I liked it but I'm a big dumb hog who'll take whatever slop they give me.
My thirteen year old sister likes it, so in terms of its target audience it's a hit.
watched until the boat race episode, seemed too highschooly(duh, I know) to continue, but i'm pushing 30 so disregard my opinion
i'll stick to tales from the crypt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT4Xbu4uxGM&list=PLUZ_nB-HGfE-Ejk97e1ULi7LR4JvF0_HE
At least you can acknowledge that. People getting mad at the teenager show for the teen characters acting like teens would has been some high class cringe.
I don't understand how you would have a Netflix subscription and not like this show.
Also, anything with Luis Guzman in it is unequivocally good.
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Tried watching it
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It was cringe
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Watched something else on netflix
It tried too hard to appeal to 13 yo (done badly, not ironic but honest bad writing: "OMG I'm on TikTok and Snapchat but not Instagram cuz that's for old people") so I thought the show isn't for me
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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.
And I know its part of the Archieverse
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.
I thought the show was fine. It did need more queerness and also decapitations of straight “people”.
It’s been really weird watching people scream at the teen characters for..acting like stupid teenagers.
Like it’s still a netflix show and FEELS like it but it’s better done than things like Emily in Paris or The live action bebop. At least the cringe dialogue is coming from the exact people who IRL would say it.
Way too many people are perfectly fine with "historically accurate" :awooga: and :hypersus: treatments of teenagers in their entertainment but as soon as a teenager talks or thinks like a teenager that's upsetting. :lea-why:
It’s because people don’t interact with actual teens that much in real life so the characters are what they assume teens must act like. Which leads to so many boomers who don’t have kids thinking teens are either large children or mini adults depending on what they are complaining about.
I enjoyed it, and of course I'm a little sad that not many seemed to enjoy it here on Hexbear, but I'm relieved that I'm feeling no sudden urges to call anyone that doesn't like the show ableist slurs, question their character or their sanity, or to chant "touch grass" at them. :surprised-pika:
I haven't watched it, mainly due to not having netflix :garf-troll: but also because I am so afraid that there will be scenes where it's obvious Tim Burton was horny while directing, and I want no part of that.
goth culture is latino culture, any goth who doesn't have to endure a 36°C daily heat on a full black outfit is a coward and a fraud
It was a cute show that straddled the line between The Adams Family and actual violence/gore. I can see the target audience loving it. My only real problem is that it has the same pacing issues a lot of Netflix original shows have. Plus it has that classic Netflix season structure. It could have been fewer episodes and been just as good. Too much trying to get every episode to end on a cliffhanger.
“This could have been a two hour movie!” I shout at episode 6 of an 8 part miniseries.
actual violence/gore
There's some actual violence and gore, but maybe to some it doesn't count unless it gets the gratuitous and repetitive Gambo presentation style. :edgeworth-shrug:
