#Jenna was great but the only real sparring partners she got were Emma and Fred Armisen

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Finished the new Wednesday series and I figured out what the Tim Burton version of the Addams Family is missing for me and it’s the mania. There’s no manic edge to any of the jokes. There’s hardly any snap (pun intended) in the dialogue. Gomez is sedated, the guy who played the younger version of him was serving more Gomez energy in five minutes onscreen. There’s a moment where CJZ calls him “mon cheri” and there is ZERO reaction, not even an aborted attempt at a “Tish! That’s FRENCH!” gag, which I was definitely waiting for. Pugsley isn’t hyperactive at all. He says he misses being waterboarded but he doesn’t beg Wednesday to torture him or really do much at all the few minutes the kid is onscreen. His one gag is basically just a fat-kids-will-eat-anything joke where he chows on some potpourri. Nothing in the therapy scene to suggest how VERY in over her head Kinbott is. Nobody else is ever really set on edge or feeling jumpy because they have no idea what any Addams will do next. 

#Jenna was great but the only real sparring partners she got were Emma and Fred Armisen #Fred was a SPECTACULAR Fester but he’s only in one episode #I would watch a show specifically about Fred Armisen as Fester because I kinda think that’s the only character TB actually undertood #the more I think about it the more I think about ways it could’ve been improved #it was a perfectly serviceable supernatural murder mystery but were those really the ADDAMS FAMILY on my screen? #wednesday #wednesday Netflix #Wednesday 2022 #addams family #the addams family #uncle fester #fred armisen #jenna ortega #catherine zeta jones #luis guzman