Wednesday is still as wise: our opinion on season 2 (critic without spoiler)
The Jenna Ortega phenomenon resumes its course, still as Gothic and sarcastic … But this suite is more likely on the side of Harry Potter than Beetlejuice. A gently macabre teenage drama.
Back to school is today Wednesday !
Two years after having succeeded in a spectacular and unexpected cardboard – to the point of becoming the second biggest series in Netflix’s story behind Squid Game – The series derived from The Addams family Returns to our screens with a kindly macabre season 2, which takes the form of sympathetic entertainment, without completely kissing its horrific ambitions.
The four episodes of the first part land on the platform (before the second part scheduled for September 3) with always with Tim Burton at the controls. The filmmaker signs 2 episodes here (and 2 others in part 2) but it is still difficult to detect the paw of the Gothic director of Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. This new chapter also plays a score very close to the first season, that of drama Magic teenager, between fantastic boarding school, twisted romances and supernatural mysteries … with a little blood for the form. That said, the charm still operates while Wednesday retains its undeniably licked aesthetics, its adorably cruel black humor, and some moments of grace where the universe Addams rubs into entertainment codes young adult With obvious pleasure.
It is punctuated, perfectly calibrated to seduce fans – but we stay far from the darker ambitions that Jenna Orteganow a producer, seemed to want to breathe. Despite some welcome claims, the series continues to eye more on the side of Harry Potter that of Sleepy Hollow.
Wednesday There remains a teen sériebut she can always count on her main star to do the show. Impassive goth queen with a look of ice and surgical distribution, Jenna Ortega is – even more than in season 1 – The superstar of Nevermore. Its magnetic aura imposes it on each sequence and its duo with fetid uncle (embodied by the fantastic Fred Armisen) makes sparks in the first part which ostensibly tries to make more space in the rest of The Addams family.
This is undoubtedly where the main false step of this season resides: integration into the forceps of Gomez and Morticia (the parents) in the plot sounds terribly artificial. The writing strives to expand their roles – undoubtedly to make the presence of Catherine Zeta-Jones in the casting. But Luis Guzmán is not very good and painfully pays the comparison with the late Raul Julia.
Failing to have managed to reinvent yourself, Wednesday Continue to bewitch … but she still needs to grow.
Wednesday, season 2 – Part 1 in four episodes to see this August 6, then part 2 in four episodes to see on September 3, on Netflix.
