Big fan of everything Tim Burton, and I'm loving Ortega as Wednesday. A solid 8 from me.
This immediately gave me season 1 Sabrina vibes. I would say the shows are the same if Sabrina was forced to go to the school with witches. Thing is Salem.
The first three minutes (the pool scene) have been the best! I want more!!!
Also I love the dark and colourful tone. Only Tim Burton…
It is not what I was expecting...
That was awful. Poorly cast, bad acting and a terrible script. Bringing in Christina Ricci only reminds me of how perfectly she played the character. This girl has zero charisma and cannot deliver those Wednesday-esque lines convincingly at all. I’ll keep watching in hopes it gets better but that was a terrible start.
What Sabrina used to be: funny, dark, with undertones of real adolescent issues. Excellent monsters, acceptable dialog, good acting and what must be excellent editing.
Thing is a delight.
Monster High but with Wednesday Addams. Jenna Ortega is perfect though as is the dark humor. It’s also engaging.
"When I look at you, the following emojis come to mind: rope, shovel, hole."
What an icon.
Since Jenna Ortega announced that she filmed without blinking in the shots I've been obsessed with looking for examples of her blinking.
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Is it Tim-Burton-television version of Harry Potter?
Some nice dark and sadistic humor something I have been longing for. Is this really made by Netflix?
Great pilot. Well directed, cast and designed.
The only thing that felt off is the action.
Christina Ricci eterna Wandinha (Wednesday) :black_heart:
A decent start. Let's hope some Hollywood hack doesn't screw it up after the first episode.
I liked what I saw, the school has a certain Hogwarts feel to it, and if James Potter had been good at Quidditch, here Morticia had been good at fencing. Created by the creators of Smallville and the first 2 directed by Tim Burton.
Interesting. Has potential. I’m not a Addams Family purist but I enjoyed the episode.
This is a fun show to watch! Even for me being 40+ :-). Great cast and acting of Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) is great!
An alright start. The intro is really dry, so give it at least until the halfway mark, before which, it picks up.
Wow, a pilot episode that is actually a self-contained intro to a series cough Andor cough.
I was in a pretty Wednesday Addams kind of mood when I started this, and I nearly stopped watching after about the first ten minutes. I don't know if it was intentional that they cast Zeta-Jones and Guzman to be off-putting, but I was right there with Wednesday in my disgust watching the two of them. The daylights scenes of this show look considerably worse than the night shots, and the stark white light didn't do the actors any favors.
It's lamentable to hear myself say it, but I very much hope that they keep the Gomez and Morticia roles to a minimum, as I am not feeling the casting choices at all. Both previous castings for Gomez and Morticia, in the classic TV series, but especially Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston, from the initial Burton (whoops, false memory) Sonnenfeld films, were iconic, and there's no way that this pair can touch that. The two weighed down this introduction, along with the first part of the script. Also, they seem to be in their sixties, with children just coming into their teens. The show didn't need star power, it needed compelling main characters.
And thankfully, that seems to be just what it has, in its young cast.
The show starts to pick up almost immediately after Wednesday gets to her new school. The fencing scene was a decent start, but the scene with Wednesday and "Thing" was a perfect introduction for the character(s), and the show's tone. The coffee shop scene with young barista Hughie also got a few good laughs out of me. Whereas the intro was an awkward, bloodless, and decidedly tepid take on the Addams formula, once the sardonic humor tinged with just-edgy-enough social commentary showed up, we really got our taste of Wednesday's personality, outside of her being a morbid edgelord, which was never going to cut it on its own.
The dynamic between Wednesday and her roommate, Enid, is compelling by the end of the episode, and the actresses seem to be able to play off of each other well enough, and, given time and good direction, I can see them becoming a dynamic duo.
This was a shaky start, and I'm worried about powers-creep (telekinesis, supernatural horror creature cliques, and Wednesday's already improbably long list of wunderkind-level proficiencies) but I hope this takes off and learns to play to its strengths.
This was great and Jenny Ortega. Hope it develops better than Sabrina
already love it, especially the cast
Episode 1 of Wednesday starts with students arriving for classes at Nancy Reagan High School. Among those students is Wednesday who finds her little brother Pugsley is a victim of bullying. The bullies have tied him up in her locker and left an apple in his mouth. As she unties him from the ropes, she gets a vision of what the bullies did and she leaves to deal with them.
Wednesday finds them in the school swimming pool and releases two bags of red-bellied piranhas into the pool. She then watches with sheer fascination and delight as the piranhas attack the boys in the water. They soon arrive at Nevermore and the principal, Larissa, welcomes them. As it turns out she is Morticia's old roommate. She is impressed enough with Wednesday's perfect grades and the family's long history with the school to make an expectation and accept her in the middle of the term. Morticia is concerned about Wednesday's mental health and informs the principal that Wednesday is required by the court to attend therapy. Larissa says they have a certified therapist and she can meet Wednesday twice a week. At school, Enid and Wednesday get a bit close and she asks Enid for a favour to use her computer. She sends Thing to Tyler with a message to call her. She recruits Tyler to help her escape during the harvest festival. It is not easy to lose Principal Larissa who is keeping a close eye on her. Tyler shows up at the festival as planned and gives her the police report on her father. As she and Tyler try to leave, they are approached by the three boys she beat in the cafe. They are looking to settle scores and a rematch. Tyler thinks it is best to lose them in the crowd. They start running from them but she runs into Rowan and has another vision of him being in danger. It looks like we are in for an exciting mysterious journey as Wednesday remains in Nevermore to find answers to everything she has discovered there. The show channels a blend of Sabrina and Riverdale, with the usual vibe you'd expect from The Addam's Family, and it does so to great effect. From what we've seen so far, this looks like quite the intriguing watch. Are you excited for the spooky adventures that lay ahead?
A bit gorier than I expected, but creepy, kooky, and spooky in good ways. And now I want to read the novels that Wedneday wrote. And Luis Guzmán is the perfect Gomez.
why would she be surprised for her father being a murderer? aren't the Addams family all murderers?
Going into this not knowing much about the franchise, Wednesday's character really blew me away with how unsettling she is. Even for someone who's seen Mr. Robot and American Psycho, Wednesday is one of the darkest and most disturbing characters I've ever seen in TV or film. While deftly written, it certainly makes the show an uncomfortable watch at times, and it oscillates between making me burst out laughing and making me wonder if this is a show that I should be watching.
While the show lacks any dramatic visual flourishes in its premiere, it certainly doesn't look bad. The acting can be uneven at times, which does take you out of the moment occasionally, and for those paying attention to realism, the show daintily tiptoes around what should be incredibly graphic events (yes I say this knowing full well if features multiple decapitated limbs). Still, it's not bad, and shows that Netflix still has a knack for making good shows aimed at a teen-ish audience.
I've never watched any Addams family movies before, and the story seems a bit boring and the school a cliched copy of Hogwarts, though the snarky main character saves the day and makes the show an enjoyable experience.
Jenna is absolutely amazing as Wednesday. And I loved the casting of CZJ as Morticia. Also amazing that Christina Ritchie, the OG Wednesday, is on board this show!
The rest of the "kids'" I'm still unsure about. At times it was a little cringe, but idk if it was a dialogue issue or the acting itself.
Another thing I loved is how this show continued the trend of the old movies of the "villains" always being white, blonde women. I just find that detail hilarious.
Good pilot, establishes characters and setting well. Jenna Ortega is perfectly cast and Enid as her roommate is great. Great look and music is on point.
Ortega plays the perfect Wednesday, but most of the rest of the family feel off. Zero chemistry between Zeta-Jones and Guzman; in fact, it came off kind of creepy. Not sure if this is more in line with the original comics, but Guzman made me cringe more than once.
Not sure what the hell kung fu Wednesday was all about. Almost turned off at that point.
Disappointed that finger-snapping theme didn't make it for the end credits as well. Opening notes convinced me a remixed version was incoming - instead we got a faintly reminiscent, but ultimately disappointing, entry. Using the original theme would've squeezed a high 7, perhaps even a temptful 8, out of me.
As it is, opening episode is a firm 7 from me. It wasn't bad, but didn't live up to the hype I've heard.
scooby doo, but it's edgy
Only read good things about Wednesday on Twitter.
Join me, though I've always liked The Munsters more than The Addams Family.
Would certainly be interesting to talk at work to a social educator about the girl though.
Boy, that CGI at the end. Yeesh. Otherwise it's very enjoyable. Jenna Ortega is VERY good.
An interesting start to the show. Ortega is doing a good job portraying the character and there is enough teen freaks around it feels like a fanfic. I ended up bouncing off the new Sabrina so hopefully this show hits the sweet spot.
Not rating Gomez and Morticia. It's hard not to compare to the films I grew up with but even with those aside, CZJ sounds like she's talking with a mouth full of marbles. She sounds dubbed!
Gwendoline Christie is always a delight on screen.
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Maybe I'm not in the right frame of mind but this was just fine? I understand it's the character and this is what she's known for, but between the eye-rolling dialogue and the overtly edgy interplay between the characters, I'm just not sure this series is for me. I will stick around to see if the overarching mystery takes hold and grips me, but this feels like another nostalgia mine from Netflix to try and stay relevant to the aging millennials in their subscriber pool. Jenna and Gwen are good though, glad they're getting different roles to try out their range.