‘Wednesday’

As the weather cools and the sky darkens earlier, Netflix has the perfect macabre mood piece: “Wednesday,” centered on the sullen 16-year-old daughter in the Addams family.

Jenna Ortega, who the feisty girl next door in season two of the streaming service’s “You,” gives the performance of a lifetime. She delivers deadpan one-liners and executes slow burns and calculated revenge plots with determination

Wednesday the character first appeared in New Yorker magazine in the late 1930s in a comic strip created by Charles Addams. Since then she and her kooky family — Gomez and Morticia, young son Pugsley, Uncle Fester and a disembodied hand, Thing — have become pop icons.

Catherine Zeta-Jones plays

Morticia in this new adaptation by director Tim Burton. Christina Ricci, who took the character Wednesday to another level in the Addams Family films of the 1990s, is in the new series but in a different role.

Ortega makes the gloomy girl her own in this new show.

Over eight episodes of “Wednesday,” the lead character is forced to be the new girl at a fancy boarding school after getting caught torturing boys who bullied her brother. The school has a place in Addams Family’s history — her parents met there decades earlier.

Trying to carve out her own niche within the student body, Wednesday goes on quests, attempting to solve mysteries while keeping her own identity as a novelist and musician.

Murder, betrayal, friendship and deep family connections that never seem to die are all carefully dissected and explored.