The Mic Drop Moment from “Wednesday” You Might Have Missed

And Basically an All-Consuming Roar of Appreciation for the Genius of this Series

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Amidst the fabulous gothic gore and dead-humor wit of the hit Netflix series, Wednesday, is a brilliance, wisdom, and some glorious in-your-face truths that elevate this series beyond the mere macabre humor and entertaining fascination with darkness and death that we like to associate with the traditional portrayals of the iconic Addams Family.

This series is given the genre listing of “Comedy Horror” — an interesting combination one does not usually see, but is very much on point.

Comedy is often one of the greatest mediums for reminding people of what is really happening in our world, getting us all to come face-to-face with the realities no one wants to acknowledge, wrapping up the blatant hard-to-swallow truths in a sugar coated candy casing.

Wednesday does just this.

There is so much beauty to the self-possession and inalienable confidence of Wednesday as she rips apart standard social tropes like social media, baring it down to what it is: this visceral need of today’s world to seize onto any validation or approval we can find from everyone else because we’ve lost our own ability to recognize and…