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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9725190" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Ok, having binged the first four episodes, wow, what a lot of spinning plates!We have fallout from season one, a sleazy new pyrokinetic principal (played to perfection by Steve Buscemi).  Wednesday's sudden popularity, which has spawned a fan club of sycophants, one of whom has a stalker-ish crush.  Morticia's Mom (the ever-great Joanna Lumley)!  The lost-Aunt Ophelia!  Experimentation on "outcasts"!  Clockwork zombies!  Bird-controlling Avians!  Wednesday clashing with Morticia (part deux!).  Some new faculty, including Billie Piper and Christopher Lloyd!  Surprise roles by Haley Joel Osment and Anthony Michael Hall!...My God, it's full of stars!Add to that Pugsley's struggles to fit in, Enid's woes of the heart (including feeling distanced from Wednesday, her "ride or die"), and Thing really pulling his weight- a disembodied hand with no speaking voice is really one of the best characters, how does that work?Oh and we get Christina Ricci back...possibly for the last time.There's a lot of different plots going on here, and it's turning into the cinematic equivalent of a twenty-car pileup...you just can't look away (and that's a good thing in this case)!A few lingering questions:Ok, what's up with this subplot about Nevermore needing money?  There's no shortage of students, and most of them (I thought) were having their tuition paid, with only a few scholarships. And there's some very wealthy outcasts!Related to this, why can't Gomez just bail the school out?  We've seen that he has vast amounts of wealth, as every one of his crazy business decisions pays off!If their special abilities are seen as so prized, why are they "outcasts" to begin with?  I honestly hate that this is a term that's used, as if they were mutants in the Marvel universe- people always thought the Addamses were damn odd, but it just feels weird that they can be lumped into this apparently well-known group of individuals.  And also, just by looking at the students of Nevermore- do all Outcasts have abilities?  They certainly seem to!  Which begs the question of what, exactly, Gomez's power is...</blockquote>

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