The DrsC have begun watching Wednesday, the eponymously named series on Netflix. It is fun, a sort of amalgam of Stranger Things and Harry Potter, with a bit of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children added for "flavor."
Wednesday, of course, is the Addams family's pigtailed daughter, so named because supposedly Wednesday's child is full of woe. She is played appealingly by an young Hispanic actress and accompanied by the disembodied hand, Thing. We meet her parents - Morticia and Gomez - briefly in the first episode, as they bring her to their old school, Nevermore Academy.
The headmistress is an over-the-top Lady Gaga lookalike, and a shapeshifter, played by Gwendoline Christie, who did Brianna of Tarth in Game of Thrones. As headmistress her character could hardly be more unlike Brianna, an outstanding way to demonstrate acting versatility. A troupe of young acting talent believably fills out the various school roles: roommate, bully, prom queen, nerd, lovable doofus, etc.
If you've liked the film and two TV series mentioned above - as we did - you could like the series Wednesday. As a mentor of mine was fond of saying, "it works the same line of country."
