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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8835849" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>Well I finished the whole damned season the day it dropped, so I guess I liked it. Certainly my favorite Tim Burton product in a long time. It's basically just a pastiche of Harry Potter, Twilight, and probably a dozen other YA supernatural franchises I don't follow, but instead of the boring everyteen, audience insert character invariably at the center of such things, this one instead centers on Wednesday Addams, an over-the-top, completely gonzo and hilarious character.</p><p></p><p>Addams Family is a franchise built on an ensemble of pretty flat characters defined by a few gags each, so it's actually a pretty bold move to base a whole series (mostly) on just one of them pulled away from the ensemble. Even with Wednesday having been made a break-out star character by Ricci's iconic 90s performance, there's not really a lot of there there, and I wouldn't want to have had to write it. The series solves the problem by turning her from a flat one-note character to a rounded character whose psychology makes her act flat and one-note, which is the only real solution that can both properly honor the character while making her a character you can have a series based around. It mostly works, but does make the visit by Uncle Fester a bit of a tonal clash (or maybe it's just the performance, it's not the first Fred Armisen cameo that I have found funny but tonally dissonant with the overall production).</p><p></p><p>Anyway I enjoyed it, despite having a low tolerance for teen angst-driven narratives and very limited interest in YA monster fantasy. Hopefully some prospective YA novelist out there will be inspired to have an actually interesting protagonist in their monster high school drama as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8835849, member: 6988941"] Well I finished the whole damned season the day it dropped, so I guess I liked it. Certainly my favorite Tim Burton product in a long time. It's basically just a pastiche of Harry Potter, Twilight, and probably a dozen other YA supernatural franchises I don't follow, but instead of the boring everyteen, audience insert character invariably at the center of such things, this one instead centers on Wednesday Addams, an over-the-top, completely gonzo and hilarious character. Addams Family is a franchise built on an ensemble of pretty flat characters defined by a few gags each, so it's actually a pretty bold move to base a whole series (mostly) on just one of them pulled away from the ensemble. Even with Wednesday having been made a break-out star character by Ricci's iconic 90s performance, there's not really a lot of there there, and I wouldn't want to have had to write it. The series solves the problem by turning her from a flat one-note character to a rounded character whose psychology makes her act flat and one-note, which is the only real solution that can both properly honor the character while making her a character you can have a series based around. It mostly works, but does make the visit by Uncle Fester a bit of a tonal clash (or maybe it's just the performance, it's not the first Fred Armisen cameo that I have found funny but tonally dissonant with the overall production). Anyway I enjoyed it, despite having a low tolerance for teen angst-driven narratives and very limited interest in YA monster fantasy. Hopefully some prospective YA novelist out there will be inspired to have an actually interesting protagonist in their monster high school drama as well. [/QUOTE]
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