“Wednesday” is generally a delight, thanks almost entirely to Jenna Ortega. Director Tim Burton sets just the right visual tone. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman play Wednesday’s parents, Morticia and Gomez. Perhaps inevitably, “Wednesday” can’t sustain its initial kick as the serialized story unfolds over eight episodes, and the ending becomes too chaotic.”Wednesday’s” first episode premieres November 23 on Netflix. The series operates on multiple levels, including a mystery that turns the suspicious lass into an ill-tempered, ebon-clad Nancy Drew. The writers extract a great deal of comedic mileage from that extremity, so give them a hand. The show is obviously a fairly derivative mashup of genre elements, but the mix works in part because even the smaller ingredients are tasty, from Catherine ZETA-Jones to the local sheriff dismissing Wednesday and her classmates as “the Scooby gang,” and the series operates in a way that’s very different from “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” The series is based on Charles Addams’ signature comic strip, and stars Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday in the 1990s movies, as well as Jamie McShane and Gwendoline Christie as the headmistress at Nevermore Academy, a haven for the weird and witchy. It premieres on Netflix on November 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, with a second episode on November 25. The third and fourth episodes will air on November 26 and 27 at 9 a.m., and November 28 at 10 a.M. ET. and November 29 at 10 p.M., respectively, for a total of eight episodes. For more information on “Wednesday,” go to Wednesday’s official website or watch a trailer for the series on Netflix’s YouTube channel, Wednesday’s Movieclips YouTube channel and Facebook page. For the full series, visit Wednesday’s Official Website and the official Netflix YouTube channel. It’s available in U.S. and Canada on Netflix, and in the UK on Amazon, Apple and other platforms, including the UK and Australia. It also airs in the U.K. and Australia on ITV, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands on ITV1, with an international version available on ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, ITV5, ITV2 and ITV3. It is available in Australia on the ITV streaming platform, ITV Player, and on the BBC iPlayer, with the UK version available in the United Kingdom on ITV Player and the UK Virgin Islands on the BD-4 channel. For. more information about “Wednesday’s,” visit the Wednesday’s website or the official “Wednesday”‘s official website, which is also available in Canada and the United States on the ABC streaming service, BBC One, and BBC 2, among other platforms. For additional information on the series, go to www.Wednesday’sOfficial website and the BBC.com/Wednesday-Series-1. For a full list of episodes, visit the ” Wednesday” official website.
In ‘Wednesday,’ Jenna Ortega makes Netflix’s Addams Family series look like a snap
