atwoodsmariano

C A S T

• Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams
• Christina Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill
• Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams
• Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester
• Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams
• Jamie McShane as Sheriff Donovan Galpin
• Emma Myers as Enid Sinclai
• Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay
• Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems
• Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valerie Kinbott
• Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe
• Thora Birch as Amara Novak

atwoodsmariano

My thoughts so far

D'oh!

I already watched all episodes!! I really love it! I hope for a second season!!

atwoodsmariano

Damn

My Kind Of Crazy

great show. I really hope we get another season.

atwoodsmariano

That would be nice

My Kind Of Crazy

I never realized how tall Gwendoline Cristie was till watching this show. she is 6'3 and is towering over everyone in the cast. makes her extra intimidating

Mori

She would make a great Lady Dimitrescu if they made a Resident Evil Village adaptation.

Watched the first episode and overall really enjoyed it. Love Jenna's Wednesday, and Enid.

Though I agree that Catherine and Luis aren't really doing it for me as Morticia and Gomez. Also not keen on the budding love triangle with Wednesday.

atwoodsmariano

liked this callback to the movies



The way I loved this friendship development

Mori

Can't wait to see their relationship grow.

Liked the nod to the classic theme song too.

Tyler: "You're not scary. You're just kinda... kooky."
Wednesday: "I prefer spooky."

Watched the second episode. Love Enid befriending Thing, and the scene of her telling Wednesday to apologize to him for her mistreatment. And Enid's passion about the Poe Cup was endearing, Emma's facial expressions are great.

Liking Eugene too. Hope there's more scenes of the Wednesday/Enid/Eugene trio, they have a fun dynamic.

Weems is intruiging, especially as we learn more of her history and powers.

The scenes between Jenna and Christina are great. It's almost like '90s Wednesday mentoring '20s Wednesday.

One issue I am having with the show is that sometimes I find it hard to tell when bad things are being played straight or in a fun way. Like when Wednesday says hurtful things to her family, I'm not always sure if it's just the dark Addams humour, or if she's genuinely being an angry teenager. Or how monstrous "outcast" society is meant to be, because while grievous bodily injury is allowed in the school boat race, they otherwise don't seem all that different from the "normies" and Gomez being a suspected murderer is treated as a serious accusation.

atwoodsmariano

Yeah I brought this up too in an earlier post on this thread

I like Eugene too

He’s a nice guy

Kind of reminds me of the guy that had a crush on Wednesday in the movie at the camp

Mori

Though Eugene's a little more cheery and outgoing than Joel Glicker. The Pilgrim World stuff also seems to be inspired by the movie.

Watched two more episodes, and the fourth one is my least favourite so far, very much the CW teen romance episode. Ugh, who looked at the character of Wednesday Addams and decided that she of all people needed to be in a cliche YA love triangle?

The actors, especially Jenna, are carrying the show. The writing needs work. I'm on board with the outcast themes but the execution is clumsy, and the worldbuilding isn't very thought out.

The song at the end of episode three was great, Apocalyptica's cover of Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. This show has an awesome cello-heavy soundtrack.

Liked meeting the Mayor and seeing what his relationship with Nevermore is like.

Hope to see more of Yoko and Divina together.

My Kind Of Crazy

Mori

Thanks for those! Love seeing behind-the-scenes/making-of stuff.

I'd love to see more of Weems. There's still so much to her to be explored IMO, like her relationships with Morticia and Gomez. Or her partnership with Mayor Walker. Or how she became Principal.

Overall I had fun with this season I just think the writing could be better. Mainly, more thought put into fleshing out the world and characters. Because a lot felt superficial or didn't make sense, and I have so many questions that I basically have to headcanon my own answers for.

Love these parallels between Enid and Gomez from Addams Family '91.

Cheered seeing Enid kick ass.

atwoodsmariano

Thanks again for sharing that parallels gifset Mori