At the beginning of WednesdayWednesday Addams hates high school, but this surprisingly changes as the show progresses. Wednesday, by Jenna Ortega, is a teenage member of the modernized gothic Addams family and is sent to boarding school among the other “misfits” of the world. At the beginning of the show, Wednesday is vehemently anti-school. When she is expelled from public school, her family is left thinking about other options. As a result, an establishing scene in the first episode is quite ironic upon learning of Wednesday’s important fate at her new school.
When she is sent to Nevermore Academy, a school for teenagers with supernatural abilities and general misfits where her parents, Morticia and Gomez, met, she first stands firm in her convictions. The irony of Wednesday’s initial approach to school is that she inadvertently becomes close friends with her roommate and classmate as they defeat a common evil – a monster terrorizing the town, who isn’t even among Nevermore’s misfits. Wednesday The cast of unique characters represents the many facets of friendship that Wednesday realizes he needs in his life and that maybe school isn’t the worst after all.
Wednesday Addams instantly criticizes the concept of school
The character Deadpan doesn’t understand friendship at first
WednesdayThe opening scene shows Wednesday being expelled from public school for throwing live piranhas into the pool as a prank, seriously injuring several members of the school’s swim team. Wednesday Criticizes Coming-of-Age Social Rituals of High School Prom and Events and has no qualms about his isolation, as he maintains close and unique ties with his family.
When she arrives at Nevermore, she first assumes it will be just as bad as her old school. She says: “I’m not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of teenagers in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago…but I admire the sadism.”
Wednesday’s deadpan personality sets her apart from her peers. She longs to study in an environment that intrigues her, and until now, she has never experienced this at school. Although he prefers to write and pursue his array of other macabre interests, his chosen isolation is at the heart of his disdain for formal education. Because she doesn’t understand the importance of community at the start of the show, she begins her Nevermore experience with very low expectations. At the end of the first season, Wednesday proves her wrong.
How Wednesday’s view of school completely changes at the end of the first season
Wednesday realizes he likes having partners in crime
When a series of murders begins to terrorize the nearby Nevermore town of Jericho, Vermont, Wednesday uses her psychic abilities to realize that a mysterious monster is the killer. As the show unfolds and the monster is revealed to be none other than the sheriff’s son, Tyler, Wednesday teams up with his classmates to defeat a common enemy, realizing that the real monsters are judgmental people.
Wednesday’s anti-establishment and anti-colonialism themes challenge traditional notions of the Addams Family’s character. Although expressionless, she is not entirely devoid of emotions, and her familial ties help her recognize the importance of solidarity throughout the show. Although some of the teenage characters in Wednesday can be a bit monstrous at times, Wednesday changing her mind about school sets up a cast-driven second season, due to arrive in 2025.