Review ‘Wednesday’ season 2 on Netflix, with Jenna Ortega

A legendary moment such as how the gothic ‘GOO GOO muck’ dance from Wednesday Addams gave the cramps a super hit forty years after that, the hoos to viral tick movies, memes and a revival of the Gothic music and clothing style: the second season seems to be so impactful WednesdayThe series about Addams Family-Didder Wednesday (played by Jenna Ortega), not yet to be.

For those who are only hooking up now: the Addamen are a satirical variant of the ideal American family. They are macabre and sarcastic. The Running gag Is that they themselves do not notice how eccentric they are with their preference for explosives, medieval weapons and torture tools: always occurring and dressed to perfection. They were conceived by cartoonist Charles Addams and for the series co -adopted by director Tim Burton (known from Batman to Beetlejuice).

In the second season there is a new song from Lady Gaga-‘Dead Dance’-and the actor popster will also make her appearance in a guest role. And maybe the makers still have big plans with recycling the Kinks-hit ‘You Really Got Me’ from 1964, which can be heard for a while. That was the year in which the original The Addams Family-Serie was broadcast. But perhaps those are just winks for all fans who have watched the series and films over the morbid dysfunctional family over the years.

Macabre and sarcastic

After the single Wednesday in the first season with the help of what schoolmates managed to resolve a series of crimes, she returns to NeverMore as a superstar. Very against her will now suddenly everyone wants to be friends with her. Much of the plot revolves around roommate Enid. Pink schoolcore Werewolf girl is in danger; Wednesday wants to protect her, but puts their friendship at stake.

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The first season of Wednesday (2022) is still on one in The Top Ten Van Best’s Netflix series, with 252,100,000 views well above other viewing figures such as Adolescence (2025) and Stranger Things 4 (2022). In the first four parts of season two that are online from today, the mésaventuren From the unmovement adolescent mawstreamed to a mix of Harry Potter and Enola Holmes. Wednesday is a super detective in a supernatural world in which, despite the animosity between sirens and the Medusa-like Gorgons, the everyday ‘normies’ are ultimately always the real danger. But the makers also enjoy lengthy scenes full of boarding school scenes, sports competitions, a spooky April 1 and a greatly measured school camp.

Be careful

Admittedly: the world of Wednesday It therefore looks great, even the stitches on walking hand ‘Thing’ seem refreshed and more tightly attracted. Because Buitenktje Waldesday is not afraid of the Duvel, you look through her curious eyes at the beauty of a lurid world. It is delicious camp. But it is also all very flashy quirkyso pay attention: every detail can be a spoiler. There are old acquaintances and new faces. The new headmaster is played by Steve Buscemi, who is crushed over all the outsiders he has under his care. And we see in the serial killer who made Wednesday in the prelude to the first episode of this season harmless indeed a cameo of The Sixth Sense“Haley Joel” I see Dead People “Osment? You lose the count of all references. But good news: between that web of loose ends, cliffhangers are woven from the same way. When Wednesday The success of the first season will match, then that will only happen in the last four episodes that will come out at the beginning of September.

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