Ok, so we have Wednesday Addams - from the Addams family who is meeting vampires and werewolves etc in a teenage drama/detective mystery in a Hogwarts/Veronica Mars/Riverdale setting. Wednesday begins to have visions, becomes an amateur detective in a murder mystery, gets drawn into a love triangle, and learns to socialize. So teenage drama.

This is not necessary a bad idea though - the original series basically had one pitch only. The Addams family is an family where every-thing is the opposite of what is expected. They hate cute, nice things like dogs and happyness and love vile, strange things like torture, swamps, depression and dangerous beasts. The creepy and the kooky but also the dangerous (even if the 60s show in general was a bit tame) and every episode had normal society interact with them in some way. This was followed by the later 90s movies - movies with great actors but with a script that was a bit so-so and too much focus on Fester. In short - Addams need to branch out a bit.

In this spin-off, Wednesday is getting the focus due to the characters popularity from Christinas Riccis acting in said 90s movies. She has clearly grown to high school age (she was very young in the 60s show and very underused) and is enrolling in a Hogwarts like place for freaks and outcasts. Again not a bad idea. However, while I get that they want to focus more on the sarcastic and antisocial parts of the Addams brand, the character was also sadistic and death-obsessed. The initial Piranha scene works well, but then she becomes way too sympathetic. Not necessary a huge problem, but her Addams Root is weakened - you could have simply invent a new girl, remove the Addams name entirely and go for that. In addition, the script in general is pretty weak. Its a bit too generic, too YA for it to really work. They should allow more gore, maybe letting Wednesday murder, torture or maim a classmate or something. I get that you could call it growth - but I am not sure I want to see her character evolve that much. In some episodes she is joined by other members of the family, but their scenes are mostly forgettable. The show is not about the family.

However, this is saved by in general good acting and a pretty decent Tim Burton aesthetic. I would call it amazing, buts decent and cute and that can be enough. Just don´t do in expecting something really creative and unique here and if you are a hardcore Addams fan, you might want to skip this completely, since the focus isn´t really on the family and their kookyness. But it is very charming and that can be enough.