![]() But when Ortega wilds out to the Cramps, it’s like: Oh right, that guy directed Beetlejuice and Batman Returns. It’s just Jenna Ortega doing a kind of face-frozen berzerker zombie frug to the Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck.” It’s got to be the best thing that Tim Burton’s directed since what? The part of Sleepy Hollow where Casper Van Dien gets murked? I’m not all caught up on recent Burton, and there’s a reason for that. The highlight of first Wednesday season goes down at a school dance, and it has virtually nothing to do with the plot. My daughter and I mowed through the whole season over Thanksgiving, and there’s some bad CGI in there, but we had fun. The whole thing is pretty much Veronica Mars, except even more deadpan and now set at a boarding school for monster teenagers. Jenna Ortega, from Ti West’s X and the most recent Scream sequel, plays Wednesday Addams, while Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday in Barry Sonnenfeld’s ’90s Addams Family movies, plays a different character. Tim Burton directs four of the eight episodes. Last week, Netflix released the first season of Wednesday, the new TV show that reboots The Addams Family as a kind of teen-detective series. Later that summer, something similar happened, on a smaller scale, with Metallica’s “Master Of Puppets.” Now, let’s all cross out fingers that another teen-oriented Netflix show will give some long-deserved shine to the Cramps. ![]() Thanks to Stranger Things, “Running Up That Hill” topped the UK singles chart, and it reached #3 in the US - a whole lot higher than any Kate Bush song had previously gone. The show, which is based on the 2008 novel of the same name, follows best friends Tully (Katherine Heigl) and Kates (Sarah Chalke. After 2022’s revived success of Bush’s Running Up That Hill, another one of Bush’s songs is veering on overuse, and being used as a lazy way to emotionally manipulate viewers. ![]() Kate Bush’s 1985 single “Running Up That Hill” appeared prominently in Stranger Things, becoming a plot point on the show, and the song suddenly became a hit among kids who weren’t born when it first came out. Music plays an important role in Netflix series Firefly Lane. ![]() This past summer, something remarkable happened. ![]()
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