Wednesday's Library: Delightfully Dark Quotes and Gothic Tales from One Grim Girl (Addams Family)

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In the Broadway musical The Addams Family, Morticia refers to Grandmama as Gomez and Uncle Fester's mother, Mantilla, Ryan Louis (November 23, 2022). " ' Wednesday 's Production Designer Discusses the Inspirations Behind the Show's Gothic Look". Collider. Archived from the original on December 7, 2022 . Retrieved December 9, 2022. Pedersen, Erik (February 23, 2023). "Australia's International Awards: Avatar: The Way Of Water, Cate Blanchett & Austin Butler Take Top Prizes – Full List". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on February 23, 2023 . Retrieved February 24, 2023.

Zarnosa, Laura (November 23, 2022). " Wednesday Reboots the Addams Family With a Biting Condemnation of Colonialism—Just in Time For Thanksgiving". Time. Archived from the original on November 30, 2022 . Retrieved December 2, 2022. In the 1977 television holiday-themed special, Halloween with the New Addams Family, Lisa Loring plays a grown-up Wednesday, who mostly entertains their party guests with her flute, and can hear and understand coded help messages by bound-up members of the family, and dispatch help to free them. In the time interval between the original TV series and this television movie, her parents had two more children who look just like the original Pugsley and Wednesday. Hailu, Selome (December 21, 2022). " ' Wednesday ' Debuts With Nielsen's Second Biggest Streaming Week of All Time". Variety. Archived from the original on December 24, 2022 . Retrieved December 21, 2022. According to data from users of TV Time collected by Whip Media, Wednesday had the second-most pre-release followers of any Netflix original series on the platform, behind only The Witcher; [68] it ultimately debuted at number one on Netflix in 83 countries. [69] The series holds the record of most hours viewed in a week for an English-language Netflix series with a total 341 million hours watched in its first week of release, amounting to more than 50 million households, and passing prior record holder Stranger Things 4 's 335 million hours. [70] Nielsen Media Research reported a combined watch time of 6 billion minutes within its first week of release, making it the second-biggest streaming week ever recorded by the firm. [71] Three weeks after its release, it became the second-most watched English-language Netflix series in the history of the platform, reaching an estimated 150 million households and totaling 1 billion viewing hours. [72] Jacob Stolworthy of The Independent called the series's popularity "unprecedented" and suggested that it could jumpstart development of several other spin-off television series. [73] Critical response [ edit ] Amidon, Aurora (November 27, 2022). " Wednesday 's Big Dance Scene Was Inspired by Siouxsie Sioux and Goth Clubs". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on November 27, 2022 . Retrieved November 27, 2022.Anderson, John (November 22, 2022). " ' Wednesday ' Review: Addams Family Adolescence". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on November 30, 2022 . Retrieved November 23, 2022. Wednesday Addams has darkened our screens once again in Netflix’s fantastic new show Wednesday! Played by Jenna Ortega, this new series features the whole Addams funky bunch and some fun new characters ( I’m looking at you Enid). Wednesday has been portrayed by several actresses in various films and television series, including Lisa Loring in the television series The Addams Family (1964–1966) and in the television film Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977); Christina Ricci in the feature films The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993); Nicole Fugere in the direct-to-video film Addams Family Reunion (1998) and in the television series The New Addams Family (1998–1999); and Jenna Ortega in the streaming television series Wednesday (2022). In the 1977 television holiday-themed special, Halloween with the New Addams Family, Lisa Loring plays a grown-up Wednesday, who mostly entertains their party guests with her flute, and can hear and understand coded help messages by bound-up members of the family, and dispatch help to free them. In the time interval between the original TV series and this television movie, her parents had two more children who look just like the original Pugsley and Wednesday, and they appropriately are called Wednesday Jr and Pugsley Jr, respectively.

a b Carrie, Stephanie (March 6, 2015). "A Christina Ricci Doppelganger Creates a Series About Wednesday Addams As an Adult". LA Weekly . Retrieved March 16, 2015.Wednesday has always had a strained relationship with her mother. For most of the series, it can be seen that Wednesday has a one-sided rivalry with Morticia, often defying and rebelling against her. Although Morticia loves her daughter and wants the best for her, she is incapable of getting close to her. After she resolved the crime of Garrett Gates, Wednesday left her hatred behind and reconciled with Morticia. The Hyde, however, does not originate from a Poe story or poem. It is a loving homage to the featured secondary character in Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The book is about the handsome, wealthy, and erudite chemist, Dr. Henry Jekyll, a community pillar and a living saint who treats the poorest in Victorian London, and takes no pay. He is engaged to a society lady. Dr. Jekyll takes one walk on the wild side and gets hooked on transformation. He becomes a beast who calls himself Mr. Hyde, who is wanted by the authorities for abuses around the city. The series casts him as a literary hybrid, a mythological monster who only exists in the Wednesday universe.