The Netflix series Wednesday takes the breakout.

Adam's family character Wednesday Adams and breaks her out of her home environment.

Gomez and Morticia pack her off to their alma mater, the gloomy, gaffy, never-more

academy, a school for outcasts like her.

As she navigates her new environment, she's drawn into the investigation of a series

of grizzling murders, plus she's beset by psychic visions, mean girls, and one seriously

bubbly roommate.

I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about Wednesday on Pop Culture Happy Hour from

NPR.

Joining me today is writer Ella Saron, whose book Viva Lola Espinosa will be out in April

and is available for pre-order right now.

Hello Ella.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

It's great to have you because I need to talk about this show.

Wednesday stars Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Adams, the only daughter in a beloved family of

freaks created by cartoonist Charles Adams in 1938.

But this take on the character grows most directly from the death-obsessed hilariously

deadpan version played by Christina Ricci in a couple of Adams family films, iconic

I would say, Adams family films in the early 90s.

Ricci shows up in Wednesday as do Wednesday's parents Gomez and Morticia, played here by

Louis Guzman and Catherine Zeta Jones, but the series focuses on Wednesday's turbulent

life at never more academy.

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