[Netflix] Wednesday

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Aug 17, 2022 11:48 am

There was some chatter when it was originally announced, but I'm starting the official thread with the release of the first full length (?) teaser trailer.

Coming "Q4 2022". I'd think they're targeting October but no official date has been set.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Aug 17, 2022 11:49 am

I thought this a thread about what is on Netflix today.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:02 pm

Added to my watch list. Looks like a must see for me. Wife might even be into it.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:21 pm

I've never liked The Addams Family, and that's okay. But what I find so weird is that this IP is popular enough to warrant so many remakes, reboots, etc. There are a ton of Addams Family shows and movies out there and it boggles my mind.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:22 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 11:49 am I thought this a thread about what is on Netflix today.

...and we see it get bumped every Tuesday around midnight.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:38 pm

McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:21 pm I've never liked The Addams Family, and that's okay. But what I find so weird is that this IP is popular enough to warrant so many remakes, reboots, etc. There are a ton of Addams Family shows and movies out there and it boggles my mind.

I was thinking the same thing. There must be this fanatical core of Addams Family fans that I've simply never run across in my geeky fandom travels.

This looks mildly interesting. I may give it a look.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:41 pm

Was skeptical about casting Luis Guzmán as Gomez, but he is probably going to bring a nice twist to it.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed Aug 17, 2022 5:28 pm

McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:21 pm I've never liked The Addams Family, and that's okay. But what I find so weird is that this IP is popular enough to warrant so many remakes, reboots, etc. There are a ton of Addams Family shows and movies out there and it boggles my mind.

I think this is less about the original Addams family than about Tim Burton.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:12 pm

We debated putting Adam’s Gashleycrumb Tinies in our newborn’s bedroom back in the day. It’s the alphabet in Children’s names and how they died. We realized not all of the family would appreciate the joke:

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs…
B is for Basil devoured by bears…

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Aug 18, 2022 12:32 am

A reviewer at Cracked.com observed that the essence of the Addams family is their uniqueness in a homogeneous world. By sending Wednesday to Goth Hogwarts, Burton is placing the Addamses in a community of like misfits.

Heresy or not, I'll watch a few episodes. I'm not a purist. Go ahead, try to entertain me.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Aug 18, 2022 10:17 am

Zarathud wrote: ↑Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:12 pm We debated putting Adam’s Gashleycrumb Tinies in our newborn’s bedroom back in the day. It’s the alphabet in Children’s names and how they died. We realized not all of the family would appreciate the joke:

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs…
B is for Basil devoured by bears…

We also have this print. It’s marvelous. We also held back mounting it on the wall.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu Aug 18, 2022 10:30 am

I remember this one from my mis-spent youth:

I remember this one by heart:

E is for Ernie, a genie who lives in the ceiling. Ernie loves eggs. Go to the refrigerator and find an egg. Throw it at the ceiling and yell, "Catch, Ernie, catch!" Ernie will reach down and catch the egg.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:46 pm

I'm still not sold on Luis Guzman either. I love the guy as a character actor but he has about as much of a shot with Catherine Zeta-Jones as I do. But hey, the rest of it looks good and I'm willing to keep an open mind.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:01 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:46 pm I'm still not sold on Luis Guzman either. I love the guy as a character actor but he has about as much of a shot with Catherine Zeta-Jones as I do. But hey, the rest of it looks good and I'm willing to keep an open mind.

Yeah. Me neither. He just seems/feels a bit off. And I didn't even realize that was Catherine Zeta-Jones. I had to go back and re-watch the trailer (and pause it). I think I was too disturbed by him every time.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Thu Aug 18, 2022 4:13 pm

Think they are going more for the classic cartoon look for Gomez....

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Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Fri Aug 19, 2022 3:30 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:46 pm I'm still not sold on Luis Guzman either. I love the guy as a character actor but he has about as much of a shot with Catherine Zeta-Jones as I do. But hey, the rest of it looks good and I'm willing to keep an open mind.

Seriously, this is probably the most authentic casting for Gomez Addams to date.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Fri Aug 19, 2022 3:47 pm

I think I've read that Charles Addams based Morticia on Greta Garbo and Gomez on Peter Lorre.

Hard to see them as a couple in any other context.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:15 pm

This looks pretty interesting.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Sat Aug 20, 2022 12:16 am

My daughter can rock that look. Maybe get her ready for the inevitable reboot.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Sat Oct 08, 2022 8:25 pm

Added the full trailer to the OP and deleted the teaser.

Coming 11/23. Nice little surprise at the end. Oh, and so did Uncle Fester.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 8:39 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 6:53 pm

My friend says he has watched 2 episodes and its pretty good. He is notoriously hard to please in his tastes.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 6:58 pm

I finished it. It was not a comedy like I was expecting. It was like a weird murder mystery of Wednesday's time at the Nevermore school. I still enjoyed it but I would have rather of had the comedy.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:02 pm

I watched the first episode. I kind of wish they'd stuck with Wednesday dealing with normal kids at a normal high school. I also wish they'd not given us a world in which monsters are every day occurrences to normal humans. It kind of takes away some of the fun of the Addams being the Addams.

I'm struggling also with the CW level storytelling with the decidedly adult gore and violence. Although I guess since shows like The Walking Dead and others have pretty much made gore into a mainstream thing at this point, I shouldn't.

But then again, Sabrina had all the stuff I'm kvetching about above and I absolutely loved it. So maybe it's just sour grapes on my part that that show went bye bye.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 10:38 pm

I've enjoyed the first two episodes. Was pleasantly surprised to see Riki Lindhome in it.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Sun Nov 27, 2022 10:52 pm

I'm in love with Wednesday's dance moves.

She's got Uma beat.

RM2 · Post by **RM2** » Sun Nov 27, 2022 11:19 pm

Watched 3 episodes and enjoying it so far.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 1:12 am

em2nought wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 10:52 pm I'm in love with Wednesday's dance moves. She's got Uma beat.

Spoiler:

I wish I could've watched 10 minutes of that without cuts. The interwebs say Jenna Ortega choreographed it herself. Girl can move and doesn't break character.

RM2 · Post by **RM2** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 2:04 am

and the music is The Cramps, WoW

rittchard · Post by **rittchard** » Thu Dec 01, 2022 4:54 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:02 pm I watched the first episode. I kind of wish they'd stuck with Wednesday dealing with normal kids at a normal high school. I also wish they'd not given us a world in which monsters are every day occurrences to normal humans. It kind of takes away some of the fun of the Addams being the Addams.

I'm struggling also with the CW level storytelling with the decidedly adult gore and violence. Although I guess since shows like The Walking Dead and others have pretty much made gore into a mainstream thing at this point, I shouldn't.

But then again, Sabrina had all the stuff I'm kvetching about above and I absolutely loved it. So maybe it's just sour grapes on my part that that show went bye bye.

Ha yeah, I really miss Sabrina. This show definitely gives me similar vibes (it's like Sabrina crossed with Harry Potter), but does make me wish Sabrina would come back in some shape or form. She did make a guest appearance on Riverdale last year in case you missed it, but it was really short.

I definitely enjoyed Wednesday more than I thought I would, just finished it last night. The ending wasn't as good as I'd hoped, but all in all I was pretty happy with the show.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Fri Dec 02, 2022 11:48 am

I now feel like Kevin Bacon in "Stir of Echoes" after listening to a particular scene again.

Can't believe I couldn't place what I was hearing.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:06 pm

A few mild spoilers.

I'm halfway through, and I'm really enjoying this. Jenna Ortega is doing a fantastic job, and I found Gomez to be spot-on (with the original comics, not the modern interpretation.) I will say, though, that Jones' Morticia just didn't work for me. I'm not sure why. It took me forever to recognize Gwendolyn Christie or Christina Ricci. The prior I only recognized by her voice, and the latter I didn't notice until I looked at a cast list. The Harry Potter meets the Addams Family angle with a modern angle really worked, too.

It isn't really a world of monsters. The Addams Family has always taken place in a world with a few monsters out and about. This just focuses on a location where they're focused. Outside of Jericho (which deals with their existence due to the school being there), the rest of the world is likely the same as what we've always seen.

And the thing is, it is a comedy. Gomez had his over-the-top exuberance in the face of absolutely everything. Fester was always about absurdity. Wednesday's comedy has always been her deadpan matter-of-factness about things that everyone else finds shocking, combined with a casual murderousness, and that's here in spades. I actually find that the 'school of outcasts' setting emphasizes it rather than lessening it. We see social outcasts who are doing their best (generally) to fit in with both their family's expectations and with society at large. They feel like, essentially, normal people with something 'extra', while Wednesday (and the rest of the Addamses so far as I've seen them) seem normal on the surface. And yet, even surrounded by outcasts, they're completely out of place. I like that, and there are a lot of metaphors for society you can dig out of it.

In fact, I'd be willing to say that this could play as a direct follow up to the 1990s Addams Family films. The Wednesday from that could very well age into this one.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:03 pm

I wish they’d gone with someone other than Fred Armisen for Fester. Other than that, I thought it was a fun Sabrina type show.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 5:26 pm

Enid is a perfect foil for Wednesday, and Thing manages to convey both meaning and expression. It's a good series and I'm only sad that we have to wait over a year for the next season.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 11:00 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 5:26 pm Enid is a perfect foil for Wednesday, and Thing manages to convey both meaning and expression.

If Wednesday wasn't so great, Thing may have stolen the show.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Tue Dec 06, 2022 7:29 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 5:26 pm Enid is a perfect foil for Wednesday,

We finished it up a couple days ago and I told my wife I think I may actually like Enid more than Wednesday which is a bit odd, given, as you might expect based on my profile pic, I identify pretty strongly with Wednesday.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Sat Dec 17, 2022 10:15 pm

RM2 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 2:04 am and the music is The Cramps, WoW

Never heard of it or them before, but now I'm digging it on it's own even.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sun Dec 18, 2022 12:53 am

So, uh... that dance scene. Which was awesome. There's been a little controversy after an interview.

"...it’s crazy because it was my first day with COVID so it was awful to film.”

Wait, what?

“Yeah, I woke up and – it’s weird, I never get sick and when I do it’s not very bad – I had the body aches. I felt like I’d been hit by a car and that a little goblin had been let loose in my throat and was scratching the walls of my esophagus. They were giving me medicine between takes because we were waiting on the positive result.”

MGM, the production company behind Wednesday, confirmed to NME via email that “strict COVID protocols were followed and once the positive test was confirmed production removed Jenna from set.”

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Thu Dec 29, 2022 4:32 am

Underwater
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NDW3vMEK7nk

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Jan 03, 2023 7:16 pm

Renewed:

In a statement, showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar say: :=It’s been incredible to create a show that has connected with people across the world. Thrilled to continue Wednesday’s tortuous journey into season two. We can’t wait to dive head first into another season and explore the kooky spooky world of Nevermore. Just need to make sure Wednesday hasn’t emptied the pool first.”

Producers are also said to be exploring ideas for a spin-off, and have already teased second-season plans in prior interviews. It’s not clear how involved producer-director Tim Burton will be with season two as yet.