Nevermore Oak: what disappoints the second "Wednesday"
The most watched English-language series in the history of Netflix (according to the service itself), the first season of Wednesday, has been continued. The Addams family returns to Nevermore Academy, the girl is looking for the killer again, she is visited by visions, and everything around is saturated with treachery and betrayal. The series has an official Russian dubbing with former voice actors. The first four episodes were released on August 6, and the remaining ones will be available on September 3. Izvestia has patiently studied the entire half of the season and is not sharing the most joyful impressions. Beware: spoilers!
The best in the series "Wednesday"
Continuing to heavily parody "Harry Potter," the Wednesday series makes the next year of study the basis for the second season. Now Wednesday is a star here, she is returning to her alma mater with her brother Pugsley, he will also study here. The parents are in no hurry to leave: the new principal asks them to stay so that the rich grandmother Wednesday would pay attention to the Gambling and would pump a lot of money into the special school. Wednesday, as usual, has problems with socialization, and even in the company of the "outcasts" who study here, she does not feel integrated into society. Fortunately, all sorts of strange things begin to happen to her immediately, involving the magician who controls the crows, and Wednesday begins an investigation. In addition, it is in Nevermore that she and her mother have a serious conflict brewing, which can even turn into a duel. However, no one is surprised.: It's all quite in the spirit of the Addams family.
A shot from the series "Wednesday"
Watching the second season is hard and embarrassing. It's like a teenager who came to a New Year's Eve matinee. He already knows everything about Santa Claus, about the garland that needs to be lit by a common shout, and knows the answers to the riddles that he will offer the children. The teenager seems to remember how happy he was at the Christmas tree before, and knows that there will be gifts, but still there is no sense of magic. But there's something, get out your bag soon, Grandpa, he's an elementary school teacher, and let me go home. Santa Claus really brings a bag, here they are — gifts, be happy at least a little bit, boy.
There are quite a few gifts for us in the second season. Of course, we are all very happy when we see Steve Buscemi on the screen, an iconic artist who has so few really big roles. Here he got the role of the new school principal. Screen time is short, but Steve Buscemi is used to it, so in every second in the frame he gives his all no less than in his classic works of Cohen, Tarantino and Rodriguez. However, we didn't really have time to miss him after The Studio, which has already become the main series of this year for geeks.
The gift is the head of Professor Dowell, who is called Professor Orloff here. We are happy because we have read Belyaev. Even more joyfully, Orloff is played by the great Christopher Lloyd, Doc Brown from Back to the Future. And to make the joy even more complete, Boris Repetur voices Orloff in the Russian dubbing, for Russian geeks the value is also absolute, known by the nickname Bonus from the cult program "From the Screw".
A shot from the series "Wednesday"
The gift is instrumental covers of hits from the past, sung by R.E.M. and Cranberries around the same time when the Addams were most popular. And the fact that Catherine Zeta-Jones is not here in an episode, but in a good supporting role — Morticia Addams. And we're going to love Christina Ricci again, and she played Wednesday in the very first film adaptations of The Addams.
Separate gifts for the Russian audience are Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights" as one of the main musical themes, references to Leo Tolstoy and Siberia in different episodes. There is probably more Russian culture here than any other non-Anglo-Saxon one. Coupled with the professional official dubbing, this makes it seem as if Netflix is making some unambiguous curtsies towards our viewer, although not all streaming products have had official dubbing into Russian lately.
Dream Tim Burton
Among the gifts to the viewer, there is also a short cartoon by Tim Burton, which he inserted into the first episode and greatly enhanced the rather dull narrative. The main problem with the second season is that he can't find an excuse for his own existence. That's why he's trying to tell us that — kind people, look at it: Burton personally shoots half of the episodes in the season as a director! And Jenna Ortega, who has turned into a megastar, wanders around in the frame in Wednesday makeup and never smiles! And there are so many favorite characters here, and Easter eggs, and we've scattered them everywhere, and here you have a mental hospital with monsters, and a scout camp with a brutal game, and many, many secrets of Nevermore, well, that's it!
A shot from the series "Wednesday"
But there's no point. Wednesday's conflict with her mom is developing very sluggishly, and it's clear that everything is really fine there. I can't seem to get scared of all those killer crows and brain-eating zombies roaming the neighborhood. Harry Potter, in addition to the problems of a gifted boy, had a number of major conflicts that required reflection, falls, atonement, tossing, fears. He had a superbug, really grandiose, creepy.
In the case of Wednesday, everything is more primitive. She's so cool that no amount of torture and temptation can get through her. Any villain will get the most out of her, just let her get to him and look him in the face. She is smart, prudent, inflexible, principled, fearless — you can list further, but why? I just have to calmly admit that the series about Wednesday and her family is not very interesting to watch, although it is pleasant to look at, looking for familiar actors, characters or motives.
A shot from the series "Wednesday"
The characters joke unintelligently and strenuously (both in American voice acting and dubbing), we don't feel much joy from meeting with Waynesday's classmates, her brother Pugsley walks with the same expression on his face, parents, Thing and Fester — too. Yes, we get to know them all quickly, we love them, and for a very long time, but they seem to be trying in no way to surprise, frighten, or make us laugh. The first season was like a poem, it had compressed, vivid emotions, fresh images, some kind of new look at the Addams. The second one looks like canned food that has miraculously not gone bad, but you can only eat them if you are very hungry. If you suddenly experience it.
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