Woe What a Night

Wednesday continues her investigations and goes to the Rave'N dance.

This is another solid episode with great visuals and a strong central performance.

The mystery plot moves only slightly in this episode with a few bits of information revealed that makes you curious about various characters and ends on another moment where you want to see what happens next.

A fair bit of screen time is dedicated to character moments, particularly the romances and potential romances of various individuals. I think you have to like them or at least take an interest in these dynamics to fully appreciate these scenes. As beautiful as some sequences are to look at and as excellent as actors such as Jenna Ortega and Emma Myers play the parts, I don't think the writers have done enough to make everything work. Personally, I think screen couplings work best when the characters have gone through something meaningful together beforehand and so far in the story it's not the case. It feels to me like they are attracted to each other just because the writers say the are. (Though, I might just have forgotten what it was like to be a teenager)

This episode has some of the best cinematography, lighting, art design and choreography in the show so far.

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

Ep 4 proves that Wednesday isn't afraid to go big - and occasionally, gloriously ridiculous - when the moment calls for it. My teenage daughter loved every twist; I was just impressed at how confidently the show leans into its own brand of gothic absurdity.

Jenna Ortega continues to deliver insults like precision weapons, while Emma Myers' Enid remains the human equivalent of a confetti cannon. Gwendoline Christie once again commands the room as Principal Weems, and Joy Sunday's Bianca gets more layers, moving beyond the "mean girl" mould into something sharper and more interesting.

This one also gives us one of the season's most talked-about set pieces... a brilliantly offbeat, slightly unhinged showcase of Wednesday's individuality that will either make you grin or wonder if you've lost your grip on reality. Burton's fingerprints are all over it: exaggerated, stylised, and just the right amount of creepy.

It still straddles that line between teen drama and macabre mystery, but it's doing it with such flair - and such unapologetic weirdness - that you can't help but enjoy the ride. Another 8/10 from our cross-generational review panel.

What i mean by that is..the Gorgon guy turns himself to stone..And What happens after that? He ignores the girl he was supposed to go make out with...even brings another date to the dance, whom he completely ignores later. We dont even see what happens there.

All so we can have a little buildup of nothing?

Why will they not show a werewolf? All the talk about turning into one and no one ever does it. Again..how do i know the monster is not a werewolf if I have never seen a werewolf? Why is the show being so difficult about this.

Why must there be a short haired black girl in every show these days? Ive never ever seen a black woman go out in public like that.

What the hell. Wednesday is a freak and . From the beginning they want to prove she doesn't like to be a normal girl and she is not interested in stupid things that a normal teenage girl usually likes

But it seems every hero in this kind of stories should have a partner. So immediately they find a few boyfriends for her to follow the cliche of teen dramas.

Suddenly a girl that always kid her friends for buying clothes or talking about boys go to a party with boys and showed up as a dance star.

That is really disappointing. At least let it happen after a while that she get familiar to those boys.

This is the rich kid high school dance episode. Really driving home the have-nots the Outcasts are. Drama abound with pointless webbing caught up in the corners of "if they would just have one conversation this plot would be resolved." I don't care about the relationships of any of these characters and I have a hard time believing the protagonist does either. At least Wednesday being caught off guard and not being clever enough to figure a way out of it addresses the elephant in the room: This is not Wednesday Addams, and I'm not sure who this show is for. The middle school edgy kid dialogue is becoming grating, did one of the not-like-other-girls outcast actually say a "I grew up with brothers" line, and sprinklers don't work that way.