Streaming on: Netflix

Episodes viewed: 4 of 4

It feels bizarre that Wednesday returns at a time when Halloween is still months away. The show that became a runaway Netflix hit — while creatively reinvigorating director Tim Burton and turning Jenna Ortega into a generational star — radiates creepy, kooky and altogether ooky vibes, spinning the Addams Family character into her own Harry Potter -for-goth-kids YA detective series with hugely fun results. But Wednesday ’s return at the height of summer speaks to Netflix ’s blockbuster approach for the show’s second season — much bigger and starrier, a Stranger Things -like glow-up in scope, with somewhat mixed results.

The not-so-secret weapon in Season 1 was Ortega herself — knockout casting, elevating the material with de

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