PLAY Wednesday on netflix (Addams Family tv show)

Hawkgirl_70

Hawkgirl_70

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I was really hyped for this show because I liked the black and white 60’s show and totally loved the 2 90’s movies. They were going to make a 3rd then Raul Julia suddenly died. Dang him!
But then I saw the trailers for Wednesday and my goodness, they ruined the handsome Gomez Addams and he now looks like an ugly, fat slob!!!!
Blech!!!!!!!
I just can’t get motivated to try the first episode because he’s a distraction. Sorry.
 
biere

biere

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Go to YouTube. Search for "adult Wednesday adams". No this is not porn. Is short videos of what an adult Wednesday would be like in the real world. Gal who made em got sued and had to stop making them.
 
kyrsyan

kyrsyan

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Binge watched it yesterday. Loved it. Looking forward to more.
And Gomez is truer to the original but it took me a bit to adapt. But then, I also had to adapt to the new Morticia. That actress just didn't pull it off for me.
 
Knoxville's Joker

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kyrsyan said:
Binge watched it yesterday. Loved it. Looking forward to more.
And Gomez is truer to the original but it took me a bit to adapt. But then, I also had to adapt to the new Morticia. That actress just didn't pull it off for me.
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I was actually looking at doing a literary work of redneck family addams where wednesday gets married to a redneck and the basic plot lines is the rednecks were a bit better at things than she... The only issue is the collective works of the addams comics in book form is a few hundreed...
 
Blacknarwhal

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Hawkgirl_70 said:
I was really hyped for this show because I liked the black and white 60’s show and totally loved the 2 90’s movies. They were going to make a 3rd then Raul Julia suddenly died. Dang him!
But then I saw the trailers for Wednesday and my goodness, they ruined the handsome Gomez Addams and he now looks like an ugly, fat slob!!!!
Blech!!!!!!!
I just can’t get motivated to try the first episode because he’s a distraction. Sorry.
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Luis Guzman makes a very, very poor Gomez. Raul Julia was certainly the best, though admittedly, John Astin did well.
 
Melodi

Melodi

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Watched the first five episodes last night, I grew up both on the TV show and reading Charles Adams, the TV and movie actors that played Gomez were both extremely handsome in that "Latin Lover" mode. That made for great ratings but in reality, the Gomez of the current series is much closer, almost identical in looks to the original "cartoon" Gomez (if you can it a cartoon).

One point lost in the original TV shows and movies (which I loved and still do) is that Charles Adams was making a point that Morticia is a beautiful (if someone strange) woman married to a conventionally "ugly" man whom she adores and loves deeply; as he loves and adores her. That may not be a message that plays (or pays as I accidentally wrote the first time) as well in cinema land, but was an important part of the early strip.

I am not sure the actor they choose for this serious is quite up to making that believable though he is trying and he's made up to be a nearly dead ringer to the original Gomez. I am hoping things improve a bit if they do a second series (I hope they continue this for as long as they can get good scripting, the stories could go on for years).

Otherwise, I think the show is great, though for me, lacking some of the knockdown and laugh-so-hard-you-lose-your-keyboard humor that the movies had. I miss that Wednesday, but then being a weird and negative teenager is even harder (and harder to make funny) than a precocious ten-year-old is.

I also think a lot of people who grew up feeling they were Wednesday (my Mother even called me that sometimes and I liked to put my hair in two braids) wish there had been a high school Nevermore they could have switched to and also relive their tortured teens via this new version Wednesday.

Overall, I give it a rating of at least 8 out of 10, and only that low because I miss the extremely biting humor of the younger Wednesday, and Gomez is a bit lackluster. I do love the music (I was singing along with La Llorona) and the playing up of the Hispanic elements in the family via Gomez, it is fun but without being another stupid "in your face" message. Simply a family where Dad (or his parents) are obviously from some "Outcast" family in Mexico and they incorporate that into their daily lives.

I also thought the interracial casting went well and makes sense if the teens are more concerned with who is a werewolf or a Mermaid, than what shade they might be. Ditto having the one really weird kid, having concerned parents who are an older (almost elderly) lesbian couple, it doesn't overwhelm the plot or scream "THIS IS A MESSAGE" they are just there because they love their son who well...no spoilers.
 
ComCamGuy

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Wife and I just finished this yesterday and enjoyed it. The transformation of the actress into Wednesday was interesting to read about as well. Most reviews were right in how much a stand out performance she was in the roll
 
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raven

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The character "Gareth Gates" who is dead and whose grave was dug up was born in 1972 and died in 1990.
Which would have made him 18 years old.
His death occurred 30 years ago which places the timeframe of the events in 2020.
Gareth was a peer in the academy with Morticia and Gomez which would have made them 18 years old in 1990 as well.
In 2020, then, Morticia and Gomez would have been 48.
Wednesday would be at most, in her Junior year because at the end she is asked if she would be returning and if returning then she is not a senior - so she must be 17.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Morticia, is actually 53 and Luis Guzman is actually 66. Jenna Ortega in 20.

Did you realize that Gomez and Morticia could be your children and Wednesday, your grandchild.

Question:
Do you feel old yet?

hahahaha
 
Melodi

Melodi

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raven said:
The character "Gareth Gates" who is dead and whose grave was dug up was born in 1972 and died in 1990.
Which would have made him 18 years old.
His death occurred 30 years ago which places the timeframe of the events in 2020.
Gareth was a peer in the academy with Morticia and Gomez which would have made them 18 years old in 1990 as well.
In 2020, then, Morticia and Gomez would have been 48.
Wednesday would be at most, in her Junior year because at the end she is asked if she would be returning and if returning then she is not a senior - so she must be 17.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Morticia, is actually 53 and Luis Guzman is actually 66. Jenna Ortega in 20.

Did you realize that Gomez and Morticia could be your children and Wednesday, your grandchild.

Question:
Do you feel old yet?

hahahaha
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I did those calculations last night and yes it made me feel old lol, thankfully the story is pretty timeless and I think Charles Adam's started it around the 1940s or something like that. I'm sure that tidbit is online somewhere - it was already in full swing and an "older comic" when I was a child. I think his book "Dear Dead Days" which I read over and over as an older charge was probably from the late 1950s, but might have been earlier. That book is full of morticians' adverts, and details about disasters and deaths, mostly from the 19th century.
 
Txkstew

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A little trivia on the original actress who played Wednesday in the 1964 TV show. She was born on the island of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands on the US Navy base. I lived there myself from 1968, until 1972. By then it had been turned over to the US Army for the ABM missile system testing.

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Dystonic

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I saw the first three episodes last night. Did anyone catch Morticia's maiden name? Trump! It was when Weems was looking at the yearbook when she ripped out the page and threw it in the fire. But overall, it's the Addams Family so I am digging it.
 
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Taco Salad

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Wife and I watched the first two episodes last night. It seems to be well done and we enjoyed it enough that we will probably watch the whole season.

This Morticia is really hot.
 
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Taco Salad

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I haven't mentioned it because I was waiting for someone else to bring it up. Am I the only one that thinks Weems looks way too much like Hillary Clinton?
 
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willowlady

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I binged the whole thing and pretty much loved it. Wednesday's parents pretty much flopped for me, but the rest was entertaining.

Funny back story in my family: I've been teased about being Wednesday for decades. I have a family portrait of my parents, me (in braids), and siblings, taken in glorious black and white, and processed in the 50's by my father, an amateur photog. It hangs in our "portrait gallery" in our home. Anyway, my son brought a girlfriend over one time and she asked, "Why do you have a picture of the Addams family on your wall?" There's more, but you get the picture.
 
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Netflix's Wednesday might be renewed for a second series

Alfred Gough, co-creator and executive producer of the Netflix dark drama, hinted at a possible follow-up by saying there is 'definitely more that you can explore in the world of the Addamses'.
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Wednesday season two: Executive producer delights fans by confirming a second series of the Netflix dark drama could be on the cards​

By CAROLINA PIRAS FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 06:11 EST, 28 November 2022 | UPDATED: 08:18 EST, 28 November 2022



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A second season of Wednesday could be on the cards, the show's executive producer has confirmed.
Alfred Gough, co-creator and executive producer of the Netflix dark drama, hinted at a possible follow-up by saying there is 'definitely more that you can explore in the world of the Addamses'.
Speaking to Empire, Gough said: '[Screenwriter] Miles Millar and I are talking amongst ourselves about it. There's definitely more that you can explore in the world of the Addamses.'
Back for more? A second season of Wednesday could be on the cards, the show's executive producer has confirmed (pictured, Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams)

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Back for more? A second season of Wednesday could be on the cards, the show's executive producer has confirmed (pictured, Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams)
In an interview with TV Line, Millar also confirmed discussions are underway - with producers keen to focus on other members of the iconic family, rather than just Wednesday (Jenna Ortega).
He revealed one possible plot line for a second series could be to explore more of the relationship between Wednesday and her mother, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones).

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Millar said: 'We felt like we just touched the surface with those characters and the actors are so amazing in those roles.
'Catherine is, I think, an iconic Morticia. The relationship between Wednesday and Morticia is also essential to the show, and the idea that Wednesday is trying to forge her own path outside the family is important.

Netflix teases Tim Burton's Addams Family spinoff 'Wednesday'


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Roaring success: Alfred Gough, co-creator and executive producer of the Netflix dark drama, hinted at a possible follow-up (pictured Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán in character)

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'[We] definitely want to feature the family as we did this season in a couple of episodes if we were to get a second season.'
The new Tim Burton's spin-off about the iconic Addams Family focuses on the gothic teen Wednesday.
The show landed on Netflix last week and propelled straight to the top of the most watched list, beating the likes of The Crown, 1899 and Dead to Me.
The spooky drama sees Zeta-Jones playing the unique Morticia, and her husband Gomez played by Luis Guzmán, along with Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) and Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez).
Spooky: The new Tim Burton's spin-off about the iconic Addams Family focuses on the gothic teen Wednesday

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Spooky: The new Tim Burton's spin-off about the iconic Addams Family focuses on the gothic teen Wednesday
Christina Ricci, who starred as Wednesday in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) also plays a cameo in the Netflix show as Miss Thornhill.
The first season finishes with the gothic teen going home for the holidays after her first term at Nevermore Academy, where she honed her psychic abilities and solves mysteries.
The first series left plenty of storylines open, including who Wednesday's sinister stalker is.
Family values: (L to R) Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Adams, Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, Issac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams

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Family values: (L to R) Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Adams, Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, Issac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams
 
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