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Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) and the Thing break into the coroner's office,
to find that all the victims of the monster have various bodyparts
surgically removed. Wednesday soon figures her number one suspect must be
fellow student Xavier (Percy Hynes White), and searching his art studio in
the woods (because why wouldn't a student have one), she finds evidence
for just that that she even hands it over to the sheriff (Jamie
McShane), despite their differences. However, when she searches the studio
she's caught by Xavier, and to get out of a tiff he asks him to be her
date for the school dance - which he happily agrees to, only to later turn
her down again, having found out she actually suspects him of murder.
Ultimately, the Thing sees to it that she goes to the dance with her
friend and secret admirer Tyler (Hunter Doohan), because what would a high
school series be without a school dance? But of course, a couple of
pranksters ultimately ruin the party by feeding fake blood into the
sprinkler system and turning the sprinklers on. In a much more interesting
but totally underplayed subplot, Wednesday's beekeeping partner Eugene
(Moosa Mostafa) goes investigating Xavier's studio at the night of the
school dance on his own - he was originally intending to go with Wednesday
- and is of course mauled by the monster, something that Wednesday sees in
a vision. As someone from abroad, I'll never understand the
fascination of US-American high school films and series with school dances
- and it's really disappointing that one such dance is given the better
part of an episode of this series, as it again takes the focus away from
the bigger picture at hand to go on an unnecessary tangent, and really,
not all of Tim Burton's finesse as a director and Jenna Ortega's talents
as an actress manage to infuse the scenes at the dance with anything
resembling excitement. In all rather a disappointment.
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