The first time I watched this, I made it maybe 10 minutes in, turned it off and thought 'Wow, this is awful' since it seemed like such a ridiculous stereotypical show for young teens or something.

I kept reading about it being a great show, and I was confused wondering if other people had actually watched the same thing, so I decided to give it another chance. Turns out if I had just kept watching it gets a lot better.

The opening to the show is painful, the tour Enid provides to Wednesday of the school is atrocious - but I guess that's because she's explaining everything as she sees it. Her personality is some sort of annoying social media addicted teen stereotype. She is supposed to be completely the opposite of Wednesday. This is not the tone of the show, and that character does improve over time.

Unfortunately it was that tour that caused me to turn it off, and I can't help but wonder how many other viewers were lost to it. After that, it's actually good.

I have a lot of minor issues with the show otherwise - Gomez and Morticia seem a bit off to me, but that's because my last exposure to those characters they were played by Raul Julia and Anjelica Houston.

Wednesday's tendency to say edgy things occasionally just come across as a teen trying to sound edgy and I do wish they'd tone that down just a little bit. It usually doesn't add anything. It's one thing when some sort of horrific thing is mentioned and she's like 'sounds great!', it's another when she just blurts out something like 'if you hears screams I'm probably just enjoying myself' before going into a cave.

It probably wouldn't hurt if they leaned into the fact that Wednesday is blatantly neurodivergent and not just weird, which the actress is obviously portraying (and portraying well at that), it's just never mentioned or addressed.

Overall it is good and I've enjoyed it.