Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe

I am not a fan of vampire or werewolf fictions. So this story is an allien concept for me. I drew parallel from Harry potter, but soon when I got hooked I found very little parallels from the story I was drawing into. It is more like a thriller but with different sub-genre. Since I am a thriller binge watcher perfectly loved the concept.

Wednesday Addams is a girl with unique powers .Fortunately they have schools for the powerholder She is involved in digging her own past when she reaches "NEVERMORE" the outcast school.

The lead character is established , her powers are established and her secondary rivalries are established already. In my opinion we are just waiting for the VILLAIN with grand presence.

Loving it .

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.

An outcast's been expelled, now her parents are compelled, enrol her in another school, hope she'll follow all the rules, but she's not fully compliant, more devoutly dark defiant, has a plan to make escape, won't be moulded into shape, but the school of Nevermore, has taught this loner type before, and the Principal's familiar, with the crooked and nonlinear, so she's watched, observed and viewed, while she plots, schemes and colludes, though she's started to get visions, that leave some less well provisioned, sets the scene for wanting more, if you like gothic folklore, the creatures conjured and created, may leave you feeling quite elated.

Jenna Ortega a baddie ngl. It is a W episode and touches a lot on how she views the world and what her values are. It is expected that her values may change later on in the show like they do in a lot of movies and shows and this episode just touched on her and how she sees the world. The character introductions are very good and flowed smoothly and they had some good action scenes to touch on the problems she will have to face later in the show. The jokes some of the characters make are a little corny and cheesy but it's nothing you can't get through. It's a fire show and this episode is a very good pilot to introducing everything.

I think it's a good episode, it's a good start for a series that can touch on different interesting topics and that in addition to that has free rein to explore various topics such as action, the feelings of the protagonists, but, let's talk about the secondary characters, I think the series makes a correct introduction to them, and I think it's perfect that Wednesday isn't a deus ex machina and that there are people above her.

People who can be a more than a high, are more a tool to develop themselves and Wednesday, it seems right to me that there is a change in personality, I think that in the final minutes it is a little rushed just to put in, the why of the plot that will follow this season, but outside of that, the protagonists are interesting, and I personally want to know about everyone, especially Wednesday, his family and the school and its members.