Wednesday: Season 1

2022

Created by Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
Recommended
73%
85%
8 episodes
Comedy
Fantasy
Netflix Original

A sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy. Directed by Tim Burton... More

A sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy. Directed by Tim Burton and starring Scream 2022's Jenna Ortega alongside Luis Guzmán and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Gomez and Morticia Addams.

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Where to watch Wednesday: Season 1

Wednesday: Season 1 is available to stream in New Zealand... More now on Netflix.

Wednesday: Season 1 episodes

Episode 1

When a deliciously wicked prank gets Wednesday expelled, her parents... More ship her off to Nevermore Academy, the boarding school where they fell in love.

Woe Is the Loneliest Number

The sheriff questions Wednesday about the night's strange happenings. Later,... More Wednesday faces off against a fierce rival in the cutthroat Poe Cup race.

Friend or Woe

Wednesday stumbles on a secret society. During Outreach Day, Nevermore's... More outcasts mingle with Jericho's normies in Pilgrim World. Fudge, anyone?

Woe What a Night

Wednesday asks Xavier to the Rave'N dance, sparking Tyler's jealousy... More — but Thing's got something up his sleeve. Meanwhile, Eugene stakes out the cave.

You Reap What You Woe

During Parents Weekend, Wednesday digs into her family's past —... More and accidentally gets her dad arrested. Enid feels the pressure to "wolf out."

Quid Pro Woe

Wednesday's friends throw her a surprise birthday party. They mean... More well... but she'd much rather mark the miserable occasion by solving the murders.

If You Don’t Woe Me by Now

Kooky Uncle Fester pays a visit and shares his theory... More about the monster. Wednesday begrudgingly agrees to a date with Tyler at Crackstone's crypt.

A Murder of Woes

Wednesday lands in trouble with Principal Weems, but that's just... More the start of her problems. To fight an ancient evil, she'll need all her friends’ help.

Wednesday: Season 1 | Ratings & Reviews

Addams spin-off lends itself perfectly to Tim Burton as lead director, who practically defines camp gothic. The series clearly knows how to take a single character and draw out a clear and original arc, breaking down Wednesday’s icy exterior gradually so as never to lose her essence.

73_%102 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
85_%1,683 reviews
Audience score rating

"Wednesday as a whole never really captures what made The Addams Family so viscerally strange (nor is it half as visually striking)."

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Variety

"The original goth girl deserves better."

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San Francisco Chronicle

"A spooky delight."

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Paste

"Jenna Ortega is excellent..."

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South China Morning Post

"This Gen Z-baiting drama has very little bite."

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Independent

"What stands out most about Wednesday is how much it feels shaped and smothered by the Netflix house style..."

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TV Guide

"The very last thing we want to see Wednesday Addams become is an emotionally enlightened do-gooder; we come to this character for po-faced one-liners and casual sadism."

"A gothy Buffy..."

"Wednesday is satisfying only on the level of formulaic teenage romance and mystery."

"Perfect..."

"(Wednesday's) heroine is all over the place and it does feel as if eight episodes weren’t enough to quite nail down what the tone of her character and story will eventually be."

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