'The only thing worse than structuring an entire series around the deliberately two-dimensional Wednesday is trying to transform her into a well-rounded individual capable of aww-shucks growth.' Our review of Netflix's Wednesday:
) love-triangle choice between two potential love interests, shady bad boy artist Xavier and coffee shop good-guy Tyler .
She encounters both at Nevermore Academy, an educational institute for outcasts that she’s sent to because of prior bad behavior, and which is the place where her parents Gomez and Morticia met and fell in love. Think of it as Hogwarts, but with even more candlelit lighting and shadowy corridors, and populated by a collection of paranormal students who fit neatly into stock types.
As embodied by a pig-tailed Ortega in an array of colorless old-fashioned dresses and uniforms that match her pallor, Wednesday is recognizably bleak and sardonic. In showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar’s hands, she’s never without a dark, cutting, sarcastic retort. That’s faithful to the character, yet Wednesday has always been one member of an ensemble, and thus a little bit of her caustic rejoinders went a long way.
The thing is, it’s difficult to comprehend what they see in her, since Gough and Millar’s show imagines Wednesday as not only the smartest, shrewdest, bravest, and most formidable person in any room, but also a perpetually haughty diva who looks down upon anyone and everyone. She’s less an endearingly iconoclastic badass than an insufferably arrogant know-it-all. Consequently, when she slams Xavier for being an “elitist,” it’s just about the height of unintentional hilarity.
He is the vehicle by which the series can both celebrate outsiders and partake in paint-by-numbers anti-colonial preachiness that’s about as nuanced and complex as your average Twitter thread. This entire Pilgrim-centric narrative thread is clearly modeled after’ Thanksgiving play scene, and it turns out to be another example of the show taking a one-note gag and stretching it far past its breaking point.
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