When a deliciously wicked prank gets Wednesday expelled, her parents ship her off to Nevermore Academy, the boarding school where they fell in love.When a deliciously wicked prank gets Wednesday expelled, her parents ship her off to Nevermore Academy, the boarding school where they fell in love.When a deliciously wicked prank gets Wednesday expelled, her parents ship her off to Nevermore Academy, the boarding school where they fell in love.
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- TriviaWhen Wednesday confronts Thing about being followed, Wednesday posits that her parents are spying on her. Thing spells the word "Worried" using American Sign Language finger spelling.
- GoofsTechnically, the stone creature that plunged off the roof towards Wednesday was not a gargoyle. A gargoyle is always a water spout used to channel water from gutters away from the walls of building (which is how it got its name, the water "gargles" from it's mouth). The sculpture is actually a grotesque.
- Quotes
Enid Sinclair: It's a small school. There wasn't much online about you. You should really get on Insta, Snapchat, and TikTok.
Wednesday Addams: [deadpan] I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation.
- ConnectionsFeatured in MsMojo: Top 10 Best Wednesday Moments (Season 1) (2022)
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BRILLIANT. The Addams Family arrive to the 21st century. Prove that when cynicism and black comedy is done well it is gold.
I was always fascinated by the macabre version of the traditional 20th century family the Addams have always meant to be as invisioned by creator Charles Addams. Particularly Christina Ricci's excellent performance in the 1990s movies on the role of Wednesday. A personal favorite of mine. And the most interesting aspect of their shows and movies was of course their interaction with the rest of the world.
So it's no surprise that a show created by the duo that wrote Smallville and Spider-Man 2, directed by king of the macabre Tim Burton and featuring the most cynical, precocious and strong female teenager with a brilliant premise that is placing her in today's social-media-infested, internet-addictive society; in a school of outcasts like herself would be the best possible idea for today's era of entertainment.
With layers over layers of social critique, eloquent rhetoric, interesting new characters, brilliant characterisation by everyone in the Addams family (particularly Caherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia) and new characters; it is bound to be one of my favorites yet. I only wish this show had come out during Halloween month as Tim Burton's set and visual design and filmmaking permiates throughout this first episode. Delightfully grotesque yet sophisticatedly goth, the show has very visually interesting designs, set, clothing and framing choices that bring a unique flair to what essentially feels like a high-school-teen coming of age story. Which I adore and am glad and very engaged with the several character plotpoints presented ever so slightly but cleverly strong in this first episode.
Every scene in this first episode is gold. Especially the excellent fencing scene, which is the better executed version of the James Bond's Die Another Day one. But every scene fulfills at least one, and at times even more, of the essential narrative elements like character building, backstory and setting development or presentation of all the story threads we will be following in the show. I felt engaged and intrigued by the many subplots we are to explore and laughed at the dark comedy and excellent writing and characterisation the show has. I hope it can keep it up.
So it's no surprise that a show created by the duo that wrote Smallville and Spider-Man 2, directed by king of the macabre Tim Burton and featuring the most cynical, precocious and strong female teenager with a brilliant premise that is placing her in today's social-media-infested, internet-addictive society; in a school of outcasts like herself would be the best possible idea for today's era of entertainment.
With layers over layers of social critique, eloquent rhetoric, interesting new characters, brilliant characterisation by everyone in the Addams family (particularly Caherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia) and new characters; it is bound to be one of my favorites yet. I only wish this show had come out during Halloween month as Tim Burton's set and visual design and filmmaking permiates throughout this first episode. Delightfully grotesque yet sophisticatedly goth, the show has very visually interesting designs, set, clothing and framing choices that bring a unique flair to what essentially feels like a high-school-teen coming of age story. Which I adore and am glad and very engaged with the several character plotpoints presented ever so slightly but cleverly strong in this first episode.
Every scene in this first episode is gold. Especially the excellent fencing scene, which is the better executed version of the James Bond's Die Another Day one. But every scene fulfills at least one, and at times even more, of the essential narrative elements like character building, backstory and setting development or presentation of all the story threads we will be following in the show. I felt engaged and intrigued by the many subplots we are to explore and laughed at the dark comedy and excellent writing and characterisation the show has. I hope it can keep it up.
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- quiqueperezsoler
- Nov 27, 2022
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