Wednesday tv series

"Despite Ortega’s fantastic performance and Burton’s active involvement, [it] never really captures what made 'The Addams Family' so viscerally strange (...) It does, however, get what makes a teen Netflix show tick" 

"It succeeds very well at pushing the story into something a little more grown-up, and a little more supernatural, but never loses sight of the heart, humor, and kooky horror that have kept us all double-snapping for decades" 

"Is Not Quite Mysterious or Spooky Enough (...) Affable performances and genre stylings keep it breezy and entertaining (...) For all its eccentricities (...) it’s a rather generic Young Adult murder mystery at its core. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)" 

"I suspect it, like Burton's 'Dark Shadows' and 'Alice in Wonderland', is more likely not to be remembered at all — apart from being a footnote in the history of the director's artistic decline" 

"Jenna Ortega makes a delightful anti-heroine" 

"It never completely loses 100% of the energy of its premiere, but the ingenuity of the first hour fades as the season progresses" 

"If there's ever a character for whom death and darkness don't weigh her down but are a normal part of her high school years, it's Wednesday Addams. And 'Wednesday' makes the most of its heroine’s unique disposition"