Hot Picks
|
|
|
Wednesday - Quid Pro Woe
episode 1.6
USA 2022
produced by Carmen Pepelea, Miles Millar (executive, showrunner), Alfred Gough (executive, showrunner), Kayla Alpert (executive), Gail Berman (executive), Tim Burton (executive), Jonathan Glickman (executive), Tommy Harper (executive), Kevin Lafferty (executive), Kevin Miserocchi (executive), Andrew Mittman (executive), Steve Stark (executive) for Millar Gough Ink, Tim Burton Productions, Toluca Pictures, 1.21 Pictures, Glickmania, Tee and Charles Addams Foundation/MGM, Netflix
directed by Gandja Monteiro
starring Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Hunter Doohan, Percy Hynes White, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Naomi J. Ogawa, Christina Ricci, Iman Marson, Johnna Dias-Watson, Oliver Watson, Victor Dorobantu, Tommie Earl Jenkins, Karina Varadi, Lachele Carl, Daniel Himschoot, Michael Okele
written by April Blair, developed for television by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, based on characters created by Charles Addams, music by Chris Bacon, visual effects by Rocket Science VFX
TV-series Wednesday, The Addams Family
review by Mike Haberfelner
|
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
|
Feeling lucky? Want to search any of my partnershops yourself for more, better results? (commissions earned) |
The links below will take you just there!!!
|
|
|
Thanks for watching !!!
|
|
|
Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
|