She was everything a weird old dude like Fester could ever want: She was beautiful, she was smart, she was really into dead people-like really into them, if you know what I mean (*ahem* sexually *ahem ahem*). While on vacation at the Zurich Institute for the Criminally Insane, Fester was smitten by a woman named Olga Malacova. He calls it a Hyde, and tells Wednesday that, once upon a time, he was in love with a creature such as this-well, not the Hyde itself, but the “Jekyll” from whence it came. Fester tells her that he saw a creature like this before, many years ago. Wednesday is stumped by the drawings until she shows one of them (a seriously creepy picture of a humanoid with sharp teeth, long claws, and bewildered eyes) to her Uncle Fester. Xavier has been having strange psychic visions of a monster, which he has started incorporating into his artwork. She becomes suspicious of the student body and questions a fellow student named Xavier. Where did all this Hyde business in Wednesday begin? The same place all Gothic fiction does … with a murder most foul! It wouldn’t been a tween-age drama series without a high-schooler dying under mysterious circumstances! After some students and townspeople are found murdered, Wednesday Addams resolves to solve the case. Jekyll is an angel from above and Hyde is a devil from below both exist in one person. He might even eat you! The novel is a good-and-evil story about the duality of man. Hyde is not the kind of guy you want to run into on the foggy, gaslit streets of London at night-mostly because he’ll kill you. Jekyll has taken to performing strange experiments in the night, and has created a chemical concoction that transforms him into a monstrous alternate personality named Mr. Jekyll is a revered figure in his community and performs medicine for the poorest citizens of Victorian London completely pro bono! What a guy! However, this sweet angel of a man hides a twisted secret: Dr. The story is about an intelligent, wealthy, and all around sexy chemist named Dr. That honor belongs to the author Robert Louis Stevenson, who penned the 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. So is it another Edgar Allen Poe thing, or …?Īctually, no! While most of series is one big homage to the Prince of Gothic Fic himself, Edgar Allen Poe did not create the concept of a Hyde. Make the chefs from beyond the grave proud. Maybe serve it in some sort of creepy little stew. If I can just figure out what in Edgar Allen Poe’s name a “Hyde” is, then perhaps I can dice this mystery onion once and for all. Most them are some version of “ is Jenna Ortega ever gonna blink?” or “ wtf are all these sirens about?” Now that I have peeled back those layers of the unknowable onion I am left … with more layers-I mean, questions. The more I watch it, the more questions I have. Netflix’s Wednesday series is shrouded in layers of mystery, like some sort of spooky onion.
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