As I started to watch the first episode of this new Netflix series, I thought to myself "I should not he laughing at this macabre humor," but I was laughing out loud within the first five minutes. We're all familiar with that creepy and kooky group called The Addams Family. Tim Burton has directed WEDNESDAY, a series focused on the goth unsmiling but oddly likable daughter in the family.
The episode opens with Wednesday heading into Nancy Reagan High School for another day of classes. She discovers that her brother, Pugsley, has been stuffed into a locker by some cute athletic mean boys. As Wednesday helps her helpless brother, she's surprised by visions she's suddenly having. Then, with a classic inspirational recording by Edith Piaf playing in the background, she walks off to avenge the meanness done to her brother.
It was her confrontation with the mean jocks at the pool in the gym that made me laugh out loud.
Wednesday is expelled because some of the parents of the mean jocks want her charged with attempted murder. Morticia and Gomez enroll her in Nevermore Academy, an institution that has "many flavors of outcasts.
There's a little friction between Wednesday and her mother. Morticia once attended Nevermore Academy years ago. Wednesday is enrolled and assigned a room where she is greeted enthusiastically by her perky blonde roommate who just loves vivid colors.
But something curious is happening. Wednesday keeps having strange visions and she learns that there was a scandal at Nevermore involving her parents. Gomez was accused of murder. Also, she meets a dorky guy who gets her attention as she becomes sort of a goth detective.
I was instantly hooked on this first hour-long episode because of Jenna Ortega as Wednesday. She's spunky, spooky and smart. Ortega is totally cool in the role. Christina Ricci is Miss Thornhill. Ricci played Wednesday in the two Addams Family movies in the early 90s with Anjelica Huston as Morticia and Raul Julia as Gomez. Here, Catherine Zeta-Jones is Morticia and Luis Guzmán is Gomez.
I want to check out more episodes. If you're up for some laughs from a deliciously dark new series, see this first episode of WEDNESDAY on Netflix.
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