Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ Continues Her Anti-Thanksgiving Legacy

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In 1993, “The Addams Family Values” established everyone’s favorite pig-tailed weirdo as a crusader against colonialist nostalgia. In the new series, she burns it all down again.

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Days before Thanksgiving 1993, in The Addams Family Values, Wednesday Addams decided to go off-script during her summer camp’s Thanksgiving pageant. Now, 29 years later, a new generation can see her do pretty much the same thing in Netflix’s mysterious and spooky new series, Wednesday.

The 1993 scene is by far...

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