She's creepy (not kooky), mysterious and spooky. She's the dead-eyed, mordant daughter of the Addams family. And now she's headed to boarding school in Tim Burton's cheerily macabre Netflix series, "Wednesday."
The eight-part series from director Burton and writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, which premiered Wednesday, has caskets full of fun when daddy's "little viper," Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega), is expelled from Nancy Reagan High, her eighth school in five years. All she did was release piranhas into a swimming pool full of jocks who'd bullied her younger brother, Pugsley.
Nevermore Academy is the alma mater of her mother, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), and father, Gomez (Luis Guzmán). Its curriculum is designed for outcasts, creeps and monsters, and the student body is filled with cliques of vampires, werewolves and sirens. But even they're freaked out by Wednesday's cadaver-white skin and all-black uniform. "Wednesday always looks half-dead," explains Gomez. "Please excuse Wednesday. She's allergic to color," adds Morticia. The school's suspiciously cheerful Principal Weems (Gwendoline Christie) has no intention of going easy on Wednesday.
