WEDNESDAY: Episode 2.1

Name: WEDNESDAY: Episode 2.1
Item: WEDNESDAY: Episode 2.1
Author: Review

"Wednesday’s Back and She’s Not Smiling"

Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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What You Need To Know:

Netflix’s popular series WEDNESDAY returns to Nevermore Academy. In the first episode of Season two, Wednesday Adams is now a begrudging school celebrity and the target of a mysterious stalker. This highly anticipated second season promises new monsters, magic, characters, and suspicions in a new era for Nevermore. The rest of the Adams family joins her at school. The new principal aims to bring tradition back and is desperate for help. Pugsley struggles to fit in. The strife between mother and daughter continues. Crows watch and attack—the undead rise. An unknown stalker tries to kill Wednesday. She plays detective again this season, but will her actions have dire consequences?

The first episode of Season 2 of WEDNESDAY has an overarching moral worldview that incorporates a strong sense of justice and friendship, alongside an occult worldview. Wednesday is a vigilante who often ignores authority. However, despite her selfish ways, she does the right thing at the core of her actions when it counts. Caution advised for older children, including young teenagers, and sensitive adults due to the occult references, violence and gore.

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(B, OO, VV, MMM):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

An overall moral worldview although with some questionable moral decisions that are often pictured as out of place even in this fantasy world. There are many occult and magical references. Wednesday is notoriously self-centered and egotistical but upholds strong values of justice and friendship when it matters most, often driving her actions throughout the series. She is usually hyper-focused on her own agenda, often callous in her approach and without empathy for others around her. Ultimately though, she has a moral sense of justice, even if her approach isn’t always ethical. The Adams Family is known for being aloof, eccentric, and often destructive for their own ends, usually for comedic value to highlight their odd tenancies. Their depiction in this adaptation does show a loving family at its core that deeply cares for one another that doesn’t seem to wish serious harm to others. Wednesday is the picture of adolescent rebellion against her parents, and throughout the series her flaws are continually being exposed and challenged. An occult worldview as well, often referencing magical powers, unnatural creatures, undead, spell books, talismans, and spiritual forces that do not align with Christian values, despite being comedic in nature.

Foul Language:

No foul;

Violence:

Strong violence depicted throughout, including the use of weapons (taser, swords, crossbow, attacks with magical powers, a myriad of other weapons shown), physical attacks (crow attacks, electricity used on people, Thing beating a serial killer), and stalking (pictures with eyes cut out and sent as a threat and setting up a trap to get Wednesday killed in a fire). There is also a scene where a young Wednesday is nailing her baby brother into a coffin. Bodies, blood and gore are shown.;

Sex:

No sex, but there is an adulterous couple making out in secret while clothed and parents often shown being suggestive and kissing as a photographer documents. Teenagers are also shown kissing in a dorm;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

No alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drug use; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Wednesday is kidnapped by a serial killer, but she does ultimately escape with the help of thing and it is implied that she “scalps” him. Thing steals evidence from a police station for Wednesday. Wednesday threatens to “eject” Pugsley from his seat in the car if he does not do as she asks. Enid is avoidant towards her boyfriend and avoids communicating about their relationship. The principal blackmails a student into a fundraising position. Wednesday is often rude and inconsiderate towards her mother, a main source of conflict in the show. Wednesday overall is the picture of teenage rebellion that has a total disregard for rules and authority figures throughout.

More Detail:

Netflix’s popular series WEDNESDAY returns to Nevermore Academy, and after a productive summer, Wednesday Adams is now a begrudging school celebrity and the target of a mysterious stalker. This highly anticipated second season promises new monsters, magic, characters, and suspicions in a new era for Nevermore. Caution advised for older children, including young teenagers, and sensitive adults due to the occult references, violence and gore.

Picking up after the events of Season 1, Wednesday has had an eventful summer. After mastering her psychic abilities with the help of a spell book, she now finds herself kidnapped and tied up in a serial killer’s basement. After using her psychic powers to track a favorite elusive serial killer, The Kansas City Scalper. With Thing’s help, she obtains an object from one of his crime scenes to physically locate him. Now all she needs to do is get through TSA security. When she confronts the serial killer, she freezes with a vision as new black tears fall from her eyes. He kidnaps her and ties her up in his creepy doll-filled basement. Once she is free with Thing’s help, it is implied that she “scalps” the killer, and he is arrested.

At the Adam’s mansion, the family prepares for Pugsley’s first year at Nevermore Academy. He has discovered his new talent of shooting electricity from his hands. The family is proud of his new ability as he shoots road signs on their drive to the town of Jericho, Vermont. Car crashes and explosions follow in their wake.

At Nevermore Academy, Wednesday finds herself something of a celebrity among the other students after saving the school. The overly enthusiastic new principal, Barry Dort, states that his goal is to return Nevermore to its former glory, and he’s hoping to gain the whole Adam’s family’s support, including Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the strife between mother and daughter continues. Crows watch and attack—the undead rise. An unknown stalker tries to kill Wednesday. She plays detective again this season, but will her actions have dire consequences?