The Addams Family, whichever iteration you prefer, has always been a comedy first. So why is this show not funny? It's played very seriously, with Wednesday trying to uncover a mystery, becoming highly proactive. This is a big detour from other iterations, where the Addams family really couldn't care less about anything but their own macabre home life. Sure, the movies had serious elements and the Addams were put in peril, but they relished in it. At death's door, Gomez and Morticia found ecstasy and the normies looked on in horror. That's the appeal: these death-obsessed goths clashing with the real world. In this show, Morticia and Gomez immediately take Wednesday out of high school in the real world and put her in Hogwarts. All the weirdos Wednesday meets kind of take the effect out of the Addams Family, making her seem rather normal. Great acting (particularly the actress playing Wednesday) and production value can't save the show from such an odd tone.