Wednesday’s Teen is Full of Woe
Wednesday Adams is the hero of this epic series, a coming-of-age comedy set in Nevermore Academy, a Hogwarts-like school, close to the dead-end town of Jericho. Wednesday is a pale, snarky, goth teen full of woe and murderous intent. Allergic to colour, contentious, and unemotional, Jenna Ortega plays the part of a psychic literary genius. A kung fu fighting, fencing master, she is armed with both the gadgets and the skill of an escape artist, which might put even
James Bond to shame. Add dark humour, and Wednesday is well framed by Mortisha as 'my little storm cloud'.
Directed by Tim Burton, and with a cast like Gomez-played by Luis Guzman, Morticia- Catherine Zeta-Jones, dorm mate Enid Sinclair- Gwendoline Christie, Dr Valerie Kinbott- Riki Hindhome, and dorm mother- Thora Birch, no money has been spared.
Special effects and rich sounds serenade us playfully with the likes of Roy Orbison, and Angela Aguilar's La Llorona, a love song, to which vampires, werewolves, gargoyles, goblins and seers fight over a magical realm that sets Nevermore Academy apart from the local town's folk.
The sanitised and slightly nauseous Enid and the pirana-pitching gothic girl, thrash it out to become good friends,
alongside Wednesday's true romance Tyler Galpin, played by Hunter Doohan. Bad guy Rowan, and vampiress Yoko Tanaka played by Naomi Ogawa, are Wednesday's adversaries, and Rowan leaves behind a truly evil and hauntingly dark mystery to be followed to the very end.
