“In some form, the Addams were always disruptors in a normal world,” says Gough. The concept of celebrating those rejected by society sprang directly from Charles Addams’ cartoons. When Wednesday was in development, the idea of “outcasts” versus “normies” came even before that of critiquing colonialism. In the Netflix show, Wednesday’s newfound psychic visions introduce us to one of Gomez’s ancestors from Mexico, Goody Addams, who started a secret society to “protect outcasts from harm and bigotry.” Milar and Gough decided to finally make this explicit after years of being implied.
To their neighbors, they’re creepy and they’re kooky, they sound funny, they dress oddly, they eat strange foods: they’re a perfect allegory for immigrant families. No matter the time period in which they’re portrayed, members of the Addams family have always been viewed as outsiders.
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