Netflix's "Wednesday" (Season 2)

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Originally Posted by Mr. Chaverria

This is sort of how I felt watching what little of S1 that I did. Ortega is good as is her character. It's just everything else around her doesn't mesh well too much.

Just chiming in with agreement, although I liked S1. Wednesday is a misanthrope, so having a series revolve around her is challenging. I feel it fails at the school because everyone is still personally connected to Wednesday at some level. If the school and staff had their own plot(s) going on more independently of Wednesday, and Wednesday just gloomed through their stories peripherally as a sort of killjoy detective, it would actually be very similar to your classic literary detective novels, where the detective has little connection to the people they're investigating, and might work better. And the rest of her family -- God, that was the worst part of S1, and S2 has more of them. Thing is great. Fester is okay. The rest need to go away.

That said, Jenna Ortega carried the show pretty much singlehandedly in S1. And one thing they got decidedly right in S1 is that when a character is dead certain that they're always right and everyone else is wrong, that character is going to take things too far and do something very bad. And, bless the writers for their bravery on this, they went there.