I'm amazed at how good the reviews are for this show.

It's full of awkward cringey scenes, so-so writing, and a completely unoriginal plotline. Ortega is great as Wednesday, but that's about all that I have to say that is good about the show.

The romance between Morticia and Gomez is strained to say the least. With a truly strange choice in using Luiz Guzman. Anyone familiar with the Addams family universe will likely be disappointed and puzzled at this pairing.

The plotline itself is little more than Tim Burton's take on Harry Potter. A school of outcasts. How mindnumbingly boring.

The acting and directing is overly campy and awkward. The show can't decide if it's taking itself seriously or not, oscillating back and forth between drama and pseudo-drama.

Overall it's a good time waster if you have nothing better to watch. But I found myself mostly bored with the show, with occasional moments of vicarious embarrassment for the people involved in making it.