Same! I do feel it was inconsistent in quality and there were some real missed opportunities to be truly weird and fun. Especially with a school like Nevermore. BUT it was a fun little jaunt for a rainy weekend for me. Plus I don’t mind the whole she’s good at everything trope, especially since she’s clearly kind of a…

OK, came back to say I jumped the gun with my last comment - I was about to RIOT at the end of episode 4 when I thought they had <spoiler> killed off one of the few likable characters on the show </spoiler>

Thank you! Just seeing the Four-Word title of this review on the AV Club main page was enough to dampen my enthusiasm for seeing this. But I started anyway and now I’m mid-way through and it’s ...watchable ...

I enjoyed it too. I thought it was a fun watch and it kept me engaged enough to watch the whole season in one day. 

If y’all want to read positive reviews, here are two, from “The Guardian” and from Roger Ebert’s ghost. I’m enjoying the show. I don’t know what you want out of life.

Nah, that’s how the OG looked.

If Guillermo del Toro gets to be one, I guess he does too

The show’s premise is broken from the start. So you’re putting Wednesday Addams in a school that is itself creepy and kooky and weird? Uh, where’s the tension there?  Wednesday is only funny when she’s fucking with the squares.

For a comedy having a character start off one way, question themselves and act different, then eventually learn they were fine the way they were, is an acceptable character arc.

It started off okay but by the end it was shiiiiiiit. Just fuckin’ terrible.

The Sonnenfeld films were at their best when the Addams’s were forced to live among normal society (getting evicted in the first film, summer camp in the second). It’s a shame this show doesn’t understand that.

The whole POINT of the Addams Family is that they don’t consider themselves outcasts.

When I saw the trailer I was immediately excited about, and then gravely disappointed that she’s only briefly seen attending a normal high school before getting shipped off to Nevermore. I’d have much rather seen a series about Wednesday in the setting of a regular high school. Plus they could’ve had some fun with the…

I think Sleepy Hollow qualifies, and certainly a number of his films are horror-adjacent and include tropes and imagery usually associated with the genre.

I think the Matt Smith to Tobias Menzies transition was far and away the best one on the show.

It seems implied that if you’re not a fan of Dan Levy, this show might not be for you.

“Clamato-doused Bloody Marys”

The Nancy Meyers dig was an about right wink for the subset of the readership that are both foodies and also pop-culture obsessives. Brava.

This is the missing half of a conversation I glimpsed on Twitter talking about the intersection of Mexican and Native American ancestry. It’s relevant to point out that most white people and Americans in general have a very poor and stereotyped idea of what Native culture even is, let alone what constitutes ancestry.…

Your clarifications are much appreciated. I would still maintain that all of the other three allegations, as described in the Pitchfork article, went far beyond being glibly characterized as “I had sex with a rock star and now I regret it”.