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Review: Netflix's 'Wednesday' is the 'Addams Family' spinoff we deserve

Catherine Zeta-Jones, left, and Luis Guzmán as Morticia and Gomez Addams in“ Wednesday.”.

She's creepy (not kooky), mysterious and spooky. She's the dead-eyed, mordant daughter of the Addams family. And now she's headed to boarding school in Tim Burton's cheerily macabre Netflix series, "Wednesday."

The eight-part series from director Burton and writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, which premiered Wednesday, has caskets full of fun when daddy's "little viper," Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega), is expelled from Nancy Reagan High, her eighth school in five years. All she

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