After quite literally years of waiting the little show that took both Netflix and the world by storm a few years ago is now back with it's long awaited second season. As I was such a huge fan of the first season of the show and love The Addams Family to death you all just knew that I had to check out these first four episodes of the show and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the first of half of the second season of the show that aired on the right day of the week with the show in question being called simply just "Wednesday" enjoy.
The plot for these first four episodes is when Wednesday returns to Nevermore Academy she finds herself very popular and now has to deal with with a stalker all the main while trying to solve another murder case one which is linked to the school itself. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad as the plot it self was something that was handled really well for the most part as for alot of these first four episodes it does feel like that there's alot more plots going on which does make the seasons main plot far feel unfocused as the shows is juggling several different plots two more of which do feature members of The Addams Family with so far one of them not really being that well received with that being the plot that Pugsley has in these episodes which to be fair isn't the best of plots but at the same time it was never going to be as it was always going to be the more lighthearted comic relief subplot for the season and that's really it but in saying that it does eat up screen time that could have been taken up with making the seasons plot of Wednesday trying to solve this murder feel alot more stronger then what it actually is but that is something that could get fixed when the shows drops it's final four episodes for this season in a months time with the plot of these episodes really being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these episodes is one of this shows executive producers Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams and Steve Buscemi as Barry Dort. Also starring in these episodes is Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair , Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin , Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay , Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger , Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus , Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams , Owen Painter as Slurp , Billie Piper as Isadora Capri , Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Ritchie Santiago , Victor Dorobantu as Thing , Noah Taylor as Bruno Yuson , Evie Templeton as Agnes DeMille , Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams , Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams , Haley Joel Osment as Chet LaTroy , Joonas Suotamo as Lurch , Jamie McShane as Donovan Galpin , Christopher Lloyd as Professor Orloff , Heather Matarazzo as Judi , Thandiwe Newton as Rachael Fairburn , Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester and Dame Joanna Lumley as Grandmama.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honey really good. Which is something that's to be expected from this show as alot of this shows actors are a bunch of really good actors in their own with even pretty much the entire first season having some really good acting in it and therefor it would make alot of sense for this season to so far carry on that trend only now the acting does seem to be alot more better as the actors that are returning from the first season will of course be alot more comfortable with there characters and would of course know there characters a little bit more better and what kind of performance would best suit there respective characters as well with even the shows new actors like for example Steve Buscemi and Dame Joanna Lumley not only holding their own when it comes to acting with some of the actors from the previous season but also turning some really good performances in their own right with of course the best actor in these first four episodes being Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams as she is just such a joy to watch not only in these first four episodes but in the show as a whole with it being very crystal clear that she's having a blast playing this character and that is something that you can see in all the frames that she's in in these first four episodes with the acting that's in these very episodes really being helped by the fact that all of the scripts for these very episodes are just so good that all these episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in these first four episodes.
Doing he CGI for these episodes is Alter Ego , CoSA VFX , Folks VFX , Herne Hill Media , Incessant Rain Studios , Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies , PowerHouse VFX , Rocket Science VFX , Scanline VFX , Take 5 VFX , VFX Legion and WeFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad as there are some pretty good CGI effects to be found in these first four episodes but at the same time tho you can still tell that this show has a TV effects budget as there are some effects like on the ravens for example that do look a little bit two fake almost as if they were added in at the last possible minuet but in saying that tho a character like Thing who at times is a fully CGI effect does look really good with there beings tons of character added to him that helps to make him more of a fully formed character and without giving anything away the one effect that alot of people could all agree upon was really bad in the first season returns in this season and it's aged well with it looking even more like a cartoon character then what it was in the previous season with it making you wonder why the makers of this show didn't take the time that they already had due to the three year gap between seasons to improve upon that effect and make it look like that it was actually there on the day instead of choosing to make it look like something that looks like that it would be more at home a kids cartoon halloween special.
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One of the biggest issues that the first season faced was not having alot of the other members of The Addams Family in it for longer periods of time. This is something that is thankfully fixed in episode one of these episodes as Morticia takes up post at the school at the behest of the schools new Principal with her being in charge of getting funds for the school with Gomez staying because he doesn't want to leave her side and even Pugsley stays around this season enrolling as a new student with both Morticia and Gomez even having Lurch with them as well this right there is a huge step up from what they did in the previous season where they only had the main family members show up for an episode or two and that's really it and yet now that there here we the audience get to the chance to see alot more of the family dynamic with the only two family members to get a real plot together this season being Morticia and Wednesday as they are trying to learn to come together as one and not to be fighting all of the time however there not the only members of the family that show up in these episodes as we also get Uncle Fester and Grandmama showing up in the shows fourth episode with it being reveled throughout these first four episodes that both Morticia and Grandmama shared a very similar relationship to what she and Wednesday currently have all due to the fact that Grandmama possibly had Moritica's sister Ophelia Addams sent to the same hospital that Wednesday is currently investigating and heck it could even be argues that family is a key theme this season as even Bianca Barclay has somewhat of a subplot involving her mother in these first four episodes as well and while none of the plots do get resolved by the end of episode four it is something that does make wonder just how they can resolve these plots in ways that not only feel true to the characters and the show but also be satisfactory to those who are watching the show as well.
With this season of the show being split up into two parts that does mean that episode four has to end on a cliffhanger and well the cliffhanger is a good one. As it ends with the possibility of Wednesday being dead after being thrown out the top floor of the hospital window by Tyler Galpin in his Hyde form this is after another character from the previous season in this case a returning Christina Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill / Laurel Gates who does try to convince him that she's still on his side but he this time just doesn't believe and uses his claws to kill her with the first four episodes making some great use of the hospital set in all of the episodes in which is appears with it even taking centre stage in the shows fourth episode but at the same time these four episodes do lean alot more on the horror aspect of the show then it does the comedy aspect of it so much so that you might be forgiven for forgetting that this is a horror comedy and therefor things should be more balanced like they were in the first season which yes did have it's fair share of horror moments in it as well but it also knew when to stop being a straight up horror show and be a comedy where as with these first four episodes it does feel like there skewing a little bit two much into being a straight up horror show when that's something that The Addams Family should never be as they should always be the kind of horror comedy that you could perhaps show to little kids and while this show has always been mature in it's story telling and presentation it still does feel weird when they openly show a character bleeding due to being stabbed which would work if this was a straight up horror show but given that these four episodes did go out their way to show off more horror then they did comedy it is something that makes you wonder if the rest of this season and even the upcoming third season will lean more into the horror aspect of the show which if so then you might as well just drop the comedy aspect all together as it won't a horror comedy at that point as it would be a straight up horror show.
If you loved Enid last season then odds are your not going to like these first four episodes all that much as she and Wednesday don't spend alot of time together which is something that they do have an in story reason for. As when Wednesday has a really intense psychic vision on the first day of school she sees Enid grave with Enid herself straight up telling her that she killed her and that's all Wednesdays fault with being what kicks of the storyline for this season as Wednesday has to try and figure how Enid's upcoming death is connected to all of these murders which have been going on and are connected to the school in some way however in doing so she doesn't spend alot of time with Enid which is due to her wanting to project her but at the same time all this does is drive the two of them closer as Enid starts to feel left out when Wednesday starts hanging out with a new character called Agnes DeMille who is a superfan of Wednesdays and has the power of invisibility which is something that makes you wonder if Wednesdays vision is more of a self fulfilling prophecy like by trying to avoid causing any harm to Enid she ends up causing the very thing that she didn't want to happen as it's clear as day that they both think of the world of each with Enid even saying that Wednesday is the tunnel to her light with both characters even needing the other as Wednesday needs Enid to keep her grounded and to stop her from getting in her own way and Enid needs to Wednesday as to show her that it's OK to bend the rules and have some fun a little bit of the time as well but in saying that tho if the makers of this show were to have Enid be killed off at the end of the season it would provide an interesting thing for when we get to the third season of Wednesday.
Now then each of episode of this batch of episodes has / had an exact grand total running tome of exactly no longer then one hour and two minuets. With all four of these episodes being around about one hour each which is something that's perfect for these episodes as it's perfectly inline with the first season as alot of those episodes had a very similar running time as well with these first four episodes even having the right amount of plot there to really cover there respective running times but in saying that tho these four episodes really doesn't use there running times all that wisely as the man plot for this season thus far isn't that well developed but that is something that could be fixed by the time that the season has finished airing tho but you always want to lead with your best foot forward and so far these episodes aren't doing a good job of developing the main plot as all of the seasons other plots are all fighting for screen time when it would have made more sense to cut down on the number of plots and not give every single a character this season a storyline even more so if it cuts into the running time that could have been sent in developing the main plot of this season with this slightly effecting the shows characters as while the returning characters do of course come of slightly better in this regards due to the first season it's the shows newer characters that do somewhat suffer from a lack of development as while Principal Barry Dort doesn't really get that much development in these four episodes that's more due to the fact that he's being used as a red herring as the show does put alot of focus on him being the big bad for this season with really the only character that does suffer from a lack of development being Agnes DeMille who goes from being this creepy stalker character to being someone who is just obsessed with Wednesday and willing to help her out with there being no rhyme or reason for the sudden character change but I really will admit that these episodes really does have some really good pacing in them tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these first four episodes and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very first four episodes was in all honesty not that bad. As while there aren't that many laugh out moments like there was in the first season that's more due to thew fact that the makers of this show are putting more of an effort on into the shows horror aspect then it is in creating some actually funny jokes but to be fair to these first fur episodes they do still keep all of Wednesdays killer one liners all of which are really funny jokes and do feel perfectly in line with her character with the best joke in the whole entire first half of the season being when Fester is in the hotel before getting himself committed to the mental hospital when the police burst in on him he's there in the bath just singing along to self and he just turns to the where the policemen are and he just smiles which yes granted is a really stupid joke but at the same time tho it's something that does feel completely in line with this character as is the fact that in episode one Pugsley uses his new lightening powers to take out a stop sign which in turn causes a huge accident all of which the Addams's fail to notice behind them with those two jokes proving that the makers of this show do still know how to tell a good joke that's in the spirit of The Addams Family which dies make you wonder they chose to focus more on horror when alot of the jokes that there telling in these first four episodes whilst they aren't as good as the ones in the first season they all still work really well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall while these first four episodes could have been alot more better it's still great to be back in these world with these characters and the fact that the show has already been confirmed for a third season does say that the show does have legs with these first batch of episodes more then proving that fact in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all o the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these very episodes that are in this very review and as such that really does mean that these very episodes really does earn themselves a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally sued in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being the really great the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these very episodes with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.
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