Thank you. Here are the big problems with the current "Wednesday" series:
1. It turns Wednesday Addams into a private eye, but by giving Wednesday psychic powers, it makes being a detective way too easy for her.
2. The humor in "The Addams Family" series is at its best when its shows the contrast between the title characters and the larger world. By sending Wednesday to Nevermore Academy, a school with gothic architecture filled with spooky classmates and staff (vampires, werewolves, gorgons, sirens, etc.) a lot of the contrast (and humor) goes away.
3. If Wednesday Addams is your favorite character, you'll enjoy it. If not (Uncle Fester is my favorite character, personally), you won't, because the other members of the family are given too little to do.
Now I will say a few good things about the "Wednesday" series:
1. Jenna Ortega is a dedicated professional actress who has a lot of respect for the series and learned several new skills in the process. Those skills include speaking German, rowing a canoe, playing the cello, boxing, and most impressively, fencing. I hope Jenna Ortega gets more roles in the decades ahead.
2. Catherine Zeta-Jones was an excellent choice for Morticia. When she says "That boy's family was going to file attempted murder charges. How would that have looked on your record?", it makes me want to hire her to narrate a documentary on bats and/or spiders.
3. All the other people who played Gomez in live-action were skinny even though Gomez was noticeably overweight in the original Charles Addams comics. So kudos for casting someone as Gomez who actually matches the shape of Gomez.
