{"id":124998,"date":"2022-08-18T06:24:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T05:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=124998"},"modified":"2022-08-19T12:08:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T11:08:56","slug":"wednesday-mystery-murder-and-mayhem-in-tim-burton-netflix-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/tv\/wednesday-mystery-murder-and-mayhem-in-tim-burton-netflix-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday: Mystery, murder and mayhem in Tim Burton Netflix series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s creepy and she&#8217;s kooky, mysterious and spooky, she&#8217;s&#8230; been through eight schools in five years. Now, Wednesday Addams is enrolling in a brand new school that she seems more suited to but that doesn&#8217;t mean the troubles are behind her.<\/p>\n<p>The first teaser for <em><strong>Wednesday<\/strong><\/em>, Tim Burton&#8217;s Netflix series based on the popular character from <em><strong>The Addams Family<\/strong><\/em> is here, and it&#8217;s as altogether ooky as you&#8217;d expect&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Di310WS8zLk\" width=\"375\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Wednesday<\/strong><\/em> is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams\u2019 years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday&#8217;s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago \u2014 all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.<\/p>\n<p>We have also been given our first look at Wednesday&#8217;s family as a whole, with mother and father Morticia and Gomez Addams alongside brother Pugsley. Check out the first look at the Addams family here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-125000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wednesday-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wednesday-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wednesday-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wednesday-616x409.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Wednesday.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Directed and executive produced by Tim Burton (<em><strong>Dark Shadows<\/strong><\/em>), with showrunners, executive producers and writers Alfred Gough &amp; Miles Millar (<em><strong>Smallville<\/strong><\/em>), the series stars Jenna Ortega (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/dvd-and-bluray\/scream-exclusive-video-from-directors-matt-bettinelli-olpin-and-tyler-gillett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Scream<\/strong><\/em><\/a>) as Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It also stars Gwendoline Christie (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/the-sandman-season-one-review-bring-me-a-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The Sandman<\/strong><\/em><\/a>), Jamie McShane (<em><strong>The Lincoln Lawyer<\/strong><\/em>), Percy Hynes White (<em><strong>The Gifted<\/strong><\/em>), Hunter Doohan (<em><strong>Truth Be Told<\/strong><\/em>), Emma Myers (<em><strong>Girl in the Basement<\/strong><\/em>), Joy Sunday (<em><strong>The Beta Test<\/strong><\/em>), Naomi J Ogawa (<em><strong>Skylines<\/strong><\/em>), Moosa Mostafa (<em><strong>The Last Bus<\/strong><\/em>), Georgie Farmer (<em><strong>The Evermoor Chronicles<\/strong><\/em>), Riki Lindhome (<em><strong>Duncanville<\/strong><\/em>), with Christina Ricci (who played Wednesday Addams in the 1991 movie directed by Barry Sonnenfeld), alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones (<em><strong>Prodigal Son<\/strong><\/em>) as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzm\u00e1n (<em><strong>Hightown<\/strong><\/em>) as Gomez Addams and Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Wednesday will be released on Netflix this autumn. Watch more trailers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzZiC_sZdNZsdP4Rskmoudg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SciFiNow YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday Addams is enrolling in a new school in Wednesday, the new Netflix series directed by Tim Burton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":124999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Entertainment","MSN_Publish_Option":true,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[7466],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WEDNESDAY_S1_WEDNESDAY_ARRIVES_OFFICIAL_TEASER_THUMB_16x9_PRODUCT_CLEAN.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124998"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125007,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124998\/revisions\/125007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}