Wednesday Addams is expelled from her school after nearly killing a classmate. This is her eighth expulsion in five years. At wits end, her parents, Morticia and Gomez, send her to Nevermore Academy, Morticia's old school. A school for outcasts, Wednesday should fit in but it appears that even among outcasts she's an outcast. Meanwhile, a monster is killing people near the school.
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Right in episode one, Wednesday finds Pugsley stuffed in a locker, tied up with an apple jammed in his mouth. That exact image shows up in the 1991 Addams Family movie too, just with the roles reversed since this time it's Wednesday who did the tying.
Production designer Mark Scruton has explained that the gargoyles carved into Nevermore Academy aren't random, each one was designed to represent a specific outcast group at the school, so you can spot vampires, gorgons and sirens if you look closely at the stonework.
The back wall of the Weathervane Café in Jericho is covered in weathervanes that are easy to miss, but a couple of them are shaped like props from Tim Burton's other films, including one topped with Willy Wonka's hat and another with scissors nodding to Edward Scissorhands.
For Season 1, the outside of Nevermore Academy was Cantacuzino Castle in Bușteni, Romania. It was actually built in 1911 as a summer home for a former Romanian Prime Minister, long before it got a second life as a boarding school for outcasts.
The real Charleville Castle used for Season 2's Nevermore is reportedly haunted by the ghost of a young girl named Harriet, who is said to have died in a fall on the property around 160 years ago, which honestly feels almost too on brand for this show.
