To say that Wednesday has been a huge hit for Netflix would be like saying that The Lion King 1994 was a great movie. As this show has proven that there is still life to be found in the The Addams Family brand with this shoe being so successful that a third season of the show was announced not long before this second season started airing and well part two of season 2 has just dropped and you all knew that I had to check out these remaining four episodes out the first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the batch of the episodes that has something in it that was spoiled in the trailer for this batch of the episodes with the in question being called simply just "Wednesday" enjoy.
The plot of these episodes is with Enid's upcoming death coming closer and closer Wednesday must find a way to prevent it from happening once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot 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 plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad with the plot of these episodes being at best pretty decent but in saying that tho the plot to the first four episodes was more better as it while it did lean in heavily on the friendship between Enid and Wednesday it also had a genuinely compelling story to tell where as here with this batch of episodes it was missing having a really compelling story that makes it worth sitting through these four episodes with it feeling as if the makers of the show only had enough plot for about five episodes and somehow had to find a way to stretch that plot out to eight episodes as there are alot of things in this batch of episodes that could have been left out and nothing that's actually important to the plot of these episodes would have been missed as alot of what we get in these four episodes being nothing more then filler episodes as they add nothing to the overall plot of the season which was a really good plot it's just that it could have used a bit more focus in these final four episodes however tho in saying that the plot for these four episodes was one that was still really good as it does still work as a plot it's just that the plot to the previous four episodes was the more stronger of the two plots with the plot of these episodes also 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 , Joonas Suotamo as Lurch , Christopher Lloyd as Professor Orloff , Heather Matarazzo as Judi Stonehearst , Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester , Anthony Michael Hall as Ron Kruger , Frances O'Connor as Francoise Galpin , Lady Gaga as Rosaline Rotwood , Gracy Goldman as Gabrielle Barclay 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 tought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. Which is something that's not really all that surprising as as every single episode of this show has had some really good acting in it and therefor it does make sense that all of the acting in these four episodes be just as good as alot of the actors that are in these four episodes are either A reprising their roles from other episodes of the show or B just some really good actors in there own right either way it does mean that we are always going to be getting some really good acting in this show from all involved with the best actor in these batch episodes both a tie between Jenna Ortega and Emma Myers for no other reason then what they do in episode six of this season as without giving anything away about that episode both of those actors do something that would have been really hard for even the best actors to pull off and yet they somehow manage to it and do it well with there acting together in these episodes being really good as you get to see the struggle that each of them goes through in these batch of episodes and it is something that really does shine through in the actors performances with the acting that's in these vert episodes really being helped by the fact that the scripts for these episodes are so good that all this shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are a written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.
Doing the 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 , Rodeo FX , 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 episodes was in all honesty really good as while the effects of The Hyde creature still don't look that good as the creature does have a very cartoonish looking design to him here in these episodes he mostly kept in the dark which is something that does help out alot even more o when you take into account that creature's design is more laughable then it is scary and given the fact that this season put alot more focus on horror it does make sense that The Hyde would be featured alot more in shadows and darkness with alot of the other effects in these episodes being really good as all they are are simply background replacements and set extensions alot of which you won't really notice unless your actually looking for it with the show in general putting alot of focus on doing effects for real instead of in an computer which is something that's to be applauded as practical effects will always trump CGI effects any day of the week as CGI effects even when there done really well will always date really quickly where as when practical effects are done just as well can be timeless and the fact that the makers of this show are only using CGI when it's needed and not when they want to does say that they have a passion for doing things practically.
SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was one thing that really should have been kept hidden in the trailer for these episodes and that's the fact that we get the return of Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems. With her now being Wednesday's new spirit guide which is something that would have been a really cool reveal were it not in quite literally the opening shot of the trailer for these episodes and even then it could have been argued that it was in there because they might be faking us out and maybe it's someone else that's her new spirit but nope they don't do any of that which now means that people who did see the trailer for Part 2 would have gotten a huge plot twist spoiled for them as yes people would have been watching the trailer just due to the fact that this show does have quite the fanbase they even could have hid who it was by filming new footage with another actor just to be in the trailer so why they chose to reveal what admittedly isn't that big of a spoiler in the trailer is so weird but thankfully they didn't spoil the fact that we get a pretty cool cameo from Casper Van Dien where he plays someone who helped to con Bianca's mom years earlier and is back working with Principal Barry to con Grandmama out of her money only for him to get turned into ash when Dort turns on him because he wanted a fair share of the money with these episodes having plenty of scenes in them that thankfully didn't get spoiled by the trailer for these episodes but it still weird that the makers of this show would openly choose to spoil something that's a small twist in the plot in the trailers for these episodes but then not do anything new or even interesting with that twist.
If you all saw the last Wednesday review I did you'd know that I had a theory about who a certain character was and well I was wrong. As the person that I thought that Wednesday saved at the end of episode four would turn out to be Ophelia Frump it turns out that the person that she rescued was Francoise Galpin who is Tyler's mom which is a bit of weak reveal even more so when the show does nothing with it as she openly says to Morticia that Wednesday is her angel for rescuing her when she gave up all hope on ever seeing her son again and yet she spends the vast majority of these remaining four episodes trying to kill her all because her recent discovered brother Isaac Night who prior to getting his own name back was Pugsley's pet zombie Slurp wants her dead which does make it seem like the makers of this show really had no idea what to do with her character as there is alot of flip flopping around when it comes to her character as one episode she openly wants to kill of the entire Addams Family even tho Wednesday saved her life just a few episodes prior and then the next she's not willing to hurt anyone with her being more then happy to help out her brother and son from the sidelines while they risk their lives to get her to this machine that will remove her own Hyde like powers from her and thus save her life in the process and while we do get a glimpse of Ophelia at the end of episode eight it's literally just a cameo to set up the fact that she might be appearing in the next season of the show when it would have made more sense for her to be the one that got rescued by Wednesday in this season given the fact that they kept on mentioning her all the time and while showing us Tyler's mom was a solid plot twist the writing for the character really did let her down even down to the fact that she and her brother act really creepy when there around each other as well which is something that does put you off of both characters.
Speaking of the villain in these four episodes Isaac Night is actually alot more better of a villain then what Judi was earlier on in the season. As Isaac does at the very least act like a threatening villain who really does believe that he's doing the right thing by trying to kill of first Gomez and then Pugsley and finally the entire family with his end goal even being one that is quite noble as the only thing that he wants to do is to make his sister better and prevent her from dying and that's really it which is a noble goal it's only how he goes about it that makes him evil with him even showing that he does somewhat care for Tyler as in the final episode at his sister request he does use his powers put Tyler on the table that he was going to put his sister on and starts to use the machine of him to strip Tyler of his yde like powers as his mom does now just how deadly that these powers could be when they don't have a master to control and while Wednesday does eventually rescue Pugsley it is something that does course Tyler's mom to use her Hyde powers and thus Wednesday has to free Tyler and so that he can now use his powers to engage his mother in a chase something which does end up with her dying with Isaac even holding his own secret as well as it's revealed that his body is the one that Thing once came from which was a really unique twist as it does give a character that gets very little backstory now getting some lore added to him with it even playing into the episodes third act as it's Thing not Wednesday that defeats Isaac which was something that does make alot of sense as Things whole thing this season has been all about trying to work out wear he belongs an therefor him working with the family that truly loves him instead of the person that was quite literally using him to strangle Wednesday is something that does work well for his character.
Now then these episodes has / had an exact grand total running time of no longer then one hour and nine minuets. Which to be fair to these episodes is pretty much the exact grand total running tome for alot of the episode of the show as all of this shows episodes re usually around about the the hour mark with all of these episodes really having the right amount of the plot there to cover there respective episodes the issue is tho that there really should have been at least one more episode this season as the show goes from a plot driven episode in episode five to a filler episode episode to then suddenly having to wrap up all of the seasons storylines in episodes seven and eight which just isn't enough time to do all of that and when you add in the fact that the season starts of another plot with Enid being revealed as a possible Alpha wolf which means that if she transforms just once more under a full moon then she could remain that way forever something which she is forced to do when Isaac puts Wednesday is his own grave and both Agnes and Enid have to dig her out before it's to late only for it to only be possible for them to have Wednesday if Enid does transform and use her claws to dig her with this plot line feeling like nothing more then set up for season three as it adds nothing to the overall plot of this season with even the shows characters not really getting much development this season with the closest character to get much development being Pugsley and that's really it as the makers of the show seemed to be more focused on letting us know that this is a more horror focused season then in actually giving it's characters some well earned character development but I really will admit that these very episodes really do have some really good pacing to 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 very episodes and well hen in all honesty i in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. With there being alot of painfully moments in these batch of episodes alot of which do work really well as they feel true to the characters ad true to the world that this show takes place in with Wednesday having alot of funny one liners alot of which are really funny with Wednesday herself getting the episodes best joke as in episode six both she and Enid have a Freaky Friday moment where they both end up in each others body and when Wednesday as Enid does something that the actual Enid doesn't like as it effects her personal life Enid as Wednesday gets back at her by having her dress in all of these bight and colorful clothes and by going around acting happy and hugging everyone that she meets all the while getting remembered that Wednesday really is allergic to color as she starts itching all over herself all of which is being filmed by some of the students which is just such a funny joke and it makes what is basically a pointless filler episode seem all the more worthwhile as you get see both Emma Myers and Jenna Ortega switch bodies and try to act as the others characters whilst still being there own character with that scene being the funniest scene in all four of these episodes this is despite the fact that all four of these episodes have some really funny moments in them as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Overall out of the two halves part one was definitely the stronger of the two halves as there was a more interesting plot going on in those episodes where as here whilst there is a more weaker plot the pay off to the plots in part one and the set up for season three was really good in it's own in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these very episodes in this very review and that does mean that these episodes really do earn themselves a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 and the season as whole earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now the as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys an 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.