Her Name for a Day

I started watching season 2 of Wednesday a couple days ago. So far the writing's been better than the first season's but that's really not saying much. It still feels like a show about Addams Family cosplayers rather than a show about the actual Addams Family but at least so far there hasn't been anything outrageously stupid like the group teamed with Wednesday walking out of the room in protest over the fact that she's going to torture someone instead of, you know, stopping her from torturing someone. Or Wednesday storming off to fight the big bad and her strategy ending up being standing there, starring blankly, and waiting for someone to rescue her she has no reason to expect. So far there's been none of that nonsense but I'm only four episodes in and I slept through episode three.

It was smart of the show's makers to spread out the Tim Burton directed episodes this season instead of lumping them all in the first half. After the first half of season one, I felt very little motivation to watch the rest of the season. However bad the writing gets, I could always rely on Burton to at least come up with some interesting compositions and shot juxtapositions. He and Jenna Ortega really are a good team. It's so late in his career but he may have just now found his Marlene Dietrich to his Josef von Sternberg.

Catherine Zeta-Jones returns as Morticia Addams in a much larger role, now also investigating murder instead of committing it as the real Morticia would do. Zeta-Jones looks so different to how she looked in the first season, I really thought she might have been recast. I think it's a combination of plastic surgery and self-starvation. She looks like a completely different person.

There are lots of illustrious actors hopping onto the bandwagon this season, including Steve Buscemi, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Lumley, and Billie Piper. I appreciate them all. I'm looking forward to Lady Gaga in the second half.

Ratings haven't been so strong as last season. I'd say that's the effect of bad writing. I also heard Jenna Ortega didn't want to do any romance in season 2, which was the most interesting thing about her character's story in season one. Hopefully it'll prove a false vow as when Peter Capaldi said he didn't want any hint of romance between the Twelfth Doctor and Clara on Doctor Who.

The Phantom of the Opera music in the trailer is distractingly recognisable.

Wednesday is available on Netflix.