Spoilers is a follow-up of Netflix Wednesday Season 2, Part 2.
And Season 1 and Season 2, Part 1.
The Wednesday Season 2 Review Part 2 has shown how the Netflix hit series is struggling to meet the expectations of the viral buzz it had before. The series seemed to be divided into nostalgia supernatural narrative and discovering fresh viral content even with the genius of Jenna Ortega portraying the character of Wednesday Addams.
To increase its reach. Lady Gaga, Tik Tok inspired movements and mysterious events were introduced using instruments. However, the main connection of Wednesday to Enid was the greatest thing about the story.
Fight to Renew and Viral Roots.
Firstly, the show was quite well-known because of a funny dance of Ortega, that went viral on Tik Tok. The second season 2 episode tried to reproduce this phenomena using Lady Gaga music and a different choreographed act by Enid.
Although this is quite daring in terms of initiatives, it also shows the dependency on the series on the resemblance of past trends. The viral campaign was rather unnatural as opposed to natural and it emphasized the vice that the season was.
When the story is placed on hold and the ending is suspended.
The second part commenced wherein the cliffhanger according to which Wednesday had died. The opening credits she visited the afterlife and saw the ghost of Larissa Weems and returned back alive. This was a quick-fix answer to the overkill of the tale.
It was a scrambling together of ghosts, curses, domestic feuds and school mysteries. The outcome was diffused and alternating, and this gave the narrative a disjointed churn, rather than a concentrated style.
Focus on Tyler and CGI fights.
The character of Tyler Galpin was given great attention in the novel, but his plot was deemed as not as gripping as the Addams family situations. His attendance was dominated by monster battles and family feuds, and was heavy in CGI.
Its special effects were also fairly good but they did not have the lure of Tim Burton real creativity. It was through focus on the fake fights with Tyler that the emotional part of the season was undermined.
When Character Development Succeeds.
One episode was unique about its flaws. Wednesday and Enid were body sharing in this episode alone. This novel did not abuse the element of character development alongside the supernatural happenings. Ortega was emulating the sunny mood of Enid;
Myers played the role of bitterness and cynicism of Wednesday. Their acts were a source of laughter, sentimentalism and immense growth. It was revealed that the show was best when it put personalities over spectacle as the first priority.
New supporting characters and new characters.
Other people also provided the season with its liveliness. Evie Templeton as Agnes DeMille, began to have a personality more endowed, to her Wednesday obsession. Grand mums Joanna Lumley performed some support as Grandmama Hester Frump and at this time was also very wise and witty. These support roles worked even though the whole cast seemed to be overworking on other occasions
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Redundancy, Flaws in Narration.
The season also brought a few subplots, one of them being developed around siren cult and Bianca Barclay. However, these arcs were hastened or disregarded without difficulty. Love plots of Enid also appeared not to be related with the central story.
The spread of characters and loose plots also lost sight of the direction of the story even lesser-known characters were overworked, even the old known celebrities like Uncle Fester were underused.
Death, Ghosts, Distractedness.
Guest stars were being dropped at an amazing rate and characters with relatively weak arcs still remained lifelong. The fact that, when Larissa Weems came back as a ghost, was a reminder to the audience that, in this magical world, none of them were dead.
The different way, in which the deaths were dealt with, made the situation complicated in its turn. Such lack of classroom action within Nevermore Academy made this story even more out of place with its school setting. The show no longer used supernatural abilities in the classroom in favor of field trips, amusement parks and underground lairs.
Smallville and Future Lessons.
The creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar Wednesday, being accustomed to the episodic, almost freak-of-the-week format employed on the earlier Smallville, might have benefitted in that tradeoff between personal character development and supernatural conflicts. This type of strategy is not so inappropriate, as demonstrated in the body swap episode. Hopefully, lessons learnt in Part 2 will be used now that Wednesday Season 3 has already received the green light.
Conclusion
The Wednesday Season 2 Part 2 review was of a show that was teetering on the edge of direction between its viral and more serious storytelling capabilities. Although the acting of Jenna Ortega and Emma Myers was brilliant and gave the show something to base on, the CGI fights, overcomplicated storylines, and unnecessary subplots distracted the attention of the entire impression. However wonderful it was because of supporting characters.
There was trouble in that there was congestion that did not permit one to be in a state of constant attention. The episode was one of the splendid ones and it proved the possibilities of the series. The rest of the season had identity problems. And its stolen concentration came to the general purpose. The potential of the show is that the writers can employ character-based storyline in the future.
Instead of glittering like gold as the Season 3 approaches. The readers are eager to learn whether or not a balance will be restored in the second chapter.