The Wednesday creators have explained their decision to base the show on Wednesday Addams. 

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In The Addams Family adaptations, Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) is often a little child, but on Wednesday, she is a teenager who has been banished to the boarding school Nevermore Academy for trying to kill several of her classmates. 

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With over a billion hours seen in only one month, the program has proven to be very popular. 

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Even if Wednesday’s success was expected, it is still surprising that it took so long to put the performance together given how well-known the Addams family is. 

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The Wednesday creators, Al Gough and Miles Millar, detailed why they thought the character so interesting that they decided to make a program on her in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. 

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The two are keen to investigate Wednesday’s original notion, which is devoted to examining the character’s development and her viewpoint on the world. 

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They said "It was a character that we all really loved, and nobody had spent a lot of time with. And it’s a character we’d only seen really as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old, who is part of a family and would have a funny line in the scene, but we didn’t know much about her. "

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"Her sort of fearlessness and her ability to always be herself with something, that was interesting, and we thought, well, ‘What if she was a teenage girl? "

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"And then what if you took her out of the family and put her in boarding school, which is ostensibly a new family? How would she react? "

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