#Wednesday is a pretty excellent show, I'd recommend it if you have Netflix.
@ocdtrekkie Rarely do I see such a good performance turned out for such a mediocre script.
I *could not care less* about the mystery the writers wanted me to care about. I *could not wait* to see the next thing Jenna Ortega would do. Or Emma Myers. Or any other member of that show's brilliant cast.
@mtomczak I don't have strong *objections* to the writing, but yeah, I would say Ortegas' work and probably the character work done for Thing (the amount of quality nonverbal communication from a disembodied hand, omg) were really stellar.
@ocdtrekkie Yeah, I probably over-stated my disdain.
The writing was... Not compelling. It wasn't a turn-off. I just wouldn't go out of my way to watch that show with the same plot and a cast who wasn't bringing that A+ game to it.
(... but I'm a sucker for brilliant acting in threadbare plots. I blame my lifelong Star Trek affinity ;) ).
@mtomczak I wouldn't have watched an Addams Family anything of my own accord, generally. But I caught bits of my wife watching it and it was *entirely* the character work that got my attention, and so I ended up watching it from the beginning.
@mtomczak It's fair to say Wednesday is not actually good at solving mysteries, considering she had to get a vision of one villain and be told who the other was by someone who was out of commission for half the series. She figured out 0 of the antagonists through investigation.
@ocdtrekkie Exactly. The part of the writing that consistently rubbed me the wrong way is that my favorite portrayal of Wednesday is from the Sonnenfeld Addams Family movies, and that style (which seemed to be the style they went with here) always has Wednesday as the smartest person in the room; even when she's on her back foot, she's planning a way out.
I don't think the writing gave her enough of an opportunity to do that. And that may have been the point---as a coming-of-age story, there's tension if she starts out being right all the time. But magic visions felt like they were standing in for a writer who wasn't actually good at writing a mystery.
