Since season 2 is sort of out now I guess I’ll post this edit I made of the first season. Not sure yet whether I’ll edit the second, I have mixed feelings about the episodes they’ve released so far.
This edit cuts quite a bit of side plot from the first season but so far there haven’t been any continuity issues with the second season, so technically you could watch it as a “catch up” replacement for the first season. The only minor point is that they don’t really introduce Uncle Fester well in the second season, assuming you already know who he is, and he’s cut from my Season 1 edit.
I enjoyed Season 1 for the most part in its original form, but the Uncle Fester section felt out of place to me, as did the real-world political references and the attempt to insert common tropes about needing friends and love, which are a sappy and trite twist that weakens Wednesday’s unique character. I think this edit cleans up a lot of those rough edges and allows the main character to triumph in all her oddball glory rather than the “yay WE did it” ending of the original show after everyone constantly doubts and abandons her for seven episodes.
These cuts reduce the runtime from 6.75 hours down to 4 hours.
Here’s a cliptrailer: https://bestedit.net/trailer/Wednesday.2022.Trailer.1080p.webm
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Below is the high-level edit list:
- trims to make the parents less cringey in the car
- trim Wednesday being unnecessarily mean to mom (feels out of character to me - I like her righteously vengeful, not spiteful for no reason)
- cut wolf girl lamenting her late puberty and Wednesday’s childhood flashback
- cut Thing delivering Wednesday’s message
+ move carnival to next episode
- cut some of the voiceovers
- remove all references to Wednesday passing out
+ move canoe scene later
- trim train station transformation - don’t show viewer spoilers Wednesday/Thing can’t observe
- trims to make the bee kid less cringey
+ move forward Wednesday figuring out the transformation from Ep5
- cut some side character scenes
- remove references to photograph of the monster
- tone down the dating/romance emphasis a bit for all the characters
- discard most of the “Family day” episode, including all the parents flashbacks
+ move forward and recut the safecracking scene to remove Uncle Fester
- cut the “psychic training” plot point that goes nowhere
- cut most of the mayor stuff, we only see him at the statue ceremony
+ use the old series logo for the last episode to be consistent
- remove a lot of the “kids club” in the final episode and keep the focus on Wednesday
- recut the final fights to be a bit more natural, no ghost healing
- cut the escape at the end