE RECAP

HOW IT ENDS

THE DARK ICON OF FEMALE NONCONFORMITY

MY PERSONAL REVIEW

WHERE WAS FILMED

THERE WILL BE A SECOND SEASON?

THE PLOT

There are eight episodes in the first season of Wednesday, a Netflix series shaped by the gothic and skillful hand of the famous director Tim Burton and which sees the youngest of the family unit, the famous Wednesday precisely (played by Jenna Ortega), grappling with the true horror dramas of adolescence and high school, obviously experienced in the macabre shoes of a rather special little girl.

The Nevermore Academy is, in fact, a special school for kids with peculiar characteristics: vampires and werewolves, mermaids, and witches. Here, Wednesday will have to deal with solving dark mysteries related to the school and her own family, all while trying to adapt to her new life: among the strange ones, she is the outcast. In the series, therefore, there is also much talk of loneliness.

THE CAST

The cast of Wednesday is full of familiar faces and relative newcomers. Here are the actors you need to know in Tim Burton's take on the Addams Family.

-Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester

-Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams

-Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams

-Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams

-Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems-Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin

-Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus

-Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Otinger

-Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair

-Naomi J. Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka

-Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay

-Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe

-Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valerie Kinbott

-Jamie McShane as Sheriff Donovan Galpin

-Christina Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill

TV SERIES EPISODE RECAP

1.  Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe

The first segment of Wednesday's broadcast opens with Nancy Reagan High School pupils showing up for class.

One of those pupils is Wednesday, who learns that his younger brother Pugsley is a target of bullying. He was locked in his locker by bullies, who also stuck an apple in his mouth.

He sees what the bullies have done as he releases him from the ropes and heads out to confront them. The two bags of red-bellied piranhas are released into the school pool when Wednesday discovers them there.

The piranhas start attacking the lads in the water as he watches with sheer curiosity and delight.

The following scene opens with Wednesday being driven by her parents to Nevermore, and she appears to be less than delighted about it.

Her parents try to reassure her that Nevermore, which they believe to be the ideal school for her, is something she will like.

Wednesday believes they are sending her to the institution to fulfill some sort of legacy they have left there.

(Her parents first met and fell in love while attending the same school.)

Because