Jenna Ortega kills as the dead-eyed, boarding school-bound Wednesday Addams in the streamer's triumphant update to a pop culture institution.
She’s creepy , mysterious and spooky. She’s the dead-eyed, mordant daughter of the Addams family. And now she’s headed to boarding school in Tim Burton’s cheerily macabrePremiering Wednesday, the eight-part series, from director Burton and writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, has caskets full of fun when daddy’s “little viper,” Wednesday Addams , is expelled from Nancy Reagan High, her eighth school in five years.
Ortega kills as the gifted, nihilistic teen who’d rather hang out in a crypt than a club. She embodies Wednesday with her flat affectation and utter disdain for her peers. Her spasmodic, zombie-like moves at the school dance to the tune of the Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck” — with a deadly straight face, no less — create one of the top television moments of the year.The blackhearted heroine is sadistic, fearless and full of fantastically sardonic one-liners.
Thing, the disembodied hand that’s led a confined existence in past “Addams Family” productions, moves around freely now, thanks to the miracle of CGI. It’s Watson to Wednesday’s Sherlock, and Thing’s expressions of shame, alarm and dejection are a full-bodied performance. Wednesday interrogates Thing when she discovers it hiding in her dorm room on the first day of school. “Mother and Father sent you to spy on me, didn’t they?” He signals “no” with the wag of a digit.
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