This is what I would call regressed preppy: it's safe, insular and fluffy yet violent, erotic and toxic, that thing where it simultaneously feels like a very young children's tv show AND an X-rated movie. A very jarring experience with continuous whiplash, just totally caught off guard by the combination. It's Spongebob Squarepants meets Freddy Kruger.

It's like being immersed in an identity crisis, wanting to be perceived as sweet, soft, and innocent yet that repressed wild side and agenda can't help but peek through. It makes for a very calculated experience which is totally unimmersive.

For example, you can just tell that they used White coded passing bullies in that overcorrection/overcompensating 'see, we're not biased' way. Then you can see how they specifically, actively, put a Black coded passing bully for another scene as a way to balance it out and/or stick to their comfortable biased routine.

Or how the characters keep emphasizing how "white" Wednesday is which is just poorly cloaked Casteism. Wednesday might as well ask a mirror 'who the fairest of them all' is.

Then you have the questionable romance/social plots which almost seem to normalize or glorify toxic behavior. You know, rude for no reason, zero empathy yet is still supposed to be likable and is liked by others or insta-love type of stuff. It's starting to become disturbing and not in a good way.

Other than that it's just very predictable and flat entertainment due to the approach: the lore, tone and aesthetic is just superficial wrapping on another typical teen drama with flat trope characters and identity cult propaganda. The Woman cultism was in full effect: Men are 2D-evil except love interest(s), perfect female protagonist has unlimited skills, abilities and knowledge and wispy/waify/skinny character with little to no muscle tone can beat up anyone, typically a male.

The over reliance on formula is also clear, I mean, a werewolf character that says 'This kitty has claws'? Just because it has been used successfully before in other media and vaguely correlates? Since when were (retractable) claws the weapons of werewolves? Fangs would of made more sense or why not just make them say 'This puppy has claws' or make them a Werecat? Instead they just put tropes, cliches and formulas in a blender without a lid and used whatever flew out. It can also been seen in how Wednesday literally talks in wry, sarcastic, macabre come backs. We're talking 95% of Wednesday's lines and that is zero exaggeration.

Lastly, the exposition. Why are you using all of the dialogue to explain to the audience what is currently happening right in front of our faces? Dialogue is there to weave a story and express characters, not to talk down to us.

This IS just a magic mirror for the matching demographic (light featured, dainty, logical/socialite Women and the 'Latinx' Women/Other Women that aspire to be them) which is what all shows are becoming, 'chosen one' simulators. At least if it wasn't your vibe or matching demographic it was watchable but now it's just so bludgeoning, obstructive and exclusionary.

If you're the matching demographic you may enjoy it and why not as I said most demographics seem to be doing it but what happened to stories, character flaws, and creativity instead of risk-free formulas, decadent self worship and identity cult propaganda?