(courtesy IMP Awards)
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Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega), returns to prowl the Gothic halls of Nevermore Academy, where fresh foes and woes await. This season, Wednesday must navigate family, friends and old adversaries, propelling her into another year of delightfully dark and kooky mayhem. Armed with her signature razor-sharp wit and deadpan charm, Wednesday is also plunged into a new bone-chilling supernatural mystery. Wednesday is series developed by acclaimed genre filmmaker Tim Burton, director of Beetlejuice 1 & 2, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie, Big Eyes, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. The series is created by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar, who are also the writers on this next season. With episodes directed by Tim Burton, Paco Cabezas, and Angela Robinson. Executive produced by Gough, Millar, Burton, Steve Stark, Andrew Mittman, Tommy Harper, Karen Richards, Kayla Alpert, Gail Berman, Jonathan Glickman, Meredith Averill. (courtesy First Showing)
We have been waiting a long time for more of Jenna Ortega’s brilliantly creepy Wednesday and now, thankfully, we have just what we’ve been waiting for.
After creating a viral streaming sensation back in 2022, Wednesday, which is Tim Burton’s take on Charles Addams’s brilliantly satirical creations, is going to chill and delight once again, reminding us that while those who don’t fit the mainstream are often treated as freaks, it’s that very Otherness which can make them such rich and rewarding people to be around.
They may not match what the prevailing societal ethos deems acceptable, but they matter and they have value – as a gay man, the messaging of Wednesday, and The Addams Family overall, really resonates – and this gloriously dark and oddball show really brings that home in compulsively viewable ways.
Season two looks like it will offer more of the same and it’s exciting to have it back on the radar with murder and mayhem and orthodox envelope pushing abounding!
Wednesday Part 1 lands 6 August on Netflix, followed by Part 2 on 3 September.