At best, Wednesday is an entry point for the Addams Family IP for a new generation that features Burton’s branded aesthetic with a protagonist who values her own independence, intelligence, unique spirit combine with a biting wit. At its worst, it’s a frustrating mess that has no real focus other than vibes and over reliances on cheeky one-liners mixed with light horror.
At last, it’s at the season two finale. In the previous episode Pugsley was kidnapped by Zombie-Issac who is now fully regenerated and has leveled up to just Issac. So now the not so mysterious and ooky brigade after to save Pugsley from his best friend/pet. It turns out that it’s not very hard as Issac just invites Wednesday to that pesky old skull tree.
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This episode opens with a flashback to the formation of the cult sub-plot. Not sure if it’s a B or C plot-line since the A plot-line, much like Wednesday’s premonition switched in part 2 season. So Dort is behind it all and his master to plan was to steal Hester Frump’s fortune and while she herself is not an Addams, she is part of the family and a villain trying to take money from an Addams is basically the plots of both the 90s money, so it tracks.
Hey! It’s a two-for-one pun title. Much better than just substituting words that start the letter “W” with the word “Woe.”
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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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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.