I like the show but I think it was off in some ways. This might be a general problem with the Addams Family in general, but I found the main family characters to be overly contrarian, like if somebody was going off too hard on "opposite day" type humor, but it wasn't like the older Addam's Family stuff that actually does it well.
Then I'm questioning the canonical nature of Wednesday going to HogwartsPottermore Nevermore, a school heavily themed by Edgar Allen Poe references. Thankfully the idea of "houses" like Harry Potter are mostly ignored/do not exist, but instead of wizards you get racial divisions (werewolf, sirens, vampires, etc.).
I'm not a true Addams Family connoisseur, maybe most of that is actually cool and fine for canon.
Also the throwaway reference to patriarchy and mansplaining. It seemed more like virtue signaling or carelessly checking off some boxes than truly integrated and well thought out inclusions. Very superficial.
The 60s show is a much better show and it had a pretty good feminist allegory episodes. And it has some pretty cool trot satire energy that I don’t experience much in American television. Or maybe it’s that wacky nichiren Buddhism. The 90s movies had that good scene that showed 90s Americans that they are evil. That was just rare to see during the time when “we won the Cold War.”
But this new show, I don’t get it. And I know its part of the Archieverse and this is the show that is supposed to replace Sabrina. But they missed out in at least point out the hypocrisy in modern living. Instead this feels like Wednespool by constantly trying to break the fourth wall. But doing it seriously. It’s just not very self aware in my opinion like the last two examples. I’m also not using the new cgi movies as examples because those were also lacking any kind of awareness. They could have been some cool allegory on being trans but they’ve gone to being unaware of their ow premise.
No but it’s got the same energy. It was supposed to be part of the same universe but Amazon bought MGM so they are going to make it its own thing now. Netflix was just trying to replace that Sabrina show that was part of the dark archieverse with this but that has been complicated by Amazon.
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I like the show but I think it was off in some ways. This might be a general problem with the Addams Family in general, but I found the main family characters to be overly contrarian, like if somebody was going off too hard on "opposite day" type humor, but it wasn't like the older Addam's Family stuff that actually does it well.
Then I'm questioning the canonical nature of Wednesday going to
HogwartsPottermoreNevermore, a school heavily themed by Edgar Allen Poe references. Thankfully the idea of "houses" like Harry Potter are mostly ignored/do not exist, but instead of wizards you get racial divisions (werewolf, sirens, vampires, etc.).I'm not a true Addams Family connoisseur, maybe most of that is actually cool and fine for canon.
Also the throwaway reference to patriarchy and mansplaining. It seemed more like virtue signaling or carelessly checking off some boxes than truly integrated and well thought out inclusions. Very superficial.
The 60s show is a much better show and it had a pretty good feminist allegory episodes. And it has some pretty cool trot satire energy that I don’t experience much in American television. Or maybe it’s that wacky nichiren Buddhism. The 90s movies had that good scene that showed 90s Americans that they are evil. That was just rare to see during the time when “we won the Cold War.”
But this new show, I don’t get it. And I know its part of the Archieverse and this is the show that is supposed to replace Sabrina. But they missed out in at least point out the hypocrisy in modern living. Instead this feels like Wednespool by constantly trying to break the fourth wall. But doing it seriously. It’s just not very self aware in my opinion like the last two examples. I’m also not using the new cgi movies as examples because those were also lacking any kind of awareness. They could have been some cool allegory on being trans but they’ve gone to being unaware of their ow premise.
Wait what? So I jave to watch Riverdale before I watch this? I'm never getting through my backlog at this rate, everything is part of something
No but it’s got the same energy. It was supposed to be part of the same universe but Amazon bought MGM so they are going to make it its own thing now. Netflix was just trying to replace that Sabrina show that was part of the dark archieverse with this but that has been complicated by Amazon.