Wednesday's (Jenna Ortega) roommate Enid (Emma Myers) throws Wednesday a surprise birthday party, even though she ought to know better, at city founder Crackstone's crypt. But there, Wednesday has a vision in which her ancestor Goody (also Ortega), whom Crackstone tried to burn as a witch centuries back, directs her to Gates Manor, the long abandoned place where back when the boy her father was supposed to have killed lived - see last episode. When she wants to investigate Gates Manor, Wednesday witnesses the mayor (Tommie Earl Jenkins) leaving the place, talking on the phone rather agitatedly, so she decides to follow him - and witnesses him being run over by a car while on his way to meet the sheriff (Jamie McShane). Wednesday is grounded for leaving the school premises, but nevertheless leaves the school premises that very night to break into Gates Manor together with Tyler (Hunter Doohan) and Enid, where they find all sorts of weird stuff but first and foremost the missing bodyparts from the monster murders. And of course, it's the monster that cuts their visit short and that injures Tyler - which unsurprisingly calls the sheriff, Tyler's dad, onto the scene, who is less than impressed when Wednesday wants to show him the bodyparts in Gates Manor, but they find the place swiped clean of any evidence ...

It's not that nothing happens in this one, but it just feels like another fluff episode, especially as the series goes on it becomes more and more formulaic: Wednesday has a vision, finds a random piece of the puzzle, gets herself and her friends into danger, and then the monster strikes, resetting the story - it almost feels like the structure of a vintage serial instalment by now, trying to draw out a simplistic story almost ad infinitum using the same tactic over and over. Now true, this is written without hindsight, and maybe the final episode/solution of it all will blow me away, but this very episode leaves me unimpressed.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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