When Media Tried To Turn Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ Into A Racism Controversy, Its Producer Shut Them Down

It didn’t take long for a handful of viewers to decide that Netflix’s Addams Family spinoff series “Wednesday” is racist, for the crime of featuring villains who happen to be black.

The media predictably seized on the few tweets to contrive a controversy surrounding Netflix’s currently No. 1 show. But when one outlet reached out to Executive Producer Tim Burton for comment on the “racism” smears, his office deftly wrecked the media, getting out ahead of the non-story in a way that should be replicated anytime woke nonsense rears its ugly head.

“I’m not forwarding a comment request this silly to Tim,” said Mike Simpson, a representative for Burton, who also directed a few episodes of the series. “However, apparently Daylight Savings Time is racist,” Simpson reportedly added with a link to a recent CNN article, which argues that black and brown people don’t sleep as well because of “historical and persistent forms of structural racism,” and therefore that changing the clocks leads to “adverse health consequences” for them.

Warning: light spoilers ahead. 

If critics would spend more time being viewers and less time being victims, however, they would soon see the main villains in the series turn out to be white.“Wednesday” is titled after the lead character and oldest Addams Family daughter, Wednesday Addams, played by former Disney star Jenna Ortega. Ortega’s character is an adolescent oddball who has blossoming psychic powers. She attends “Nevermore Academy,” a school dedicated to educating “outcast” children with different magical abilities. 

“Nevermore Academy,” by its very mission, should be an inclusive utopia, but Wednesday quickly learns from her blonde and bubbly werewolf roommate, Enid, that the school is just as cliquey and socially ostracizing as any other high school. 

The show’s lead black character, and the academy’s queen bee and bully, is Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday), a siren with the ability to manipulate people via her magical powers of persuasion. Initially, Bianca is controlling and cruel to her classmates. Later in the series, though, we learn that Bianca doesn’t actually want to manipulate others and escaped to Nevermore because her mother was pressuring her into joining a cult of siren online scammers. 

As the series progresses, it becomes apparent that Bianca is misunderstood and insecure — not a magic version of Regina George from “Mean Girls.” Bianca also bonds with the second black character in question, Lucas Walker, who has a more minor role as another local bully. In the end, both Bianca and Lucas have satisfying character arcs and team up with Wednesday to play integral roles in defeating the show’s main bad guy. In the final episode of the series, Wednesday, Bianca, Lucas, and their friends fight three villains — all of whom are white. 

Another shocking part of the “racism” accusations is that “Wednesday” does plenty to appease the woke left. The evilest character in the show is a prejudiced Pilgrim who is resurrected from the dead to kill all the outcast children at Nevermore. The very idea of a sinister

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