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Movie ID: 1446
RT slug: wednesday
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/wednesday
Release year: 2022
Runtime: —
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Tomatometer final: 80%
Audience score final: 81%
Genres: Mystery & Thriller
Directors: —
Writers: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
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MPAA rating: TV-14
Executive Producers: Alfred Gough, Andrew Mittman, Gail Berman, Jonathan Glickman, Kayla Alpert, Kevin Lafferty, Kevin Miserocchi, Miles Millar, Steve Stark, Tim Burton, Tommy Harper
Created: 2026-09-30 21:05:14
Updated: 2026-09-30 21:05:14
While attending Nevermore Academy, Wednesday Addams attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a killing spree and solve the mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago.
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Canonical reviews: 102
Canonical fresh: 75
Canonical rotten: 27
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 102 (75/27), 74% (73.529% raw)
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-09-29 14:57:17
Snapshot Tomatometer: 80%
Snapshot review count: 102
Snapshot fresh count: 75
Snapshot rotten count: 27
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| 1 | Alfred Gough | Creator |
| 2 | Miles Millar | Creator |
| 3 | Jenna Ortega | Wednesday Addams |
| 4 | Gwendoline Christie | Larissa Weems |
| 5 | Riki Lindhome | Dr. Valerie Kinbott |
| 6 | Christina Ricci | Marilyn Thornhill |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 284548 | Alan French | Sunshine State Cineplex | Fresh | 6/10 | 2025-08-06T03:44:17.000Z | 2025-08-06 03:44:17 | The show is well-made, and it’s a fun time. The combo of Orega and Myers gives the show heart, but the other corners of Wednesday need to be explored. |
| 284549 | Branyan Towe | Loud and Clear Reviews | Fresh | 4/5 | 2024-07-29T17:08:45.000Z | 2024-07-29 17:08:45 | Wednesday offers an interesting new take on the titular character, with Jenna Ortega portraying what is the best version of Wednesday Addams to date |
| 284550 | Tamma Moksha | The Hindu | Fresh | — | 2024-06-11T20:28:03.000Z | 2024-06-11 20:28:03 | Tim Burton's macabre and magical tribute to the misfits and outcasts... |
| 284551 | Rick Bentley | KGET-TV (Bakersfield, CA) | Fresh | A- | 2024-04-04T18:49:31.000Z | 2024-04-04 18:49:31 | Jenna Ortega does a masterful job of finding the right angst and macabre comedy to play the young member of the Addams Family. |
| 284552 | Allison Rose | FlickDirect | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2024-03-25T17:48:18.000Z | 2024-03-25 17:48:18 | Jenna Ortega perfectly embodies Wednesday Addams, turning her unique dance into a viral sensation. |
| 284553 | Jackson Weaver | CBC News | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-10-16T18:26:41.000Z | 2023-10-16 18:26:41 | [W]hile the teenage drama swirling around her feels stale, Wednesday is saved by every second spent on Wednesday herself.... But in bringing back the Addamses ... you can't help but be a little depressed after imagining what was possible. |
| 284554 | Nuha Hassan | Nuha Hassan (Medium) | Fresh | — | 2023-09-08T17:39:38.000Z | 2023-09-08 17:39:38 | Wednesday has all the hallmarks of the beloved characters and it never loses focus on the humour and spooky horror elements. |
| 284555 | Anna Miller | Discussing Film | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-07-26T14:08:27.000Z | 2023-07-26 14:08:27 | Wednesday boasts utterly entertaining performances, brings back to life some lovably nostalgic characters with posh, and has an intriguing enough plot that should keep audiences hooked till the end of its eight-episode run. |
| 284556 | Gissane Sophia | Lady Geeks Media | Fresh | — | 2023-07-23T18:36:27.000Z | 2023-07-23 18:36:27 | Netflix’s Wednesday is compelling and mischievous at every turn, with Jenna Ortega bringing some of the finest performances to our screens. |
| 284557 | Santanu Das | Hindustan Times | Rotten | — | 2023-01-31T22:34:31.000Z | 2023-01-31 22:34:31 | Neither kooky, nor spooky. |
| 284558 | Nick Schager | The Daily Beast | Rotten | — | 2023-01-30T23:18:12.000Z | 2023-01-30 23:18:12 | Misbegotten on almost every front, it mines its name-brand IP for familiar romance and horror, and proves all the more depressing for being the handiwork of the very artist who decades ago pioneered such macabre teen terrain: Tim Burton. |
| 284559 | Javier Estrada | El Mundo (Spain) | Fresh | — | 2023-01-10T02:52:18.000Z | 2023-01-10 02:52:18 | The gloomy and the humorous coexist effectively in a production that is for all audiences. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 284560 | DarkSkyLady | DarkSkyLady Reviews | Fresh | — | 2023-01-08T19:38:53.000Z | 2023-01-08 19:38:53 | Thanks to the cast, and the creepy setting of Nevermore Academy, Wednesday pulls through with an impressive first season, despite its problems. |
| 284561 | Matt Neal | ABC Radio (Australia) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-01-01T11:22:18.000Z | 2023-01-01 11:22:18 | The Addams Family was always about a love of the macabre and a fascination with the darker aspects of human nature, all the while being true to your weird self. And Wednesday never loses sight of that, even when taking its characters into new territory. |
| 284562 | Valerie Ettenhofer | Film School Rejects | Fresh | — | 2022-12-23T21:50:45.000Z | 2022-12-23 21:50:45 | Neither the Tim Burton treatment nor the Netflix treatment can fully redeem the teen mystery Wednesday, but a great lead performance almost does the trick. |
| 284563 | Jessica Scott | Film Cred | Rotten | — | 2022-12-22T00:45:17.000Z | 2022-12-22 00:45:17 | The cast does its best, especially the tremendous Ortega, but they can’t overcome the overwrought and underbaked writing, particularly its egregious mishandling of issues pertaining to race, sexuality, and gender. |
| 284564 | Eileen Jones | The Jacobin | Rotten | — | 2022-12-19T19:42:08.000Z | 2022-12-19 19:42:08 | Netflix's new Addams Family show puts Wednesday's teenaged emotional life front and center — and suffers for it. |
| 284565 | Rosa Parra | The Daily Chela | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-12-08T20:58:23.000Z | 2022-12-08 20:58:23 | “Wednesday” is a dark, compelling, murder mystery told brilliantly through Burton’s gothic aesthetic and style, anchored by a magnetic performance from Ortega that further cements her status as one of the best up-and-coming actresses in the industry. |
| 284566 | Matt Donato | Perri Nemiroff (YouTube) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-12-08T00:00:45.000Z | 2022-12-08 00:00:45 | It's a showcase for Ortega, who makes the most out of every creep-kooky opportunity. |
| 284567 | EJ Moreno | EJ Moreno | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-12-07T13:34:49.000Z | 2022-12-07 13:34:49 | Reinventing the Addams Family is no easy task, but a shockingly great turn from Tim Burton led to this generation’s perfect Addams. All props to Jenny Ortega for a career-defining role. |
| 284568 | Paul McGuire Grimes | KSTP-TV (St. Paul, MN) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-12-06T02:24:27.000Z | 2022-12-06 02:24:27 | Tim Burton meets The Addams Family - such a perfect marriage. |
| 284569 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Fresh | — | 2022-12-04T01:35:18.000Z | 2022-12-04 01:35:18 | Astutely, knowingly and lovingly spliced together... the intense Ortega is the show's blackly and wittily charming heart. |
| 284570 | Lissete Lanuza Sáenz | Remezcla | Fresh | — | 2022-12-04T01:12:52.000Z | 2022-12-04 01:12:52 | Jenna Ortega’s turn as the character doesn’t feel like a redo or a copy. Instead, it feels like what Wednesday Addams was always supposed to be. |
| 284571 | Geordie Gray | The Australian | Fresh | — | 2022-12-03T01:49:46.000Z | 2022-12-03 01:49:46 | These reboots usually suck (see: Tales of the City) but, to my surprise and delight, Netflix’s new Addams Family spin-off, Wednesday, works a charm. |
| 284572 | Rhea Candy | Film Companion | Rotten | — | 2022-12-02T23:40:10.000Z | 2022-12-02 23:40:10 | Wednesday's suspense takes far too long to come together... |
| 284573 | Emma David | Bust Magazine | Fresh | — | 2022-12-02T23:22:01.000Z | 2022-12-02 23:22:01 | The eight-episode first season is one filled with teenage angst with a heaping dollop of macabre feminist flair. |
| 284574 | Gabi Zietsman | Channel24 (South Africa) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-12-02T07:03:16.000Z | 2022-12-02 07:03:16 | I enjoyed every minute of Wednesday despite its wonky plot because it's just fun, camp humour, and captures the essence of the Addams Family je ne sais quoi. For season two, all I can say is never change, Wednesday. |
| 284575 | Nina Metz | Chicago Tribune | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2022-12-01T18:04:31.000Z | 2022-12-01 18:04:31 | It works best when it’s simply being funny. The heavy plotting around a mysterious supernatural something or other? Very, very mid, but you need something to propel the story forward enough to stretch it out for eight episodes. |
| 284576 | Isabel Parigi | Pajiba | Rotten | — | 2022-11-30T22:38:05.000Z | 2022-11-30 22:38:05 | The fatal flaw of Wednesday, however, isn’t that it tries to cover too much ground. Rather, it falls apart thanks to a fundamental misunderstanding, likely thanks to the show’s creators, of what The Addams Family, and its creepy/kooky members, represent. |
| 284577 | Kylie Northover | The Age (Australia) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-11-30T01:49:14.000Z | 2022-11-30 01:49:14 | For fans of Burton’s trademark dark aesthetic and the original Addams Family humour, there’s plenty to love, even if it’s all (beautifully) wrapped in a teen sleuthing storyline. |
| 284578 | Emma Vine | Cultured Vultures | Fresh | 7.5/10 | 2022-11-29T21:24:46.000Z | 2022-11-29 21:24:46 | Burton offers us a chilling modern gothic tale packed with mystery, while Ortega shows she’s a force to be reckoned with as our leading lady. |
| 284579 | Alex Maidy | JoBlo's Movie Network | Rotten | 6/10 | 2022-11-29T21:01:04.000Z | 2022-11-29 21:01:04 | There is some charm in this take on the iconic characters that may be worth returning to for a second season, but I am not sure if this series is creepy or kooky enough to warrant another run. |
| 284580 | Sabrina Ramirez | Geeks of Color | Fresh | — | 2022-11-29T20:15:58.000Z | 2022-11-29 20:15:58 | This is your typical standard young adult story with a supernatural twist. I don’t knock it for that, considering the strong execution and performances kept me mostly hooked to the very end. |
| 284581 | Joyce Slaton | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-11-29T19:58:18.000Z | 2022-11-29 19:58:18 | Beautiful to look at and perfectly cast, this promising dark series largely misses the mark by diving into teen-mystery and school-drama clichés instead of taking us anywhere new. |
| 284582 | Hugo Rifkind | The Times (UK) | Fresh | — | 2022-11-29T18:16:46.000Z | 2022-11-29 18:16:46 | Funny, but a bit one-note. |
| 284583 | Jordy Sirkin | Jordy Reviews It | Fresh | — | 2022-11-29T02:39:02.000Z | 2022-11-29 02:39:02 | Wednesday is a worthwhile adaptation, and it felt meant to entertain a wider audience without holding back its edginess, unlike some recent teen-focused releases. |
| 284584 | Sarah Marrs | Lainey Gossip | Rotten | — | 2022-11-29T01:44:08.000Z | 2022-11-29 01:44:08 | Jenna Ortega is great, and will undoubtedly earn ghoulies dedicated to her Wednesday, but the show is barely watchable outside her performance. |
| 284585 | Pat Stacey | Irish Independent | Rotten | — | 2022-11-29T01:14:32.000Z | 2022-11-29 01:14:32 | The deadpan would-be zingers grow tiresome after a while. |
| 284586 | Natalia Trzenko | La Nación (Argentina) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-11-29T01:01:08.000Z | 2022-11-29 01:01:08 | [Jenna Ortega] embodies Wednesday with mordacity: each one of her lines delivered with the perfect mix of harshness and charm of a girl, who no matter what doesn't want to end up like her mother, Morticia. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 284587 | Tania Lamb | Lola Lambchops | Fresh | — | 2022-11-27T16:25:36.000Z | 2022-11-27 16:25:36 | Wednesday is a dark, but not too dark, series, mostly aimed at the teen crowd. Maybe not kooky enough for some audiences, but certainly entertaining for family viewing. |
| 284588 | Stephanie Archer | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2022-11-26T02:47:35.000Z | 2022-11-26 02:47:35 | Helmed by director Tim Burton and commanded to life by Jenna Ortega, Wednesday is a vital addition to the franchise of the Addams Family, proving the franchise is far from dead. |
| 284589 | Kevin Carr | Fat Guys at the Movies | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-11-26T00:48:01.000Z | 2022-11-26 00:48:01 | Tim Burton strike the perfect chord with the positive yet creepy tone, and Jenna Ortega shines as the dead-pan heroine. |
| 284590 | Jeff York | The Establishing Shot | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-11-24T00:54:37.000Z | 2022-11-24 00:54:37 | It’s a feast of gallows humor, terrific acting, a teen angst plot worthy of any CW show, and wholly binge-worthy over the extended holiday. |
| 284591 | Rick Marshall | Digital Trends | Fresh | 9/10 | 2022-11-24T00:35:36.000Z | 2022-11-24 00:35:36 | It doesn’t take long for Tim Burton and Wednesday's star, Jenna Ortega, to make the character's star power abundantly clear in Netflix’s dark, delightfully entertaining series. |
| 284592 | Juanma Fernández París | El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico) | Rotten | — | 2022-11-23T22:45:44.000Z | 2022-11-23 22:45:44 | [Tim Burton's] direction here has the same generic corporate touch he employed in his The Planet of the Apes and Alice in Wonderland. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 284593 | Breeze Riley | Tell-Tale TV | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-11-23T20:53:50.000Z | 2022-11-23 20:53:50 | Wednesday may recycle classic teenage tropes like the big formal dance or mean girl rival, but it’s jazzed up just enough by its world-building to make it not unbearably boring. |
| 284594 | John Anderson | Wall Street Journal | Fresh | — | 2022-11-23T20:49:25.000Z | 2022-11-23 20:49:25 | Ms. Ortega is a charismatic performer playing a character who is decidedly anti-charisma, so that’s an accomplishment; she has a face that triumphs over deadpan. |
| 284595 | Brian Lowry | CNN.com | Fresh | — | 2022-11-23T19:46:12.000Z | 2022-11-23 19:46:12 | Seeking to bring something new a property like the Addams Family, which has been done so many times before, isn’t easy without altering its DNA. To its credit, Wednesday rises to the challenge and mostly manages to make it look like a snap. |
| 284596 | Tony Sokol | Den of Geek | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-11-23T19:10:09.000Z | 2022-11-23 19:10:09 | Ortega's Wednesday is the most openly narcissistic of the portrayals, veering far from borderline status directly into the headlights of sociopathic indulgence. We genuinely feel Wednesday wants to be the most outcast of the outcasts. |
| 284597 | Patricio Féminis | Clarín | Fresh | — | 2022-11-23T18:21:04.000Z | 2022-11-23 18:21:04 | Wednesday is sadistic and perverse but with a morality that's worth analyzing. Some may find fault with some of the trite dialogue of the series. But here, the ensemble is boss... [Full review in Spanish] |
| 284598 | Rob Owen | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Rotten | — | 2022-11-23T18:12:07.000Z | 2022-11-23 18:12:07 | If CW dramas are your jam, you might like Wednesday. I was mostly bored and found the plot machinations predictable. |
| 284599 | MontiLee Stormer | MovieReelist.com | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-11-23T17:52:17.000Z | 2022-11-23 17:52:17 | What I like best about Wednesday is that for a series directed by Tim Burton, it doesn’t scream Tim Burton. This is a good thing because when Tim Burton is allowed to be Tim Burton, it’s visually exhausting. |
| 284600 | Shannon Connellan | Mashable | Fresh | — | 2022-11-23T15:46:37.000Z | 2022-11-23 15:46:37 | A creepy, riotously fun teen mystery series that sees Burton capitalising on the teen Addams member in his signature spooky style. |
| 284601 | Mel Valentin | ScreenAnarchy | Fresh | — | 2022-11-23T15:32:46.000Z | 2022-11-23 15:32:46 | At its best, Wednesday keeps its focus squarely on the oldest Addams sibling, how she moves in a strange, sometimes incomprehensible world, and how she reacts to said strange, sometimes incomprehensible world, often with dry, droll humor. |
| 284602 | Lucy Mangan | Guardian | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-11-23T13:39:27.000Z | 2022-11-23 13:39:27 | Certainly, the 11-year-old I keep on hand to test programmes aimed at the younger demographic was rapt for the whole series, and proclaimed himself deeply satisfied by both its resolutions and its cliffhanger. |
| 284603 | Maria Lattila | WhyNow (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-11-23T13:06:10.000Z | 2022-11-23 13:06:10 | Netflix’s Wednesday finally allows us to see how Tim Burton imagined the Addams family, but the show just isn’t kooky or spooky enough. |
| 284604 | Sherin Nicole | Geek Girl Riot / RIOTUS | Fresh | — | 2022-11-23T12:54:34.000Z | 2022-11-23 12:54:34 | Although Gomez and Morticia are too tame, Wednesday is ferocious with a flair for the memeable & the macabre that leaves a mark and quickly becomes infectious. |
| 284605 | Josh Bell | CBR | Rotten | — | 2022-11-23T00:41:44.000Z | 2022-11-23 00:41:44 | A pair of goth icons find themselves trapped in a generic supernatural teen drama in Netflix's Wednesday. |
| 284606 | Tom Long | Detroit News | Fresh | B | 2022-11-23T00:19:15.000Z | 2022-11-23 00:19:15 | This is a Tim Burton production, so it looks great. But looks wouldn't matter if Jenna Ortega's deadpan wasn’t just as elastic as it needed to be — she consistently pushes outside the caricature enough to keep things lively. Or deadly. |
| 284607 | Josh Stephenson | metro.co.uk | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-11-22T23:43:01.000Z | 2022-11-22 23:43:01 | The show drips in delicious set design, pin-point perfect costume work and an off-brand sense of humour that mixes the macabre with the ridiculous. |
| 284608 | Randy Myers | San Jose Mercury News | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-11-22T21:05:54.000Z | 2022-11-22 21:05:54 | The entire series finds director Tim Burton in perfect sync with the material. |
| 284609 | Mike Hale | New York Times | Fresh | — | 2022-11-22T20:43:28.000Z | 2022-11-22 20:43:28 | This will not be what real fans of Charles Addams and his characters are looking for, and “Wednesday” is satisfying only on the level of formulaic teenage romance and mystery. On that basis it’s pretty tolerable, though. |
| 284610 | Kelly Lawler | USA Today | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-11-22T20:26:52.000Z | 2022-11-22 20:26:52 | This Wednesday is a fully formed person in her own little entertaining universe, even if it borrows more from "Harriet the Spy" and "Riverdale" than "Addams Family Values." |
| 284611 | Jorge Rivera Rubio | QiiBO | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-11-22T18:03:15.000Z | 2022-11-22 18:03:15 | Dark charm, macabre humor and its own murder mystery. Jenna Ortega takes & immediately owns the iconic character, bringing it home for a new generation. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 284612 | Austin Burke | Austin Burke/Flick Fan Nation | Fresh | 7/10 | 2022-11-22T17:33:04.000Z | 2022-11-22 17:33:04 | Ortega is outstanding when she is the focal point. The teenage angst and numerous storylines somewhat take away from the experience, but Wednesday overcomes it’s flaws by delivering on tone and atmosphere. |
| 284613 | Jenna Scherer | AV Club | Rotten | D+ | 2022-11-22T13:03:50.000Z | 2022-11-22 13:03:50 | We don’t know about you, but the very last thing we want to see Wednesday Addams become is an emotionally enlightened do-gooder; we come to this character for po-faced one-liners and casual sadism. |
| 284614 | Korey Coleman | Double Toasted | Fresh | — | 2022-11-22T07:25:52.000Z | 2022-11-22 07:25:52 | Jenna Ortega is perfect as Wednesday Addams. The show itself has way too many ideas, episodes, and subplots. |
| 284615 | Cassondra Feltus | Black Girl Nerds | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-11-22T02:11:06.000Z | 2022-11-22 02:11:06 | With Wednesday, Gough and Millar have crafted a dark, whimsical coming-of-age tale that stays true to the Wednesday Addams we know but gives her more layers and explores her identity separate from her family. |
| 284616 | Kelly Connolly | TV Guide | Rotten | 5.5/10 | 2022-11-22T01:08:26.000Z | 2022-11-22 01:08:26 | What stands out most about Wednesday is how much it feels shaped and smothered by the Netflix house style, from the '90s-kid references to the meme-ready dialogue to the polished gothic aesthetic. |
| 284617 | Nick Hilton | Independent (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2022-11-21T19:54:33.000Z | 2022-11-21 19:54:33 | From writing that sounds like it’s been reverse engineered through Google Translate to a deeply confusing central mystery, the world that series creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have built is gossamer thin. |
| 284618 | Zofia Wijaszka | Daily Dead | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-11-21T19:16:22.000Z | 2022-11-21 19:16:22 | "Wednesday" is packed with twists at every step, and the show's elaborate crime themes will turn any Addams lover into a crime sleuth. |
| 284619 | Mae Abdulbaki | Screen Rant | Rotten | — | 2022-11-21T17:11:25.000Z | 2022-11-21 17:11:25 | Jenna Ortega is wonderful in the title role, but she is often better than the underwhelming material she is given to work with. |
| 284620 | A.A. Dowd | Chron. | Rotten | — | 2022-11-21T16:55:02.000Z | 2022-11-21 16:55:02 | Wednesday is Burtonesque in only the most superficial sense, his exaggerated angles and haunted-house melancholy smoothed over by the streaming-platform aesthetics. |
| 284621 | Nate Adams | The Only Critic | Rotten | C+ | 2022-11-21T15:30:03.000Z | 2022-11-21 15:30:03 | The results are mixed at best, think a cross pollination of “Twilight” and “Riverdale,” with too many predictable plot threads and not enough dreariness. Remove Ortega from the equation and this series is an unmitigated disaster. |
| 284622 | Diandra Reviews | diandrareviewsitall.com | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-11-21T08:56:28.000Z | 2022-11-21 08:56:28 | Created by Tim Burton, the visuals and ambiance is totally Addams, but this tv show lives and breathes off of Jenna Ortega´s performance. #diandrareviews |
| 284623 | Shaun Munro | Flickering Myth | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2022-11-20T22:03:59.000Z | 2022-11-20 22:03:59 | Even Jenna Ortega’s strong performance can only do so much to prop up Wednesday’s generic YA treatment, which only occasionally captures the rich wit and seductively gothic style of the Barry Sonnenfeld films. |
| 284624 | Lauren Sarner | New York Post | Fresh | — | 2022-11-20T15:25:32.000Z | 2022-11-20 15:25:32 | “Wednesday” doesn’t have much to offer to viewers who aren’t interested in high school antics that other shows have done better. But it’s still a treat for those who wondered what Burton’s version of this world might look like. |
| 284625 | James Marsh | South China Morning Post | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-11-20T09:25:55.000Z | 2022-11-20 09:25:55 | In a marriage of style and sensibility so perfect it seems almost inconceivable that they have not been intertwined before now, Burton imbues Wednesday with his trademark black humour and fawning fascination for all things monstrous and macabre. |
| 284626 | Petrana Radulovic | Polygon | Fresh | — | 2022-11-19T01:41:46.000Z | 2022-11-19 01:41:46 | The Addams family aren’t the only oddities in this version, which simultaneously gives them more to do while also stripping away a bit of what makes them charming. |
| 284627 | Dianna Shen | Paste Magazine | Fresh | 8.5/10 | 2022-11-18T23:30:14.000Z | 2022-11-18 23:30:14 | Wednesday successfully captures the growing pains of being 16 without taking itself too seriously, serving to be an entertaining and binge worthy addition to this year’s renaissance of teen television. |
| 284628 | Grace Randolph | Beyond the Trailer | Fresh | — | 2022-11-18T23:16:36.000Z | 2022-11-18 23:16:36 | Jenna Ortega does a star turn as Wednesday Addams, faithful to the original yet also making the character her own. The show overall is a good mystery and very atmospheric. Tim Burton might direct, but very similar to Barry Sonnenfeld's now class movies. |
| 284629 | Clint Worthington | Consequence | Rotten | C | 2022-11-18T22:04:20.000Z | 2022-11-18 22:04:20 | It feels like a reconstituted mush of Tim Burton’s late-career apathy, the vagaries of the Netflix streaming show model, and the unholy resurrection of the corpse of IP. |
| 284630 | Brian Tallerico | The Playlist | Fresh | C+ | 2022-11-18T20:27:47.000Z | 2022-11-18 20:27:47 | “Wednesday” succumbs to what plagues so many Netflix shows—narrative wheel-spinning, a lack of momentum, and that sense that this would all have been a better film than a TV series. |
| 284631 | Bob Strauss | San Francisco Chronicle | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-11-18T19:56:36.000Z | 2022-11-18 19:56:36 | May as well call it “The Chilling Adventures of Enola Addams at the School for Good and Evil.” The original goth girl deserves better. |
| 284632 | Mikel Zorrilla | Espinof | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2022-11-18T17:58:17.000Z | 2022-11-18 17:58:17 | Results in a slightly darker version of Nancy Drew than Wednesday Addams... [Full review in Spanish] |
| 284633 | Cristina Escobar | RogerEbert.com | Fresh | — | 2022-11-18T17:47:03.000Z | 2022-11-18 17:47:03 | Ortega excels in the role, leaning into a deadpan humor made all the funnier by her character’s lack of interest in anything approaching laughter. |
| 284634 | Arezou Amin | Collider | Fresh | A- | 2022-11-18T17:11:51.000Z | 2022-11-18 17:11:51 | Ultimately, despite being a darker-than-usual take on The Addams Family, Wednesday retains all the hallmarks that make the stories and the characters special. |
| 284635 | Tessa Smith | Mama's Geeky | Fresh | 2.5/5 | 2022-11-18T16:00:39.000Z | 2022-11-18 16:00:39 | Jenna Ortega is the best thing this series has going for it. She delivers an incredible performance and saves what would otherwise be a miss. Wednesday just would have worked better as a movie. |
| 284636 | Meagan Navarro | Bloody Disgusting | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2022-11-18T15:19:24.000Z | 2022-11-18 15:19:24 | A rather generic Young Adult murder mystery at its core, but but Wednesday’s dogged pursuit of the truth at least keeps it interesting. |
| 284637 | Adam Barnhardt | ComicBook.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-11-18T15:01:22.000Z | 2022-11-18 15:01:22 | Despite dealing with murders and monsters aplenty, Wednesday is a story about growing up in a world unkind to the "outcasts" and otherwise. The minimal story is certainly relatable. Wednesday is a good watch at any point throughout the year. |
| 284638 | Dan Jolin | Empire Magazine | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-11-18T14:30:44.000Z | 2022-11-18 14:30:44 | You might have hoped for better for The Addams Family’s best character, but at least she’s perfectly pitched by Jenna Ortega. |
| 284639 | Charlotta Billstrom | London Evening Standard | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-11-18T14:30:09.000Z | 2022-11-18 14:30:09 | Burton’s defiantly uncheesy take on the high school genre sees him on top form, and Ortega’s turn as everyone’s favourite teenage psychopath is sure to put her on the map. |
| 284640 | Ben Travers | IndieWire | Rotten | C- | 2022-11-18T14:28:36.000Z | 2022-11-18 14:28:36 | Wednesday (and, more so, “Wednesday”) is all talk and little action — a well-rounded character hammered into the rectangular icon on your Netflix homescreen, by an algorithm built to conform. |
| 284641 | Ed Power | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-11-18T14:27:37.000Z | 2022-11-18 14:27:37 | The teenagers at whom the series is aimed won’t care about the Addams Family’s dusty lineage. They will instead thrill to an addictively rococo romp that unfolds like a cross between Euphoria and Hotel Transylvania. |
| 284642 | Amelia Emberwing | IGN | Fresh | 7/10 | 2022-11-18T14:26:34.000Z | 2022-11-18 14:26:34 | Wednesday introduces a whole new generation to the Addams family with creepy and kooky hijinks and an incredible performance from Jenna Ortega. |
| 284643 | Bill Goodykoontz | Arizona Republic | Fresh | — | 2022-11-18T14:25:21.000Z | 2022-11-18 14:25:21 | None of it works without Ortega’s performance, which is morbidly delightful. |
| 284644 | Dave Nemetz | TV Line | Rotten | C+ | 2022-11-18T14:24:06.000Z | 2022-11-18 14:24:06 | It does have a properly macabre tone and a fantastic lead performance from Jenna Ortega, but the choice to go full YA, I’m afraid, might have been a fatal mistake. |
| 284645 | Daniel Fienberg | The Hollywood Reporter | Fresh | — | 2022-11-18T14:21:32.000Z | 2022-11-18 14:21:32 | Though the overall series is rarely quite at its leading lady’s level... there are enough promising elements that I hope Wednesday gets the opportunity to make a second season with some refinements. |
| 284646 | Caroline Framke | Variety | Rotten | — | 2022-11-18T14:20:28.000Z | 2022-11-18 14:20:28 | Despite Ortega's fantastic performance and Burton's active involvement, "Wednesday" as a whole never really captures what made "The Addams Family" so viscerally strange (nor is it half as visually striking). |
| 284647 | Kristen Maldonado | Pop Culture Planet | Fresh | — | 2022-11-18T14:06:58.000Z | 2022-11-18 14:06:58 | Wednesday is jauntily macabre and twisted, with a mystery that you’ll have fun trying to piece together along with the characters. With the perfect amount of spooky and kooky, Jenna Ortega was born to play Wednesday Addams. |
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