The show is a comic horror detective story where Wednesday Addams finds herself in the city of Jericho in a school for ‘outcasts’ which is put at risks. A monster, secrets, lies, friendships in coming… Wednesday will be busy during her stay in that school.

The series communicates many literature and cinematographic references. Among the many we will focus on Edgar Allan Poe universe and Harry Potter.

Edgar Allan Poe is an American writer of the 19th century, he influenced many novels and movies by his novels and horrific ideas. In Wednesday the most flagrant references are of course the statue of him in the school. The school in itself is also a shoutout to the author, Nevermore, for is novel The Raven which we can perceive as well in the Raveball (contraction of raven and ball). However in the tournament four novels to his name were introduced as the team names written on the canoes : The Pit and Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado (Ajax and Xavier’s team), The Gold bug (Bianca’s team) and of course The Black Cat (Wednesday and Enid’s team).

Harry Potter possesses four houses: Gryffindor (Harry’s), Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. In Wednesday, the four houses are the school wings Ophelia (Enid’s and Wednesday’s) and the three others which are not named. The idea of a character that doesn’t know anything about a wellknown magical school where the parents were both legends appear in both Harry Potter and Wednesday, with James and Lily and on the other hand Morticia and Gomez. The purpose of the character are also bound in a way, when Harry came at Hogwarts he was the ‘chosen one’, but when Wednesday came she was the one that will bring chaos to the school, if not the world. In fact they are even bounded in death, Harry, after being ‘Avada Kedavra’ by Lord Voldemort, is saved by Mrs Malfoy when she lied to keep him alive, when Wednesday was saved by Goody who healed her wound, both characters have received help from one of their enemy. Now an even more strange coincidence between the two cinematographic masterpieces, in the first Harry Potter, the professor Quirrel, who was so nice and sweet to Harry, turned out to be the villain, we can behold of the similarity with the persona of professor Thornhill. If we dig even deeper, we can find a sameness in the statue of Edgar Allan Poe with the statue of the Phoenix. Both of those artefacts are a symbol of power and respect, and they both need to solve a riddle to open up to a untold room full of secrets and wisdom (Dumbledore’s office or the Nightshade’s landmark).

L. L.