Wednesday Addams is Taking Pop Culture by Storm

How Tim Burton’s Netflix TV series ‘Wednesday’ has revamped the Addams Family legacy in gothic pop culture

Rui Alves
5 min readDec 16, 2022

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AI-generated picture of Wednesday Addams as an angsty young gothic-looking teenager with pale skin and long, dark-braided pigtails as portrayed by Jenna Ortega on Netflix TV series “Wednesday”, produced by Tim Burton.
Image by the author on NightCafé | Prompt: Wednesday’s Addams as a young gothic-looking teenager with pale skin and long, dark-braided pigtails.

A well-known character in TV history, Wednesday Addams stood out for her intelligence and wit. From the 1960s television series, The Addams Family, to Tim Burton’s coming-of-age remake of the comedy-horror…

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Rui Alves

Language teacher, linguist, life coach, published author (joined the Army and worked for the EU). A publisher, digital ronin, musician and alchemist of sound.