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title: "Wednesday"
year: 2022
kind: "series"
canonical: "https://film.one/tv/wednesday"
fi1m_id: "wednesday"
imdb_id: "tt13443470"
tmdb_id: 119051
wikidata_id: "Q105553568"
fi1m_score: 71
critics_score: 62
critics_reviews: 9
published: "2026-09-12"
updated: "2026-09-17T15:31:10.838948+00:00"
region: "RS"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Wednesday (2022)

Created by Miles Millar, Alfred Gough · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Comedy

## Identity

Wednesday

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/tv/wednesday
- **Type:** Series
- **Fi1m ID:** wednesday
- **IMDb ID:** tt13443470
- **TMDB ID:** 119051
- **Wikidata ID:** Q105553568
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13443470/, https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/119051, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105553568

**Fi1m score: 71** · Critics 62 from 9 reviews

*In a sentence:* At last, a teenage detective who looks offended by the prospect of being helpful

> Jenna Ortega makes *Wednesday* worth the evening, finding real comedy in its heroine’s severity. The supernatural school mystery is less distinctive, but the cast supplies enough warmth and mischief to carry it.

## Synopsis

Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) makes Nevermore Academy her new home, where a monster mystery draws her into detective work. The Addams family’s teenager has a school full of people to contend with as she pursues an investigation involving the supernatural. Emma Myers plays Enid Sinclair, Joy Sunday plays Bianca Barclay and Hunter Doohan plays Tyler Galpin, while Percy Hynes White appears as Xavier Thorpe. Wednesday takes centre stage in a story that combines teenage comedy with a school mystery, moving the focus away from the family’s life together.

## Review

The opening season of *Wednesday* is an enjoyable school mystery with a lead performance good enough to survive its more routine plotting. Moving Wednesday Addams into a teenage detective story gives her plenty to be cross about, and Jenna Ortega makes that a reliable source of pleasure. The programme wants to keep the character’s hostility intact while letting a broader young audience into her life. It largely manages that, although the boarding-school format dictates rather more than it should.

Ortega plays Wednesday’s severity with the confidence to let a joke arrive without announcing it. We laughed at the satisfaction visible beneath her solemn expression; she seems to enjoy being disagreeable, and does not ask us to excuse it. That tiny suggestion of pleasure stops the deadpan delivery becoming a mechanical exercise. It also makes the character tolerable over a series, where unbroken contempt could soon become as tiresome as any other adolescent pose.

The ensemble helps. Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair and Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay give Ortega company worth watching, and the school scenes have enough comic life to survive stretches when the mystery becomes predictable. There is a practical advantage to this wider cast: Wednesday has people to play against without every exchange depending on our affection for the Addams family. The loss is that the family’s shared delight in the peculiar becomes less central. We miss the sense that these people find one another entirely reasonable.

Tim Burton is among the directors, and there is some visual mischief, though less strangeness than his presence might lead us to expect. David Lanzenberg and P.J. Dillon’s cinematography gives the school mystery a polished finish without making its setting especially unsettling. Mark Scruton’s production design is similarly comfortable with the demands of the genre. The school looks fit for supernatural intrigue, but we wanted surroundings that felt less orderly and more capable of surprising us.

Danny Elfman and Chris Bacon’s music supplies a welcome sense of play, keeping the gloom from turning ponderous. The pacing is less dependable. Jay Prychidny’s editing serves Ortega’s comic timing well, but the longer stretches of investigation do not always earn the attention they demand. We remained interested in Wednesday when we were no longer particularly curious about the next clue, and several scenes depend heavily on that attachment.

The writing, with Alfred Gough and Miles Millar among the credited writers, is the principal constraint. Familiar school-mystery complications keep the story moving, yet too often give Wednesday the same dramatic tasks any teenage sleuth might be handed. An Addams story ought to make ordinary behaviour look faintly ridiculous; here, the ordinary conventions of teenage television are granted rather too much respect. Ortega can make the business funny, but she cannot make every predictable development feel like a discovery.

The test for a series like this is whether its central character remains good company between revelations. Wednesday does, even when we can see the plotting doing its work. Those chiefly interested in solving a fiendish puzzle should temper their expectations, though anyone fond of supernatural school stories will find enough to enjoy. Watch it for Ortega, and allow for the occasional stretch of routine detective work.

*Fi1m score 71, published 12 September 2026.*

## What the critics say

Most critics find something to enjoy in Wednesday, with praise clustering around Jenna Ortega’s glum delivery, sharp comic timing and ability to make the character her own. The more favourable reviews also welcome the dark humour and the energy of its supernatural school mystery. Even several reviewers who question the series’ direction regard its lead performance as a substantial strength.

The disagreement is over how much of the Addams Family survives the move into familiar teenage drama. Reservations centre on predictable plotting, diminished family relationships and a lack of the source material’s strangeness; some also find little distinctive in the production. The spread is wide: Collider sees a successful reinvention that retains the family’s heart and humour, while IndieWire finds a lifeless mixture of recycled ideas and teenage mystery conventions. The consensus is warmer towards Wednesday herself than towards the programme built around her.

## Straight answers

**Is Wednesday worth watching?**

*Wednesday* is worth watching for Jenna Ortega, whose severe, quietly pleased Wednesday Addams carries a school mystery that is otherwise fairly routine; we scored it 71. Anyone fond of supernatural boarding-school stories will find enough comedy and warmth in the cast, though those hoping for a fiendish puzzle should expect stretches of predictable detective work.

**Where can I watch Wednesday in Serbia?**

*Wednesday* is streaming on Netflix in Serbia. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service.

**How violent or frightening is Wednesday, and is it suitable for children?**

*Wednesday* carries a UK 12 certificate, so it suits teenagers and older children rather than the very young. The series is a supernatural school mystery with a monster at its centre, played mostly for deadpan comedy; the review found the setting more polished than unsettling, so the frights are mild and the tone is mischievous rather than menacing.

**How does Wednesday compare to Addams Family Values?**

*Wednesday* is the gentler and more conventional of the two, moving one Addams into a teenage detective story, while [*Addams Family Values*](https://film.one/film/addams-family-values) keeps the whole family together and is the sharper, funnier work. Choose the film for the family's shared delight in the peculiar and its jokes about respectable people; choose the series for Jenna Ortega and a longer school mystery.

**What should I watch after Wednesday?**

After *Wednesday*, try [*Addams Family Values*](https://film.one/film/addams-family-values) (1993, Fi1m 78): More of the family’s shared eccentricity, with sharper jokes about respectable people. Then [*Veronica Mars*](https://film.one/tv/veronica-mars) (2004, Fi1m 84): A teenage detective whose investigations give her outsider status some practical use.

### Reviews we read (10)

- **The Guardian** (80/100, inferred): The series is creepy, charming and features a lead who more than matches Christina Ricci. It has enough wit, charm and propulsive energy despite some losses in family dynamic and setting. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/nov/23/wednesday-review-tim-burton-eldritch-addams-family-spin-off)
- **The Telegraph** (75/100, inferred): It is a spooky, kooky and delightfully dark mash-up of genres aimed at the young, with Ortega electrifyingly glum throughout making it worth watching. [Read](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/wednesday-review-tim-burton-gives-addams-family-harry-potter/)
- **The Hollywood Reporter**, Daniel Fienberg (70/100, inferred): Jenna Ortega shines as a delightful antiheroine, making the character her own with sharp comic timing, though the series as a whole feels more like an average CW dramedy than a distinctive Burtonian vision, with strong potential for improvement in a second season. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/wednesday-jenna-ortega-tim-burton-addams-family-netflix-1235263071/)
- **Variety**, Caroline Framke (55/100, inferred): Jenna Ortega delivers a magnetic performance as the teen Wednesday Addams, but the series loses the singular, viscerally strange Addams Family magic by leaning into predictable Netflix teen tropes and boarding-school mysteries. The critic singles out Ortega’s stoic yet thrillingly satisfied portrayal for praise while faulting the show’s failure to capture the family’s fierce loyalty or visual strangeness. [Read](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/wednesday-review-netflix-jenna-ortega-1235435487/)
- **IndieWire**, Ben Travers (30/100, inferred): The critic finds the series a trite teen murder-mystery that mixes old ideas with new genres to a lifeless result, conforming to standard teen TV tropes rather than capturing the Addams Family spirit. [Read](https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/shows/wednesday-review-addams-family-show-1234783336/)
- **The Times**, Joe Clay (★★★☆☆): Tim Burton and the Addams Family is a winning combination, but a lack of originality leaves a far more formulaic proposition than expected. [Read](https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/article/wednesday-review-netflixtim-burton-addams-family-vgk9glkbc)
- **Collider**, Arezou Amin (A-): The series succeeds as a darker, more supernatural teen mystery while retaining the heart, humor, and kooky horror of the Addams Family. It especially shines through its strong, well-cast ensemble that brings fresh energy to the characters. [Read](https://collider.com/wednesday-netflix-review/)
- **Den of Geek**, Tony Sokol (3.5/5): The critic views the series as a promising opening season that normalizes outcasts while Tim Burton indulges Addams Family whims, turning Wednesday into a dark Nancy Drew who solves a monster mystery at school. [Read](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/wednesday-review-nancy-drew-meets-the-addams-family/)
- **Consequence**, Clint Worthington (C): The series feels like neither a true Addams Family story nor a typical Tim Burton work, hampered by Netflix-style pacing, flat production values, and weak execution despite decent casting and Elfman’s score. [Read](https://consequence.net/2022/11/wednesday-review-tim-burton-addams-family/)
- **/Film**, Sarah Milner (30/100, inferred): The writing is lazy with contrived plotting, inconsistent characters, and a Mary Sue protagonist; the series lacks identity and fails to capture the satirical appeal of the source material despite some visual flair from Burton. [Read](https://www.slashfilm.com/1106421/wednesday-review-tim-burton-fumbles-another-franchise/)

## Details

- **Created by:** Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
- **Creator:** Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
- **Director:** Tim Burton, Angela Robinson, James Marshall, Paco Cabezas, Gandja Monteiro
- **Writer:** Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Kayla Alpert, Matt Lambert, April Blair, Erika Vázquez, Siena Butterfield, James Madejski, Lauren Otero, Valentina L. Garza
- **Story:** James Madejski
- **Teleplay:** James Madejski, Matt Lambert
- **Cinematography:** Stephan Pehrsson, David Lanzenberg, John Conroy, P.J. Dillon
- **Editor:** Jay Prychidny, Ana Yavari, Dan Briceno, Paul G. Day
- **Music:** Chris Bacon, Danny Elfman
- **Production design:** Mark Scruton, Philip Murphy
- **Costume design:** Colleen Atwood, Mark Sutherland
- **Producer:** Nick Iannelli, Jenna Ortega, Carmen Pepelea
- **Cast:** Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams / Goody Addams; Steve Buscemi as Barry Dort; Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair; Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin; Riki Lindhome as Valerie Kinbott; Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay; Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger; Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus
- **Release (Serbia):** 23 November 2022
- **Genres:** Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Comedy
- **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoTmSuThMKc

## Where to watch in Serbia

- Netflix: streaming

*Checked 2026-09-12.*

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## Awards

- Golden Globes 2023: Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy (nominated)

## If you liked this

- *Addams Family Values* (1993), Fi1m 78: More of the family’s shared eccentricity, with sharper jokes about respectable people. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/addams-family-values.md)
- *Veronica Mars* (2004), Fi1m 84: A teenage detective whose investigations give her outsider status some practical use. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/tv/veronica-mars.md)
- *The Worst Witch* (1998): Magical school life with gentler jokes and a fondness for misfits.
- *Girl from Nowhere* (2018): A much harsher school series, with an outsider exposing everyday cruelty.
- *House* (1977): Schoolgirls confront supernatural absurdity in a horror film considerably stranger than this.

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