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Did you rike season 2, /atoga/?

Episode rating:
>Episode 1: "Here We Woe Again"
6.5/10
>Episode 2: "The Devil You Woe"
7/10
>Episode 3: "Call of the Woe"
8/10
>Episode 4: "If These Woes Could Talk"
6.5/10
>Episode 5: "Hyde and Woe Seek"
5/10
>Episode 6: "Woe Thyself"
4/10
>Episode 7: "Woe Me the Money"
7/10
>Episode 8: "This Means Woe"
6/10

Final Score (with readjusted score for earlier episodes):
6.25/10

I'm surprised the script was approved...

- The overarching plot outline involving the zombie, Isaac, Thing, and Gomez was good, but the Tyler and his mother should have been a unrelated
- It's clear scenes were shot before they decided how they were going to piece them together. Episode 5 and 6 were the worst for this. Pugsley and Gomez go searching for Slurp until dark and meet the Jericho attendees, then it cuts back to the Sheriff investigating the sewer entrance and it's daytime again. And in the later episodes you had Grandmumma in one scene, leave, then come back immediately for another scene.
- There was too much plot baggage carried on over from the first season. Ideally they would have just dropped the Hyde plot, or at least made Tyler less central to the story. It would be so easy to write a redemption subplot for him independent of the main story.
- The whole Morning Song plot was a huge letdown too. A waste of Steve Buscemi and Casper van Dien's characters. They should have just scrapped that entirely. There are so many other easy to conceive of cool ideas involving pyromantic principal...
- The cast is too stacked in general. And it's not like they didn't have the runtime to spare, they just wasted it on frivolous things. Episode 6 with the kpop thing was essentially just an episode of filler. The exact same episode would have been half-decent had they not already wasted so much of the previous episodes' runtimes on filler, but as it was it just felt a little bit egregious.
- They wasted the Jericho set so hard.

cont'd

Episode rating:
>Episode 1: "Here We Woe Again"
7.5/10
>Episode 2: "The Devil You Woe"
8/10
>Episode 3: "Call of the Woe"
9/10
>Episode 4: "If These Woes Could Talk"
7.5/10

Verdict:
- Kino (8/10)
- Nigh imperceptibly weaker than season 1 but could change with part 2
- Needs as many more seasons as they can make
- Central hook feels weaker than season 1, and all the red herrings are being solved so quickly don't really help (though better than them dangling them in front of us for the entire season)
- Some of the weaker parts of this season are the remnants of season 1 plots, like the siren girl's mother subplot and the hyde subplot that I felt didn't need recycling and kind of weigh it down. But I understand that Burton and the producers might not want to just abandon the actors which I can respect.
- Agnes character *chef's kiss*. Enid underutilized. Really really like how the rest of the Addams have more involvement this season. Every Gomez scene is gold. Enjoyed the Zorro reference for Catherine Zeta-Jones, Pugsley's actor stands out too and is quite reminiscent of Raul Julia's Gomez.
- Liked all the famous faces Christopher Lloyd (old Fester), Ricci of course, Billie Piper (though her character in the first four episodes seems underdeveloped), and Buscemi of course with his fellow kids reference.
- World-building is great this season as well, like how they're following the trend of each episode generally having a different school event/setting. Camp episode is the strongest for that reason so far.
- Writing is a bit less snappier than the first season. Wednesday's wordplay carried every scene in the first season, this time not so much. One of the best scenes was the driving instructor scene and it was just the result of having a good foil to play Wednesday's character off of, no high production values necessary.

I feel like they need to introduce some other big mysteries in order for the season to resolve in a satisfying way.

cont'd