Dark humor is a signature trait of not just the character of Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) but the entire “Addams Family” franchise itself, going all the way back to the morbidly funny gag cartoons by Charles Addams beginning in the 1930s. But in an interview with Geek Vibes Nation to promote “Wednesday,” series writer-creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar revealed that one executive suggested removing most or all of it from the series in what would have been a particularly fatal cut. “One executive wanted to cut all the jokes out,” said Millar. “All the black humor, all her references to murder and suicide and death. [We were] constantly getting notes to just eliminate all the jokes.”
Thankfully, Millar realized the importance of this element to “Wednesday,” but he credits executive producer Tim Burton, who also directs four out of its eight episodes, with nailing its grimly humorous tone. “[O]bviously it takes someone like Tim Burton to be able to pull off that tone,” Millar said.
Fans of “Wednesday” and of “The Addams Family” in general are almost certainly glad that the unnamed executive who suggested cutting out such gems as Wednesday’s description of her psychic visions as feeling “like electroshock therapy, only without the satisfying afterburn” from her own TV show did not see their advice followed by the makers of the show.
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