What should be done for those who are strange and unusual themselves? A typical response is culture or to assimilate or reject the waste; If their quilts cannot be accepted and work in a more digestible form for the masses, then they must give up, laugh and reduce. This is an artistic struggle with which director Tim Burton has tackled his overall career and he is long enough to experience all aspects of trend and conformity topics. For the first half of his career, Burton's unusual characteristics were unusually praised. Then, Like his Edward Stisorhands or Oswald cobbledThe glitter faded, either in his own job or with the desire of the public (or perhaps a mixture of both), and he withstood a period of great financial success mixed with bad reception. In the last few years, Burton has emerged to reach a kind of career balance; He did not make a comeback -as much as he decided to get taste.

However, setting up the quality of the quality of the specific movies of man and shows aside (and I certainly have my own), something that is most exciting for Burton is how decisive it is for himself. This is something he has in common with the Adams family themselves. The fictional family created by cartoonist Charles Adams enjoyed numerous interpretations through several mediaChief among them the classic sitcom from the 60's and a pair of feature films from the early 1990s. Although their appearance and their humor have changed and developed given the time period in which they live, the Adams family has remained a stable counter culture, always oking out social norms and tropes in the eye even while at the same time leaving them. This is what the subversion is, after all, and Adamzi are always subversive.

When the original Netflix series "Wednesday" premiered in 2022, some denied the series as a naked attempt to click on the title of "hot topic"-friendly prestige TV calap (including this very web site); "Harry Potter" for cooked children. Although there is no doubt that directors and traders see such an equation and spit over it, and that "Wednesday" certainly resembles such mixing on the surface, the series has become strange and subversive under Burton's stable hand. The second season of "Wednesday" He doubles what he worked for in the first season and chooses the frightening and okay to raise. Although I have seen only the first four episodes, it is clear that Burton, the Starvala Enena Ortega and the rest of "Wednesday" misrepresent some pleasant weak works here.

If you made a snake and were thrilled by the first season of "Wednesday", you will gladly know that most of the highlights of that season have returned unchanged here. Yes, "Wednesday" is not a series that is precious about his characters or actors, and there are several stars of guests and repetitive characters who have filled their death in the first season and do not return here. That said, some luminous alumni get more time to illuminate this, especially Emma Meyers as a roommate on Wednesday, Enid and Oyoj on Sunday as an ethically tortured mermaid Bianca. The series also makes some pleasant new additions as well as The new director of Steve Buskemi at the Academy never againThe mysterious, insightful music of the music of Barry and Billy Pepper, Isadora.

However, the biggest switch to the structure of the series is the introduction of the rest of the Adams clan to never regularly. Thing (Victor Dobantu) is again the main foundation, but Pugsli (Isaac Ordonez) is now a student of never again, and quickly approaches some shenanigans that include pets zombies. Where the first season saw their parents on Wednesday Mortitia (Catherine Zeta-Onesons) and Gomez (Luis Guzman) occasionally appear, this second season has a reason to have both of all the time, as Barry insisted in a morticism in which the first-time campaign is raising. Barry is desperate for a mortor to lower her burnt mother, grandmother, Hester, and the woman really appeared in the end, playing with Annaoana Lumley. Although his grandmother, Harch (Oonons Suotamo) and Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen, playing his role in the first season) are not around for every episode, the fact that the whole clan Adams is now a different presence in "Wednesday" does so much more like the appropriate story "Family Adams" and less.

What the "Wednesday" season 2 really gets right, even more than the first season, is its mixing of the Serized Story of Whodunit with episodic plots. The Netflix series tends to trap "a story stretched over x episodes", which can leave them to feel tiring because their narrative length extends outside the point they may need. While "Wednesday" is still built around a complex story that includes Wednesday (Ortega) on the track of the killer who has the opportunity to control birds, and there is also a Vendeta against the girl "Salen", the series cleverly weaving in some subgroups and settings in the length of the episode. Assigned, this does not go as much as it is "X-Data" splits their time between episodes "Monster of the Week" and "Mythology"But that allows "Wednesday" to hire the audience at the macro and micro level, and not to bother in the one -way.

Something that goes a long way to help this is how the series deals with her artists. It is clear that Burton has the most creative impact on the series, as the show bears a tone of its trademarks, everything from the design of the circus-chic-chic to, in the first episode, the sequence for stop-moving animation. In working with writers and creators Alfred Goff and Miles Millar, as well as Lauren Mreo, Burton brings "Wednesday" the same winning combination of comedy and Putrid's horror "Beetle Beetle." Director Paco Kabesas (taking duties directing for two of the four episodes), along with writers Matt Lambert and Valentina Garza, collect the baton, giving concepts as a school day of joke and camping with some appropriate baronism.

The biggest damage to all this is how the work of the detective on Wednesday can begin to feel perfection. That aspect of her personality is not really a starvet of the series, while Wednesday itself is absolutely. As such, the character should spend its time serving almost every story, which can leave the mystery to feel a little thin at times. In addition, it feels like the series wants to give Wednesday a Tyler (Hunter Dohan) bow, which was discovered as "evil Hyde" last season. With the monster locked in Wilowl Hill Sanitarium, the series treats Tyler as a Joker of her Batman (or maybe the moritosity of her Sherlock Holmes), and does not feel like any character earns such a position.

What "Wednesday" does it well, and that her second season seems to be perfect, it brings the spirit of the "family Adams" characters firmer in the horror space without sacrificing the comedy. Initial versions of the Adams family were for everyone to transcend social constructions, allowing the so -called normal people to communicate with a group that strongly implied to be some tricky things regularly. "Wednesday" remains faithful to the Adams tradition by not showing much of these awkward passes, but the fact that Heids and the sirens and Vololters are walking around also gives them much more spooky legitimacy. It is a clever turnaround for the Adams clan to be our "normal" proxy -proxy in a world full of horror creatures, while allowing the Adamses to be cowardly and attractive to everyone else around them.

That idiosyncratic spirit is alive and healthy thanks to the hands of Burton and Ortega on the steering wheel. For better or worse, whether you love or hate it, "Wednesday" is a show that absolutely attracts the interests of the director and his associates, no matter how many packs of cereals and T -shirts are decorated with the face on Wednesday. It is immensely helping that the literal face of Wednesday Adams is Ortega, because she is still astonishing how brilliant the actress lives in such a long -standing iconic character. Ortega became known for the loud Its sincere thoughts about the series And Taste in movies in the pressAnd this only makes the frequent sarcastic falls on Wednesday and the aggressive individuality that is much more vibrant. Where the character is fiercely rebellious on Wednesday, the Wednesday series is more subversive, delivering excitement to the genre and witty satire with panacea. Of course, it is possible that the remaining four episodes of the season could lose the plot (or become spent on it), but since this first series is strong, I think the only one that will be full of crash by the end of "Wednesday" is itself.

/Movie rating: 8 out of 10

"Wednesday" Season 2 Part 1 begins with Netflix streaming on August 6, 2025.