Wednesday Addams is sent to Nevermore Academy, a bizarre boarding school where she attempts to master her psychic powers, stop a monstrous killing spree of the town citizens, and solve the supernatural mystery that affected her family 25 years ago — all while navigating her new relationships.
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No but Wednesday snarks that her family is abandoning her by sending her to boarding school and a child is threatened with disownment by their parent at one point
While the scorpion scene may not sound as triggering based on the previous two replies, here's more details.
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Wednesday is telling a story where she is 6 years old and has a pet scorpion. Some boys hold her back while others intentionally run the scorpion over with their bikes. You don't see the scorpion die, but hear the squishing sound. This greatly distresses young Wednesday and you see her cry and mourn the scorpion at a grave.
S1e2 about 16 mins in. A character brings a drawing of a spider to life with their powers. Shots of the spider crawling around, safe to look after there is a bang after ‘admit it, you’re a little impressed’ (the bang is the spider drawing being destroyed)
Not technically snakes, the kid is like Medusa with the hair that looks like snakes and turns people to stone. You only see his full head once, and then a peek of it another time.
There is talk of poisoning an entire group of people by spiking a punch, which doesn't ultimately happen. The would-be poisonor accidentally gets poisoned during the attempt though.
Technically but only for a second. A character was trying to sneak and another character grabbed there mouth and pulled them to a hiding spot to prevent them from being seen.
No jokes about SA on men. Morticia does allege to the mayor that men such as him don't know what it feels like to not be believed (about being stalked, in this context, but the way she says it could imply sexual threat in general).
Stabbings, in s1E6 we see cuts on a teenager’s chest from a monster attack being taken care of S1E7 Thing has a cut on his palm S1E8 someone else cuts Wednesday’s palm in a ritual
A dead man is shown sitting in a car with his neck broken. It’s very graphic and it scared me even though things like this usually wouldn’t. 39:45 - 40:00 after Wednesday says “he broke his neck” the camera will show the outside of the car and then the man sitting inside but skip to 40:00 and you’ll be good
S1E5: First minute. Later 22:55 and again at 32:55. It's one of the main focuses of the episode. It is the same person shown falling three different times.
Blood and gore? Yes, but I wouldn’t say it’s excessive. Maybe this is just my line, but most of what we see is the aftermath. Splashed blood and some body parts, but it’s not dwelled upon, and we don’t really see any dismemberment happen on screen.
ep. 1 safe ep. 2 safe ep. 3 NOT SAFE from 13:14 to 14:16 ep. 4 safe ep. 5 safe ep. 6 safe ep. 7 safe ep. 8 you can see foam coming out of someone’s mouth but no v.
A jock is bitten by piranhas in a swimming pool in the first episode. Also, while not true, it’s gossiped that Wednesday ate a kid at her old school, and she responds by saying she actually feeds them to her pets.
There’s a somewhat sympathetic cop character but I wouldn’t say he is heroized at all or excused by the narrative for his dishonesty, biases and/or personal vendettas.
Wednesday says that electro-shock therapy has a "satisfying afterburn" which is pretty insensitive writing.
electro-therapy is discussed frequently.
Wednesday tortures someone using tazers
Last episode of S1 - a scene starts showing one being filled with liquid, she places it in her pocket and (when approaching another character) she suddenly gets it out and violently uses it on that person. After this scene, it isn't seen again
Wednesday is very much autistic-coded in this series. However, this question with the current phrasing (“is autism misrepresented?”) is always going to be tough to answer because most shows with obvious autistic-coded characters like Wednesday don’t choose to actually label the character as autistic.
Wednesday herself has a lot of traits that are relatable to me as an autistic person (doesn’t express/read emotions in a typical way, doesn’t like to be touched, extreme bluntness, special interests, aversions to specific stimuli, enhanced sensory abilities, strict adherence to routines, etc.) and she is occasionally bullied and frequently pestered because of these traits. She is sometimes asked (or even forced) by authority figures to act differently or do things that make her uncomfortable (in a way that might be upsetting/triggering for folks with behaviorism/ABA in their past).
Wednesday doesn’t jump out of the way of a falling gargoyle so while not directly suicide she does nothing to stop it, instead someone else pushes her out of the way.
Character mentions about having one right now but it's not graphic and isn't obvious kind of like an overdramatic thing ( it's after they leave the house and are back in the car/room)
This may be considered claustrophobic. In episode 4 around the 4 minute mark, Wednesday is in one of the chamber doors they put dead bodies in in a morgue. They don’t really show it from the inside or from her point of view at all, but they show the door being closed on her in there twice.
It is talked about quite graphically. The area where the suicide was committed is also shown after the body is removed(in body bag). There’s blood splatter on the wall.
SLIGHT SPOILER???? KINDA
adding to the other answers, at the very end of season 1 last episode, over a black screen wednesday says something along the lines of "The suspense is killing you, I know." which could be seen as a 4th wall break
This list contains slight spoilers, but i would recommend reading anyway.
any quotes i use are taken directly from the subtitles:
- ASPD abuse and equating murderers with 'psychopathy'
ep 1 "oh, you must be the psychopath they let in"
ep 2 "my new desk, you psychopath!"
ep 3 use of the term "ps*cho"
ep 6 "They scrub up well for psychopaths."
ep 8 use of the term "ps*cho"
- Links psychosis with murder and violence
(ep?)"my foe was no psychotic killer."
ep 6 "of course the first boy I kiss would turn out to be a psychotic, serial-killing monster"
ep 8 "so you come from a line of psychotic killers too."
- using disability and neurodiversity terms outside of those contexts.
ep 1 "the espresso machine's having a seizure"
ep 3 "i literally think i have PTSD."
ep 5 "i've never seen someone so blinded by rage."
In general, most of the even slightly “overweight” characters are shown overeating or zealously eating non-food items at various points, and it’s meant to be amusing.
Kinda adjacent, Wednesday calls fudge “diabetes in a box.”
The only main Black people are villain/bully coded, ASPD is represented as a bad thing and “something serial killers have”, indigenous people are disregarded when talking about who owns the land in the plot, the g slur against Romani people is used, a homeless drug addict/mentally I’ll person is a hostile thief who is killed off, dreamctahxers are sold in an oddities shop, there is a “joke” that sugar causes diabetes, mental illness/disability/racially charged words are used as insults (eg “the coffee maker is having a seizure”), demonisation of Neurodivergent traits in Wednesday, a non native family appropriate native medicine, spelling/grammar mistakes are ridiculed, “Salem” witch trials,
Adding to the comment, the first bully/antagonist is a popular black girl that gets popular by manipulating people then eventually gets redeemed but it feels so weird especially with Tim burtons track record. The characters are diverse but it feels… performative
Wednesday's relationship with Tyler might seem dubious, because the actor playing Tyler is 28 and does not look much like a teenager. However, there is a reference to Tyler being in high school and he calls himself a teenage tearaway and has a curfew, suggesting he is only meant to be a year or so older than her.
Wednesday calls Pugsley weak and soft for crying and showing affection. She is trying to protect him and it’s really not about his gender but it happens all the same.