Wednesday (2022)

Wednesday follows the young Wednesday Addams as she arrives at Nevermore Academy and becomes embroiled in a pulpy, supernaturally charged mystery. While trying to control a newly emerging psychic ability, she investigates a series of monstrous killings that have terrorized the nearby town and digs into the cold case that shattered her parents’ lives 25 years earlier. Along the way she navigates fraught friendships, budding romances, and the awkward social life of an outsider in a school full of misfits. Viewing experience: expect a darkly comic, gothic-feeling teen drama with brisk detective beats. The series balances deadpan humor and macabre moments with suspenseful supernatural thrills and emotional coming‑of‑age scenes. Visually stylized settings, eerie set pieces, and clever clues keep the mystery moving; the pacing mixes quieter character moments with tense confrontations and occasional action. Themes include identity, family secrets, belonging, and the cost of power. If you like quirky characters, moody atmospheres, and a blend of horror, humor and mystery, Wednesday delivers an entertaining, twisty ride that’s part sleuthing series, part supernatural character study.

Actors: Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome

Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

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