This is a good show for the most part. The acting is good, the script is good, directing, sound design etc. It is all good. The problem is that this is almost completely stolen.

This is Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Legacies, and The Vampire Diaries in a mixture with the Addams name on it. It sounds better than it is because the lack of originality is my main problem with the show, together with it not being creepy enough.

The showrunners is trying to make this into some teenage coming of age Addam's style mixed with the other show above, but although it works, it doesn't. I constantly get the feeling that this show does not know what it wants to be. Is this a mystery? Magic and witches and supernatural-y? Coming of age? Scary? Funny? Insightful? Weird? It is sort of all of those things, and yet none of them.

A school for outsiders? Yea, how original... and a murder mystery which is so easy to solve half-way into the first episode... yea, the show is simply not nailing it.

To me they should have made this scarier, creepier, and had a much less happy peppy room mate. But they did not, perhaps because this is made for kids? Teens?

With those pretty big negatives out of the way, I still like this. This is definitely not bad, and the acting is so good that most of the time they manage to sell the tropes and cliches. I give the show a very generous 6/10, but as I said I enjoy watching this.

This is entertaining enough. The show is also a lot better than almost anything else on TV at the moment... isn't that sad...