There comes a lot of scrutiny and criticism when it comes to playing a decades’ loved character like Wednesday Addams. While Ortega has tried her very best to remain true to the character and give her a sense of modernism, some people didn’t like her portrayal of Wednesday.

Ortega has said that a part of centering in on a single person for a show insists on some sort of personal development for said character. Ortega has also mentioned in an interview that trying to develop Wednesday into this functional person who shows little emotion could be difficult to do. She has had to navigate through when appropriate to show the little emotion Wednesday Addams may show.

Critics have claimed that anyone in the Addams’ family, Wednesday included, only thrive in classic suburban neighborhoods. What must be taken into consideration is that in this spinoff, Wednesday is notably not living in your classic suburbia, but in a boarding school full of others like her, which also differs from previous renditions of the kooky family.

Not being in a typical suburbia and giving Wednesday a taste of normalcy with others like her is the entire point of the show. The well-known family is iconic due to their odd nature, and definitely make viewers, who feel as though they are outcasts, not feel as alone. By bringing Wednesday to this school, you are indeed putting her with even more outcasts, yet she still has her kooky, spookiness in tact. Aside from her visions that she recently began having, Wednesday has seemingly no other powers. She’s simply an outcast among others who have special abilities, that don’t involve attempted murder or psychopathy, leaving her to be singled out. She remains true to her Addams’ legacy and remains a mystery from the first day on campus to many students. The viewers are made aware that Wednesday still has a sense of uniqueness to her due to her interests that people have loved from the start.