Ortega makes a great Wednesday, Lurch is excellent, and Thing is extremely well done, but as for the rest: Gomez is a troll and is miscast, Morticia is bland, Pugsley is a uninteresting blob, and Uncle Fester is a silly sideshow. Gomez and Morticia don't have chemistry. The Addams always had their own internally consistent dark set of values that worked hilariously well when colliding with the "normal world."

The further the series went, however, the more it explored "modern family" issues that didn't ring true to the original characters. I didn't need mother-daughter conflicts, a silly sideline where a guilty young Gomez saves Morticia from a jealous boyfriend, an introspective Wednesday questioning her obligations to her friends, etc. When Wednesday is allowed to act as Wednesday, it's great, when she obsesses about teenage issues and her own values, she becomes a normal teenager with issues.