Tim Burton directed Netflix's new eight-episode original series,
Wednesday
.
Netflix has dropped the first official teaser for
Wednesday
on the heels of yesterday's
exclusive first-look images
for the Tim Burton-directed series in Vanity Fair. All in all, it looks deliciously Burtonesque, and we're keen to give it a chance.
As I've
written previously
, American cartoonist Charles Addams
created the characters
in 1938, originally as a series of single-panel cartoons published in
The New Yorker
. They were his satirical sendup of American "family values," turning the entire social framework upside-down. The characters proved so popular that ABC created a 1964
live-action sitcom
,
The Addams Family
, based on them. (Not everyone was pleased by the development.
William Shawn
was editor of
The New Yorker
at the time, and his refined sensibilities were allegedly so offended by the TV series that he actually banned Addams Family cartoons from the magazine; the characters didn't return to its pages until he retired in 1987.)
Animated versions of the family have appeared regularly in film and TV since the 1970s, and Fox unsuccessfully attempted to revive the original TV series in 1998 with
The New Addams Family
. But it was two live-action feature films in 1991 and 1993, respectively, that defined their canonical representation in popular culture:
The Addams Family
and
Addams Family Values
.