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Wednesday - Woe is the Loneliest Number
episode 1.2
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 Tim Burton
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, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Calum Ross, Victor Dorobantu, Johnna Dias-Watson, Oliver Watson, Chloe Cate, Michael Okele
written and developed for television by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, based on characters created by Charles Addams, music by Chris Bacon, Danny Elfman, visual effects by Rocket Science VFX
TV-series Wednesday, The Addams Family
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Even though Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) has clearly seen Rowan (Calum
Ross) being killed by some monster last episode, the police can find no
traces of the boy's body, and what's more, he eventually turns up alive
and apparently unscathed - but it's said he'll be leaving the school.
Wednesday siccs her reduced-to-a-hand relative and roommate Thing after
Rowan but Thing loses him at the trainstation - and one can't blame Thing
because who appeared as Rowan was actually a shapeshifter. Wednesday wants
to investigate the scene of the crime herself, so has her roommate Enid
(Emma Myers) cover for her at her extra-curricular activity - bee-keeping
- in return for a favour of course, to become a member of their dorm's
rowing team. Of course, Wednesday within minutes finds a clue the sheriff
(Jamie McShane) and all his search team, including dogs, have overlooked,
Rowan's broken glasses. But the attention is soon shifted to the annual
Poe Cup, a rowing competition with pretty much no rules, and a competition
that's usually won by the school's queen bee Bianca (Joy Sunday) - not
very surprisingly as her team's helped by a merman with a predilection for
crushing rowboats on her side. But Wednesday has equipped her team's boat
with a few gadgets to both take care of the merman and destroy other
boats, and she has also Thing on her side - so of course, the team of her
dorm wins in the end, the first time since her mother rowed for the dorm,
as her bubbly dorm mother (Christina Ricci) tells her. I won't
say this episode isn't beautifully made and very well-acted, it just takes
a tangent from its main story into typical high school drama way too soon
with the rowing competition. And that part of the story isn't really
worked at, it seems to be just good for a few sight gags (some of which
are at least really funny) but lacks substance - also because it's pretty
clear from the beginning that Wednesday's team will win this. And it's a
shame too that this tangent has been taken as what little we got from the
main story was pretty interesting.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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