While this series has an attractive visual styling and a line up of quirky characters, any novelties wear out by 5th episode when you already know them well enough (the characters are all shallow, so it doesn't take much to see them through). This is because there is nothing else original in the story. The narrative is extremely linear with Wednesday moving from one clue to the next one sequentially. Each clue she takes on with full confidence in it and with no reflection on how she was wrong previously. Each time the next clue is conveniently revealed when enough trouble is caused by pursuing the previous clue. Like every teeny movie, the main theme here is how 13 year olds already have enough knowledge, life experience, and stronger confidence in themselves to navigate the relationships, solve crimes, and talk down to elder family members while the adults are always either buffoons or narrow minded participants with limited ability to contribute to the situation. There is obligatory, but luckily not overbearing, incorporation of modern gender diversity and inclusion agenda. The rest of the show's stuffing is recycled from popular fiction and previous teeny shows. At times you can confuse this for the "best of" Hunger Games, Twilight, Harry Potter, Riverdale, and you name it... mixed together. I mean this show would surely be epic for your teenager, as it must have influenced Kamila Valieva to dedicate her last year's ice routine to this show. Uncharacteristically for Kamila the ice routine was rather bland, so I watched the show to see, if it would give more dimension to it, but it didn't. I will just have to wait for a new Kamila's routine with the hope that it will be inspired by something better than Wednesday Season 2.