‘Wednesday’ Seems To Miss The Entire Point Of The Addams Family

Which … kind of ruins the entire point of The Addams Family? Obviously, we’ll reserve judgment until the series comes out, but historically, the joke of The Addams Family is that they are utterly unique, macabre weirdos who inexplicably exist within an otherwise ordinary, conformist society. In the original comics by Charles Addams, the joke often boiled down to a typical slice of Americana that became delightfully grotesque when filtered through the Addams Family’s sensibilities, whether it was freaking out a babysitter –

Or preparing to pour boiling oil on their Christmas caroling neighbors –

And this was never better expressed than in the ‘90s movies, like in Addams Family Values, where Wednesday and Pugsley are forced to attend a disquietingly wholesome summer camp.