Wednesday (2022)Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar"Wednesday" is a Netflix show based on the character Wednesday Addams from the "Addams Family" franchise. It's a dark comedy / mystery series with 8 episodes, featuring Jenna Ortega in the title role. Wednesday joins the Nevermore Academy, a boarding school for outcasts (students like her, who are either supernatural creatures or have powers). She starts experiencing sinister visions and is led to solve a murder mystery at the school. Some of the episodes are directed by Tim Burton.The show has been receiving praise but it's probably not the type of content I'd immediately jump to see. A clip featuring Jenna's dance from one scene, set to "Bloody Mary" by Lady Gaga (which isn't actually the music in the scene) became popular (apparently on Tiktok first and then came to Instagram Reels), and all I had to do was to watch it, and even till now, Instagram is showing me lots and lots of Reels featuring Jenna Ortega and the show. So I watched it, and liked it quite a bit. I didn't think it was entirely new though, since there was a sense of familiarity about it all, and it perhaps went on for longer than it needed to. For me, the blend between the older, Harry Potter style fantasy elements and the Riverdale type modern high school elements didn't always work.However, it was engaging enough, kept one's interest in the mystery, and Jenna Ortega (and the rest of the cast) did very well. There are references to the older Addams Family show and movies.I drew Wednesday, the drawing was done with 0.5 mm 4B mechanical pencil on A5 Brustro sketchbook. You can swipe to see a scan. I missed it by a day but had I put this up yesterday, I could have said that I posted a Wednesday drawing on Wednesday!#karthikabhiram #dailymoviesketch #wednesday #jennaortega#theaddamsfamily #pencil #pencilart #pencildrawing#artistsoninstagram#708 / 15-Dec-22
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