As a result, this is my pick for the year’s Most Valuable Episode (MVE), for this two-parter legitimizes the show’s developed understanding of its primary focus while simultaneously making it easier for Season Two to utilize it thereafter.
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This is the aforementioned flashback show, where the series lets us see how Morticia and Gomez first met - a narrative that both helps further the emotional foundation of their relationship for future application in story and solidifies going forward that the characters, and theirs specifically, are the fulcrum for the strangeness feeding the series’ premise. Written by Hannibal Coons & Harry Winkler | Directed by Sidney Lanfield Gomez and Morticia tell the kids how they first met. It’s a perfect encapsulation of its era, and with all this in mind, I have picked ten episodes that I think exemplify Season Two’s finest.Ġ1) Episode 36: “Morticia’s Romance (I)” (Aired: 09/24/65) However, the original series is the foundation for every screen adaptation that follows, revealing the premise’s domestic origins and the normalcy that it usually rejects, but - like all of these supernatural family shows - doesn’t abandon completely. The feature films of the ’90s - this franchise’s most visible reboot - would correct these issues by emphasizing stylistic peculiarities while magnifying each of the leads’ comic depictions, ensuring that strangeness was obvious in the characters. This supplied history is something Munsters, for instance, never would have built an episode around, and it indicates Addams’ more pronounced desire to use its leads to further its overall goals… That said, with less of the outside, or “normal” world, in weekly narratives, sometimes the calibration of strangeness is off, yielding plots either too typical for this atypical show (see: the Christmas entry), or, like most ’60s efforts, more concerned with their episodic notions instead of anything truly in support of the characters or the premise.
In fact, their bond gains notable dimension here, aided by the introduction of new peripheral players - Morticia’s sister Ophelia and their mother, Granny Frump - who debut in a classic flashback (featured below) that shows us how the couple first met. Once again, there are tales about Fester and Lurch and Itt, but the spotlight goes principally to Gomez and Morticia, whose cultivated dynamic has emerged as the series’ defining emotional bedrock.
Accordingly, despite a high-concept structure that’s premise-led with supernatural decorations, Addams has become even more character-driven, or at least character -rooted, for now, with a stronger association between the regulars and the thesis, the show’s sophomore year turns away from its “a stranger comes to the house and encounters the Addamses’ ookiness” template, which we saw a lot last year, and instead focuses more on interpersonal stories between members of the family, furthering their development. The series goes into its final year with both an elevated awareness of its identity as a domestic comedy about a strange family who subverts the genre’s expectations and, thanks to Season One’s success, an enhanced ability to use its characters to satisfy this understanding.
The Addams Family stars JOHN ASTIN, CAROLYN JONES, JACKIE COOGAN, TED CASSIDY, BLOSSOM ROCK, LISA LORING, KEN WEATHERWAX, and FELIX SILLA.
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Welcome to a new Sitcom Tuesday… on a Wednesday, where we’re finishing the best of The Addams Family (1964-1966, ABC), which is currently available in full on DVD and Amazon.
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