“Wednesday” S2 Ditches Love For Horror

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Good, that was easily the worst part of the first season, that and the being for violence, yet against violence depending on the situation shenanigans.

Whilst appearing on the latest edition of Variety's Actors on Actors, Ortega confirmed she's set as a producer on the show's second season and is getting very hands-on in the process:

"It was naturally already very collaborative. So in preparation for a second season, we wanted to get ahead of the curve and make sure that we could start the conversations earlier, and I'm just so curious. I want to see the outfits, new characters that are coming in, scripts, and they were gracious enough to let me put the producer hat on."
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We've decided we want to lean into the horror aspect of the show a little bit more. Because it is so lighthearted, and a show like this with vampires and werewolves and superpowers, you don't want to take yourself too seriously. We're ditching any romantic love interest for Wednesday, which is really great."
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"Wednesday" S2 Ditches Love For Horror

Netflix’s 2022 spin on “The Addams Family” with “Wednesday” was, by every measure, a major success for the streamer. The coming-of-age supernatural comedy horror was a runaway success, inspiring dance memes and Halloween costumes. In four weeks, the series racked up 1.237 billion hours viewed...
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Romance is so not inclusive. I enjoyed the first season. I hope the second season is good in spite of any changes.
 
I still need to watch the show, but I am glad Jenna seems to get the character and is being given more creative involvement.

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I'm ok either way on this issue. My only complaint was the lack of consistency on being in favor of bad things. But that did not ruin the show for me. I think Ortega nailed the role overall and I am looking forward to S2.
 
Young attractive fit teen/woman with powers and in lots of life or death situations surrounded by other young fit people.....totally asexual. Yup, completely jives with my lived experience.

Good grief, I think the inability to appease the LGBTBBQ people through a cishet romance is gonna completely kill the YA genre. Who is the audience for a more gritty horror show starring a girl? Male audience shows can get by with a male lead that just has one night stands but it rarely works the other way 'round and hollywood history is LITTERED with examples of this tactic failing.
 
jason10mm said:
Young attractive fit teen/woman with powers and in lots of life or death situations surrounded by other young fit people.....totally asexual. Yup, completely jives with my lived experience.

Good grief, I think the inability to appease the LGBTBBQ people through a cishet romance is gonna completely kill the YA genre. Who is the audience for a more gritty horror show starring a girl? Male audience shows can get by with a male lead that just has one night stands but it rarely works the other way 'round and hollywood history is LITTERED with examples of this tactic failing.
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Wednesday might be an exception. The first season was pretty fun.
 
jason10mm said:
Who is the audience for a more gritty horror show starring a girl?
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You think the horror genre and a female lead together has no appeal to anyone? That's like asking who puts ketchup on their fries. Like, dude, female leads are extremely plentiful in horror, in fact probably a majority of the most iconic horror films have a woman as the protagonist.

I mean, for fucks sake, Jenna Ortega has already starred in A24's X and two Scream movies herself.
 
Doom85 said:
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You think the horror genre and a female lead together has no appeal to anyone? That's like asking who puts ketchup on their fries. Like, dude, female leads are extremely plentiful in horror, in fact probably a majority of the most iconic horror films have a woman as the protagonist.

I mean, for fucks sake, Jenna Ortega has already starred in A24's X and two Scream movies herself.
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Ortega was in X, she hardly headliners it. And X is what in talking about, that was LOADED with sex. The adult horror genre is a bit different, maybe not romance but definitely sex. If that's what she means it was not delivered well.

And Wednesday is a YA market appeal property. The YA is ALL about romance, it's heavily female audience and that is what they want. Buffy had romance front and center. Sabrina had romance front and center. Riverdale had romance front and center. IZombie even went that way a fair amount. Countless more. The Magicians, The Order, it goes on and on.

If she is trying to pivot Wednesday into an x-files/supernatural type show, well, good luck. Girl fronted versions of those tend not to do all that well.

It's just a wierd way to express a shift in focus. Or it's a meaningless statement just to get some clicks.
 
First season built up enough good will in my house that we'll definitely watch S2. I thought the romance and friendship subplots of S1 did a decent job of trying to take this ice princess character and show just a little bit that she had a heart. I thought what they tried to do made sense from a theme and tone perspective. Whether it worked or not is a separate issue. Personally, I thought it was fine.

If they remove that for S2 and it's just her being cold bitch 100% of the time, or it turns into a "girl friendship is the real super power!" thing, that sounds boring and predictable.

But I'm watching it either way. Hoping for the best.
 
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Ortega was in X, she hardly headliners it. And X is what in talking about, that was LOADED with sex. The adult horror genre is a bit different, maybe not romance but definitely sex. If that's what she means it was not delivered well.

And Wednesday is a YA market appeal property. The YA is ALL about romance, it's heavily female audience and that is what they want. Buffy had romance front and center. Sabrina had romance front and center. Riverdale had romance front and center. IZombie even went that way a fair amount. Countless more. The Magicians, The Order, it goes on and on.

If she is trying to pivot Wednesday into an x-files/supernatural type show, well, good luck. Girl fronted versions of those tend not to do all that well.

It's just a wierd way to express a shift in focus. Or it's a meaningless statement just to get some clicks.
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Eh, I dunno if Wednesday only appealed to the YA audience considering the first season apparently did insane numbers on Netflix, even surpassing how Stranger Things' season of the same time performed, so there clearly is some level of broad appeal even from Season 1. So even if there is lowered viewership, it's unlikely it will hurt the show majorly unless the writing/production quality takes a major dive as well which would be pure speculation at this point.

And I wouldn't automatically equate successful adult horror and sex, sure they often go hand in hand, but it's hardly a requirement. Just in terms of the past 15 years: the first two Conjuring movies, Get Out, It Chapter 1 and 2, A Quiet Place, Halloween (2018), etc. were all very successful at the box office and all of them featured very little to no sex or nudity.
 
Eh, perhaps. But A Quiet Place had a married couples struggles (aka romance), IT deal with it a bit, Get Out was EXPLICITLY about interracial romance. So aka cishet RELATIONSHIPS (as opposed to platonic friendships alone or sibling bonds only). Though IIRC all film adaptations of IT remove the group sex as the bond between the kids (and WOW, was that a shocking scene even in the book) there are underlying romantic strains.

I'm not saying that Wednesday has no where to go minus romance, just that I suspect that stuff is a big part of the appeal for the actual audience that watched it, even if critics poo-pooed that aspect. Even as a playful aspect of a cold (autistic?) Wednesday having to navigate the dating scene there is ground there to work with, so it seems odd to just dump it.
 
I'm looking forward to this.

Honestly, I think there's too much sex in movies and TV. I'm all for letting these fictional kids be kids.
 
DeafTourette said:
I'm looking forward to this.

Honestly, I think there's too much sex in movies and TV. I'm all for letting these fictional kids be kids.
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I mean they are gonna be murdering people so its not their innocence they are trying to protect, I think it's more that the romance angle doesn't work so well for Wednesday as a character.
 
poppabk said:
I mean they are gonna be murdering people so its not their innocence they are trying to protect, I think it's more that the romance angle doesn't work so well for Wednesday as a character.
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Agreed. I just don't like folks wanting sex on the show. This ain't Felicity
 
The romance stuff was the least liked thing about the last season, so they've ditched it, and somehow the three people who liked are bitching about it?
 
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