Wednesday, a Cacophonous Gift of Many Woeful Plots

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Season 1, Episode 8: A Murder of Woes

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The final episode wraps up the Hyde plot which Wednesday quickly figures out in full off-screen. Tyler’s Palpatine to his Vader is Marilyn Thronhill a.k.a Laurel Gates a.k.a. normal-type botany teacher. Laurel’s revenge plot is to resurrect Crackstone to get revenge on Nevermore for taking his land which he took from Goody Addams’ people and the indigenous population. Thronhill isn’t really motivated by the loss of her family, just a century’s old land dispute. 

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Wednesday and her Uncle Fester on the Spooky Case

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Season 1, Episode 7: If You Don’t Woe Me by Now 

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Following the murder of the mayor, Wednesday runs into her uncle Fester. Fester tells her that he needs to “lay low” which Wednesday is fine with. Wednesday then informs him about the monster which Fester just so happens to know exactly the monster’s type, it’s a Hyde. Wednesday also learns that Hydes have a master, the one that frees them from dormancy so Wednesday has find two suspects. And because Wednesday is a bad detective she  then implicates the wrong people but  her exposition vision clues her in at the end of the episode. 

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Wednesday is a river, a raven & a very bad friend

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Season 1, Episode 6: Quid Pro Woe 

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In the previous episode Wednesday is told that only Goody can train her and that she’s a Raven type psychic vision-haver-type-outcast person. Basically they are just making it up because Raven sounds cool and all “Poesque.” I had thought comparing Wednesday to a raven and Morticia to a dove was just poetic but no according to a promo for season two and Goody outright calling Wednesday “The raven in my bloodline” Wednesday is a raven.  So there is more Poe imaginary…. hooray…

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Wednesday goes to Prom and things get messy 

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Season 1, Episode 4: Woe What a Night 

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I haven’t watched any CW-type shows but on some cursory research I learned that a “prom” or some kind of dance episode is a standard for the demographic. For Wednesday’s prom episode there is a school dance is called “The Rave’n” because if there one thing this show loves it’s Poe. I suppose naming a character Lenore would’ve been too obvious.

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