I absolutely hated this. They took everything queer and campy about the movies I grew up with and made it serious, edge lord BS. Wednesday literally goes torture someone for intel like she's working for the government.

They completely misunderstood what made The Addams Family movies special - the way we were in their shoes to see the mundane and everyday facets of middle-class, white, suburban, cishet life as absurd and creepy through their eyes.

Now Wednesday is at a school with other "outsiders" but all the "outsiders" just act like normal, spoiled, privileged kids? And there's so many mixed metaphors and wedged in wokeness, it felt like the script came straight from JK Rowling's Twitter feed. Werewolf is like puberty but also like being gay? But the girl we follow isn't gay? But her mom wants to send her to werewolf 'conversion therapy?' WTF is happening.

I didn't like Ortega as Wednesday at all, though I generally otherwise like her and was initially excited by her casting. I think directing and the script are largely be to blame. Her affect was too flat, and her dialogue was straight up cringe in several places. Again, it's like all the people in charge of this had no idea what made Wednesday so special and watchable.

This all made me wish we were getting Cristina Ricci playing Wednesday as a 40-something trying to keep her creepy roots while being a mom and wife. Or something. Just not this. Anything but this.