# Wednesday's Child is full of Woe. But I'm looking forward to new Wednesday series. Addams Family spinoff \[Open Spoilers season 1\]\[Season 2 Part 1 August 6th 2025\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, netflix\ **Created:** [June 7, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793 "2022-06-07T02:18:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/41 "2022-08-20T10:55:58Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > More precisely, it implied that at least one got his dick bit off. His balls, if her statement about procreation is to have any teeth. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/42 "2022-11-24T01:52:24Z")
Thus far the show is awesome. 3 episodes in. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/43 "2022-11-24T04:07:42Z")
I thought I universally despised teenage paranormal romance, but one episode in and I’m really digging this. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/44 "2022-11-24T04:11:04Z")
I binged it this morning. Loved it! ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/45 "2022-11-24T04:51:37Z")
It’s horrible - I love it! So many sly references and inside jokes that it goes by so fast, plus the awesome cast; Jenna Ortega really stands out. When I first saw that it was coming I thought it was going to be awful like that disaster [The Munsters](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14813212/) but I really like it. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/46 "2022-11-24T06:03:00Z")
Watched the first two so far. I’m getting a Veronica Mars at Hogwarts vibe. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/47 "2022-11-24T15:07:05Z")
Glad to see it getting good reviews here. Haven’t watched yet, but was planning to, and was concerned that it got absolutely trashed on the AVClub: > **[Wednesday is frighteningly dull](https://www.avclub.com/wednesday-netflix-tv-review-jenna-ortega-1849803079)** > > Even Jenna Ortega can't save Netflix's bafflingly boring Wednesday. > [@JohnGalt](#): > > I thought it was going to be awful like that disaster [The Munsters](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14813212/) but I really like it. Rob Zombie’s attempt at comedy was by far more gruesome and terrifying than anything he’s ever done. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/48 "2022-11-24T20:46:37Z")
Finished. It could have been much worse. It could have been much better. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/49 "2022-11-26T00:32:18Z")
Just watched the first episode. So far I like it. I think Jenna Ortega is doing a great job maintaining the character Christina Ricci did such an iconic job creating while also modernizing it without going overboard. I like Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, however, Luis Guzman doesn’t feel right as Gomez. He’s not nearly suave enough. I didn’t realize (or didn’t remember) that Tim Burton was involved until I looked it up after noticing how similar the opening scenes felt to Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. I also noticed the monster near the end looked very similar to the snake in Beetlejuice. Also, unrelated (I assume) to anything else, at the very end I noticed a Nixie clock on her desk. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/50 "2022-11-26T05:55:38Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Luis Guzman doesn’t feel right as Gomez. He’s not nearly suave enough. I thought he nailed it. (Morticia is the only one who thinks he’s suave .) [![](https://images.hola.com/us/images/0278-15e611194b5c-b8f595e89131-1000/square-480/the-addams-family.jpg) ](https://images.hola.com/us/images/0278-15e611194b5c-b8f595e89131-1000/square-480/the-addams-family.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/51 "2022-11-26T11:31:00Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Also, unrelated (I assume) to anything else, at the very end I noticed a Nixie clock on her desk. I loved her vintage German (Austrian? Romanian?? Did anyone get a good look?) typewriter she was using to type a novel in English. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/52 "2022-11-28T01:29:11Z")
I loved it. I finally got the last 2 episodes in tonight. > **spoilers** > > I knew it was Tyler, but I thought it was the Doctor. Good misdirection with the flowers. > > I’m a bit shocked Weems is dead, that I didn’t expect. > > I did not like Fester, a very poor choice in casting and as always he just played the character as Fred Armiston. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/53 "2022-11-28T01:54:13Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > [The Munsters](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14813212/) When they don’t bother to get [the skin tone right…](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/29e89ca3-2893-468f-8715-3bb46e926dcb_1.340d6fdc931942d54b055d84b3b821f3.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/54 "2022-11-28T02:20:24Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > > [@JohnGalt](#): > > > > [The Munsters](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14813212/) ⁢ > > When they don’t bother to get [the skin tone right…](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/29e89ca3-2893-468f-8715-3bb46e926dcb_1.340d6fdc931942d54b055d84b3b821f3.jpeg) ⁢ Huh. Even the cover on the left of the first link gives everyone a different skin tone than Herman on the opening frame. It goes from bluish green to lime green. I could understand having the color be different, but surely you can be consistent in your own work. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/55 "2022-11-28T02:21:27Z")
Please move Munster talk to its own thread. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/56 "2022-11-28T02:25:12Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > I loved her vintage German (Austrian? Romanian?? Did anyone get a good look?) typewriter she was using to type a novel in English. I noticed at the time that it had a qwertz keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/57 "2022-11-28T18:44:30Z")
Binged it this weekend and really liked it. Loved the _\*snap, snap_\* when it finally made an appearance! In part because you could see it coming! ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/58 "2022-11-29T00:49:06Z")
Watched it over the long Thanksgiving weekend, with pauses inbetween. Loved every minute of it. Great dark humor, great treatment of the material, wonderful acting, and Tim Burton at his prime. I highly recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/59 "2022-11-29T01:14:59Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Loved the **snap, snap** when it finally made an appearance! In part because you could see it coming! They also got in a “You rang?”. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wednesdays-child-is-full-of-woe-but-im-looking-forward-to-new-wednesday-series-addams-family-spinoff-open-spoilers-season-1-season-2-part-1-august-6th-2025/965793/60 "2022-11-29T04:05:32Z")
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