The biggest surprise to me is Catherine Zeta Jones as Morticia. She’s not my first thought when I think of “funny ladies”. Also, for the first time she doesn’t look very pretty.
I understand she’s too short, but when this project was first announced and before any casting, I thought Christina Ricci would make a good Morticia. She actually looks like Carolyn Jones as Morticia.
Morticia looks exactly like Carolyn Jones. John Astin didn’t work well as Gomez, the rest weren’t bad. I’d like to see the older Wednesday show the same kind of detachment as her TV version. Hard to tell the more important aspects of the show from the teaser, like what happens to fill the time between those scenes. Are we going to get a lot of monologue from Weddy? Who’s her clueless and obedient bestie? Most important, is there going to be character development, are we going to see Wednesday learn from her experiences and become a better person? I sure hope not.
I’m sure I’ll check it out, but the trailer makes it look like the majority of the show will take place at some sort of Addams Family version of Hogwarts. The driver of Addams Family stories across comics, TV and movies has always been the clash between the family and the normies.
But people being burned is not shown is it? It is left up to the imagination- maybe they are (likely)- maybe it is a scary gag (which the Addams also liked) who knows?
In general, the Addams Family has shied away from showing gore. The gags usually show incipient violence, and then the camera slyly slides away–or else the violence is like cartoon explosions/electrocutions, full of charcoal smudges on the face and hair standing on ends and people bugging out their eyes. The moment in the trailer at 0:53, when the bully is screaming in agony with blood boiling in the water around him, is a little more Game of Thrones than I’m used to the Addams Family being.