Wednesday Is Amazing: Here’s Five Things You May Have Missed

Storyline (straight from IMDB)

“A supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago – all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.”

*Monster High meets Harry Potter Vibes*

I wasn’t particularly excited to watch the show as I have a strong admiration for Christina Ricci and her playing iconic Wednesday in what is considered by some her breakout role in the 1991 film and its sequel, “The Addams Family Values,” in 1993. In the Addams family. Even though I am also a huge fan of Jenna Ortega and knew she would crush it, I was not ready for creators to reprise the role of Wednesday. 

That being said, I AM NOW SO GLAD THEY DID.

Mrs. Thornhill’s first name was an Easter egg to the Addams Family’s rival series, The Munsters, where the “normie” of the family was also named Marilyn.

Christina Ricci  (Wednesday from Addams family/Addams family values) 

Plays Mrs. Thornhill, the academy’s “dorm mom” as well as the botanical science teacher.

Wednesdays minimal blinking 

Thing is not cgi and played by a real actor

Thing, who was presumed by many to be entirely CGI animation, was actually played by a real actor named Victor, who is also a magician.

“It’s a really hard process, because you have to show emotion through a simple hand that doesn’t have a voice or subtitles,” Victor told Entertainment Tonight earlier this month. “It’s a lot of hard work to show emotion through a hand. I know a lot of people won’t understand, but after they see the season, they will get it.”

The now iconic, tik tok famous dance scene was choreographed by Jenna Ortega herself. 

Talk about immersing yourself in the role. Jenna pulled inspo from the original Addams Family and then created a dance that has now gone viral.

as fans of the original 1964 series will know, most famously, wenesday taught butler lurch to dance ‘the drew’ in a season two episode “Lurch’s Grand Romance

She also stated “I just pulled inspiration from videos of goth kids dancing in clubs in the ’80s…

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