This reminded me of the office: Jim: "If we continue doing our work, they will calm down" Michael: "Monkey see, monkey do" Jim (glancing at camera): "ye.." (saying yes) Michael (cutting him off): "Monkey pee all over you" Jim (into camera): 😐
EXACTLY. Fav part of this whole video - I watched this show with my brother and he obvs had crushes on both Enid and Wednesday, and he was like "So do you like either of the guy characters????" And I was like... "not really no" and. This is why. Personality?? PASS
Xavier: limp wet rag. Tyler: depressed limp wet rag. At least the actor did a great job at the end. But Xavier...? Eh. Wish he'd been a monster victim. The series felt way too much like Netflix was trying to rip off the WC.
"What are their personalities?" One's a tortured artist romantic kind of guy, and the other one is a gaslighting complete psychopath with severe daddy issues.
It's wild to think that this whole thing happened because two screenwriters collided in a hotel hallway and accidentally mixed up their pitches. Because of that moment Velma wound up as a sassy misanthrope making fun of everyone at her school and Wednesday went around solving supernatural mysteries. smh
I remember watching Wednesday getting healed by the ghosts and thinking: "Yep, this is going to be the "barely an inconvenience" bit of the pitch meeting"
Jenna Ortega recently pointed out these inconsistencies with her character in a podcast, and a producer got really mad at her for "trashing" the show's writers 😂
I've heared she's gonna be an executive producer for the next season so we'll see if she'll manage to improve something...I just hope she doesn't push on the horror aspects *_too hard_* because I'm a scaredy cat and she has already been in a couple of horrors...I don't trust her _too_ much...;"-S
@@MsDragonbal776 that is quite a low bar as a standard. The show is well produced, but badly written. It held up because of its production values and acting quality.
Show would have made more sense if Wednesdays cheery roommate was the detective and Wednesday was just along for the ride and her doing bad sht inadvertently solved the crime.
Yes exactly. Isn't it ridiculous how often random viewers understand a show and it's characters WAY more than the writers of the show or movie. Countless times lol. House MD, starwars and more lol.
Gomez’s powers always seemed to be superhuman luck. Makes tons of money without even trying, gets in and out of life threatening situations without a scratch, landed Morticia, and his daughter is the biggest success on Netflix since Squid Game.
@@decembersbitch7694 That would be fine if that was the message the show was trying to get across and had her learn a valuable lesson like teamwork or something. But instead the show constantly tries to show how brilliant she is by figuring out all these impossible clues to things she shouldnt even know about, and then, only has her fail as a device to mislead the audience so that you, the audience, feels like the show writer was just oh so smart because she tricked you. Her failing at being a detective was just a plot device to make you think the show writer was better at her job than she really is. This is how writers try to 'plot twist', and its pathetic. Its certainly no Shyamalan.
@@Kugrox i guess but for me it worked i was so mad when i figured the twist but kinda happy that it wasnt so obvious choice because when show/film do the obvious choice its kinda stupid .
Jenna Ortega has said in interviews that she was aware that Wednesday's character was inconsistently written and even tried to change some of the dialogue herself, though she was overruled by the showrunners.
I'm glad at least one person noticed that Wednesday is actually a pretty bad detective and was wrong about everything unless the answer just gets directly told to her. She also got two people killed, and yet she stayed pretty smug throughout the entire show.
Lol exactly. She's literally nowhere near as smart as she thinks she is but has convinced herself that she is absolutely correct in all of her "detective work" lmao
"She also got two people killed." I didn't watch the show but if you mention that to show that she's bad at being a detective, then I have to assume she didn't get those people killed on purpose.
I love how during the boat race one team literally tried to decapitate another team and no one batted an eye. And then in a later episode half the school is horrified at the idea of interrogating an accused murderer.
It's weirder for me that they build a complex decapitation machine, but no one thought of a propeller. Even if it's driven by pedals, thigh muscles are much stronger than arm's.
@@Franktamas No Rules! So using what we learn in Season 1... Wednesday might suggest/help build say a Steam, Compressed Air, and/or Rocket/Explosive assisted propulsion...
I think they were more horrified at torturing someone who was at best accused of a crime than they were at interrogating a known murderer, but it is still very strange yes.
Ohhh yeah yeah yeah I get it. By “wholesome” you mean “horribly cynical greed that has slowly begun to unravel the very fabric of what we consider well written media”
"She must be a pretty good detective." "Yeah she had a vision about it and then the killers admitted to it." "Well that seems like cheating." LMAO got 'em. Best part.
"Young kid use tiktok, young kid like trends, young kid watch show." Confirmed- Ryan has hidden microphones inside these studio exec conference rooms. There's no other explanation.
yeah, exactly. although at a certain point in the show i could understand the rational of "I only want to get expelled if it was my own doing" like I can see there being a shot to her pride if she was expelled due to disappointment or a failure on her part. But early on in the show there was no reason for her to care although, again, this Wednesday seems to be self motivated and for whatever reason wants to succeed, but only at the things she wants to succeed at. So, if you do enough mental gymnastics, it makes sense in a certain way.
Literally the last line of the first episode is her changing her mind and saying “I think I’m going to like it here.” How did so many people miss this?
She wanted to solve the murder case because of that weird prophecy that involved her. It was her personally project and getting kicked out would’ve hampered investigation. She was curious and apparently became “friends” with some students
Yeah but then she dies because the plot needs her to. They also treat everything about her original character that remains as if it's a character flaw which kinda defeats the entire point of the entire franchise
@@Merilirem she isn't particularly pretty when compared to other women in that show.. I mean the actress is really pretty without the Wednesday get up.
Yeah I was kind of thinking the same thing; it would have been an easy fix to rewrite her character (still being spooky and kooky but having a better moral compass).
@@RossiGastone _Why make a complex nuanced character one dimensional?_ It's possible to both (1) not write a one dimensional character; and (2) not write someone behaving out of character. It's not as if our only two options for a character are one-dimensional and inconsistent. For example, a certain villainous character in the horror film _The Barbarian_ was complex and not one-dimensional.
I remember telling my roommate I was confused that Wednesday was upset about the murder and she was like “who wouldnt be?” and the answer is just… the Addams Family love murder. I have seen so much Addams content they love murder I was so confused
Well it started as just her wanting to solve the mystery to prove she could. That people were dying wasn't really an issue for her until later when she started getting attached to some of them.
@@ExtremeMadnessX Well the things is they don't see pain/death as suffering or macabre most ppl do. With them it's tend to view it as the mundane or playful fun so yeah while The Adams wouldn't go out of their way to torture and/or kill someone they wouldn't act so bleak towards the act itself
If you like watching Ryan "tear things apart", then I'm pretty sure you're not understanding why he's doing this at all. It doesn't come from a place of, omg, this is so dumb, I hate it.
Someone else suggested they wanted to make a monster type teen drama, then shoehorned the Addams family into it, and i can't stop thinking how much the show comes off that way
@@axiss5840 I was going to say the same, e.g. Die Hard 4 & 5 seem like they were written as standalone movies but the writers thought they might fail so they slapped John McClane in as the central character. There are many other examples though I can't think of them off the top of my head (probably because they were so forgettable). I tried watching an episode of Riverdale because I thought it had something to do with the Archie comics but after the character introductions, that's where the similarities ended.
@Ricky Thackray You're right about Die Hard 4 but Did Hard 5 was actually the very first time that a Die Hard movie (including the first Die Hard movie) was originally written as a Die Hard movie The first Die Hard was written as a sequel to a Frank Sinatra movie from 1968. When Frank Sinatra turned it down the studio retooled it into an original story. Die Hard 2-4 were original scripts that were bought by the studio then retooled into Die Hard sequels.
I thought it was more that they saw themselves as normal, so they considered normal people to be the weird unfortunate ones, so they had sympathy for them and their unfortunate situation. Their extended family are all similarly weird in varying ways and so to them it was normal to be strange. Anyone who wasn't strange in some way it was like they were handycapped or unfortunate to be so bland.
It's like this was pitched as an original series about a sarcastic dark teen detective who investigates a murder but they didn't think it'd garner interest so they decided to call her Wednesday Addams and tied her background back to the Addams family after the show was written.
You're waaaaaaay overthinking it. This was always supposed to be a franchise spin off, because it's inherently gonna generate more hype and recognization. What you witness in the video above is pretty much how it went down: greed and stupidity.
@@Narcan885 Yes and no. See, the guys who wrote this have dreams. They write scripts for projects they want to make. They, however, also know that using an existing IP makes the greenlight way more likely, so they turn the projects they have into existing IPs so it's "pitchable" to Netflix, or Prime, HBO, etc. And that's how you have old characters doing this kind of stuff. Wednesday is the baby project of someone who wanted to make a Harry Potter kind of show, but didn't had Harry Potter money.
He really addressed what I'd been thinking. I was eagerly waiting for someone to tell Crackstone " You have magic. You are literally an outcast!" Probably Bianca with some sass. Missed opportunity 😭
That finale was really bad. It would of made much more sense for the two of them to use that black book of magic to cast some curse that did something horrible to the monster students, leaving only the humans to deal with everything.
“Outcast” isn’t a condition. It’s not like alopecia: “Hey, that kid’s bald; must be an outcast.” It’s how you’re treated BASED on what you are, not simply what you are. Crackstone created those outcasts by casting them out of society for their perceived differences. He was the literal arbiter and nexus of the in-group. The rules didn’t have to apply to him because he made the rules.
I've been hoping since seeing the series that somebody in season 2 will tell Laurel... Somebody: "uhm... yeah... so... Plant controlling necromancers with brainwashed monster slaves aren't exactly... 'normies'." Laurel: "What... What are you talking about?" Somebody: "You're an outcast, you loony witch. Your genocidal lich grandpa is too."
He could be more motivated by power and profit than hate, using the prejudices of the "normals" to get rid of people that probably had land that he wanted.
Lol I remember that crossed my mind. I wondered how the normie villain came back from the dead with powers..making him one of the monsters he's trying to kill?? Make it make sense
"Just despised anything outcast-related or related to magic." "So how does he get brought back to life?" "Magic. He has a magic staff and does magic stuff..." Painfully accurate!
Yeah I liked the show, but the weakest part was the villain in the finale. Using magic to bring back the guy who hated magic who then uses magic to fight the students and he was around for all of 10 minutes, like whaaaaat
But wasn't that kinda the point? Most bigots are hypocrites and act according to the "for me, but not for thee" philosophy. His and Laurel's reasoning is probably also so warped that they believe he was destined by God to be resurrected by any means necessary.
@@broco1163 He hated anyone who didn't follow him and he hated outsiders, as seen with how the town turned out to be a place where conformity was important. When he was accusing Goody of witchcraft, she implied that he was actually the one using witchcraft. Compared to him, Goody's powers were natural to her and her family.
@@secret120 I like several pitch meetings but this was Absolute Perfection when it came out and is still Absolute Perfection a year later. I don't think you can surpass it. 💯
The only class Wed seemed to attend during the series was studying plants. They could easily have had her staying at her Great Grandmothers house along with other relatives (some hoping for inheritance, some angry to be there, a few stuck with home schooling their relatives). Could have made the whole thing work and been consistent but they really wanted to ram the Hogwarts angle in there.
That's... basically an Addams Family Danganronpa. Which I think really only makes sense if Wednesday is the mastermind, or else she's pissed that it's being done worse than she would do it.
@@kamenanew9867 Toy Story, he feels bad about having Buzz freeze around humans despite not believing he's a toy. That's just off the top of my head it does occur every now and then.
The whole charm of the original show was that they were weird and more macabre than others, but saw themselves as normal and "normal" people as the weird ones, as well as despite their wacky nature, were still family who all genuinely cared for each other (which at the time the original show was made, was ironically more rare)
It always floors me how so many writers today quite literally don’t understand source material when it’s so obvious and easy to. You encapsulated TAF in a paragraph.
I love how Ryan has just as much interest in the unnecessary love triangle as we all do... IE, not at all! Even Jenna thought that Wednesday didn't even need a love interest.
@@lukacvitkovic8550 as long as People hatewatch Emily In Paris or 365 days and thus set standards for " good" viewership for a show, we will never get further seasons of good shows - I also really liked archive 81, but well
Actually, this was one of the best Pitch Meetings I've seen. You managed to point out a lot more issues with this show, than anyone else, and in a super funny way.
@@RossiGastone Gomez should be strange looking, but handsome. That is always how he was described. Fester was always the the creepy one, but thought of as handsome by the adams clan. The fact that they picked this guy to play gomez just shows you how much they hate men. he didnt touchon that, but he did manage to pick apart everything else wrong. love how he kept pointing out how the base line of the comedy in the original, was to focus on how odd the Adams were compared to everyone else, yet here they put them in a hogwarts scenario, where that is just gone. The animated version did it better, where they really pushed that against a martha stewart type.
@@ZimCrusher It's not just his appearance. his acting is garbage and he has no energy whatsoever. Go back and watch the 1991 movie to see THE REAL GOMEZ ADAMS.
Yeah the personality thing struck me as being weirdly inconsistent too, I figured they would have her change / evolve over time because a main character needs to be relatable and have a trajectory but she would shift back and forth constantly between the 2. It was really strange (and not in the good way).
Watch the original 1960s show or the 90s movie. They have always been inconsistent. The morbid way they talk about things never reflects how they react to things happening in front of them. The problem from the get go is that the entire tone of the Addams Family has been humorous and morbid. So they constantly have to walk a fine line where they don't get too dark. And the characters are usually very chipper and positive about things so it's never possible to square anything up.
Wednesday saying she loves watching horrible things happen whilst trying to prevent horrible things feels like those people who won't shut up about love and friendship whilst being mean to those who don't accept their love and friendship
I mean, that's kind of the point. She's an edgy teenager who starts to learn that you can be macabre while still caring about others and having friends.
@@WelcomeApathy But I mean she isnt faking, she genuinely is ok with murder. She has her own attempted murder case right in the first episode. She loves pretending to be dead in a morgue. Its not a case of a teen ib denial, she is literally flip flopping due to writing.
Typical nihilistic/emo teenager, though. I think I was able to accept Wednesday as she was because I saw her as maturing and also pulling away from her mother and therefore their traditional family values (like enjoying murder). She put on the facade of not caring but she really didn't want to see her friends get hurt. She's maturing. I did think that putting her into a school of even more monstrous kids was weird; the Addams family was supposed to be oddities amongst normal humans. I think it would have made more sense if she was in a regular boarding school (and maybe found out later that her roommate was a werewolf).
To be fair, it's not that far-fetched that a teenager would talk a big game, but not actually live up to it. I suppose it comes down to whether that makes any sense for Wednesday Addams specifically. Assuming that's what the writers were going for, and it's not just a substantial narrative inconsistency. Which it may be.
@@jacobd1984 doesn't addams family movies and such have issues portraying addams as consistent in general? for if they are for or against good things/bad things
@@durttheelder4035 I couldn’t really tell you, I haven’t seen them. But the whole “good is bad and bad is good thing” does tend to be ppl nonsensical if you put too much thought into it in most stories (like the show The Good Place, for instance, if you’ve seen that).
My God this is accurate. Basically hit everything I was annoyed by, especially the whole "fish out of water" storyline at a literal school for monsters
The show is really fun, but there are moments where you have to suspend disbelief. For example, when Wednesday and Morticia blackmail the mayor to have charges against the father dropped - the show cuts to the sheriff releasing him, and they're both suddenly on good terms after a decades-long conflict.
@@Deuteromis For what it is, it's a 6/10. As an Addams Family tie-in, it feels really out of place. It's worth a watch, but at thr dame time, you aren't missing much.
As a werewolf who can't actually turn into werewolf nor displays any wolf-like qualities I appreciate Wednesday's roommate. I hope my friend who's a vampire that doesn't have any vampiric powers, weakness to sunlight nor appetite for blood finds some representation in this show as well.
I mean it was 400 years ago so it’s possible for some unknown inbreeding to happen. It happens all the time with a lot of people and they never realize. Your husband could be like your 10th cousin branched off from 400 years ago and you’ll never know unless you take a test or something
My main gripe is that Goody isn't an "old time-y" name, it's a form of address. It was short for Goodwife and used for married women, so like Goody Smith instead of Mrs Smith. She would have had an actual first name.
As a parent of a 14 year old girl, I could literally win a medal in kickboxing and my daughter would still be embarrassed by me because we have the same last name. True story btw.
@@lgoamity I remember him doing it in the Toy Story one where producer guy stopped writer guy when he was hitting himself in the head saying "stupid, stupid, stupid" because he had Buzz freezing when people where around even though he doesn't think he is a toy.
They could've angled it as Wednesday being disappointed that he'd be lame enough to get arrested for a murder at all, but they decided to go with "I can't believe you're a murderer". Unreal.
@@Baronnax I mean, the series does make it clear that, though Wednesday is a slightly dark and angsty and disturbed teen, she still does care about the people around her. She defended Gomez against the accusations when she first heard them, basically saying that he wouldn’t do that. The dad she’s known her whole life is quirky and kind and a bit pathetic, so hearing that he committed a hard murder must’ve been world-altering to her. It’s obvious that she isn’t upset that he’s a murderer. She’s upset because she believes that he’s been lying about who he is to her, his daughter, for her entire life. That’s why she acts so hostile to him too, because her trust in him was broken.
@@LinoWalker I recall her actually being excited about destroying the school but it seems like they've made a 180 after the pilot episode. It's not like she cared whether the piranhas might kill one of the swimmers. (Not that real piranhas would ever do that)
_"She stabbed him but he was already poisoned so that makes it okay."_ _"Is that how it works?"_ According to most D&D groups, yes. It works exactly like that.
They did kinda fumble the scene a bit. It's not that they get off because "oh he was poisoned moments before he was stabbed". It's because they're straight up blackmailing the mayor for covering up that the guy was gonna poison the whole school. Morticia is still 100% guilty.
I'd also like to add something nobody seems to talk about, to the point that I don't think they even considered it important in the show even though it clearly should be (though may have been the un-talked reason why Gomez never got convicted); at the end of the day the killing of that guy was clearly A: Self Defense and B: Accidental. He ran himself upon the sword that was held up, Morticia didn't even push forward, and he had made it quite clear he was trying to kill Gomez. Pretty sure that's a major point in any court defense.
It was way easier to argue it was self defense, which I think is what they were going for. That the Nightshade Poison made him more aggressive (even tho they already started fighting) which is why he tried to kill Gomez who didn't have a weapon at the time.
@@andrewsteifer520 It was more the fact that the mayor, who was then sheriff, covered up the true cause of death and preventing it going to trial in order to keep the peace of the town and protect it's, and Nevermore's, reputations. And it was also suggested by Morticia that he was in the Gates' pocket and was more out to protect his own reputation & position. In any case he didn't really care that it was self defence he just didn't want it to go to trial where tensions between the town and Nevermore may boil over, and the truth of what happened could potentially come out which would cause him to lose his position and possibly be convicted of a crime himself for covering up evidence. But assuming he let it go to trial and was able to keep the nightshade evidence supressed a self defence argument would have been a hard sell as there was no witnesses and no supporting evidence for it, it would have basically just been Gomez and Morticia's word of what happened which is not good enough for a successful defence.
@@Onikage55 Oh, there's definitely grounds for a self-defense case, but it would still have to go to trial. The whole thing dissapeared and wrapped up cleanly because of the coverup and then blackmail over said coverup.
This has got to be one of my absolute favorite pitch meetings, the sudden and crippling realization by the writer that he'd totally dropped the ball with her motivations is just "mwah" (chef's kiss) good.
He's not roasting himself, as you can see they're totally different people. One of them has glasses! They clearly cloned Ryan and we have a Clark Kent situation going on.
The entire entertainment industry right now is basically modeled on two things: Adapting stories from original ideas and inserting feminists, hate Fred cuz he has small weenis (Velma), and turn the little mermaid black, female James Bond, and the constant stream of terrible marvel movies.
5:28 Actually, when Wednesday tells her mom about her visions, Morticia says that Goody was an ancestor of Gomez’ and that she was one of the first settlers in Mexico.
@@JLP627 some addams may have married a frump before, like it's literally not impossible considering the outcasts knew each other in their community. Also there are many other psychics at Nevermore, not everyone of them get visions the same way, we actually never saw how Goody used her powers. Like Xavier, he got them while being asleep. So there's also a possibility that they just have the same powers because there were psychics in each of their ancestors.
@@janethnavarro4838 Frump? Sorry, that a supernatural term? Will look it up. Anyway, I think I got your argument. Could also explain why Morticia didn't have a connection with Goody like Wednesday did.
If I had to guess, I'd say Gomez' power, and the power of the Adams in general, is functional immortality. The whole clan is like if the Cenobites wore pinstripes instead of pins.
I think you are onto something. Makes me wonder if they are part ghoul….. Though I was disappointed that they nerfed Gomez Addams power to the point of being virtually useless then made Fester super OP…. Gomez is supposed to be the HEAD Addams who inherited everything even though he is the younger brother.
I had always thought that was implied by Thing, who I had always assumed was an older member of the family, and his existence was to demonstrate that even reduced to nothing but a hand an Addams will always keep coming. Then he got stabbed and they acted like he was dying, so there goes that theory. They really DRASTICALLY downscaled the power level of the Addams family in this series.
@@CuteKnight98 Gomez was pretty accurate to the early comics (though Gomez became much more impressive as the comics continued), we don't really see him do anything in the show to judge him by. The issue IMO is that Raul Julia redefined Gomez in the 1990's movies, for the better, but for the purposes of Wednesday I think it makes sense to use a different depiction so as not to steal focus. Like if Luis Guzman's depiction were replaced with an ultra-suave Javier Bardem as Gomez, we'd be annoyed that the camera followed Wednesday (as fun as Jenna Ortega is), and didn't give us more Javier/Gomez. Plus, in future seasons, it's possible that Luis/Gomez will evolve just as the comics did, closer to Raul/Gomez's ultimate depiction.
The most ridiculous thing during this show was how Wednesday drove every single person around her away by being the worst person short of a bloodthirsty monster and then everyone just forgave her at the end of the season.
Classic Mary Sue. Eveyrone loves her for no reason. It only took until Episode Four for her primary rival at school to admit that she was totally jealous of Wednesday the whole time and mad because her literal magick powers of seduction were unable to keep Wednesday from stealing her boyfriend, which Wednesday was too cool to even want.
@@HerculesBallsInc She gets beaten at the fencing thing almost instantly, ends up helping the villain frame the wrong guy, and accuses several innocent people throughout the show. And almost dies multiple times due to over overconfidence and ego, needing to be bailed out at least 4 times. Whatever your definition of Mary Sue is, it needs to be right proper bonkers to include her
@@JarmamStuff Even the villain falls in love with her! Lol! Other then eventually losing the fencing match against the best person in school, there is literally nothing she does that anyone does better than her. She speaks four languages fluently, gets straight A's, a concert cellist, able to fix any machine, has written a handful of novels, is as familiar with medical information as a doctor, but is only the second-best fencer. All the adults are hapless losers compared to her. You're kidding yourself, mate. You have never met anyone this competent in your life, much less a child.
@@JarmamStuff apparently you don't know what a mary sue is. It's not about the actions of the character, it's about how the narrative and the other characters treat her. The whole time, no matter what she did wrong, she's treated like a hero. We're supposed to root for her. People think she's cool or are jealous of her. That's a textbook mary sue.
@@1112-m6p Well, she acts cool. Literally, no emotion on her face. She is skilled one, so makes an impression. Sure, story treats her well, but that's because otherwise it wouldn't be an interesting story to watch. However, she has dynamics, a character arc, so it's not just like that soulless some other Mary Sue characters.
Minor correction: At one point Morticia does explicitly confirm that Goody was an ancestor on Gomez's side. This still doesn't really explain why they made Tish the other precog in the family when it would've made more sense if it were Gomez but that is the reason her last name is still Addams.
In my head canon, I like to think that it was the introduction of Morticia in to the Addams Family that unlocked the dormant "visions" power and established the dark witch (or whatever) connection to Goody in the Addams bloodline for Wednesday. But it does feel more like a sloppy miss from the writers.
To be fair, given the shows logic, when it comes to the espers, their specific abilities don’t seem to be genetic. Like Xavier’s dad has precognition and he has the ability to bring art to life (though I suppose those powers could come from the mother’s side) And Rowan’s mom is a seer but he has telekinesis. So maybe having a psychic ability at all is genetic, but not the specific ability. Could also explain why Wednesday is allowed to enroll despite keeping her powers secret. If both her parents have Psychic abilities then she would too even if they haven’t been unlocked. After all, Enid could enroll despite not yet being able to wolf out.
Yeah that was a bit of a problem. The historical Gomez was the only normal handsome one that grew up in a family of monsters so he was considered an outcast. His only real super power is a supernatural dexterity. I love Luis Guzman but having a FAT Gomez was really against character for someone who would do backflips to answer the front door. Morticia has always had psychic visions even dating back to the OLD old tv show. Her mother was the "Grandmama" who was a witch that was always talking to the dead. So the pre-cog visions thing really should run in HER side of the family. I think that is why Grandmama was suspiciously NOT in the wednesday series.
Thank you!!! I couldn't understand how and or why the guy who was basically an average due from the 1600s suddenly was reborn with a magic staff and...could use the force? Also it was genuinely embarrassing how little a threat he turned out to be and how quickly he was killed off.
I love that this pitch being uploaded on a Thursday works with the opening joke implying that the exec and producer had to wait almost a full week for the pitch to happen 😂
Damn the one thing I was complaining about in this show was that Wednesday needed to be darker and more excited about bad things happening. Just TALKING about how much you like dark things isnt enough.
I feel like they were afraid to make her a full psychopath, in the end she is just a normal teenager who is pissed most of the time but in the end just wants to be loved... It's comfort TV for young people
I thought the posting gory pictures was nice, but then they immediately ruined it with Thing cutting the jugular... it doesn't take much research to discover that you're nowhere near there when you're starting an autopsy. And her playing music while everyone was screaming and running away was nice, if you don't think about how preposterous that whole situation is - gasoline nobody smells completely melting a bronze statue outside in seconds? And why is everyone screaming and running away from a fire which showed no signs of spreading? For all they knew it was part of the show! I think many of the people happy with this show just never thought about what was happening at all.
@@HerculesBallsInc What? Have you ever seen Adams Family before this? It's a comedy, it's never been serious. They always have off the wall stuff going on. The first two movies are filled with slap stick comedy. A baby gets launched so high into the air, someone see's it out of an airplane window. A bear skin rug comss to life and bites a guys ankle. It's not meant to be taken seriously. Don't try to apply logic to it. It's supposed to be fun, quirky, and a little corny at times, like it's always been. All the movies, the cartoon, and the original show. Only thing it differs from is the comics, where Wednesday was just some normal happy go lucky girl.
@@XDarkNation I knew someone was going to say 'It's a comedy', but are we then supposed to take all the deaths in the show as jokes and Wednesday's worries about being blocked as silly affectations? This is a problem with the series as well - it swings in tone quite wildly and it's not sure if it's a mystery, a comedy, or a teen drama. Probably because the writers aren't sure.
One of my biggest gripes about the show was how different the characters where from their normal attitudes. Everything that went wrong in the show Wednesday would have loved.
But that would hurt whatever the current generations fighting for... They try to bring back the old Adams family type of humor and society will shit itself...
I felt similarly about the show. I liked some elements of it but felt it was closer to scooby do than Adam’s family. Wednesday was never the best at physical things. She wouldn’t have beat up the bullies. She would have manipulated them and destroyed their sanity lol. So focused on solving a murder/monster instead of embracing it … just never felt like Wednesday to me. And the ending was obvious. I called it in like the 2nd episode.
@@willh3972 I know it’s ridiculous. Especially when coming from someone who has had martial art training just because you can throw a kick doesn’t mean you can take down someone twice your size.
This is the new upgraded Wednesday Addams for a new generation of fans who have no idea what that older generation of fans is on about. Why bother with making it about the Addams family then? Pass!
Definitely elements of Scooby Doo, obviously Harry Potter and maybe even a taste of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But yeah, it would have been more in Wednesday's nature to try and make the monster her pet. I was able to enjoy it in the mindset of seeing Wednesday evolve and pull away from her mother's ways by opening up a bit to having friends. She continued to act cold and dark, but really started to care what happened to other people. As a parent of young adults, it rings true to how a lot of teenagers act, being all nihilistic on the outside, but concerned and looking out for others when they think nobody is watching. It's definitely a reinvention of the character, but I wrote it off to her being older and being exposed more to the outside world, so I didn't see it as a big stretch.
Its the same story you see played out in seemingly every teen girl main character with powers. They have different flavors but its all vanilla. I wouldn't have minded if it was an actual new character but they really did just kinda slot a name and some traits vaguely related to that name into a story made for someone else.
1:46 “Woowwwww, so like a person pretty much.” “Yeah pretty much” “Oohhhh people are tight” “Well some are, yeah sure” 💀💀 jesus christ this went over so many heads
Sheriff: Your dad killed someone Netflix’s Wednesday: 😮 oh my this is hideous, I must do an investigation and confront him and mother about it Regular Wednesday: What? Only one? I expected more from him.
@@kelseybaloney4984 I heard that they come in pairs and sometimes even more, and that zoomers are all ‘closet’ homosexuals, which is why they like fat women and are offended by sexy women
I finally watched the show and really enjoyed it. It had some hit-miss story and tone wise but was overall fun. Having watched most of the 60s episodes recently and the 90s movies, I can tell you, you're all wrong about Wednesday's character and reactions. The Addams family always talk dark and macabre, but they behave like normal moral loving people. They joke about dark things, but they usually do the right things. They care about people.
She actually is from Gomez's side of the family. I don't know why people think it was Morticia's side other than both having visions. She can come from a line of witches on both sides.
This was my immediate thought when they said "Goody Adams" in the show like it was a big reveal. I was like ok, well so she got married and changed her name or she died a window. This can't actually be your ancestor then.
funniest part is that the writers don't seem to be aware that "goody" isn't a name. the reason that many of the women involved in the salem witch trials were called "Goody Glover" etc is because goody is short for "goodwife". its a title given to any married woman. "Goody Addams" basically just means "Mrs Addams"
@@Hephera Geez… You’d think that with practically the entire compendium of human history and knowledge, which can be brought up on a whim, sitting in their pockets they couldn’t have delved- at most- one inch deeper on that research? Now _that_ is the epitome of lazy writing.
"Young kid like trend. Young Kid watch show. Producer guy get money."
Sums up Netflix' overall content strategy beautifully.
Reminded me of New Girl "you give me cookie I give you cookie!"
Money!
That bit legit almost had me in tears 😂
Hey, it has much more effort done into it than Velma.
This reminded me of the office:
Jim: "If we continue doing our work, they will calm down"
Michael: "Monkey see, monkey do"
Jim (glancing at camera): "ye.." (saying yes)
Michael (cutting him off): "Monkey pee all over you"
Jim (into camera): 😐
"What are their personalities like?"
"PASS"
I love pitch meeting so much
EXACTLY. Fav part of this whole video - I watched this show with my brother and he obvs had crushes on both Enid and Wednesday, and he was like "So do you like either of the guy characters????" And I was like... "not really no" and. This is why. Personality?? PASS
He does that to most movies and tv shows.
its an evolution of heyshutupso
Xavier: limp wet rag. Tyler: depressed limp wet rag. At least the actor did a great job at the end. But Xavier...? Eh. Wish he'd been a monster victim.
The series felt way too much like Netflix was trying to rip off the WC.
Yesss🎉
"What are their personalities?"
"Pass."
Painfully accurate.
I died at that part 😂
"What are their personalities?"
One's a tortured artist romantic kind of guy, and the other one is a gaslighting complete psychopath with severe daddy issues.
Heh, instead of pass he should have said, "They're both attractive!" Like he usually does lmao.
Makes sense. They were the worst parts of the show
@@noctisocculta4820 except they aren't
"No-one's gonna notice, it's just the core concept of the show." This is just beautiful
Given the suspension of disbelief needed to get through just about anything nowadays I didn't think it was that big of a leap comparitively.
ignoring the core concept of the show is TIGHT!
Literally read this as he said it
Cringe
"And what are their personalities like?"
"Pass... "
Love this
Thought he said "ass" 😆 Subtitles says it too!
This line sent me 🤣
@@Bassquake76 uh he said pass
@@chambersr1176 Well excuuuse me for being hard of hearing and use subtitles which says "ass".
Why is it so often the case that love interests have little to no personality (or are flat cliched charactrers), be the protagonist male or female...
It's wild to think that this whole thing happened because two screenwriters collided in a hotel hallway and accidentally mixed up their pitches. Because of that moment Velma wound up as a sassy misanthrope making fun of everyone at her school and Wednesday went around solving supernatural mysteries. smh
God....well spotted.
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There's no evidence that this ever happened... yet I choose to believe.
@@waltonsimons12 res ipsa loquitur
You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!
I remember watching Wednesday getting healed by the ghosts and thinking: "Yep, this is going to be the "barely an inconvenience" bit of the pitch meeting"
Deus ex machina up the arse.
fr fr!! i was also thinking the same 😂
our thinking is so tight😂
Wow wow wow…..wow
@@kA89917 *T I G H T*
Predicting things is tight!
Jenna Ortega recently pointed out these inconsistencies with her character in a podcast, and a producer got really mad at her for "trashing" the show's writers 😂
I've heared she's gonna be an executive producer for the next season so we'll see if she'll manage to improve something...I just hope she doesn't push on the horror aspects *_too hard_* because I'm a scaredy cat and she has already been in a couple of horrors...I don't trust her _too_ much...;"-S
The show was actually pretty good regardless of her protestations. And, actually, they worked even better because of it.
Yeah, and called her a diva for refusing to do stuff her character would never do despite her being absolutely correct. Getting witcher vibes here 👀😂
@@MsDragonbal776 that is quite a low bar as a standard. The show is well produced, but badly written. It held up because of its production values and acting quality.
@@dutchmilk This is - "I'll watch it and enjoy it, since I ran out of really good stuff" - kind of show.
Show would have made more sense if Wednesdays cheery roommate was the detective and Wednesday was just along for the ride and her doing bad sht inadvertently solved the crime.
Oh my god this is the show I want to watch!
With that sentence you fixed the entire premise
Yes exactly. Isn't it ridiculous how often random viewers understand a show and it's characters WAY more than the writers of the show or movie. Countless times lol. House MD, starwars and more lol.
Dude!!
Imagine the roommate pulling a kramer and just waking in to ask her for help on a case and shes got her brothe strapped up to a murder wheel 😂
This. This actually works better. She can still be the main character btw, just have her be sarky, witty and sinister.
Gomez’s powers always seemed to be superhuman luck. Makes tons of money without even trying, gets in and out of life threatening situations without a scratch, landed Morticia, and his daughter is the biggest success on Netflix since Squid Game.
And her younger brother literally seems indestructible with all the shit Wednesday puts him through
@@Needler13 they all seem to be pretty much unkillable, remember all the things gomez and fester did to one another.
Gomez can talk his way into anything. I also think he was a legacy.
Yeah, when he did a little time in jail - he was offered the best smokes. Even had a pillow!
Good luck or bad luck depending on the perspective. Although landing Morticia is definitely good luck.
Wednesday ultimately being a bad detective is one of the more realistic elements of the show.
But she have vision power so......
@@yaqinmalul6467 Its not really her pure skill then, its helpful but without it she might not be so good.
@@decembersbitch7694 That would be fine if that was the message the show was trying to get across and had her learn a valuable lesson like teamwork or something. But instead the show constantly tries to show how brilliant she is by figuring out all these impossible clues to things she shouldnt even know about, and then, only has her fail as a device to mislead the audience so that you, the audience, feels like the show writer was just oh so smart because she tricked you.
Her failing at being a detective was just a plot device to make you think the show writer was better at her job than she really is. This is how writers try to 'plot twist', and its pathetic. Its certainly no Shyamalan.
@@Kugrox i guess but for me it worked i was so mad when i figured the twist but kinda happy that it wasnt so obvious choice because when show/film do the obvious choice its kinda stupid .
@@decembersbitch7694 fax
Jenna Ortega has said in interviews that she was aware that Wednesday's character was inconsistently written and even tried to change some of the dialogue herself, though she was overruled by the showrunners.
Cavill got fired for that.
I see a pattern here....
Well at least she did her damndest
That's why writers need a union. They don't deserve jobs.
@@MrMirackbruh???? A union would help them keep a better job???
@@pap-fr unions help bad employees to keep good jobs.
The amount of bad writing on TV shows is getting worse, not better.
I'm glad at least one person noticed that Wednesday is actually a pretty bad detective and was wrong about everything unless the answer just gets directly told to her. She also got two people killed, and yet she stayed pretty smug throughout the entire show.
Which didn't bother her in the slightest..
Lol exactly. She's literally nowhere near as smart as she thinks she is but has convinced herself that she is absolutely correct in all of her "detective work" lmao
So she WAS a bed person after all (as in, bad at being a person)
@@Pbav8tor So, for once she's in character.
"She also got two people killed."
I didn't watch the show but if you mention that to show that she's bad at being a detective, then I have to assume she didn't get those people killed on purpose.
This is one of the best pitch meetings I saw in a while 😂. The execution of those plot hole jokes are simply elegant.
Are we talking about Crackstone here? No news that people hatting others for being different are as hypocritical and bigoted as it gets.
@@Dreagostini what are you on about?
congratulations, you just summed up what Pitch Meetings does. Bravo...
@@mishmashmedley Plot holes about Crackstone being.. undead and magical and so on.
@@Dreagostini but he used magic, so no difference. Just witches hating themselves.
“PASS.” 😂😂😂😂 accurate
I hope this catchphrase..uh, catches on..
This had me dying 😂😂
"Monsters aren't supposed to kill people"
"...well..."
I died
Did the monster do it?
'and remember kids, a good pirate never takes another person's property'
@@gOdkNoWsIWTBFoh yeah that ones classic 🤣
I love how during the boat race one team literally tried to decapitate another team and no one batted an eye. And then in a later episode half the school is horrified at the idea of interrogating an accused murderer.
It's weirder for me that they build a complex decapitation machine, but no one thought of a propeller. Even if it's driven by pedals, thigh muscles are much stronger than arm's.
@@Franktamas No Rules! So using what we learn in Season 1... Wednesday might suggest/help build say a Steam, Compressed Air, and/or Rocket/Explosive assisted propulsion...
I think they were more horrified at torturing someone who was at best accused of a crime than they were at interrogating a known murderer, but it is still very strange yes.
the race had no rules.
@@ephraimboateng5239 Same as the whole show.
I love how nonchalantly he says “hey shut up” whenever a plothole or something was pointed out
Think the best bit was when screenwriter guy finally broke down and had no idea where he was going with this and producer has to comfort him haha
I want to work that in with conversations with my boss!!
@@annebruecks7381 hi 😊 do u need a new job?
Well to be fair, the poor guy has been getting a lot of that recently. It's no surprise he's getting snappy.
I'm gonna need u to get off my back...
The producer guy saying money in such a happy tone with the writer is just so wholesome I can’t stop smiling .
Money is TIGHT!!
And clapping his hands.
It’s like a baby getting some candy lol
Ohhh yeah yeah yeah I get it. By “wholesome” you mean “horribly cynical greed that has slowly begun to unravel the very fabric of what we consider well written media”
Late Stage Capitalism is TIGHT!
"She must be a pretty good detective."
"Yeah she had a vision about it and then the killers admitted to it."
"Well that seems like cheating."
LMAO got 'em. Best part.
"Young kid use tiktok, young kid like trends, young kid watch show." Confirmed- Ryan has hidden microphones inside these studio exec conference rooms. There's no other explanation.
Producer guy get money
@@maruwatchesyou8281 🎶Money!🎶
microphone? bro, we have a whole recording of them. we're watching it
This crap gets a season 2, 1899 gets cancelled. Fing Netflix.
I hate that that’s why I watched the show agh
Nobody's gonna notice. It's just the core concept of the show👏👏
Making a " Wednesday " pitch meeting on a Thursday is TIGHT
They were making it on Wednesday but had to edit it as well so it was uploaded on next day. *wink-wink
Get off my back
Sitting here waiting for the inevitable "Let me get all the way off of that thing" quote to appear XD
@@Homelander2090 Let me get off that thing
Heyshutup...
Writer Guy and Producer Guy being so happy and chanting "Money" takes the absolute cake for me.
I totally had that thought every time someone threatens to expel her from nevermore. I’m like:”she didn’t want to be there anyways “
yeah, exactly. although at a certain point in the show i could understand the rational of "I only want to get expelled if it was my own doing" like I can see there being a shot to her pride if she was expelled due to disappointment or a failure on her part. But early on in the show there was no reason for her to care although, again, this Wednesday seems to be self motivated and for whatever reason wants to succeed, but only at the things she wants to succeed at.
So, if you do enough mental gymnastics, it makes sense in a certain way.
Literally the last line of the first episode is her changing her mind and saying “I think I’m going to like it here.” How did so many people miss this?
@@jasonschuler2256 that was more than 8 hours ago who could remember?
She wanted to solve the murder case because of that weird prophecy that involved her. It was her personally project and getting kicked out would’ve hampered investigation. She was curious and apparently became “friends” with some students
Yeah but then she dies because the plot needs her to. They also treat everything about her original character that remains as if it's a character flaw which kinda defeats the entire point of the entire franchise
Wednesday's love interests personalities are that they're romantically interested in Wednesday when she gives them absolutely no reason to be
Well, she's hot lol
To be fair being pretty is usually enough for teenagers.
We can excuse the dude who is the Hyde since he's trying to manipulate her by getting close. The other dude is just a hopeless simp.
The twilight effect
@@Merilirem she isn't particularly pretty when compared to other women in that show.. I mean the actress is really pretty without the Wednesday get up.
The explanation of how Wednesday would have loved all the bad things is spot on what I was thinking. It’s so contradictory to her character
Yeah I was kind of thinking the same thing; it would have been an easy fix to rewrite her character (still being spooky and kooky but having a better moral compass).
Because women are not in any way contradictory?
your heart colors your perceptions. you see contradiction, I see complexity.
@@MaverickChristian Why make a complex nuanced character one dimensional?
The part about her father being arrested for murder made her mad because she knew her father wasn't the type. That's why she disliked that whole thing
@@RossiGastone
_Why make a complex nuanced character one dimensional?_
It's possible to both (1) not write a one dimensional character; and (2) not write someone behaving out of character.
It's not as if our only two options for a character are one-dimensional and inconsistent. For example, a certain villainous character in the horror film _The Barbarian_ was complex and not one-dimensional.
Watching a pitch meeting instead of the product
being pitched is TIGHT! 😁
"If her powers are secret, how do they know to let her in?"
Her parents went to the school so she has the secondary power of nepotism.
Power of Alumni.
MONEEEEY!
It is called Legacy inmost schools.
So how did they know to let Morticia into school? Her powers didn't manifest until after she started there, just like Wednesday.
@@patpowers9210 They had the power of MONEEEY!
“If her powers are secret how’d they know to let her in?”
Because she has another power called being the main character of the show
don't the addams family have inhuman pain tolerance or something?
I guess that makes sense!
Her parents have the same super power as Bruce Wayne. RICH AF!
The powers of being the main character is tight
more like the power of nepotism - her parents were prominent students so of course they'd let her in as well.
I remember telling my roommate I was confused that Wednesday was upset about the murder and she was like “who wouldnt be?” and the answer is just… the Addams Family love murder. I have seen so much Addams content they love murder I was so confused
But the Addams Family are not psychopaths/sociopaths. They would not want people to really suffer, they are strange but not evil.
Well it started as just her wanting to solve the mystery to prove she could. That people were dying wasn't really an issue for her until later when she started getting attached to some of them.
@@ExtremeMadnessX Well the things is they don't see pain/death as suffering or macabre most ppl do. With them it's tend to view it as the mundane or playful fun so yeah while The Adams wouldn't go out of their way to torture and/or kill someone they wouldn't act so bleak towards the act itself
Typical goth: Likes to SEEM dark.
@@ExtremeMadnessX But death is good to them. They love graves. They love the macabre, but not really? Since when?
I really love watching Ryan tear apart things I haven't watched and never will. "So what are their personalities?" "Pass." 😄😄😄
If you like watching Ryan "tear things apart", then I'm pretty sure you're not understanding why he's doing this at all. It doesn't come from a place of, omg, this is so dumb, I hate it.
@@eylienaProof? He might actually hate this one
@@eylienaWtf are you talking about? Every pitch meeting is nothing BUT pointing out plot holes, mistakes & contrivances. Aka...tearing them apart
haha.. I am so thankful to Ryan for saving us the trouble!
You should watch this one
Imagine how much the character of Wednesday would HATE knowing her dance was trending on social media 😂😂😂
Causing joy? She'd hate it. Causing potential injuries as people try to mimic the dance? She'd love it.
In the teaser she said it was pure torture and then said thank you.
also hating dancing
There are already Kpop music videos.
Ofc not surprised
Someone else suggested they wanted to make a monster type teen drama, then shoehorned the Addams family into it, and i can't stop thinking how much the show comes off that way
A whole tonne of shows lately have felt like a completely different idea with a recognizable IP slapped onto it.
i.e Velma
@@axiss5840 I was going to say the same, e.g. Die Hard 4 & 5 seem like they were written as standalone movies but the writers thought they might fail so they slapped John McClane in as the central character. There are many other examples though I can't think of them off the top of my head (probably because they were so forgettable).
I tried watching an episode of Riverdale because I thought it had something to do with the Archie comics but after the character introductions, that's where the similarities ended.
@Ricky Thackray You're right about Die Hard 4 but Did Hard 5 was actually the very first time that a Die Hard movie (including the first Die Hard movie) was originally written as a Die Hard movie
The first Die Hard was written as a sequel to a Frank Sinatra movie from 1968. When Frank Sinatra turned it down the studio retooled it into an original story.
Die Hard 2-4 were original scripts that were bought by the studio then retooled into Die Hard sequels.
They probably thought: Hmm, what's something that both millennial's and gen z's would love?
@@伏見猿比古-k8c Standing in the street staring at their phones?
The main joke of The Addams Family is that they never realized how unusual they were, so they wouldn't consider themselves outcasts.
I thought it was more that they saw themselves as normal, so they considered normal people to be the weird unfortunate ones, so they had sympathy for them and their unfortunate situation.
Their extended family are all similarly weird in varying ways and so to them it was normal to be strange. Anyone who wasn't strange in some way it was like they were handycapped or unfortunate to be so bland.
Hey shut up
Hm...maybe they think that way because the parents graduated from the school, so they now even have the certificate to prove they are normal?
@@ge2719 *handicapped
@@StevenKR They went there to get a certificate that confirmed that they don't have donkey brains
I am convinced that these Pitch Meetings are actually very close to the real pitch meeting for these shows
What an original and completely unheard of thing to say! So creative of you!!
Wow ive seen this comment on every single pitch meeting video but only now do i feel its worthy of praise.
I have no doubt that these pitch meetings are just the transcripts from the actual pitch meetings
Very impressive how fast and subtly Ryan can say "hey shut up"
It's not subtle.
@@Vincent_Beers But fast
Its stupid. Get all the way of my back is better
This comment will be banned for no reason
Really wasn't subtle. Fast? yeah
It's like this was pitched as an original series about a sarcastic dark teen detective who investigates a murder but they didn't think it'd garner interest so they decided to call her Wednesday Addams and tied her background back to the Addams family after the show was written.
Oh, come on, that NEVER happens in Hollywood!
You've summed up the modern screenwriting process. "Write something...now paint a thin veneer of some existing IP onto it...sweet, free money!!"
You're waaaaaaay overthinking it. This was always supposed to be a franchise spin off, because it's inherently gonna generate more hype and recognization. What you witness in the video above is pretty much how it went down: greed and stupidity.
@@Narcan885 Yes and no. See, the guys who wrote this have dreams. They write scripts for projects they want to make.
They, however, also know that using an existing IP makes the greenlight way more likely, so they turn the projects they have into existing IPs so it's "pitchable" to Netflix, or Prime, HBO, etc.
And that's how you have old characters doing this kind of stuff.
Wednesday is the baby project of someone who wanted to make a Harry Potter kind of show, but didn't had Harry Potter money.
You've also described "Velma."
2:51 Ryan’s delivery of “well dang it” never fails to make me laugh
He really addressed what I'd been thinking. I was eagerly waiting for someone to tell Crackstone " You have magic. You are literally an outcast!" Probably Bianca with some sass. Missed opportunity 😭
That finale was really bad. It would of made much more sense for the two of them to use that black book of magic to cast some curse that did something horrible to the monster students, leaving only the humans to deal with everything.
“Outcast” isn’t a condition. It’s not like alopecia: “Hey, that kid’s bald; must be an outcast.” It’s how you’re treated BASED on what you are, not simply what you are. Crackstone created those outcasts by casting them out of society for their perceived differences. He was the literal arbiter and nexus of the in-group. The rules didn’t have to apply to him because he made the rules.
I've been hoping since seeing the series that somebody in season 2 will tell Laurel...
Somebody: "uhm... yeah... so... Plant controlling necromancers with brainwashed monster slaves aren't exactly... 'normies'."
Laurel: "What... What are you talking about?"
Somebody: "You're an outcast, you loony witch. Your genocidal lich grandpa is too."
He could be more motivated by power and profit than hate, using the prejudices of the "normals" to get rid of people that probably had land that he wanted.
Lol I remember that crossed my mind. I wondered how the normie villain came back from the dead with powers..making him one of the monsters he's trying to kill?? Make it make sense
"Just despised anything outcast-related or related to magic."
"So how does he get brought back to life?"
"Magic. He has a magic staff and does magic stuff..."
Painfully accurate!
An especially zealous Puritan leader happens to be a hypocrite?! 😱
@@jacobd1984 Dude probably believes that his power comes from god and not magic, because that's how these people really are.
Yeah I liked the show, but the weakest part was the villain in the finale. Using magic to bring back the guy who hated magic who then uses magic to fight the students and he was around for all of 10 minutes, like whaaaaat
But wasn't that kinda the point? Most bigots are hypocrites and act according to the "for me, but not for thee" philosophy. His and Laurel's reasoning is probably also so warped that they believe he was destined by God to be resurrected by any means necessary.
@@broco1163 He hated anyone who didn't follow him and he hated outsiders, as seen with how the town turned out to be a place where conformity was important. When he was accusing Goody of witchcraft, she implied that he was actually the one using witchcraft. Compared to him, Goody's powers were natural to her and her family.
I can comfortably say this is one my favorite Pitch Meetings yet.
Every new pitch meeting somehow becomes my new favorite every single time 🤣
This one was great. My favorite Ryan George short is "Don't talk to me til I had my coffee." It's not a pitch meeting, but it's great.
@@secret120 I like several pitch meetings but this was Absolute Perfection when it came out and is still Absolute Perfection a year later. I don't think you can surpass it. 💯
The only class Wed seemed to attend during the series was studying plants. They could easily have had her staying at her Great Grandmothers house along with other relatives (some hoping for inheritance, some angry to be there, a few stuck with home schooling their relatives). Could have made the whole thing work and been consistent but they really wanted to ram the Hogwarts angle in there.
That's... basically an Addams Family Danganronpa. Which I think really only makes sense if Wednesday is the mastermind, or else she's pissed that it's being done worse than she would do it.
@@PosthumanHeresy person who has only played Danganronpa and has never seen another murder mystery story in their life:
"So what are their personalities like?"
"Pass."
Got me dead
💀
Lack of personality is tight
A disembodied hand had more personality
So accurate, they were both bland as love interests, though Tyler turning out to be a bad guy gave him slightly more personality!
@@trinaq whiny xavier and milquetoast tyler, pick your poison LOL.
Killer
My love for Ryan's ability to point out logical absurdities in media that I love makes me feel absurd inside
It makes me feel dumb for having not realized them before
"Isn't pointing issues with shows people love is the opposite of what that will make them happy?"
"Hey shut up!"
Learn to not love shit then :)
Nothing is perfect, loving them is perfectly fine, and laughing is great :)
Is it just me or have they progressively gotten way meaner to each other 😭
There's gonna be some drama when the naming of the next Fast and Furious movie comes around
Ryans went crazy.
Precisely, in the most passive aggressive manner!
I actually thought that the counselling HR made them do has paid off.... actually showed a little support for once 😉
Anyone else thinks of Tuco Salamanca when he says "TIGHT!" ? 🤣
Interesting how with Ortega voicing her issues she had with the script align with a lot of the points you made. You nailed it as usual 👍
2:50 I'd like to point out it took Wednesday to find a script where Writer Guy would finally actually feel bad about his own writing. Props
That's another one it's happened in tbf
@@JDazell yeah I though that might be the case, which one so I can go back and watch?
@@tatsuuuuuu Watch all of them to be sure.
@@genegayda3042 helpful
@@kamenanew9867 Toy Story, he feels bad about having Buzz freeze around humans despite not believing he's a toy. That's just off the top of my head it does occur every now and then.
“Oh what’s their personalities like?” “Pass!” is one of the funniest one liners you’ve made 😂
You should see the auto-generated subtitles for that one...
Thhis will be yet another standard response.
"SKIP!!" *Ding*
Pass
1:23 pretty good one to.
The whole charm of the original show was that they were weird and more macabre than others, but saw themselves as normal and "normal" people as the weird ones, as well as despite their wacky nature, were still family who all genuinely cared for each other (which at the time the original show was made, was ironically more rare)
It was also original.
And they were the first TV couple who actually acted like they were in love with each other.
The Addams Family also has the distinction of being the only amusing New Yorker comic strip.
Yeah, the original show contradicted the nuclear family ideals of the 1960s. But boomer TV execs don't like that
It always floors me how so many writers today quite literally don’t understand source material when it’s so obvious and easy to. You encapsulated TAF in a paragraph.
The "Heyshutup" everytime the storyline got called out is gold 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love how Ryan has just as much interest in the unnecessary love triangle as we all do... IE, not at all! Even Jenna thought that Wednesday didn't even need a love interest.
But forced love interests are TIGHT!
especially since both of them were annoying and whiny AF lol
@@NeorecnamorceN forced love interests are what makes Hollywood Hollywood.
the best character of the show was Eugene, a truly good and caring friend with no romantic interest in Wednesday and vice versa.
The love triangle was literally my favorite part of the show
_"As long as it's not an original idea, we hate those"_
The shade trown at the Inside Job and other good shows cancellation was sublime.
i'm still Dead Sea-salty about Santa Clarita Diet
@@lukacvitkovic8550 as long as People hatewatch Emily In Paris or 365 days and thus set standards for " good" viewership for a show, we will never get further seasons of good shows - I also really liked archive 81, but well
Wait, has Inside Job been cancelled??
@@Johnny_Shikari Yup. No more seasons.
@@ggdacousticnum3 WTF? Netflix's decision making is worse than throwing darts at a dartboard with 90% bad choices while being drunk and blindfolded
Actually, this was one of the best Pitch Meetings I've seen.
You managed to point out a lot more issues with this show, than anyone else, and in a super funny way.
Biggest issue is that the actor they got to play Gomez sucks.
@@RossiGastone Gomez should be strange looking, but handsome. That is always how he was described.
Fester was always the the creepy one, but thought of as handsome by the adams clan.
The fact that they picked this guy to play gomez just shows you how much they hate men.
he didnt touchon that, but he did manage to pick apart everything else wrong.
love how he kept pointing out how the base line of the comedy in the original, was to focus on how odd the Adams were compared to everyone else, yet here they put them in a hogwarts scenario, where that is just gone.
The animated version did it better, where they really pushed that against a martha stewart type.
@@ZimCrusher It's not just his appearance. his acting is garbage and he has no energy whatsoever. Go back and watch the 1991 movie to see THE REAL GOMEZ ADAMS.
@@ZimCrusher Tim Burton wanted him, do you think Tim Burton hates men?
@@aliciamonee87 "Tim Burton wanted him, do you think Tim Burton hates men?"
The only thing we can be sure of, is that Tim Burton likes Johnny Depp.
Yeah the personality thing struck me as being weirdly inconsistent too, I figured they would have her change / evolve over time because a main character needs to be relatable and have a trajectory but she would shift back and forth constantly between the 2. It was really strange (and not in the good way).
Watch the original 1960s show or the 90s movie. They have always been inconsistent. The morbid way they talk about things never reflects how they react to things happening in front of them. The problem from the get go is that the entire tone of the Addams Family has been humorous and morbid. So they constantly have to walk a fine line where they don't get too dark. And the characters are usually very chipper and positive about things so it's never possible to square anything up.
@@promontoriumstoryline inconstancies are tight.
Wednesday saying she loves watching horrible things happen whilst trying to prevent horrible things feels like those people who won't shut up about love and friendship whilst being mean to those who don't accept their love and friendship
Or the "i hate drama" folk that are _always_ at the heart. Of. All. The. Drama.
I mean, that's kind of the point. She's an edgy teenager who starts to learn that you can be macabre while still caring about others and having friends.
@@WelcomeApathy But I mean she isnt faking, she genuinely is ok with murder. She has her own attempted murder case right in the first episode. She loves pretending to be dead in a morgue. Its not a case of a teen ib denial, she is literally flip flopping due to writing.
To be fair, a lot of those people are skeeves who think they deserve a cookie.
Typical nihilistic/emo teenager, though. I think I was able to accept Wednesday as she was because I saw her as maturing and also pulling away from her mother and therefore their traditional family values (like enjoying murder). She put on the facade of not caring but she really didn't want to see her friends get hurt. She's maturing. I did think that putting her into a school of even more monstrous kids was weird; the Addams family was supposed to be oddities amongst normal humans. I think it would have made more sense if she was in a regular boarding school (and maybe found out later that her roommate was a werewolf).
I love how Screenwriting guy just had to rethink his entire character motivation for Wednesday 😅
Screenwriter guy works so much
I thought he'd lost the ability to do that since Toy Story
To be fair, it's not that far-fetched that a teenager would talk a big game, but not actually live up to it. I suppose it comes down to whether that makes any sense for Wednesday Addams specifically. Assuming that's what the writers were going for, and it's not just a substantial narrative inconsistency. Which it may be.
@@jacobd1984 doesn't addams family movies and such have issues portraying addams as consistent in general? for if they are for or against good things/bad things
@@durttheelder4035 I couldn’t really tell you, I haven’t seen them. But the whole “good is bad and bad is good thing” does tend to be ppl nonsensical if you put too much thought into it in most stories (like the show The Good Place, for instance, if you’ve seen that).
My God this is accurate. Basically hit everything I was annoyed by, especially the whole "fish out of water" storyline at a literal school for monsters
I haven't watched the show myself because of the concept that it's Wednesday goes to Hogwarts, and the show revolves around her.
Plus why was she so anti-family when the whole Addams thing is about being a family
@@Deuteromis if you have Netflix you needs to watch the show drop whatever your doing right now and go watch the show NOW
The show is really fun, but there are moments where you have to suspend disbelief. For example, when Wednesday and Morticia blackmail the mayor to have charges against the father dropped - the show cuts to the sheriff releasing him, and they're both suddenly on good terms after a decades-long conflict.
@@Deuteromis For what it is, it's a 6/10. As an Addams Family tie-in, it feels really out of place.
It's worth a watch, but at thr dame time, you aren't missing much.
As a werewolf who can't actually turn into werewolf nor displays any wolf-like qualities I appreciate Wednesday's roommate.
I hope my friend who's a vampire that doesn't have any vampiric powers, weakness to sunlight nor appetite for blood finds some representation in this show as well.
hey, as a psychic that has visions only from the past, and only of events i witnessed myself, i feel you two
Déjà vu
@@San-lh8us as a shapeshifter who only shapeshifted horribly by age, i feel ya
I’m an Apache attack helicopter that can’t fly, has legs, and can’t fire guns.
as a wendigo who pledged to be a vegan, I hope to get a representation as well. 🥹🥹😆
I love how he pointed out how Goody wouldn’t have been an Addams. I was thinking just that any time they brought her up 😂
I mean it was 400 years ago so it’s possible for some unknown inbreeding to happen. It happens all the time with a lot of people and they never realize. Your husband could be like your 10th cousin branched off from 400 years ago and you’ll never know unless you take a test or something
could be though. How many generations back was she anyway?
My main gripe is that Goody isn't an "old time-y" name, it's a form of address. It was short for Goodwife and used for married women, so like Goody Smith instead of Mrs Smith. She would have had an actual first name.
@@lickthismiff like Wednesday?
It was never said in the show that Goody was Morticia's ancestor.
I’m so happy I reacted the same way. “Uhhh wouldn’t Wednesday be proud of her father for killing someone?”
As a parent of a 14 year old girl, I could literally win a medal in kickboxing and my daughter would still be embarrassed by me because we have the same last name. True story btw.
Kinda a weird way to brag about winning a kickboxing tournament...
Considering why she was at nevermore to begin with, it seemed odd to me as well.
@@HeadCannonPrime She'll grow up eventually, don't let it get to you!
I mean, the series seems to nod strongly to the 90s films and Gomez was proud to have been suspected of his cousin Balthazar's murder....
I love how Writer Guy is ever-so slowly realizing that he comes up with some really crappy screenplays.
If only this happened to pretty much every writer of pretty much every movie made in the past 5,10,15 whatever years…
Is this one of the few times the Producer has had to comfort the Writer in explaining that it'll work out?
@@CorePathway yeah but that way people won't talk about it as much
@@CorePathway It might have, but there's always a producer guy there that might just ruin it with their demands
@@lgoamity I remember him doing it in the Toy Story one where producer guy stopped writer guy when he was hitting himself in the head saying "stupid, stupid, stupid" because he had Buzz freezing when people where around even though he doesn't think he is a toy.
Ryan George is lowkey brilliant. His pitch meetings are always on point and this one is just money
MONEEEEYYYY!!!
So accurate! I was confused on why Wednesday would confront her father out in the therapy room like he's her enemy. Very much unlike Wednesday
They could've angled it as Wednesday being disappointed that he'd be lame enough to get arrested for a murder at all, but they decided to go with "I can't believe you're a murderer". Unreal.
@@Baronnax I mean, the series does make it clear that, though Wednesday is a slightly dark and angsty and disturbed teen, she still does care about the people around her.
She defended Gomez against the accusations when she first heard them, basically saying that he wouldn’t do that. The dad she’s known her whole life is quirky and kind and a bit pathetic, so hearing that he committed a hard murder must’ve been world-altering to her.
It’s obvious that she isn’t upset that he’s a murderer. She’s upset because she believes that he’s been lying about who he is to her, his daughter, for her entire life. That’s why she acts so hostile to him too, because her trust in him was broken.
@@Doomzdeh All of which is very much unlike her original character. Hence why people are saying she's nothing like her original character.
@@Doomzdeh the show is stupid
@@LinoWalker I recall her actually being excited about destroying the school but it seems like they've made a 180 after the pilot episode.
It's not like she cared whether the piranhas might kill one of the swimmers. (Not that real piranhas would ever do that)
_"She stabbed him but he was already poisoned so that makes it okay."_
_"Is that how it works?"_
According to most D&D groups, yes. It works exactly like that.
They did kinda fumble the scene a bit. It's not that they get off because "oh he was poisoned moments before he was stabbed". It's because they're straight up blackmailing the mayor for covering up that the guy was gonna poison the whole school. Morticia is still 100% guilty.
I'd also like to add something nobody seems to talk about, to the point that I don't think they even considered it important in the show even though it clearly should be (though may have been the un-talked reason why Gomez never got convicted); at the end of the day the killing of that guy was clearly A: Self Defense and B: Accidental. He ran himself upon the sword that was held up, Morticia didn't even push forward, and he had made it quite clear he was trying to kill Gomez. Pretty sure that's a major point in any court defense.
It was way easier to argue it was self defense, which I think is what they were going for. That the Nightshade Poison made him more aggressive (even tho they already started fighting) which is why he tried to kill Gomez who didn't have a weapon at the time.
@@andrewsteifer520 It was more the fact that the mayor, who was then sheriff, covered up the true cause of death and preventing it going to trial in order to keep the peace of the town and protect it's, and Nevermore's, reputations. And it was also suggested by Morticia that he was in the Gates' pocket and was more out to protect his own reputation & position. In any case he didn't really care that it was self defence he just didn't want it to go to trial where tensions between the town and Nevermore may boil over, and the truth of what happened could potentially come out which would cause him to lose his position and possibly be convicted of a crime himself for covering up evidence. But assuming he let it go to trial and was able to keep the nightshade evidence supressed a self defence argument would have been a hard sell as there was no witnesses and no supporting evidence for it, it would have basically just been Gomez and Morticia's word of what happened which is not good enough for a successful defence.
@@Onikage55
Oh, there's definitely grounds for a self-defense case, but it would still have to go to trial. The whole thing dissapeared and wrapped up cleanly because of the coverup and then blackmail over said coverup.
"Some are, yes, sure." Lol! That was so good. Would love to see a Pitch Meeting for Andor!
Also, his meltdown halfway through is perfect!
I would love to see an Andor pitch meeting, but ... I think it was so good compared to the other SW projects. Actually honest trailers did greatxd
The Andor pitch meeting will be a dunk on every other piece of SW content in comparison. I'd watch it.
Andor Pitch Meeting is just Producer guy suggesting horrible changes and Writer saying no to everything
This has got to be one of my absolute favorite pitch meetings, the sudden and crippling realization by the writer that he'd totally dropped the ball with her motivations is just "mwah" (chef's kiss) good.
"You big, weird dummy!" I love Ryan subtly roasting himself, and pointing out how neither of them ever changes clothes!
Ryan, honey, don't be so hard on yourself.
@Correct No one cares about your meme.
He's not roasting himself, as you can see they're totally different people. One of them has glasses! They clearly cloned Ryan and we have a Clark Kent situation going on.
They change clothes all the time! Just not for this one week.
"As long as its not a completely original idea" that had me howling 🤣🤣
"we hate those"
That got you howling? Damn. You should go out more, my man.
@@rishabhdubey374 nah outside has icky hoomans. Well that and it's cold out.
Sounds like you're a werewolf and should be in the Nevermore academy
The entire entertainment industry right now is basically modeled on two things:
Adapting stories from original ideas and inserting feminists, hate Fred cuz he has small weenis (Velma), and turn the little mermaid black, female James Bond, and the constant stream of terrible marvel movies.
Can't wait for the Pitch Meetings for the 6 other days of the week!
05:47 one of the best scenes/lines in the entire series.
“You have a new show for me”
“Yes sir, Wednesday “
“Okay, I’ll see you then”
Best intro 😂
It hurt my feelings when he mentioned that they're still wearing the same shirt after a week. I tend to do the same when I get lazy with washing :(
That reminded me of the classic "Who's on first?"
I just realized that he left his own office, while the screen guy stood there the whole weekend.
Yeah, I cracked up on that on! That was an "Insta-Like Button press" moment for me!
You killed me with
"What are their deals? What are their personalities like?"
"Pass"
A ruthless, next-level pitch meeting 😂. An instant classic. Bravo, Ryan!
5:28 Actually, when Wednesday tells her mom about her visions, Morticia says that Goody was an ancestor of Gomez’ and that she was one of the first settlers in Mexico.
Hence the surname
So... How did Morticia inherit the powers from Goody Addams?
@@JLP627 some addams may have married a frump before, like it's literally not impossible considering the outcasts knew each other in their community. Also there are many other psychics at Nevermore, not everyone of them get visions the same way, we actually never saw how Goody used her powers. Like Xavier, he got them while being asleep. So there's also a possibility that they just have the same powers because there were psychics in each of their ancestors.
@@janethnavarro4838 Frump? Sorry, that a supernatural term? Will look it up. Anyway, I think I got your argument. Could also explain why Morticia didn't have a connection with Goody like Wednesday did.
@@JLP627 Morticia's last name is Frump. She became an Addams after she married Gomez.
If I had to guess, I'd say Gomez' power, and the power of the Adams in general, is functional immortality. The whole clan is like if the Cenobites wore pinstripes instead of pins.
I think you are onto something. Makes me wonder if they are part ghoul….. Though I was disappointed that they nerfed Gomez Addams power to the point of being virtually useless then made Fester super OP…. Gomez is supposed to be the HEAD Addams who inherited everything even though he is the younger brother.
i love you thumb nail
I had always thought that was implied by Thing, who I had always assumed was an older member of the family, and his existence was to demonstrate that even reduced to nothing but a hand an Addams will always keep coming.
Then he got stabbed and they acted like he was dying, so there goes that theory.
They really DRASTICALLY downscaled the power level of the Addams family in this series.
@@CuteKnight98 Gomez was pretty accurate to the early comics (though Gomez became much more impressive as the comics continued), we don't really see him do anything in the show to judge him by. The issue IMO is that Raul Julia redefined Gomez in the 1990's movies, for the better, but for the purposes of Wednesday I think it makes sense to use a different depiction so as not to steal focus. Like if Luis Guzman's depiction were replaced with an ultra-suave Javier Bardem as Gomez, we'd be annoyed that the camera followed Wednesday (as fun as Jenna Ortega is), and didn't give us more Javier/Gomez.
Plus, in future seasons, it's possible that Luis/Gomez will evolve just as the comics did, closer to Raul/Gomez's ultimate depiction.
How in the world do you think they are immortal, when we know they grow older and die?
The most ridiculous thing during this show was how Wednesday drove every single person around her away by being the worst person short of a bloodthirsty monster and then everyone just forgave her at the end of the season.
Classic Mary Sue. Eveyrone loves her for no reason. It only took until Episode Four for her primary rival at school to admit that she was totally jealous of Wednesday the whole time and mad because her literal magick powers of seduction were unable to keep Wednesday from stealing her boyfriend, which Wednesday was too cool to even want.
@@HerculesBallsInc She gets beaten at the fencing thing almost instantly, ends up helping the villain frame the wrong guy, and accuses several innocent people throughout the show. And almost dies multiple times due to over overconfidence and ego, needing to be bailed out at least 4 times. Whatever your definition of Mary Sue is, it needs to be right proper bonkers to include her
@@JarmamStuff Even the villain falls in love with her! Lol! Other then eventually losing the fencing match against the best person in school, there is literally nothing she does that anyone does better than her. She speaks four languages fluently, gets straight A's, a concert cellist, able to fix any machine, has written a handful of novels, is as familiar with medical information as a doctor, but is only the second-best fencer. All the adults are hapless losers compared to her. You're kidding yourself, mate. You have never met anyone this competent in your life, much less a child.
@@JarmamStuff apparently you don't know what a mary sue is.
It's not about the actions of the character, it's about how the narrative and the other characters treat her. The whole time, no matter what she did wrong, she's treated like a hero. We're supposed to root for her. People think she's cool or are jealous of her.
That's a textbook mary sue.
@@1112-m6p Well, she acts cool. Literally, no emotion on her face. She is skilled one, so makes an impression. Sure, story treats her well, but that's because otherwise it wouldn't be an interesting story to watch. However, she has dynamics, a character arc, so it's not just like that soulless some other Mary Sue characters.
Minor correction: At one point Morticia does explicitly confirm that Goody was an ancestor on Gomez's side. This still doesn't really explain why they made Tish the other precog in the family when it would've made more sense if it were Gomez but that is the reason her last name is still Addams.
In my head canon, I like to think that it was the introduction of Morticia in to the Addams Family that unlocked the dormant "visions" power and established the dark witch (or whatever) connection to Goody in the Addams bloodline for Wednesday.
But it does feel more like a sloppy miss from the writers.
To be fair, given the shows logic, when it comes to the espers, their specific abilities don’t seem to be genetic.
Like Xavier’s dad has precognition and he has the ability to bring art to life (though I suppose those powers could come from the mother’s side)
And Rowan’s mom is a seer but he has telekinesis.
So maybe having a psychic ability at all is genetic, but not the specific ability.
Could also explain why Wednesday is allowed to enroll despite keeping her powers secret. If both her parents have Psychic abilities then she would too even if they haven’t been unlocked. After all, Enid could enroll despite not yet being able to wolf out.
its cause they wanted to have a connection between Morticia and Wednesday, Gomez doesnt really matter
Yeah that was a bit of a problem. The historical Gomez was the only normal handsome one that grew up in a family of monsters so he was considered an outcast. His only real super power is a supernatural dexterity. I love Luis Guzman but having a FAT Gomez was really against character for someone who would do backflips to answer the front door.
Morticia has always had psychic visions even dating back to the OLD old tv show. Her mother was the "Grandmama" who was a witch that was always talking to the dead. So the pre-cog visions thing really should run in HER side of the family. I think that is why Grandmama was suspiciously NOT in the wednesday series.
@@HeadCannonPrime I'm sure that supernatural dexterity is why Morticia married him. Well, and the charisma to match, of course.
Man your format has really come into it's own. Great combinations of critical review and comedy are TIGHT
Thank you!!! I couldn't understand how and or why the guy who was basically an average due from the 1600s suddenly was reborn with a magic staff and...could use the force? Also it was genuinely embarrassing how little a threat he turned out to be and how quickly he was killed off.
Barely an inconvenience.
right I was like huh? How would one despise magic but use magic 💀
"It's fun to see how wacky they are when compared to normal people" Again, Ryan telling the truth.
I love that this pitch being uploaded on a Thursday works with the opening joke implying that the exec and producer had to wait almost a full week for the pitch to happen 😂
The "Wednesday" joke about Wednesday was priceless! Great work as always!
"Ooohhh people are tight!"
"Some are, yeah sure, so-"
I love this. I love everything about this.
His best work yet
THANK YOU! nobody is talking about this
Damn the one thing I was complaining about in this show was that Wednesday needed to be darker and more excited about bad things happening. Just TALKING about how much you like dark things isnt enough.
I feel like they were afraid to make her a full psychopath, in the end she is just a normal teenager who is pissed most of the time but in the end just wants to be loved...
It's comfort TV for young people
I thought the posting gory pictures was nice, but then they immediately ruined it with Thing cutting the jugular... it doesn't take much research to discover that you're nowhere near there when you're starting an autopsy. And her playing music while everyone was screaming and running away was nice, if you don't think about how preposterous that whole situation is - gasoline nobody smells completely melting a bronze statue outside in seconds? And why is everyone screaming and running away from a fire which showed no signs of spreading? For all they knew it was part of the show! I think many of the people happy with this show just never thought about what was happening at all.
@@HerculesBallsInc What? Have you ever seen Adams Family before this? It's a comedy, it's never been serious. They always have off the wall stuff going on. The first two movies are filled with slap stick comedy. A baby gets launched so high into the air, someone see's it out of an airplane window. A bear skin rug comss to life and bites a guys ankle.
It's not meant to be taken seriously. Don't try to apply logic to it. It's supposed to be fun, quirky, and a little corny at times, like it's always been. All the movies, the cartoon, and the original show. Only thing it differs from is the comics, where Wednesday was just some normal happy go lucky girl.
@@XDarkNation different genre, I thinkn logic should be applied and expected
@@XDarkNation I knew someone was going to say 'It's a comedy', but are we then supposed to take all the deaths in the show as jokes and Wednesday's worries about being blocked as silly affectations? This is a problem with the series as well - it swings in tone quite wildly and it's not sure if it's a mystery, a comedy, or a teen drama. Probably because the writers aren't sure.
Releasing your Wednesday pitch meeting on a Thursday is tight!
It just occurred to me that the tone the executive uses to the person pitching the meeting is a lot like my interactions with my toddler 😂
It kind of trades back and forth. They take turns playing the straight man.
The "PAASSSS" on their personalities was the best line ever on this channel 💯🤣
I initially heard "aaaassssss", which still worked.
I had to pause and rewind I laughed so hard. What personalities? 😂
100%
😆😆😆
Definitly 1 of them
Wendsday felt more like a scooby doo spin off than the actual scooby doo spin off
🤣🤣🤣 nailed it
One of my biggest gripes about the show was how different the characters where from their normal attitudes. Everything that went wrong in the show Wednesday would have loved.
FR, she was a lot more compassionate in the original show than in Burton's film
But that would hurt whatever the current generations fighting for... They try to bring back the old Adams family type of humor and society will shit itself...
@@jpc2470 right. My bad. I sometimes get it mixed up.
Producer Guy clapping with joy brought me 5 more years of life
I felt similarly about the show. I liked some elements of it but felt it was closer to scooby do than Adam’s family. Wednesday was never the best at physical things. She wouldn’t have beat up the bullies. She would have manipulated them and destroyed their sanity lol. So focused on solving a murder/monster instead of embracing it … just never felt like Wednesday to me. And the ending was obvious. I called it in like the 2nd episode.
The trailer bit where she takes out the bullies with the now standard sorta judo was the worst. Everyone can just martial arts people now.
@@willh3972 I know it’s ridiculous. Especially when coming from someone who has had martial art training just because you can throw a kick doesn’t mean you can take down someone twice your size.
This is the new upgraded Wednesday Addams for a new generation of fans who have no idea what that older generation of fans is on about. Why bother with making it about the Addams family then? Pass!
Definitely elements of Scooby Doo, obviously Harry Potter and maybe even a taste of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But yeah, it would have been more in Wednesday's nature to try and make the monster her pet. I was able to enjoy it in the mindset of seeing Wednesday evolve and pull away from her mother's ways by opening up a bit to having friends. She continued to act cold and dark, but really started to care what happened to other people. As a parent of young adults, it rings true to how a lot of teenagers act, being all nihilistic on the outside, but concerned and looking out for others when they think nobody is watching. It's definitely a reinvention of the character, but I wrote it off to her being older and being exposed more to the outside world, so I didn't see it as a big stretch.
Its the same story you see played out in seemingly every teen girl main character with powers. They have different flavors but its all vanilla. I wouldn't have minded if it was an actual new character but they really did just kinda slot a name and some traits vaguely related to that name into a story made for someone else.
As fun as I found the show, this absolutely skewers every issue I had with it. Well done.
1:46
“Woowwwww, so like a person pretty much.”
“Yeah pretty much”
“Oohhhh people are tight”
“Well some are, yeah sure”
💀💀
jesus christ this went over so many heads
Sheriff: Your dad killed someone
Netflix’s Wednesday: 😮 oh my this is hideous, I must do an investigation and confront him and mother about it
Regular Wednesday: What? Only one? I expected more from him.
05:46 i think this is the conversation behind every Netflix show LOL
this must be one of the most self aware moments for the writer in all of pitch meeting cannon
Toy Story pitch meeting almost gave him a crisis of faith if I recall correctly.
That happy clap after writer guy says "producer get money" broke me I've been giggling ever since
‘giggling’? are you one of those homosexuals ive been hearing about?
@@lingricen8077 what does this even mean? What does giggling have to do with being a homosexual
Yah. I hope this new meme stays.
@@lingricen8077 I thought I was the only one who heard about them tbh
@@kelseybaloney4984 I heard that they come in pairs and sometimes even more, and that zoomers are all ‘closet’ homosexuals, which is why they like fat women and are offended by sexy women
I finally watched the show and really enjoyed it. It had some hit-miss story and tone wise but was overall fun. Having watched most of the 60s episodes recently and the 90s movies, I can tell you, you're all wrong about Wednesday's character and reactions. The Addams family always talk dark and macabre, but they behave like normal moral loving people. They joke about dark things, but they usually do the right things. They care about people.
That part about Goody having the name Addams was just... I cannot believe that was not seen by more of my friends.
She actually is from Gomez's side of the family. I don't know why people think it was Morticia's side other than both having visions. She can come from a line of witches on both sides.
@@scienceandponies I mean... I wouldn't exactly be *shocked* if the Addams family tree has a few knots in it.
This was my immediate thought when they said "Goody Adams" in the show like it was a big reveal. I was like ok, well so she got married and changed her name or she died a window. This can't actually be your ancestor then.
funniest part is that the writers don't seem to be aware that "goody" isn't a name. the reason that many of the women involved in the salem witch trials were called "Goody Glover" etc is because goody is short for "goodwife". its a title given to any married woman. "Goody Addams" basically just means "Mrs Addams"
@@Hephera Geez… You’d think that with practically the entire compendium of human history and knowledge, which can be brought up on a whim, sitting in their pockets they couldn’t have delved- at most- one inch deeper on that research? Now _that_ is the epitome of lazy writing.