Mind In The Media What Makes Wednesday Different But Appealing
Netflix’s Addams Family adaptation Wednesday, which focuses on the moody pig-tailed character Wednesday Addams during her teenage years, has become a major hit. The story centers on Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) as she enrolls in Nevermore Academy, a school for so-called “outcasts,” whose student body includes werewolves, vampires, sirens, psychics, gorgons, and all kinds of other teens with strange attributes and abilities. While it’s the kind of school that Wednesday should fit into perfectly—and is even where her parents Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luiz Guzman) met—when she first matriculates, Wednesday is determined to be an outcast among the outcasts....