In case you’ve missed it, the Wednesday TV series follows the titular Addams character (Jenna Ortega) at school, usually solving murders and protecting her werewolf roommate, Enid (Emma Myers). However, I’m going to focus on the parts about Wednesday writing her novel.
In season one, Wednesday was working on a girl-detective novel. In season two, she’s trying to get it published. The first episode of season two starts (after a scuffle with a serial killer played by Haley Joel Osment) with Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones) checking in on her daughter, asking where she’s been all summer.
Wednesday’s reply is, “Writers should always refill their creative cups before the begin again. So I indulged in my favorite passions, torment and humiliation.”
Morticia asks, “When do I get to read your novel?”
Inside of her head, Wednesday says, “When the sun explodes and the earth is consumed in a molten apocalypse.” Out loud, she of course says, “Soon, Mother, soon.”
This sums up a extrovert writer so well. She both wants to be published, but doesn’t want her parents to read it. I like how she doesn’t notice the contradiction.
When Enid asks about the publisher Wednesday reached out to, she confesses that they wanted to heavily edit her novel. “This novel was two years of my life. They’ll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands before I change a single word.”
The last twenty minutes of the episode take place at a school celebration where Wednesday’s stalker has stuffed her manuscript into a raven shaped pyre that will be lit as part of the festivities. I’ve mentioned many times how this is the most evil of crimes! Enid gets annoyed when she finds out that Wednesday only has one copy since “copy machines aren’t even 21st century technology”. And worst of all, the arsonist stalker says they found more typos!
