Yesterday Thanksgiving 1993, at Addams Family Values, Wednesday, Addams decided to mess up the script during the Thanksgiving contest at her summer camp. Now, 29 years later, a new generation could see her do the same in Netflix’s mysterious and spooky new series, Wednesday.
The 1993 scene is by far the most memorable scene in the movie: Dressed up as Pocahontas, Christina RicciAddams Wednesday told her partner in her fiery pilgrimage scene, “You have taken over the land that was ours. Years from now, my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservation. Your people will wear sweaters and drink highballs.”
She continued: “We will sell our bracelets by the roadside. You’ll play golf and enjoy a hot appetizer. My people will suffer and degrade. Your people will have constant changes. The gods of my tribe have spoken. … And for all these reasons, I have decided to skin your scalp and burn your village.”
Everything burned from there.
The new series tries to regain that magic in the third episode, “Friend or Woe,” which finds Wednesday and her supernatural classmates from Nevermore Academy volunteering for “Outreach Days.” “. The episode, like the series that has it, often feels like something we’ve never seen before. It’s ultimately betting on the big performer, as Wednesday blew away white patriarchy by blowing up a bronze memorial statue of a colonist.
The annual festival seems designed to ease tension between the “outcasts” and the “common people”—the people living in Jericho, founded by original settler Joseph Crackstone. Convinced that Crackstone is connected to a series of illusions she is having—Addams also has a bit of clairvoyance this Wednesday—Wednesday takes a position at the historic amusement park Pilgrim World.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Wednesday’s custodians at Ye Olde Fudgery, one of whom called themselves “OC” (“primitive colonists”), were less than pleased with her performance. that. So does her principal, Gwendoline Christie’s Larissa Weems.
While handing out samples to crowds of German tourists, Wednesday told them (in German): “Enjoy your ‘authentic’ pilgrimage fudge made with cocoa beans made by the locals. oppressed in Amazon buy. All proceeds will be used to maintain this pathetic vindication of American history. Also, fondant wasn’t invented for another 258 years. Is there a receiver?”
And that’s before she wanders around, sees the ruins of Jericho’s original meeting house, and decides to burn the whole place down.
The broad strokes of that vision? Wednesday had a 400-year-old ancestor, Goody Addams, who had just escaped being burned alive in the town hall along with all the other “outcasts” Crackstone had managed to round up – including his mother. hers. Goody happens to look like Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday, but in a blonde wig.
“You stole the land,” Goody told Crackstone as he prepared to lock her up. “You have slaughtered innocent people. You have robbed our spirit of peace. You are the real monster – all of you.
Crackstone’s reaction? It’s about what you’d expect from a colonial witch hunter: “You are abominations under the devil’s grip!” he says. “I will not stop until I wipe out this new world of outcasts. Godless creatures! (Subtle!)
Fourth may not be the biggest player in the original The Addams . family series, in which she is actually the younger sister. But as time went on, several adaptations, and most importantly, the sheer power of Christina Ricci transformed the braided eccentric into an icon for the outcasts. At least, that’s definitely the idea by which Netflix’s new series seems to be defined. One of her favorite hobbies on this new show is supporting the little guy — a good quality, but also one that seems a little too serious for the stylish Addams brand.
However, burn Crackstone’s new fountain? That’s the trademark for Wednesday. Staring at the statue of Crackstone, where at debut she had to sing a Fleetwood Mac song on the cello, Wednesday suppressed, “I’ve never faced an enemy cast in bronze.”
Recommend one of these Wednesday‘ many elaborately planned ruses. At first, it looked like everything was going to plan. Wednesday plays the song, has a speech… And then Thing appears to ignite a stream of dynamite that leads straight to the monument. Wednesday takes the opportunity to switch to what the show calls Vivaldi’s “intense arrangement of ‘Winter’—and just like that, intergenerational vengeance is served coldly.
