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.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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