Here is a spoiler-free review for the four episodes that make up four episodes Wednesday Season 2, Part 1debuted on Netflix on August 6. Part 2 will debut in September.
Wednesday was reportedly one of Netflix's most popular series ever in its first season, and it's clear that the streaming giants now think it's one of their heavy hitters, with season 2 added enough scripted series to split their season – Netflix seems to have gone to great lengths to get fans out of their desire to find what's going on next. But unfortunately, the three-year break between the two-year seasons didn’t result in a significant improvement in quality, and Wednesday still felt like some great cast and interesting visuals to look for a stronger story.
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While Wednesday remains a central focus, the work of Season 2 aims to include core Addams family members in the story, while Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) now joins his sister on Nevermore Academy and has some plot murders that lead to Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzmán) also living on campus. On the one hand, it’s nice to have these characters work more regularly, but on the other hand, the larger prominence of most iconic Addams characters keeps reminding you that the show has some huge core flaws in misunderstandings about the Addams family, and what makes them attractive.
Putting Addams in Xavier's/Hogwarts-type environment is filled with supernatural powerful creatures that constantly undermine the appeal of the family itself. Of course, their behavior is more irritating than some of the others in Nevermore, wearing black, but they don't really stand out, and the fun of the Addams family has always been a dichotomy to see their interactions with the plain average. Worse, Season 2 leans more towards the idea of Nevermore's supernatural “Roamer” as a persecuted and ridiculed mutant type group, and it keeps feeling like a fun transfer that could be an interesting transfer. Wednesday myself.
Putting Addams in Xavier's/Hogwarts-type environment is filled with supernatural powerful creatures that constantly undermine the appeal of the family itself.
Season 2's new murder mystery involves locals being killed by someone or something that controls the crow, these dark elements at least continue to stand out and create some more effective sequences. How the crows come up with the visuals of the victim is disturbing. But when it comes to comedy, Wednesday is still very unbalanced. Sometimes Wednesdays have a really fun, harsh single line, or Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) gets laughter for silently saying “I’m a big fan of child labor.” Other times, though, the show can get stuck, such as the sequence involving a driving instructor, who performs and speaks in an incredibly cartoony and absolutely boring way, as if he was in a show targeting young kids.
When the Addams family gets used to its best abilities – the 1993 Addams family values remain the crown jewel in this regard – it can ride silly and dark in a perfect way. Here, though, there are a lot of tones and high-quality whipping. In the same episode, you might see a clever and distorted visual, as that hand called something strangely hits a separate eyeball, followed by a very uncomfortable and inert expansion sequence in which a group of “Normie” human scouts compete with “Nevermore” human scouts who used a place of residence to compete with Nevermore “Outcasts”.
At the center of it all, it still helps work on Wednesday much better than Jenna Ortega. She is still the absolute perfect actor for the role and on Wednesday's show, just right, clever, clumsy delivery that can sell you completely. Ortega has caught the eye – and has caused a lot of debate about her supposed public criticism of her show writing because she opposed elements of Season 1, such as the typical teen TV show Love Trie Triegle, which is part of Wednesday, but it is undoubtedly good to see at least one out of date that the show has now been forgotten. (Percy Hynes White's Xavier has been completely written off, and Hunter Doohan's Tyler is now in the Hannibal tractor “capitulated our heroes need to go find a consulting character” character after off-screen allegations against White; they're more fun and engaging this season.
Unfortunately, showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar seems hellbent on making sure there still is an extraneous love triangle though, so now it's Wednesday's roommate, Enid (Emma Myers), who's unsure of where her affections lie between her Season 1 love interest Ajax (Georgie Farmer) and her fellow werewolf, newcomer Bruno (Noah B. Taylor). This boring subplot feels like a waste of charming and fun Myers, and the show feels incredibly hindered when the show shows Enid as a werewolf, as we see over and over she does is bend her nails/paws to represent that side of her. Although unfortunately, Odens is the most notorious actor in portraying The Never End Student (among those who play the Adams family), Pugsley does have an interesting storyline involving him caring for zombies treated like family pets. Meanwhile, the return of Joy Sunday has a sub-plot that tied her to Morticia, which often feels strange to the rest of the show.
Season 2 certainly doesn’t lack familiar faces, with plenty of recognizable actors taking on new roles, starting with Steve Buscemi as the new principal of Nevermore, who has his own hidden agenda. He joins Billie Piper, Thandiwe Newton, Heather Matarazzo and Anthony Michael Hall to take on a variety of guest and repetitive roles, making the more adorable and talented actors join the mix, even if the characters that still have to be long are. Similarly, after Christina Ricci entered Season 1, Christopher Lloyd became the second alum of the 1990s Adams family film, playing a new role here – although Lloyd's interesting thoughts as a mechanical body are discomfortable by a mechanical body, some harm to Lloyd's in vitro form.
Tim Burton, who directed the two episodes of four episodes in Season 2, Part 1, continued to have some great creative visuals on Wednesday. It's an outstanding sequence in Burton-directed season premiere, as Ajax tells a story that shows us in black and white animations – before Christmas or in Frankenweenie's nightmare, wonderfully, classic Tim Burton looks. But Smallville Creators Gough and Miller still feel as weird as entertainers, their stories never failing to live up to the potential of Ortega's performance or what we see from the Addams family.