Wednesday Season 2 Fixing the Addams Household "Drawback" Backfires

Warning: This text contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Wednesday season 2 half 1!

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Though Wednesday tries to repair its Addams Household “downside” from season 1, the change fully backfires on them. Netflix’s Wednesday season 2 was, by far, the most anticipated show on Netflix this year. Viewers members wished to know the place the story would go subsequent for the long-lasting Wednesday Addams.

Now that it’s out, we all know that Wednesday season 2 made many adjustments meant to enhance the present. A major instance of that is the elevated presence of the Addams family. Wednesday season 1 barely included the opposite characters from the franchise, opting to give attention to the titular character as an alternative.

Frankly, I don’t suppose this was an issue. The present is known as Wednesday for a cause, not The Addams Household. Nonetheless, Wednesday goes to nice lengths to repair the Addams Household “downside” in season 2. Sadly, their efforts backfired in a giant approach.

Wednesday Season 2 Half 1 Gave Too A lot Time To Puglsey Addams

Pugsley stands in front of a car in Wednesday season 2

The Addams Household’s characters all acquired extra time in Wednesday season 2. Gomez’s new scenes had been few and much between, making them not distracting. Morticia’s storyline is immediately related to Wednesday’s story. The one scenes that diverge from Wednesday’s focus are people who handle her points together with her mom. That being stated, it’s strongly implied that Morticia’s conflict with her mother and her sister Ophelia will immediately relate again to Wednesday’s misplaced psychic powers. As such, it didn’t really feel like they had been taking away from the titular foremost character by giving Morticia extra. Even Uncle Fester’s time on the asylum immediately related to Wednesday’s mission.

Sadly, Pugsley’s story doesn’t embrace his sister, and it solely tangentially pertains to her plotline. Though he solely acquired a number of scenes within the first season, his storyline takes up roughly 15% of the primary three episodes of Wednesday season 2 half 1.

Whereas that may not look like loads, it’s a enormous chunk of time contemplating the variety of subplots they had been juggling this season. There have been so many storylines happening without delay that none of them acquired the time they absolutely deserved. Plus, Pugsley’s story is basically a B-plot. It felt like they had been merely filling within the gaps.

Wednesday Season 2’s Pugsley Is Nothing Like His Previous Addams Household Variations

The Addams Family Pugsley Addams Jimmy Workman

Pugsley Addams in Wednesday feels nearly nothing like Pugsley Addams in The Addams Household. In most of his earlier iterations, he appeared rebellious and dangerous, particularly along with his mad science experiments. Due to his creative thoughts, he made every kind of harmful gadgets. He’s an oddball, and he by no means expresses a want to vary that for the approval of others.

Nonetheless, Pugsley’s character was so annoying within the Netflix present that I practically passed over his particular person scenes. He’s not significantly rebellious or dangerous. He doesn’t do any wild science experiments, and reviving a zombie was a whole and whole accident. He felt like he was attempting approach too laborious to behave cool and get reward.

It’s laborious to reconcile these two completely different characterizations. They really feel like two completely completely different individuals, apart from Pugsley consuming bugs and fishing with a bomb. Pugsley’s at a college for outsiders. It could make extra sense for him to lean into his peculiar proclivities as an alternative of attempting to vary himself and attempting approach too laborious to impress his roommate.

Pugsley’s Pet Zombie Storyline Feels Compelled In Wednesday

Pugsley Addams looking surprised with Slurp in the background in Wednesday season 2

Whereas I loved the elevated horror in Wednesday season 2, Pugsley’s pet zombie didn’t actually profit the story within the first half, and it additionally didn’t make narrative sense. It feels awfully handy that he simply so occurred to have his electrical powers malfunction proper below the Cranium Tree the place the physique of the previous pupil was buried.

The story growth for Slurp and Pugsley felt fairly weak. I assume it’s cool that he was regrowing his mind and changing into extra human. Nonetheless, I might a lot slightly they’d given extra time and a focus to the central thriller and Enid and Wednesday’s friendship.

On high of that, the choice for the police to place Slurp within the asylum, as an alternative of merely killing him, felt like a plot system slightly than a logical selection. The breakout scene on the end of Wednesday season 2 part 1 wanted the chaos of a zombie killing individuals to work. Nonetheless, it could have made way more sense for them to kill Slurp since he technically already died.

Wednesday Season 2 Half 2 May Nonetheless Save The Pugsley Addams Storyline

Slurp the zombie in the woods in Wednesday season 2

In the event that they need to save the Pugsley storyline from being a whole flop, they should make Pugsley’s pet zombie integral to the central thriller. The present has already hinted that there’s some type of connection between Slurp and Augustus.

The trailer for Wednesday season 2 half 2 hints that the zombie will likely be extra of a personality, slightly than only a brain-eating zombie, within the second half. If the zombie turns into essential to the central thriller related to the Avian and LOIS, then I’m extra prepared to forgive the period of time they gave to Pugsley and Slurp.

Would it not nonetheless be contrived that Pugsley simply so occurred to resurrect the best zombie needed for the story and preserve him alive? Completely! Nonetheless, it could not less than make them extra important elements of Wednesday season 2.