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Wednesday (TV Series)

Wednesday

2022

Alfred Gough (Creator), Miles Millar (Creator) ...

Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Gwendoline Christie ...

6.7

13,279

TV Series. Fantasy. Horror TV Series (2022-). First Season: 8 Episodes. Follows Wednesday Addams' years as a student, when she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart and solve the mystery that embroiled her parents.

Season 2: coming soon (Netflix).

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Lucy Mangan The Guardian	"Tim Burton’s witty 'Addams Family' spin-off is perfect (...) It’s creepy, charming and has a lead who more than matches Christina Ricci (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Caroline Framke Variety	"Despite Ortega’s fantastic performance and Burton’s active involvement, [it] never really captures what made 'The Addams Family' so viscerally strange (...) It does, however, get what makes a teen Netflix show tick"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ed Power Telegraph	"Netflix's Wednesday Addams spinoff is a spooky, kooky and delightfully dark mash-up of genres (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"You might have hoped for better for The Addams Family’s best character, but at least she’s perfectly pitched by Jenna Ortega (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Arezou Amin Collider	"It succeeds very well at pushing the story into something a little more grown-up, and a little more supernatural, but never loses sight of the heart, humor, and kooky horror that have kept us all double-snapping for decades"	POS
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"Is Not Quite Mysterious or Spooky Enough (...) Affable performances and genre stylings keep it breezy and entertaining (...) For all its eccentricities (...) it’s a rather generic Young Adult murder mystery at its core. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Sarah Milner SlashFilm	"I suspect it, like Burton's 'Dark Shadows' and 'Alice in Wonderland', is more likely not to be remembered at all — apart from being a footnote in the history of the director's artistic decline"	NEG
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Jenna Ortega makes a delightful anti-heroine"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico The Playlist	"It never completely loses 100% of the energy of its premiere, but the ingenuity of the first hour fades as the season progresses"	NEU
United States	Cristina Escobar rogerebert.com	"If there's ever a character for whom death and darkness don't weigh her down but are a normal part of her high school years, it's Wednesday Addams. And 'Wednesday' makes the most of its heroine’s unique disposition"	POS
United States	Adam Lock Ready Steady Cut	"It is charming, cheeky and appropriately quirky throughout (...) Yet the series tries to cram too many genres into its overstuffed narrative and falls into many of the pitfalls of modern TV (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"The series’ consistently conforms to fit a modern outline, until all that’s left is (...) another story we’ve seen countless times before"	NEG
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"Jenna Ortega is perfect in the title role and the eight episodes in the season are well-paced and utilized (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dianna Shen Paste Magazine	"A spooky delight"	POS
Canada	Alex Maidy JoBlo	"Even with Jenna Ortega doing an admirable job of succeeding Christina Ricci’s iconic performance, Wednesday falls short of living up to its potential"	NEU
United States	Amelia Emberwing IGN	"[It] introduces a whole new generation to the Addams family with creepy and kooky hijinks and an incredible performance from Jenna Ortega"	POS
United States	Jenna Scherer AV Club	"Frighteningly dull [and profoundly unoriginal]"	NEG
United States	Lauren Sarner New York Post	"'Wednesday' doesn't have much to offer to viewers who aren't interested in high school antics that other shows have done better. But it's still a treat for those who wondered what Burton's version of this world might look like"	NEU
United States	Kelly Connolly TV Guide	"Jenna Ortega is a scream in Tim Burton's otherwise dull Addams Family spin-off"	NEG
Canada	Mel Valentin Screen Anarchy	"With the spot-on casting of Ortega as the title character, 'Wednesday' manages to rise above its various seemingly dead-end subplots, extraneous characters, and a murky CGI-heavy finale"	NEU

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