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TV Critic

Signed off work for a fairly long time, I have more than enough time to watch tv right now. This makes the TV Critic badge quite an easy one to achieve - I have been off work for over three months now which means I know which channels to switch to when I need a certain daytime tv fix. 

Clause 1 is to choose five different tv shows to watch over a four week period. They need to be different genres as well - and fortunately we've had a bit of a Netflix/Disney+/Amazon/BBC style mix of programmes of late. So my five different tv shows are....

1. Wednesday
2. Happy Valley
3. Extraordinary
4. Four in a Bed
5. Harry & Meghan Ted Lasso

I think that's a good spread of the shows I've been watching.  Now I need to write a review... to keep this challenge going I will only review the shows we've finished - though Four in a Bed is week to week so is the exception. 

Wednesday. This is the story of Wednesday Addams and her starting Nevermore Academy, the place her parents Morticia and Gomez Addams met. I wasn't sure at first what I'd make of it - was it targeted towards the teen or would it work for all of us? To answer - definitely all of us. I laughed out loud at one scene in the first episode - and enjoyed watching the adventures of the pupils of Nevermore. 

I also worked out the main story right before it was revealed - I'm not sure if it was obvious or not - and it didn't spoil; the overall programme. This is mainly as there was so much that couldn't be guessed as there's a LOT going on. 

Jenna Ortega plays Wednesday Addams, and the main thing you may or may not spot is that she rarely blinks when on camera - which looks pretty hard to do. I mean, there are times she blinks but overall her eyes are wide open and unblinking. She's also a good, gutsy Wednesday - not scared of anything and standing up for what is right. Or wrong if she got it wrong.... 

I liked that Wednesday's uniform kept the darkness of Wednesday amongst everyone else's blues - and that sharing a room with Erin meant her darkness versus the rainbow colours gave a good split of how different both girls are. I liked that it was about friendship even though Wednesday doesn't do friendship like everyone else. 

There wasn't anything I disliked - this was a good early evening watch and being a 12 meant we could watch with the teen which is always a bonus. Anything to get her out of her bedroom! 

There is only one season, eight episodes available at the moment, though Wednesday has been taken up for a Season 2 which is good news - though when that will happen is anyone's guess, hopefully we won't have too long a wait. 

I'll stop for now, the next programmes to review are Extraordinary (we have one episode left) and Four in a Bed (new series on Channel 4 at the mo!) - the others we're still a way off finishing. Besides, we're only three episodes in to Happy Valley and I'm already OH MY GOD about it all. 



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