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Wednesday
File:Wednesday Netflix series poster.png
Promotional poster
Genre
Created byAlfred Gough & Miles Millar
Based onCharacters created
by Charles Addams
Starring
ComposerDanny Elfman (theme also) & Chris Bacon
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producers
ProducerCarmen Pepelea
Cinematography
  • David Lanzenberg
  • Stephan Pehrsson
Editors
  • Jay Prychidny
  • Ana Yavari
  • Paul Day
Running time47–59 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkNetflix
ReleaseNovember 23, 2022 (2022-11-23)

Wednesday is an American coming-of-age supernatural comedy horror television series based upon the character Wednesday Addams from The Addams Family. Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, it stars Jenna Ortega as the title character, with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Fred Armisen, and Christina Ricci appearing in supporting roles. Four out of the eight episodes are directed by Tim Burton, who also serves as executive producer. It revolves around the titular character, who attempts to solve a monster mystery at her school.

Burton was previously associated with two Addams Family-related projects: the 1991 film, which he passed on, and a cancelled stop-motion animated film. In October 2020, he was reported to be helming a television series, which was later given a series order by Netflix. Filming took place in Romania between September 2021 and March 2022. Wednesday premiered on November 16, 2022, and was released on Netflix on November 23 to generally positive reviews by critics, who praised Ortega's performance,[1] but criticized it for its similarities to CW dramas.[2]

Premise

Wednesday is expelled from her high school after dumping live piranhas into the school's pool while the boys' water polo team is practicing in retaliation for the team bullying her brother Pugsley. This leads her parents, Gomez and Morticia Addams, to enroll her in Nevermore Academy in Jericho, Vermont, a school for monstrous outcasts once attended by her parents. Wednesday's cold, emotionless personality and her defiant nature make it difficult for her to connect with her schoolmates and cause her to run afoul of the school's principal. However, she discovers she has psychic abilities that help her solve a local murder mystery.

Cast and characters

Main

  • Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, a 16-year-old[3] goth who possesses psychic powers. She is sent to Nevermore Academy for causing mischief at other schools. Ortega also plays Goody Addams, Wednesday's deceased ancestor whom Wednesday sees in visions of the past.
    • Karina Varadi as Young Wednesday
  • Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems, the principal of Nevermore Academy and a former student who was roommates with Morticia Addams
    • Oliver Wickham as Young Larissa Weems
  • Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valerie Kinbott, Wednesday's therapist
  • Jamie McShane as Donovan Galpin, a small-town sheriff who is suspicious of Nevermore Academy and Wednesday specifically
  • Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin, Sheriff Galpin's son who has a romantic interest in Wednesday
  • Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe, a student of Nevermore Academy who has the ability to make his art come to life
  • Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair, Wednesday's colorful werewolf roommate who attempts to become her friend, despite Wednesday's lack of interest
  • Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay, a successful student of Nevermore Academy who is a siren and Xavier's ex-girlfriend
  • Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus, a gorgon
  • Naomi J. Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka, a vampire
  • Christina Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill, a botany teacher at Nevermore Academy and dorm mom of Wednesday and Enid
  • Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Otinger, a student who has the power to control bees. Mostafa is only credited in the episodes in which he appears in.

Recurring

  • Victor Dorobantu as Thing, a sentient disembodied hand and relative of Wednesday who is sent by Wednesday's parents to watch over her at Nevermore Academy
  • Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Ritchie Santiago, a deputy of Sheriff Galpin
  • Iman Marson as Lucas Walker, Mayor Walker's son
  • Tommie Earl Jenkins as Noble Walker, the mayor of Jericho

Guest

  • Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams, Wednesday's younger brother
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Wednesday's mother who attended Nevermore Academy when she was younger
    • Gwen Jones as Young Morticia Addams
  • Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, Wednesday's father who is a suspected murderer
    • Lucius Hoyos as Young Gomez Addams
  • George Burcea as Lurch, the Addamses' butler[4]
  • William Houston as Joseph Crackstone, the town of Jericho's forefather who is intent on killing all outcasts
  • Calum Ross as Rowan Laslow, a student of Nevermore who possesses telekinetic powers and causes trouble for Wednesday
  • Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester, Wednesday's uncle and Gomez's brother

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
1"Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe"Tim BurtonAlfred Gough & Miles MillarNovember 23, 2022 (2022-11-23)
Wednesday Addams, a high-school student, finds her brother Pugsley tied up in a locker. She sees a psychic vision of his bullies whom she attempts to kill in revenge but gets expelled. Her parents, Morticia and Gomez, decide to enroll her in Nevermore Academy, a school for outcasts. Meanwhile, a hiker is killed by an unknown creature near Nevermore. Wednesday's parents release Thing, a sentient disembodied hand, to watch over her. She meets her roommate Enid, her complete opposite, and duels with Bianca, the popular girl, after she bullies another boy, Rowan. Later, Wednesday is nearly killed by a falling gargoyle but is saved by Bianca's ex-boyfriend Xavier. After escaping her court-ordered therapy session, Wednesday meets Tyler, who agrees to help her escape from Nevermore. However, she is apprehended by principal Larissa Weems and taken back to the school. Later, Tyler and Wednesday meet at the local fair, and Wednesday has a vision of Rowan's death. Rowan attempts to kill her but is murdered by the monster.
2"Woe Is the Loneliest Number"Tim BurtonAlfred Gough & Miles MillarNovember 23, 2022 (2022-11-23)
Wednesday convinces a skeptical Sheriff Galpin that the perpetrator of the murders is in fact a monster. Suddenly, Rowan reappears unharmed. Wednesday doubts her sanity and decides to investigate the murders herself. She roams the campus inquiring about Rowan and is told that he has been expelled. Meanwhile, Weems grows worried about Wednesday's visions, keeping close tabs on her. She confronts a defensive Rowan as he leaves the school and sends Thing to follow him. Rowan is revealed to be Weems who has shapeshifted into him, and Thing loses them. Wednesday has visions of a book belonging to an old students' society. In her search for the book, she overhears Bianca planning to rig the upcoming student tournament. Wednesday joins Enid to defeat Bianca and win the tournament. Later, Wednesday discovers a hidden library within the school, where she is captured.
3"Friend or Woe"Tim BurtonKayla AlpertNovember 23, 2022 (2022-11-23)
Wednesday finds herself tied up and surrounded by members of an elite students' society, including Bianca and Xavier. Wednesday frees herself and leaves the library, taking one of the books with her. Weems orders Wednesday to play in the school's band at an upcoming town ceremony. A drawing in the book leads her to an exhibition at a local fair, where she notices the painting of a girl she had seen in her visions. In the forest, Wednesday envisions the girl—believed to be an old ancestor of hers—ready to be executed by Joseph Crackstone, the town's forefather intent on killing all misfits, but she is able to escape. Wednesday is ambushed by the monster, which she discovers to be human. Back in town, Wednesday crashes the ceremony and is scolded by Weems. While investigating a crime scene in the forest, police find a camera that managed to capture photographs of the monster.
4"Woe What a Night"Tim BurtonKayla AlpertNovember 23, 2022 (2022-11-23)
Wednesday and Thing break into the coroner's office to copy the files of the monster's victims. In trying to identify a pattern, she finds that each victim has had bodyparts surgically removed. Wednesday becomes suspicious of Xavier and follows him into his art studio, where she discovers several drawings of the monster, leading her to the monster's lair. There, she retrieves one of its claws and gives it to Sheriff Galpin to match its DNA. Wednesday and Tyler attend a local dance together. Meanwhile, classmate Eugene, who is privy to Wednesday's investigative work, witnesses a cloaked figure detonating the monster's cave. The dance is interrupted by Mayor Walker's son, who triggers the building's fire sprinklers in revenge of Wednesday disrupting the town ceremony. Wednesday senses that Eugene is in danger and heads into the forest, only to find him gravely injured by the monster.
5"You Reap What You Woe"Gandja MonteiroApril BlairNovember 23, 2022 (2022-11-23)
32 years ago, Gomez is arrested on suspicion of killing Garrett Gates at Nevermore. At present time, the Addamses visit Wednesday for parents' weekend at Nevermore. A family therapy session is cut short when Wednesday confronts her parents about the suspected murder. Meanwhile, Sheriff Galpin learns that the coroner has committed suicide after admitting to fabricating Gates's autopsy report. Galpin concludes that Gomez is guilty and arrests him. In prison, Gomez reveals to Wednesday that Gates was killed by accident, while Morticia confesses to killing Gates. Wednesday and Morticia dig up Gates's grave to find that he had been lethally poisoned before he could be killed, but are caught by police and arrested for the night. Later, they confront Mayor Walker, who reveals that Garrett intended to poison the entire school due to his father's hate for outcasts. The mayor agrees to release Gomez after admitting to covering up Gates's motive. Back at Nevermore, Weems reluctantly admits to covering up Rowan's death by means of shapeshifting in an effort to evade controversy at the school.
6"Quid Pro Woe"Gandja MonteiroApril BlairNovember 23, 2022 (2022-11-23)
Wednesday attempts to summon Goody, an old ancestor and fellow psychic. During a surprise birthday party, Wednesday has a vision of Goody, who instructs her to seek out the Gates mansion. There, she witnesses Mayor Walker as he is leaving the building and sneaks into his car. After arriving back in town, the mayor is run over and severely injured. Weems locks down the school and forbids Wednesday to leave campus. With Tyler and Enid's help, she escapes and returns to the Gates mansion. There, they discover that Laurel Gates, Garrett's relative long believed to be dead, might still be alive. They find the severed bodyparts of the monster's victims in a cellar but are forced to escape after being ambushed by the monster. Wednesday leads Galpin to the cellar, only to find it empty. At Nevermore, Wednesday convinces Weems not to expel her in order to be able to further pursue her investigation. At the hospital, an unknown figure kills the mayor.
7"If You Don't Woe Me by Now"James MarshallAlfred Gough & Miles Millar and Matt LambertNovember 23, 2022 (2022-11-23)
At Mayor Walker's funeral, Wednesday notices a lurking figure and chases it into the forest. The figure is revealed to be Uncle Fester, who explains to Wednesday that the monster she has been investigating is a Hyde. Together, they retrieve a diary from the hidden library revealing that a Hyde must always have a master. Later, they track and follow Xavier, who they witness meeting up with Dr. Kinbott, Wednesday's therapist, in the forest. After returning from a date with Tyler, Wednesday finds her dorm ravaged, the diary stolen, and Thing gravely injured. Research into Laurel Gates reveals that she is both alive and the master of the Hyde. Wednesday initially suspects Dr. Kinbott, but she is killed by the Hyde. Police arrive to arrest Xavier, who Wednesday believes to be the creature. Wednesday meets with Tyler and kisses him but suddenly has a vision of him being the Hyde.
8"A Murder of Woes"James MarshallAlfred Gough & Miles MillarNovember 23, 2022 (2022-11-23)
Wednesday and her classmates lure Tyler into the forest, where they kidnap him. Seeking a confession, Wednesday starts torturing Tyler. Disagreeing with her methods, her classmates alert Weems, and Wednesday is arrested. At the police station, Tyler finally confesses to being the monster. Fed up with Wednesday's behavior, Weems expels her from Nevermore. Wednesday visits Eugene at the hospital, who tells her that the figure he saw at the monster's cave wore red boots, matching Ms. Thornhill's. Using her shapeshifting powers, Weems and Wednesday get Thornhill to confess her true identity—Laurel Gates. However, Gates is able to kill Weems and subdue Wednesday. Using Wednesday's blood, Gates resurrects Crackstone and leaves Wednesday to die, but Goody appears to heal her. Enid, having finally transformed into her werewolf form, defeats Tyler in his Hyde form while Crackstone breaches Nevermore in his pursuit to destroy the school. After a struggle, Wednesday destroys Crackstone, and Eugene helps defeat Gates. Xavier is released from prison, and Wednesday departs Nevermore, which is closing for the remainder of the semester.

Production

Development

During pre-production on the 1991 film, Tim Burton was assigned to direct, but ended up passing on it due to scheduling conflicts with Batman Returns, resulting in Barry Sonnenfeld taking the job.[5] In March 2010, it was announced that Illumination Entertainment had acquired the underlying rights to the Addams Family drawings.[6] The film was planned to be a stop-motion animated film based on Charles Addams's original drawings. Burton was set to co-write, co-produce, and possibly direct the film.[7] In July 2013, it was reported that the film was cancelled,[8] which, according to Burton, was due to the studio favoring a computer-animated approach over the stop-motion technique.[9]

Showrunners Miles Millar and Alfred Gough started developing story ideas in 2019. They subsequently acquired the rights to the intellectual property before writing a pilot script, which they sent to Burton.[10] To their surprise, Burton immediately became interested upon receiving the script.[11] Commenting about his decision to join the project, Burton stated that he could relate to the title character's worldview and that the script "spoke to me about how I felt in school and how you feel about your parents, how you feel as a person. It gave the Addams Family a different kind of reality. It was an interesting combination."[9] Millar stated that it was "very important" to the creative team not to emulate the prior films and 1964 television series.[11]

In October 2020, Wednesday was initially announced as an unnamed Addams Family project being helmed by Burton. The series's production would be handled by MGM Television, with Burton as director. Gough and Millar would serve as showrunners; while Gough, Millar, and Burton would also be executive producers alongside Gail Berman, Jon Glickman, and Andrew Mittman.[12] In February 2021, Netflix gave the production a series order, consisting of eight episodes.[13] In August 2021, Kayla Alpert was added as an executive producer and 1.21, Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, and Glickmania were also producing the series.[14] Deemed his "first real foray into television", Burton directed four out of the eight episodes,[11] with Gandja Monteiro and James Marshall directing the remaining episodes.[15] Burton brought on regular collaborator Colleen Atwood as costume designer.[11]

Casting

Christina Ricci
Jenna Ortega
Christina Ricci (left) appears in the series as a nod to her previous portrayal of the titular character, this time played by Jenna Ortega (right).[16]

The creative team sought a Latina to play the role of Wednesday Addams in order to pay homage to creator Charles Addams's heritage, an aspect of the character that was already worked into the series's script.[17] In May 2021, Jenna Ortega was cast in the title role.[18] Millar stated that, upon their first Zoom call together, the creative team knew that "nobody else on this planet" was better suited to portray the character.[19] Ortega said that she was initially hesitant about joining the project due to her past work in teen-oriented Disney Channel shows.[3] In the beginning of August of that year, Luis Guzmán was cast to guest-star as Gomez Addams,[14] and Catherine Zeta-Jones was cast as Morticia Addams in an undisclosed capacity.[20] Later that month, Thora Birch, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Emma Myers, Naomi J. Ogawa, Joy Sunday, and Percy Hynes White were announced to be cast as series regulars.[21]

In September, Gwendoline Christie and Victor Dorobantu were added to the cast in starring roles while Isaac Ordonez, George Burcea, Tommie Earl Jenkins, Iman Marson, William Houston, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Oliver Watson, Calum Ross, and Johnna Dias Watson were cast in recurring roles.[22] In December 2021, Birch left the series, leaving the status of her character, dorm mother Tamara Novak, unclear.[23] In March 2022, it was announced that Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday Addams in the 1991 film and its 1993 sequel, was cast as a series regular, replacing Birch in a similar role.[24] Commenting on her casting, Ricci stated, "I was really flattered to be asked and to be asked by Tim [Burton]",[16] with whom she had previously collaborated on the 1999 film Sleepy Hollow.[25] Ricci was almost unable to accept the role due to possible scheduling conflicts with Showtime series Yellowjackets.[17] In October of that year, Fred Armisen was revealed to be portraying Uncle Fester in an unknown capacity, and Ricci's role was confirmed as Marilyn Thornhill.[26]

Filming

Filming took place between September 2021 and March 2022 in the Southern Carpathian town of Bușteni, Romania.[27][28] Filming locations included Cantacuzino Castle, serving as the setting for the fictional Nevermore Academy, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Sinaia railway station, the Bucharest Botanical Garden, Monteoru House, and the historic Olga Greceanu Mansion in Dâmbovița County, standing in for the Gates mansion. Other settings, including the entire fictional town of Jericho, were constructed at Buftea Studios.[29][30] Ortega called her work on the series "very stressful and confusing" and "the most overwhelming job I've ever had" due to the production's fast-tracked shooting schedule.[31] Ortega avoided talking to Ricci about playing the character during filming in order to achieve her own unique rendition of the role.[32] She choreographed her dance to The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck" herself, taking inspiration from Siouxsie Sioux, Bob Fosse, and goth dance club footage from the 1980s.[33][34] To prepare for her role, Ortega learned to play cello and took canoeing, fencing, archery, and German lessons.[19] According to actress Joy Sunday, the canoeing lessons were especially strenuous, involving the entire cast and some dozen stuntmen racing each other for an hour daily, with days starting as early as 5:30 am.[35]

Music

In December 2021, it was reported that longtime Burton-collaborator Danny Elfman joined the series to compose the original theme[36] and co-compose its score with Chris Bacon.[15] Wednesday's soundtrack was released by Lakeshore Records on November 23, 2022, and features a selection of the series's original score composed by Elfman and Bacon as well as several pop songs, including "Paint It Black" by the The Rolling Stones, "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica, and "Physical" by Dua Lipa.[37][38] In his review of the series, Tony Sokol of Den of Geek called the score "a major character, not only thematically, but as an emotional delivery system", making "the chills creepier, the jokes funnier, and the tingles tangible".[39] Writing for IGN, Amelia Emberwing described the combination of Elfman's score with Burton's material as "[going] together like peanut butter and jelly" and the score overall as "a stunner".[40]

Release

A first teaser trailer for Wednesday was released on August 17, 2022,[41] followed by a full trailer on October 9[42] and the unveiling of the series's opening sequence on November 8.[43] Wednesday premiered on November 16, 2022, at Hollywood Legion Theater in Los Angeles.[44][45] Its eight episodes were released on Netflix on November 23, 2022.[46]

Reception

Audience viewership

According to data from users of TV Time collected by Whip Media, Wednesday had the second-most pre-release followers of any Netflix original series on the platform, behind only The Witcher;[47] it ultimately debuted at number one on Netflix in 83 countries.[48] The series holds the record of most hours viewed in a week for an English-language Netflix series with a total 341.2 million hours watched in its first week of release, passing prior record holder Stranger Things 4's 335.01 million hours.[49]

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 70% approval rating and an average rating of 6.7/10, based on 74 reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Wednesday isn't exactly full of woe for viewers, but without Jenna Ortega in the lead, this Addams Family-adjacent series might as well be another CW drama."[2] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 66 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[50]

Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph gave Wednesday four out of five stars and called it "an addictively rococo romp that unfolds like a cross between Euphoria and Hotel Transylvania".[51] John Anderson of The Wall Street Journal commended Ortega's "charismatic performance" and called the series "often delightful, despite its deliberate darkness".[52] In his "B"-review for The Detroit News, Tom Long deemed the series visually appealing and described Ortega's deadpan as "just as elastic as it needed to be" and her performance overall as "consistently [pushing] outside the caricature enough to keep things lively".[53] Writing for RogerEbert.com, Cristina Escobar similarly praised Ortega's deadpan humor and commended the series's "satisfactory" ending.[54] While finding that the series would not be "what real fans of Charles Addams and his characters are looking for", Mike Hale of The New York Times called the series "tolerable" despite "satisfying only on the level of formulaic teenage romance and mystery" and compared it to the Harry Potter franchise.[55] Commenting on its tone, Jesse Hassenger of TheWrap described the four episodes directed by Burton as feeling more like Veronica Mars than Sleepy Hollow.[56] Nick Hilton of The Independent gave the series two out of five stars and criticized the series's tone as "relentlessly quippy Gen Z" and its performances as "more two-dimensional than the New Yorker comic strip in which the characters first appeared".[57]

Future

On possible future seasons, Gough and Millar commented in an interview with Variety, "when we sit down to create a show, it’s looking at multiple seasons, ideally. That's never expected, but that's the anticipation that hopefully the show is successful." They further stated that they had "a pretty clear runway" of how future seasons could unfold.[58]

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