There is something incredibly sneaky about that first dance sequence in Wednesday ’s second season. After showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar swore for months that they would not try to replicate the viral sensation from the show’s freshman year—back when Jenna Ortega’s titular character vamped across a ballroom to the Cramps (or Lady Gaga, depending on your social post)—the back half of Wednesday Season 2 not-so-much reverses that promise as it absolutely inverts it with a cold-open more colorful than a Skittles rainbow, and twice as sugary). Rather than see Wednesday do her macabre moves again, episode six opens with Ortega and co-star Emma Myers apparently switching roles for the lulz.

In plentiful pinks and pastels, Ortega’s seeming Wednesday Addams is smiling and dancing

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