I've been a fan of Charles Addams for most of my life, his macabre humor fits me perfectly. The nameless characters out of Monster Rally (the first Chas Addams book I came into contact with) made me cry with laughter making people look at me strangely. Same thing the 1964 the first TV series with Carolyn Jones as Morticia and the 1991 recast with Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia, I just couldn't hold the laughters while watching.

Now comes this pathetic gothic emo Nancy Drew so badly directed that a very good kid actress was turned into a void figure that could not extract a single laughter from anybody in my household, not even from the teens and pre-teens among my grandchildren.

Frankly, accustomed to being dragged into fits of loud laughter by dark or macabre slapstick masterpieces like Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride and Sleepy Hollow, I was expecting more, much more. Guess Tim Burton was included for promotional reasons only but as is typical of Netflix their choice of directors s*ck!

I give it three stars because of the solid acting by Christina Ricci, Luis Guzman and Catherine Zeta Jones. If you are of legal drinking age avoid it. It's completely focused on high-schoolers.

* * * edit * * * An extra star (4/10) for the 7h chapter where Unk Fester made me laugh from start to finish. Almost true to the cartoon character by Chas Addams!