For the record I did watch the original tv series and the movies with Christina Ricci so I do get the complaints about this not being exactly what purists were expecting. It is easy to compare to Harry Potter but then any show that takes place in a mystical school setting for the next decade is going to be compared to Harry Potter so unless you want all shows of this type to not be set in schools then it is something we all have to live with. What I liked about this is what alot of Addam's Family purists didn't. This was strictly a story about Wednesday Addams and not about her family who all just appeared in cameos. This is in large part a coming of age for Wednesday who neither fits in in the "outcast" boarding school she goes to or the "normie" town that surrounds it but finds herself making friends in both despite her best intentions while trying to solve the mystery of who is killing people around town. To anyone who says "this isn't the Addams Family" I say so what? Each showrunner has the right to show their own interpretation of what came before and if everyone wrote the same exact story it would get boring after awhile.