Wednesday – Season 1

“She’s creepy, she’s kooky… and kinda irritating.”


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Lets start by showing y’all the trailers shall we?

🎥 Trailers

Remember when the trailers dropped and everyone lost their minds because Jenna Ortega looked perfect as Wednesday? I’ll admit it — she nails the look, the deadpan, and the general vibe. And yes, that now-iconic dance scene exploded into memes before the show even had time to breathe. But here’s the truth: while Ortega is great, the show around her is a mixed bag at best.

Ok I want to get this out of the way and say, I feel this film appeals too much to TikTokers, I remember this booming up everywhere especially on social media with that dance scene, but why though?


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🕸️ Non-Spoiler Overview

Wednesday Addams gets shipped off to Nevermore Academy — a boarding school for outcasts, monsters, and gifted kids. Think “creepy Hogwarts, but with worse CGI.” While there, Wednesday stumbles into a murder mystery involving a monster in the woods, family secrets, and some very forced love triangles.

On paper, this should’ve been sharp, spooky fun. In reality? It leans way too much into YA tropes. Romantic drama, high school cliques, predictable betrayals — the whole thing feels more like Riverdale in black eyeliner than a Tim Burton revival.


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🧛 Character Rundown

Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega): Ortega is great. Wednesday in this show? Annoying. She’s written as smugly superior to everyone around her, constantly belittling allies, and occasionally so cold it undercuts any reason to root for her. Instead of darkly witty, she comes across as insufferable.

Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers): Wednesday’s rainbow-colored werewolf roommate and, let’s be real, the best character in the show. She’s bubbly, loyal, and her eventual transformation into a full werewolf is the only fist-pumping moment the finale has.

Thing (Victor Dorobantu): A literal disembodied hand with more personality than half the cast. He’s mischievous, loyal, and always entertaining. The best sidekick Wednesday doesn’t deserve.

Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen): Shows up for one episode and instantly steals it. Bubbly, chaotic, and hilarious — exactly how Fester should be. Shame he wasn’t in more.

Gomez Addams (Luis Guzmán): Miscast. Gomez should be suave and charming; here, he’s awkward and oddly gross. The chemistry with Morticia just isn’t there.

Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones): Elegant, but underused. Mostly shows up to look disapproving.

Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan): Wednesday’s love interest who’s secretly a Hyde monster. The big twist everyone saw coming.

Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday): A siren student who starts as a rival but eventually helps Wednesday. Decent character, wasted potential.

Xavier Thorpe (Percy Hynes White): A red herring love interest with the personality of cardboard.



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⏳ Pacing

At eight episodes, you’d think it’d be tight. Nope. The show drags with filler subplots (teen romance, school gossip) that clash with the gothic murder mystery. Every time momentum builds, it swerves back into melodrama.


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✅ Pros

Jenna Ortega is Wednesday, even if the writing hobbles her.

Enid, Fester, and Thing — the actual MVPs.

The dance scene (yes, it’s overhyped, but it’s still iconic).

The set design at Nevermore has some great gothic atmosphere.



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❌ Cons

Wednesday is written as irritating instead of witty.

Too many YA clichés.

The CGI Hyde monster looks laughably bad.

Miscast Gomez — no charm, no chemistry.

Predictable twists telegraphed from episode 2.



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🪦 Final Thoughts

This show isn’t terrible, but it’s not the masterpiece people hype it up to be either. Jenna Ortega elevates weak material, but she can’t carry the entire weight of a half-baked YA drama in spooky clothes. The murder mystery is predictable, the romance is forced, and the gothic atmosphere feels watered down.

I came away thinking the side characters (Enid, Fester, Thing) deserved their own show more than Wednesday did.

Rating: 5/10


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🚨 Spoiler Warning


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🧟 Spoilers and Snark

The Murder Mystery: The monster killing people? Turns out it’s Tyler, the sheriff’s son and Wednesday’s love interest. He’s been manipulated into embracing his “Hyde” side by one of the teachers. The show tries to make this a shocking twist — it’s not.

The Teacher Reveal: Remember Christina Ricci (the OG movie Wednesday)? She plays Ms. Thornhill, who is secretly manipulating Tyler and trying to wipe out outcasts. Cool meta casting, wasted in a weak villain plot.

The Family Drama: Gomez is accused of murder from his Nevermore student days. Turns out he killed a guy while protecting Morticia. Wednesday and Morticia blackmail the mayor to clear Gomez’s name. It’s resolved so quickly it barely matters.

Morticia’s Season 1 Secret ⚰️

Back in Season 1, the show already started warping Morticia’s character with a plot twist that didn’t sit right. The big reveal? As a teenager at Nevermore, Morticia killed Garrett Gates. To be fair, it was in self-defense — he attacked her, and she struck back. But instead of being upfront about it, she buried the truth. Gomez stepped in, took the blame, and carried the guilt for decades.

When Wednesday uncovers this, it doesn’t just strain her view of her parents — it completely reframes Morticia as someone willing to let her husband bear a crime she committed, all while keeping her daughter in the dark. It’s the kind of melodramatic “family skeleton” secret that feels ripped from a CW script, not an Addams story. Morticia’s supposed to be commanding, elegant, and honest in her weirdness, not shady and evasive. By turning her into a liar, the show fractures the mother/daughter dynamic in a way that never fully recovers.

The Dance Scene: The meme moment. At prom, Wednesday drags Tyler along and performs her viral, spidery dance. It’s fun, it’s weird, and it completely overshadows the rest of the show.

Enid’s Big Moment: After being sidelined most of the season, Enid finally wolfs out during the finale when she thinks Wednesday’s in danger. She fights Hyde-Tyler in an honestly awesome sequence. It’s the most satisfying payoff in the whole season.

The Principal Dies: Principal Weems (Gwendoline Christie), who could shapeshift and had promise, is killed off by Thornhill. Another wasted character.

The Villain’s End: Thornhill is swarmed by Eugene’s bees (yes, the beekeeper kid saves the day). Xavier finishes her off. Anti-climactic.

The Hug: The only genuinely sweet moment. Enid finds Wednesday alive after the battle and hugs her. Wednesday — famously not a hugger — actually hugs back. The emotional highlight of the season.

The Stalker Tease: Xavier gives Wednesday a phone before she leaves Nevermore, only for her to immediately get cryptic texts from a stalker. Dun dun dunnn — season 2 setup.