It's not an exaggeration to say this is literally "Riverdale" and "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" story lines that got rearranged & copy and pasted for this show's plot, I know that because I did myself the misfortune of sitting through all these shows. It's a disappointment, with misleading trailers and reviews. It's so grossly over-hyped just for you to realize it's nothing but a lazy cash-grab, and that's why every promotion focused so much attention to the big names rather than the story or content itself. Something that you can unmask about the positive reviews is that none of them are critical or capable of a detailed opinionated review. Their reviews are vague and reason-less because they liked the decent looking actors, the superficial aesthetic, the good but basic indie/overplayed soundtrack, and the slightly Tim Burton atmosphere, but they're unable to pinpoint that because most of these reviewers are likely unaware of it. When it comes to the actual story, no way did anyone like this shallow plot that is no joke, a rip-off of "Riverdale" and "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina". The protagonist is a cookie cutter "weird girl" who always has to remind you every time she opens her mouth that she's "not like other girls" which gets old quick but lasts the whole series. No character, not even the protagonist, has growth, depth, character, or culture (which is ironic because of how much Jenna talks in interviews about representing her Latin culture). The dialogue the writers wrote for the protagonist is very clearly what a mindless person would imagine a thinking person sounds like but to anyone sensible she just sounds very pretentious and childishly edgy. While previous depictions of Wednesday made her a smart and funny character (and movies like Addams Family Values gave her growth), this Wednesday is hard to not cringe at. You can tell this was just a paycheck to the creators because they literally thought throughout this series that a one-off act done in the movies was some kind of deeper connection to her history. They took an interesting eccentric family and instead chose to center the story on boring cardboard cutouts of fantasy teen drama extras who are an unsubtle attempt to one-up the eccentrics of the family which obviously misses the entire point of the Addams Family. On the second watch, It really stuck out, how bad the acting is, most of the actors are either under-performing their parts or dramatically performing like Disney channel cartoon characters. In its most basic proposition this show had potential if there were any creative minds involved. The biggest disappointment is the reception, lousy cliche cash grabs like this getting positive support to this extent, just confirms people will eat up anything. If they like the aesthetic, the big names, and the heavily reused soundtrack, regardless of any effort or creativity on their end people will pay a lot more for copy and pasted formulaic media. We're in a never-ending cycle of unoriginal and uninspired remakes, reboots, redesigns, spin-offs, sequels, etc. Because big companies like getting rid of any shred of originality and people support milking out any creativity to the point media becomes this dry. It's frustrating because even the people involved in making this series have publicly admitted to rushing it and inserting the most basic and predictable cliches because of how little this side-project mattered to them.