Wednesday - a fan theory
CAUTION: SPOILERS Although this is going to sound critical, it’s really not. While I don’t really rank my TV shows when I do my recap of the year because I find it really hard across such diversity of shows, genres and so on, Wednesday was certainly one of my favourites. However, if you’re going to be picky, as a piece of TV it’s unusually told with a lot of really convenient coincidences and fewer, but enough to be a noticeable pattern, excised scenes that contain pretty important information. There’s another point too, but we’ll come back to that later, because it’s unique and hard to call a pattern. Let’s start with a really huge example of the really convenient coincidences. Enid has been struggling to transform, it’s a huge thing for her - she fights with her mother about it, and although she gets support from her father, it’s still distressing. But, when Wednesday is fighting the Hyde form of Tyler, Thing can not only direct Enid straight to the spot they’re fighting in middl...