

zombie-like moves at the school dance to the tune of the Cramps’ ‘Goo Goo Muck’ - with a deadly straight face, no less - create one of the top television moments of the year. “She embodies Wednesday with her flat affectation and utter disdain for her peers. “Ortega kills as the gifted, nihilistic teen who’d rather hang out in a crypt than a club,” Ali writes. Wesley's story appeals to the dark side in all of us. It's a harsh and uncensored examination of one man's extraordinary heel turn. That's the subversive vibe Mark Millar was going for. Reviewing “Wednesday” for the Los Angeles Times, TV critic Lorraine Ali lauded Ortega’s stone-cold performance and deemed the hit mystery series “brilliant on every level.” WANTED reads like something you scrape off the bottom of your shoe, and I mean that as a compliment.

On Tuesday, Netflix announced that “Wednesday” had broken the platform’s record for most hours viewed within a week for an English-language show, with 341.2 million hours streamed - surpassing the previous record set by the fourth season of “Stranger Things.” The spooky series debuted at No. “But it felt kind of one-note and she’d always have to return home at night to the family that wanted to get away from.” “Because of the ‘Harry Potter’ of it all should she be at a regular school and then be a fish out of water?” he continued. In previous “Addams Family” projects, Wednesday “was never the center of the scene,” Millar told IndieWire. Watch the trailer for Netflix’s ‘Wednesday,’ which follows the Addams family’s daughter as she enrolls at her parents’ creepy alma mater. Television ‘Mystery, mayhem and murder’: ‘Wednesday’ trailer debuts a new Addams family
