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Wednesday is one of the most popular Netflix shows of all time, and it helped make Jenna Ortega a star.

It takes the breakout Adams family character Wednesday Adams and breaks her out of her home environment.

Gomez and Morticia pack her off to their alma mater, the Gloomy-Gothy Nevermore Academy,

school for outcasts like her.

Soon she's drawn into the investigation of a series of grisly murders and is set by psychic visions,

mean girls, and one seriously bubbly roommate.

The series is about to return for a second season, so we thought it was the perfect time to revisit our conversation about the show.

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Joining me today is writer Ella Seron, author of the book Viva Lola Espinoza. 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,

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