Wednesday
2022 ‧ Horror ‧ 1 season
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About
Wednesday is an American Gothic coming-of-age supernatural mystery comedy thriller[2] television series based on the character Wednesday Addams by Charles Addams. Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, it stars Jenna Ortega as the titular character, with Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Hunter Doohan, Percy Hynes White, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Georgie Farmer, Naomi J. Ogawa, Christina Ricci, and Moosa Mostafa appearing in supporting roles. Four out of the eight episodes of the first season were directed by Tim Burton, who also serves as executive producer. The first season revolves around Wednesday Addams, who attempts to solve a murder mystery at her new school.[3]
Burton was previously approached to direct the 1991 film The Addams Family and was involved with a cancelled stop-motion animated The Addams Family film. In October 2020, he was reported to be helming a television series, which was later given a series order by Netflix. Ortega was cast in part to represent the character’s Latina heritage. Ricci, who had played the titular character in the 1991 film and its 1993 sequel Addams Family Values, was asked by Burton to join the series in a supporting role. Filming took place in Romania between September 2021 and March 2022.
Wednesday premiered on November 16, 2022, and was released on Netflix on November 23 to predominantly positive reviews from critics, who praised Ortega’s performance.[4] Within three weeks of release, it became the second-most watched English-language Netflix series. It received two Golden Globe nominations: Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for Ortega. It also won four Primetime Emmy Awards, while receiving nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. In January 2023, the series was renewed for a second season, which is scheduled to premiere in 2025.
Cast
Main
[edit]- Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, a teenager who possesses psychic powers.
- Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems (season 1), the shapeshifting principal of Nevermore Academy and a former student who was Morticia Addams’s roommate.
- Oliver Wickham portrays a young Larissa Weems
- Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valerie Kinbott (season 1), Wednesday’s Nevermore Academy-appointed therapist from the local town of Jericho.
- Jamie McShane as Donovan Galpin (season 1; guest season 2), Jericho’s sheriff who is suspicious of Wednesday.
- Ben Wilson portrays a young Donovan Galpin
- Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin / Hyde, a barista at a local coffee shop and Sheriff Galpin’s son who has a romantic interest in Wednesday.
- Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe (season 1), a student of Nevermore Academy who has the ability to make his art come to life. He is also a psychic who gets visions through dreams.
- Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair, Wednesday’s colorful werewolf roommate at Nevermore Academy who attempts to become her friend despite Wednesday’s lack of interest.
- Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay, a successful siren student at Nevermore Academy and Xavier’s ex-girlfriend.
- Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus, a gorgon student at Nevermore Academy who has a romantic interest in Enid.
- Naomi J. Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka (season 1), a vampire student at Nevermore Academy.
- Christina Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill / Laurel Gates (season 1), the botany teacher at Nevermore Academy, dorm mother of Wednesday and Enid, and Garrett’s younger sister. Ricci previously portrayed Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values.
- Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger, a student at Nevermore Academy who has the ability to control bees.
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Wednesday’s mother who attended Nevermore Academy when she was younger and possesses psychic powers similar to her daughter’s.
- Gwen Jones portrays a young Morticia Addams
- Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, Wednesday’s father who also attended Nevermore Academy and is a suspected murderer.
- Lucius Hoyos portrays a young Gomez Addams
- Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams, Wednesday’s younger brother.
- Victor Dorobantu as Thing, a sentient disembodied hand and relative of Wednesday who is sent by Wednesday’s parents to watch over her at Nevermore Academy.
- Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Ritchie Santiago, a deputy of Sheriff Galpin.
Recurring
[edit]- Tommie Earl Jenkins as Noble Walker (season 1), the mayor and former sheriff of Jericho.
- Ismail Kesu portrays a young Noble Walker
- Iman Marson as Lucas Walker (season 1), Noble Walker’s son whose group of friends often runs afoul of Wednesday.
Guest
[edit]- Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester, Wednesday’s paternal uncle who possesses the ability to generate static electricity.
- George Burcea as Lurch (season 1), the Addams family’s butler.[6]
- Calum Ross (season 1) as Rowan Laslow, a student at Nevermore Academy who possesses telekinetic powers and causes trouble for Wednesday.
- William Houston (season 1) as Joseph Crackstone, Laurel Gates’s Pilgrim ancestor and Jericho’s founding father who is intent on killing all outcasts.
- Nitin Ganatra (season 1) as Dr. Anwar, a mortician who works at Jericho’s mortuary.
- Lewis Hayes as Garrett Gates (season 1), a teenager who Gomez is suspected to have murdered during his time at Nevermore Academy and was Laurel’s brother.
Episodes
[edit]Season 1 (2022)
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Wednesday’s Child Is Full of Woe” | Tim Burton | Alfred Gough & Miles Millar | November 23, 2022 | |
Wednesday Addams, a high-school student, finds her brother Pugsley tied up in a locker. She sees a psychic vision of his bullies, whom she then attempts to kill, resulting in her expulsion. Her parents, Morticia and Gomez, decide to enroll her in Nevermore Academy, their alma mater and a school for outcasts in Jericho, Vermont. Meanwhile, a hiker is killed by an unknown creature near Nevermore. Wednesday’s parents release Thing, a sentient disembodied hand, to watch over her. She meets her roommate Enid, her complete opposite, and duels with Bianca, the popular girl, after Bianca bullies a boy named Rowan. Later, Wednesday is nearly killed by a falling gargoyle, but is saved by Bianca’s ex-boyfriend Xavier. After escaping her court-ordered therapy session, Wednesday meets Tyler, a barista, who agrees to help her escape from Nevermore. However, she is apprehended by Principal Larissa Weems and taken back to the school. Later, Tyler and Wednesday meet at the local carnival, and Wednesday has a vision of Rowan’s death. Rowan attempts to kill her but is murdered by a monster. | |||||
| 2 | “Woe Is the Loneliest Number” | Tim Burton | Alfred Gough & Miles Millar | November 23, 2022 | |
Wednesday convinces a skeptical Sheriff Galpin that the perpetrator of the murders is in fact a monster. Suddenly, Rowan reappears unharmed. Wednesday doubts her sanity and decides to investigate the murders herself. She roams the campus inquiring about Rowan and is told that he has been expelled. Meanwhile, Weems grows worried about Wednesday’s visions, keeping close tabs on her. Wednesday confronts a defensive Rowan as he leaves the school and sends Thing to follow him. Thing loses him and Rowan is revealed to be Principal Weems, who has shapeshifted into him. Wednesday has visions of a book belonging to an old students’ society. In her search for the book, she overhears Bianca planning to rig the upcoming student tournament. Wednesday joins Enid to defeat Bianca and win the tournament. Later, Wednesday discovers a hidden library within the school, where she is captured. | |||||
| 3 | “Friend or Woe” | Tim Burton | Kayla Alpert | November 23, 2022 | |
Wednesday finds herself tied up and surrounded by members of an elite students’ society, including Bianca and Xavier. Wednesday frees herself and leaves the library, taking one of the books with her. Weems orders Wednesday to accompany the high school band to an upcoming town ceremony run by Mayor Noble Walker. A drawing in the purloined book leads her to an exhibition at a local fair, where she notices the painting of a girl she had seen in her visions. In the forest, Wednesday envisions the girl—believed to be an ancestor of hers—escaping the execution of the town’s outcasts at the hands of its founder, Joseph Crackstone. Wednesday is ambushed by the monster, which she discovers, by its footprints, to be human. Back in town, Wednesday disrupts the ceremony by having Thing destroy a commemorative statue of Joseph Crackstone and is scolded by Principal Weems. While investigating a crime scene in the forest, police find a camera that captured photographs of the monster. | |||||
| 4 | “Woe What a Night” | Tim Burton | Kayla Alpert | November 23, 2022 | |
Wednesday and Thing break into the coroner’s office to copy the files of the monster’s victims. In trying to identify a pattern, she finds that each victim has had body parts surgically removed. Wednesday becomes suspicious of Xavier and follows him into his art studio, where she discovers several drawings of the monster, which lead her to the monster’s cave. There, she retrieves one of its claws and gives it to Sheriff Galpin for DNA matching. Wednesday and Tyler attend a school dance together. Meanwhile, classmate Eugene, who is privy to Wednesday’s investigative work, witnesses a cloaked figure blow up the monster’s cave. The dance is interrupted by Mayor Walker’s son, Lucas, who triggers the building’s fire sprinklers in revenge for Wednesday’s disruption of the town ceremony. Wednesday senses that Eugene is in danger and heads into the forest, only to find him gravely injured by the monster. | |||||
| 5 | “You Reap What You Woe” | Gandja Monteiro | April Blair | November 23, 2022 | |
32 years earlier, Gomez Addams was arrested at Nevermore on suspicion of killing Garrett Gates, a descendant of Joseph Crackstone. In present time, the Addamses visit Wednesday on Parents’ Weekend at Nevermore. A family therapy session is cut short when Wednesday confronts her parents about the suspected murder. Meanwhile, Sheriff Galpin learns that the coroner committed suicide after admitting to fabricating Gates’s autopsy report. Galpin concludes that Gomez is guilty and arrests him. In prison, Gomez reveals to Wednesday that he was covering for Morticia, who actually killed Garrett. Wednesday and Morticia dig up Garrett’s grave to find that he had been lethally poisoned before he was killed, but are caught by police and arrested for the night. Later, they confront Mayor Walker, who reveals that Garrett intended to poison the entire school due to his father’s hate for outcasts. Mayor Walker agrees to release Gomez after admitting to covering up Garrett’s motive. Back at Nevermore, Principal Weems reluctantly admits to covering up Rowan’s death by means of shapeshifting in an effort to evade controversy at the school. | |||||
| 6 | “Quid Pro Woe” | Gandja Monteiro | April Blair | November 23, 2022 | |
Wednesday attempts to summon Goody, an ancestor and fellow psychic who killed Crackstone. During a surprise birthday party, Wednesday has a vision of Goody, who instructs her to seek out the Gates mansion. There, she witnesses Mayor Walker as he is leaving the building and sneaks into his car. After arriving back in town, Mayor Walker is hit by a car and severely injured. Principal Weems locks down the school and forbids Wednesday to leave campus. With Tyler and Enid’s help, she escapes and returns to the Gates mansion. There, they discover that Laurel Gates, Garrett’s younger sister, long believed to be dead, might still be alive. They find the severed body parts of the monster’s victims in a cellar, but are forced to flee after being ambushed by the monster. Wednesday leads Galpin to the cellar, only to find it empty. At Nevermore, Wednesday convinces Weems not to expel her to further pursue her investigation. At the hospital, an unknown figure kills Mayor Walker. | |||||
| 7 | “If You Don’t Woe Me by Now” | James Marshall | Alfred Gough & Miles Millar and Matt Lambert | November 23, 2022 | |
At Mayor Walker’s funeral, Wednesday notices a lurking figure and chases it into the forest. The figure is revealed to be Uncle Fester, who explains to Wednesday that the monster she has been investigating is a Hyde. Together, they retrieve a diary from the hidden library which reveals that a Hyde must always have a master. Later, they track and follow Xavier, who they witness meeting up with Dr. Kinbott, Wednesday’s therapist, in the forest. After returning from a date with Tyler, Wednesday finds her dorm room vandalized, the diary stolen, and Thing gravely injured. Research into Laurel Gates reveals that she is both alive and the master of the Hyde. Wednesday initially suspects Dr. Kinbott, but Kinbott is killed by the Hyde. Police arrive to arrest Xavier, who Wednesday believes to be the Hyde. Wednesday meets with Tyler and kisses him but suddenly has a vision of him being the Hyde and runs off. | |||||
| 8 | “A Murder of Woes” | James Marshall | Alfred Gough & Miles Millar | November 23, 2022 | |
Wednesday and her classmates kidnap Tyler, and Wednesday tortures him to try to make him confess. Appalled by her methods, her classmates alert Principal Weems, and Wednesday is arrested. At the police station, Tyler secretly confesses to Wednesday that he is the monster. Fed up with Wednesday’s antics, Weems expels her from Nevermore. Wednesday, accompanied by Weems, visits Eugene at the hospital, whose description of the figure he saw at the monster’s cave matches Ms. Thornhill, a teacher at Nevermore. Weems, disguised as Tyler, and Wednesday get Thornhill to confess that she is Laurel Gates and manipulated Tyler into killing the victims as part of her scheme to resurrect Joseph Crackstone and wipe out all outcasts. However, Laurel kills Weems and subdues Wednesday. Using Wednesday’s blood, Laurel resurrects Crackstone and leaves Wednesday to die, but Goody appears and heals her. Enid, having finally transformed into her werewolf form, defeats Tyler in his Hyde form while Crackstone breaches Nevermore. With Bianca’s help, Wednesday destroys and kills Crackstone, and Eugene helps defeat Laurel. Xavier is released from prison, Tyler is detained, and Wednesday departs Nevermore Academy, which is closing for the remainder of the semester. | |||||