Wednesday (Page 3 of 4)

2 episodes in and into it.

Enjoying the bleak cynicism of the main girl although she seems way too overconfident in her own seemingly innumerable abilities to be a real outcast.

My guess is Jnr /Snr high school teachers around the world are about to enter a new realm of hell with a welter of Wednesday wannabees suddenly unleashed upon them. All clad in black and pouting, sullen, insouciant and oh so very much more clever than silly old loser teacher.

can some please tell me what woke is apart from waking up as ususal

Have you seen a small children screech in a supermarket toys isle? Woke is a sarcastic term which describes such problem solving approach by idiot adults, who are offended by everything, invent problems on a go, never stop virtue signaling and manifest their mental issues usually when nobody asked them and in inappropriate places. And by their idiocy they make the same problems, which they supposedly are trying to solve, worse. Like, for example, racism is bad and should be eliminated, but woke idiots fight racism with racism, for example, all BLM circus and alike. Or by placing it into movies and TV series, and by that crippling these stories and triggering a gag reflex to hearing anything about these problems (some of them are real problems). Same shit with a long list of other topics, which all together are covered by "woke". And for some fucking reason that has infested movies & TV series industry, before to avoid them all you needed to do is to stay away from Twitter

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woke

For example, woke injection in Wednesday is anything she says "condemning something for greater good", like for example some shit about women rights - because Wednesday by definition is a small, evil girl and gives zero fucks about all that, it's a personal woke touch from some writer She uses violence and revenge for problem solving, not woke virtue signaling and shaming into submission.

The original meaning of that woke was without the sarcastic addition, same as liberal meant something completely different 30 years ago.

And mortal enemies of wokies are radical conservatives. I see that fight as idiots vs. retards (btw, wokies has banned word retard as offensive to mentally challenged people - as I said, they are very good at inventing new problems from a thin air)

"Woke" is a word that has no meaning in particular. It depends on who you ask.

Originally it meant something like "being aware of the small injustices happening around us all the time and trying not to be like that" (low-key racism being one such thing).

The word was later taken over by conservative discourse as a cover-all insult for anyone who wants to change how society works in favour of more inclusion. If used in this way, the word often refers to the cliché of people who try push certain words out of use, or are just generally trying a bit too hard to be inclusive and annoy those who don't want to be in the process.

The way the word is used here is really mostly just people noticing that the world moves on without them and digging in their heels in response. Every time a show does something that wouldn't have been done like that 20 years ago, it's perceived as complete deliberate propaganda and clearly a bad thing. It's really more an emotion than it is something factual.

Here a recent news article if you want a real-world example of how the word is used, or isn't.

The show itself was IMO alright, but also not all great. One aspect of the Addams in general is normally that they are always in near-complete control of any situation they are in, often obliviously so. Wednesday in particular, and without the oblivious part. The fact that they had to keep up the conflict in this show kinda wasted that premise...

Still pretty enjoyable overall.

I 100% agree, nicely put.

Well put... Early TNG comes to mind as a well documented series which struggled to creating conflict for it's highly competent cast of characters [ and depending whom you ask NuTrek still struggles with that ].

Nah, I could have been more clear there. The Addams Family has always been a bit of a parody of stereotypically normal families from the last century - by being anything but that, and being happy with it. In case of Wednesday, at least the 90s movies (I don't know a lot about the 60s show or the 30s newspaper cartoon) portrayed her as a young girl who is extremely emotionally mature and utterly aware of what she is doing at any given time - as opposed to the normal adults around her who only pretend to be those things.

Because the plot tried to be serious here, it wasn't really an option to have everyone else be comically stupid and immature all the time. So in order to even have any story to tell, they had to make her less in control of her surroundings and to have her not just be a simple asshole they had to make her actually care about some things. Both of that made the whole premise a lot less... unique? Less than it should have been.

Very well explained

You both make excellent points, thank you for sharing them, there is "nothing wrong with Scooby-Doo" I in fact celebrate the recent Scoob-Batman comics in my collection. Also I do agree that the non-mystery elements do a great job, perhaps I'm the only one who gots frustrated when the clues were all there for the main characters yet they can't put it together.

BTW, merc, whodunit's are often very whimsical... Especially Aggy's yarns [ yes, I celebrate quite a few from the Queen of Crime in my collection ] which is why even her stand-along books are adapted so often today.

it is a black comedy. I bet when they screen tested Jenna Ortega they wanted to find out if she could hold a straight face come what may, given her lines.  The Wednesday voice overs remind me of those old 50's detective films which took themselves so seriously. The outtakes must be fun

I suppose the target audience are teenagers not film buffs so you have to lower your standards?

at the end of the day most of the things that Wednesday(& family) says are just plain idiotic and moronic and she should be put in a padded room for her own sake, looked at soberly, but that would miss the point inverting language meaning on the fly?(Almost a Lewis Caroll type of world they inhabit ( without the sophistication?)