Wednesday full of woe
ADDAMS GIRL’S ON CASE
WEDNESDAY
(Netflix from Wednesday, naturally) ★★★★★
THE tremendously twisted young lady from The Addams Family gets her own modernday spin-off series, with Jenna Ortega in the starring role.
And she’s every bit as sick as she was in the original movies, you’ll be thrilled to hear.
Having been expelled from her regular school (attempted murder apparently being against its stuffy old rules), Wednesday reluctantly enrols at Nevermore Academy, a place where the students are more her kind.
Outcasts, freaks, monsters, that sort of thing. Not that she’s the sort to make friends that easily, as her over-pally roommate Enid soon learns.
“You can save the sanitised sales pitch,” she sneers. “I don’t plan on staying here for long.”
At the heart of the story is a supernatural mystery that once embroiled her parents (Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman). It’s one Wednesday is determined to get to the bottom of.
Other stars include Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday in the 90s.
THE ADDAMS FAMILY Creepy kid: Wednesday Addams Loring Played by: Christina Ricci, Lisa
THE new Wednesday series stars Christina Ricci as mysterious Marilyn Thornhill. But in 1991’s The aged 10, she played Wednesday Addams Family movie and its sequel.
She went on to star in movies including Sleepy Hollow and The Matrix Resurrections as well as a host of TV and stage in roles.
Christina, 42, wed James Heerdegen in 2013. They had a son but divorced in 2020 after a troubled marriage. She has since married hair stylist Mark Hampton and had a daughter.
Lisa Loring was six when she played Wednesday in the 1960s Addams Family TV and divorced Now 64, she has married and divorced four times including from porn star Jerry Butler.