Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe

Wednesday Addams is sent to the Nevermore Academy.

This is an enjoyable opening episode with decent humour and character moments.

The plot sets the scene, introduces characters and kicks off a central mystery pretty well inside one hour.

I am a fan of the Christina Ricci version of the title character and I'm happy to say that Jenna Ortega plays it in the same deadpan spirit. How much a single Addams character can carry an entire show will be interesting to see, but the writers definitely chose the right one.

The humour is typically Addams Family, by satirising social norms with Wednesday's reactions and one-liners towards various people. Plus it has all the macabre jokes that involve pain, suffering and death in some shape or form. How much of this will stay fresh for an entire series remains to be seen. I particularly like the opening sequence and a memorable line from Wednesday relating to social media.

Visually it's excellent, with strong cinematography and superb art design, that feels typically Burton, especially the scenes where various shades of colour contrasting with Wednesday gothic appearance.

There are some moments that feel a bit forced to try and add a degree of coolness to the character such as the martial arts. The related jock-bully type antagonists appearing again near the end to increase the stakes, after already proving inept as threats, feels contrived and a bit pointless to me.

For me it's a 7.5/10 but I round upwards.

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 have been looking forward to the launch of the series with bated breath ever since it was first announced. The plot doesn't appear to get off to a particularly good start here, coming off as more of a stereotypically angsty teen drama than a "Addams Family" adaptation, taking itself far too seriously most of the time, and failing to imbue the satirical, tongue-in-cheek humour I was obviously expecting from the franchise. As a result, I'm not overly enthusiastic to report that.

It's not the worst thing ever, but it's also not the best thing ever. However, in general, it does give the impression that it is creatively masquerading as something that it is not, being nowhere near as sharp or self-aware as it has to be in order to compete with previous incarnations that have ingrained themselves in the history of popular culture.

Even Tim Burton's direction doesn't add much because his unique style can't break through Netflix's visual framework, which makes all of their properties look the same.

Aside from that, the pilot was a clear rip-off of Sabrina, and the supporting teenage actors all appeared to be paid to be bored, so I won't be tuning in for episode two.

It's not a problem, as I've said... On the other hand, this degree of apathy is a great deal lower than I had hoped for.

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.

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.