The 5 Best And 5 Worst Things About Netflix's Wednesday
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Negative: The show not capitalizing on Nevermore students being mistrusted and outcast. Doing little to nothing with student's abilities in a useful way. In fact, other than Wednesday, there wasn't any other character that was antagonistic towards the town. We needed to see abilities used irresponsibly to show us maturity level and small character arcs.
The show was fun, but it isn't flawless.
Date: 2022-12-07
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So, the whole subtext of Enid's mother not accepting that she couldn't 'wolf out yet' and wanting to send her to Werewolf Camp wasn't LBGTQ+ adjacent enough? I thought that entire episode created similarities to 'pray the gay away' conversion therapy scenarios. Use your imagination, Looper! There are other students at Nevermore that we haven't met yet. Maybe you'll get your wish next season.
Another plot point that you weren't thrilled about was the 'mean girl' trope. Obviously, no one on your staff went to boarding school. or any school? The queen bee/homecoming queen/prom queen/head cheerleader storyline exists because it happens a lot in real life and teenage girls are the worst bullies! Admittedly, the whole Bianca storyline was predictable; bad girl becomes friendly with her former victim and helps bring down the bad guy in the end. Of course, Wednesday really wasn't a victim. We don't know enough about any of the characters to know why they are the way they are.
The first season of any TV show is usually concerned with setting up characters to the detriment of minor plot lines; hopefully, season 2 will fill any plot holes and missing elements.
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So, the whole subtext of Enid's mother not accepting that she couldn't 'wolf out yet' and wanting to send her to Werewolf Camp wasn't LBGTQ+ adjacent enough? I thought that entire episode created similarities to 'pray the gay away' conversion therapy scenarios. Use your imagination, Looper! There are other students at Nevermore that we haven't met yet. Maybe you'll get your wish next season.
Another plot point that you weren't thrilled about was the 'mean girl' trope. Obviously, no one on your staff went to boarding school. or any school? The queen bee/homecoming queen/prom queen/head cheerleader storyline exists because it happens a lot in real life and teenage girls are the worst bullies! Admittedly, the whole Bianca storyline was predictable; bad girl becomes friendly with her former victim and helps bring down the bad guy in the end. Of course, Wednesday really wasn't a victim. We don't know enough about any of the characters to know why they are the way they are.
The first season of any TV show is usually concerned with setting up characters to the detriment of minor plot lines; hopefully, season 2 will fill any plot holes and missing elements.
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Michael. Gr3y
The show really failed to hide the main villains. By episode 5 I was already almost 100% sure who they were and the reasons behind everything. They just couldn't be creative enough to make the villain, someone that was not Christina Ricci character, who by way gave several clues to Wednesday that she was the one behind it all. Things that Wednesday didn't understood but anyone paying attention can understand the underlying message. Even the Hyde was easy to identify, seeing they weren't good enough to hide common traits that it had with the human character.
One of the few things this show was actually good at, was making the ever present wokeness in Netflix, more tolerable.
And I agree that Jenna Ortega was brilliant as Wednesday Addams, but without Enid (Emma Myers) Ortega would've not been able to carry the show on her own. Wednesday Addams was like black wall and Enid is what adds more content to Wednesday, same as it's through the relationship between the two that Wednesday can really shine.
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The show really failed to hide the main villains. By episode 5 I was already almost 100% sure who they were and the reasons behind everything. They just couldn't be creative enough to make the villain, someone that was not Christina Ricci character, who by way gave several clues to Wednesday that she was the one behind it all. Things that Wednesday didn't understood but anyone paying attention can understand the underlying message. Even the Hyde was easy to identify, seeing they weren't good enough to hide common traits that it had with the human character.
One of the few things this show was actually good at, was making the ever present wokeness in Netflix, more tolerable.
And I agree that Jenna Ortega was brilliant as Wednesday Addams, but without Enid (Emma Myers) Ortega would've not been able to carry the show on her own. Wednesday Addams was like black wall and Enid is what adds more content to Wednesday, same as it's through the relationship between the two that Wednesday can really shine.
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Dax
What bs? You broke down the show in a 15 min commentary.
For real in my opinion.
The second four episodes where basically shit. Not real adams there. Crap writing for Wednesday and her take on life was dreadful. The story line goes where exactly. Boring
LGBTq pushed in to for front mothers of a minor character. Bs to that nonsense. Make it real for goodness sake. Make Two blokes, get together. Let uncle lurch be gay. For fake get on with reality. small towns and School have gay pride and people also. That is unless your in Qatar and hidden under the stadium.
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What bs? You broke down the show in a 15 min commentary.
For real in my opinion.
The second four episodes where basically shit. Not real adams there. Crap writing for Wednesday and her take on life was dreadful. The story line goes where exactly. Boring
LGBTq pushed in to for front mothers of a minor character. Bs to that nonsense. Make it real for goodness sake. Make Two blokes, get together. Let uncle lurch be gay. For fake get on with reality. small towns and School have gay pride and people also. That is unless your in Qatar and hidden under the stadium.
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Leah
I love the fact that the show is being scrutinized for using the mean girl trope. The fact of the matter is, this didn't disappear. Girls are mean. Women are mean. They judge one another based on whatever they can, in order to make themselves feel better. Do all women do this? No. Do a lot of women and girls do this? Yes. None of this just magically disappeared!
There are still generally girls at every school who make the lives of others miserable, sometimes simply because it makes them feel good. Bullying didn't disappear, just because we wanted it to!
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I love the fact that the show is being scrutinized for using the mean girl trope. The fact of the matter is, this didn't disappear. Girls are mean. Women are mean. They judge one another based on whatever they can, in order to make themselves feel better. Do all women do this? No. Do a lot of women and girls do this? Yes. None of this just magically disappeared!
There are still generally girls at every school who make the lives of others miserable, sometimes simply because it makes them feel good. Bullying didn't disappear, just because we wanted it to!
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Nigel
My only quibble with the series.
Gomez Addams was a direct descendant of the Castilian Spanish.
Names are passed down through the male lineage.
Heredity bonds are passed down through the female linage.
For Goody Addams to be so named Addams, she would have to have married a man named Addams, passed down her hereditary markers to Wednesday's parents who also happened to have the name Addams.
For her, a New England Pilgrim, to also be 'Mexican' - whilst her latter descendants happen to be Spanish. Seems a tad overly contrived.
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My only quibble with the series.
Gomez Addams was a direct descendant of the Castilian Spanish.
Names are passed down through the male lineage.
Heredity bonds are passed down through the female linage.
For Goody Addams to be so named Addams, she would have to have married a man named Addams, passed down her hereditary markers to Wednesday's parents who also happened to have the name Addams.
For her, a New England Pilgrim, to also be 'Mexican' - whilst her latter descendants happen to be Spanish. Seems a tad overly contrived.
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Gerald
Aren't people from Spain also Hispanic? Why is it always assumed by most of these shows/movies that Hispanic equals Mexican, Puerto Rico, or some other Spanish colonial offshoot? As far as the comic seems to suggest, Gomez is of Castilian extraction and has Spanish ancestry. Yeah, I know, some will say, po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe! But is it though?
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Aren't people from Spain also Hispanic? Why is it always assumed by most of these shows/movies that Hispanic equals Mexican, Puerto Rico, or some other Spanish colonial offshoot? As far as the comic seems to suggest, Gomez is of Castilian extraction and has Spanish ancestry. Yeah, I know, some will say, po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe! But is it though?
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Marsh
lacking in queer representation. I go to the movies over 50 a year. its like 99% of movies make sure you know they have lgbtq in it. I have no issues with a movie/show having LGBTQ but watch mojo having that down as one of the worst about Wednesday is ridiculous.
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lacking in queer representation. I go to the movies over 50 a year. its like 99% of movies make sure you know they have lgbtq in it. I have no issues with a movie/show having LGBTQ but watch mojo having that down as one of the worst about Wednesday is ridiculous.
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VideoMusicManiac
I DJed at a gay club for over 30 years and I can tell you that even today a lot of LGBTQ are still in the closet. Including this show. They are there, you just don't know it.
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I DJed at a gay club for over 30 years and I can tell you that even today a lot of LGBTQ are still in the closet. Including this show. They are there, you just don't know it.
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Noah
I feel the need to point out not having LGBQ people doesn't make a film bad just as putting people of color in things doesn't make better
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I feel the need to point out not having LGBQ people doesn't make a film bad just as putting people of color in things doesn't make better
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fairamir1
Who says there has to be a queer person represented? There simply was not one. should not even be an issue. and I am a gay man.
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Who says there has to be a queer person represented? There simply was not one. should not even be an issue. and I am a gay man.
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No
Ppl critisizing this need a chill pill or smoke a damn blunt fr. Its not a political agenda. its the Addams Family. gods sake.
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Ppl critisizing this need a chill pill or smoke a damn blunt fr. Its not a political agenda. its the Addams Family. gods sake.
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