This show was a complete bore to watch. I had to force myself to watch an episode each night with my spouse and neither of us were impressed with the story, characters, and overall depth of the series. I can appreciate dramatic shows as much as the next person, but the writing done on this show was so poor I could hardly suspend my disbelief for five minutes as the show revealed plothole after plothole. As if that weren't enough, it was also riddled with a criminal amount of terrible high school drama tropes. I like tropes when they're done well, but these were lazily-written and unoriginal.

The only redeeming factor of the show is Ortega's portrayal of Wednesday, even as I grew to loathe her character. She does do a very good doom and gloom goth, and has some good one-liners. Sadly, they're just one-liners, as Wednesday doesn't have interactions with other characters so much as she has stand-offs where she always gets the last word. Nobody seems to know how to respond to Wednesday, ever, which makes for terrible dialogue between the characters on the show.

Speaking of the other characters-the only lead with any chemistry whatsoever with Wednesday was Enid, her roommate who inexplicably puts up with a barrage of hurtful remarks in exchange for an almost-smile or two from Wednesday. Still, they had more going for them than whatever the hell Wednesday/Tyler and Wednesday/Xavier had going on. For the first three episodes, I genuinely couldn't tell the two guys apart. I thought they were the same character. They might as well be for all the depth they have. Both of their performances were terrible (Tyler in particular looked like he was constantly grimacing), but I can hardly cast too much blame on them when they obviously had very little to go on with their characters. Both are so ridiculously generic.

By the end of the show, I hated Wednesday's character. She's obsessive, petulant, unnecessarily rude, self-absorbed, needlessly dramatic, manipulative, and utterly toxic to everyone she comes across. There is literally nothing to like about this character by the time the show is finished.