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.
Wednesday accuses a character who lies to her repeatedly of gaslighting. Her therapist also briefly believes her to be delusional or lying for attention when she in fact isn't, but the therapist genuinely believes this rather than deliberately gaslighting her.
SPOILERS: Tyler's backstory involves having been tortured and drugged by Laurel Gates to manipulate him into obeying her.
Not in the typical sense (child abuse at home, bullying etc), but teenager are fighting against the bad guys here. They are at times attacked, hurt, almost killed.
Someone is reunited with their mother, she ties him up with shackles (which is for safety because of his monster side but also a tool of control) and when he raises his voice at her she slaps him on the face. We discover she was also abused, which doesn’t excuse her actions but contributes to the cycle of abuse. Later s2e8 this same parent character forces said son into being healed of his outcast abilities. He is tied down and verbally fights that she has no right to take his powers and that he doesn’t consent to this. She doesn’t care and thinks she is doing him a favour. They then physically fight which ends in one of them falling to their death.
Not specifically but in S2 ep7, when Wednesdays Grandma is at the Gala on a boat, she claims that she is going to re-introduce corporal punishment (as a very distasteful throwaway joke)
After man takes pictures of the couple birds behind him hit his car and d*e. They are shown later after Wednesday yells at Thing
When Pugsley is looking at the map, a dead tarantula is shown
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.
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.
Wednesday threatens to neuter boys for simply not leaving her room during her roommates party. That’s threats and jokes about sexual assault on men. All these nos are wrong.
Again, Thing is a severed hand that moves like it's its own being. It has sewn up cuts all over (not bloody/scarred/graphic, it's just the stitches that are visible).
Spoiler!
After Enid pranks Wednesday into thinking she is dead,Enid says she is getting her back for leaving a fake eye on her pillow and if you don’t want to see look away after Wednesday says what fake eyeball, there is blood and you can see some stuff on the back, not quite sure how to describe it but it’s gore. Not sure if it shows up again as I’m updating as I go but you shouldn’t see it again after Enid asks where Wednesday got it
More than one person dies. Two quite dramatically. I think that a third person is killed off-screen by Slurp/Isaac (and then eaten) after being knocked unconscious but I'm not certain.
Yes. A character who is missing a hand is played by a non-amputee s2e8. This same character also has a clockwork heart, similar to an artificial heart or pacemaker.
No, but there are many different knives, swords, and other pointy weapons of the sort in the episode.
SPOILER!
When Enid and Bruno get kidnapped, they wake up to realize there's a whole bunch of swords and stuff hanging above them
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.
I don't remember the episode but Enid states she has PTSD from something they encountered in a way that's clearly meant to be hyperbolic.
If you're not a fan of of flippant misuse of diagnostic termilogy, skip this dumpster fire.
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).
There is a flashing light warning for the season 2 premiere. Lights happen at various times. Here are some: Wednesday's brother Pugsley uses his electricity to hit 2 road signs, there's a car crash after he knocks down the stop sign with that 2nd zap and the car crash involves various sparks, fire, etc. Later Pugsley's R.A. is telling a scary story for the first night at school and there are several flashes of lightning during the story. When Pugsley is at the skull tree there are a lot of flashes of his electricity.
No but the hit and run is arguably shown more explicity than some of the monster attacks and the funeral scene shows a lot of people very genuinely distressed. Given his is the first "realistic" death (struck in the street, dies from having life support sabotaged in the hospital) could see it being distressing to those sensitive to the topic.
Can argue the man in the truck with the broken neck was "realistic" but it's almost comical visually. This is much more serious in tone.
Note the hit and run / hospital scenes occurs in an earlier episode. Funeral is episode 7.
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."
At the height of the Wednesday internet craze people seemingly loved the show but would turn around and be outwardly hateful towards real life goths, “freaks” as they are called in this movie, people with ASPD and autistic people, despite being featured and uplifted in the show.
Bullies mock Pugsley for his weight and call him "Pigsley", but this is portrayed as cruel, unfunny behaviour on their part, and they soon get what they deserve.
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.
Nothing very explicit. There's a scene in S1E8 where two kids make out, another (non sexual) scene in S1E8 with a naked teenage boy, and there are a few joking statements throughout S1 that allude to Morticia and Gomez having sex while at Nevermore as teens.
Wednesday tells Pugsley not to cry because she believes showing emotions is a sign of weakness that will make him a target for bullies. This is not because of his gender as she considers emotions to be weak in general and refuses to show them herself. She clearly views it as tough love but to the audience it is clear she's being unfairly harsh and has issues.
Wednesday barges into the abandoned building the dude is squatting in, strangles and threatens him. He's then later murdered by the monster and no one cares.
Which is all to say Wednesday can play nice with cops and every other authority figure but it's the homeless dude who gets strangled for having the audacity to ask what she's doing in his space. Yeah, hard pass.
Someone removes a stop sign which results in an immediate 3 car collision. All people are either not shown or seem to run away befor harm comes to them.
Yes, there is blood when Wednesday releases the piranhas into he pool, at the very beginning, when a hiker is killed early in the episode, at the end of Wednesday's and Bianca's fencing match + in the infirmary scene that follows, and a graphic, bloody killing of a teenage boy at the end. Also someone is shown in a grotesque position dead after a car accident (not bloody though). The last two events are also shown in brief flashes in Wednesday's visions before the scenes happen.