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I watched all of the Wednesday show and it's sort of baffling? It's a generic Harry Potter knockoff that sits somewhere on the narrative quality spectrum between Netflix's Winx and Sabrina.Permalink On twitter.com
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It's weird that Wednesday doesn't get along with her family when arguably the whole point of the established characters is, unlike normal families, they actually all get along great...Permalink On twitter.com
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The opener is trying to say something about bullies but it's delivery is confusing and broken when you are entering with the narrative context that pretty much all Addams violence is silly and no one is permanently harmed...On twitter.com
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It's very dumb that the show takes plays near 'pilgrim town' because it is very obviously a producer's note telling them to make sure the audience remembers the one meme everyone likes & therefor needs no help to remember. Don't remind me of the better media you're not...Permalink On twitter.com
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And past that the show is basically just a generic teen urban fantasy. It's very weird to place the Addams into this context because the whole point of them is that they are out of place, that's what makes the characters shine...Permalink On twitter.com
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So placing them into a supernatural school for sirens and warewolves is... like the one guaranteed way to make these characters boring. Almost as bad is a generic mystery, chosen one, whodunit plot where casting and pretty much everything makes the mystery bad person obvious...Permalink On twitter.com
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It's so uninterested in its own urban fantasy world. Oh, there are not just magical creatures but enough to fill multiple boarding houses in some school? Seems like the sort of thing that might have a larger impact on the world then making one sheriff sorta temporarily racist?Permalink On twitter.com
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Also... Please stop wasting Gwendoline Christie! She's basically in here to provide an entirely mismanaged red herring that no one will ever suspect...Permalink On twitter.com
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I'm sure someone much better qualified than I will talk about this but it's real weird how much everyone in this show has a case of the not-gays. It's 2022, you can just make a character gay and not do an oblique really confused metaphor about warewolf conversion therapy...Permalink On twitter.com
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Netflix has a kids TV show with a trans main character and it's great, it got another season, there's literally no need to smuggle in representation. You can just put it out there. You have a shapeshifter and the most you can do is put her in a love triangle with Gomez? Wtf.Permalink On twitter.com
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Anyway, I'd love to like this show. I watch all the CW, I watched all of Winx, I'm most of the way through Ft. Salem. It's just such a waste of an opportunity to do something interesting with these characters, this concept, or this cast who are all doing their best w/bad writing.Permalink On twitter.com
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In retrospect Winx is probably better than Wednesday and it's not great.Permalink On twitter.com
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It's just, if your pitch is 'Wednesday Addams solves a mystery' there is so much more fun and interesting places you could go, especially with that character as established. Instead you get this, which is just... eh ok.Permalink On twitter.com
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We live in a world where Legends of Tomorrow and The 100 both got 7 seasons and this is the best you can do with a teen urban fantasy show backed by an established brand?Permalink On twitter.com
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Anyway, if you've made it this far... Motherland: Fort Salem is actually a fascinating alt history urban fantasy show that will make you think and you should watch it. Just gonna put that out there.Permalink On twitter.com
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