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A sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ time as a student at Nevermore Academy. Following Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships. Wednesday is series directed by acclaimed genre filmmaker Tim Burton, director of many films including Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie, Big Eyes, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children previously. The series is created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar; with writing by Kayla Alpert, April Blair, Matt Lambert, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar. Executive produced by Gough, Millar, Burton, Gail Berman, Kayla Alpert, Steve Stark, Jonathan Glickman, and Andrew Mittman. (synopsis courtesy First Showing)
They may be creepy and kooky and altogether ooky, but if you’re even remotely a fan of outliers and those who dare to defy the orthodox and the mainstream in their own delightfully quirky ways then you will love The Addams Family.
LOVE THEM.
Which means, of course, that the odds of loving the new series, Wednesday, featuring the precociously odd young daughter of the film, played this time around by Jenny Ortega, are very high indeed.
Created by Tim Burton, Wednesday is designed to be grittier than the cartoon iterations of old, with Burton saying “In the past incarnations it’s been very cartoony. So in this longer form we just tried to give it a reality, which I loved”, and judging by the first full trailer released for the show, which comes our way courtesy of New York Comic Con 2022, and the fact that Fred Armisen appears as Uncle Fester (genius casting!), we’re going to love it too.
Just don’t fall asleep around Wednesday or all that loving may not be long-lived …
Wednesday premieres on Netflix on 23 November.