The second season of Wednesday has beaten out the final season of Stranger Things in the official Netflix streaming numbers.
I get why a show about a quirky goth girl is popular, but I still get annoyed at how they completely fuck up the premise of the Addams family.
Havent seen the addams family, but i really like the character designs for the main cast. Werewolf chick has an awesome design, wednesday is cool but i do feel at times that something is off. The bee guy is also awesome.
That’s my point. There are so many weird characters that the addams family seems normal. The addams family works because they are the odd ones out in normal situations. They could have just gone with a spooky goth girl in spooky school. But name recognition and all that.
I was annoyed with Netflix for aggressively trying to get me to watch 30 year olds play highschoolers so I couldn’t bring myself to watch.
So you are watching the show where a 24 year old plays a high school kid?
Wasn’t terribly impressed with the first half of season 2 of Wednesday, but then iirc, it was season 2 of Stranger Things that told me everything I needed to know about those “Mystery Boxes” modern directors are so fond of to drop that show entirely… and I’ve been proven correct.
Absolutely not singing the praise of Wednesday to say: It is a better show, hands down.
What are these “mystery boxes” your talking about in relation to stranger things?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_box_show
The “Mystery Box” is a technique (if it can really be considered such) I believe coined by JJ Abrams where, instead of having a clear plan for a story and working from that, they instead pepper in mysterious and intriguing tidbits with little-to-no explanation, and a lure that it will all be explained “eventually”, stringing the audience along indefinitely. JJ has done this for every single property he’s helmed, and never once has he provided a satisfactory resolution.
Stranger Things could be said to have had this in season 1, with lots of spooky, intriguing unknowns, but I think the creators at least had a decent idea of where they were headed by season 2. Unfortunately, being the finale, season 5 suffered from the breadcrumb practice of the prior seasons and had to shove all the unresolved lore in at once, which has put off a good number of viewers.
Ah interesting thanks. Never heard the term before but know exactly what you’re talking about 👍
I’m genuinely surprised. I know it’s not fair to compare the fifth and final season of one of Netflix’s best shows to the second and ongoing season of a surprise breakout, but of the two Stranger Things is absolutely the show i enjoyed more and talk about more.
Wednesday season 1 was great, but it was nothing compared to Stranger Things season 1. Wednesday season 2 was fine, but I figured it probably had one more season left in it.
