The Werewolf of “Wednesday…”
To my knowledge, there hasn’t been an on-going werewolf character in a regular TV series since Oz on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Josh in Being Human. Fortunately, the Wednesday series on Netflix has introduced a leading werewolf character, a female no less, in the person of Enid, the roommate of Wednesday Addams.
Now Enid is not your typical dark and tormented werewolf character, but instead a rather cheerful and bright-spirited young lady who is just at the start of her werewolf journey, in the process of discovering herself and experiencing her first transformations. She contrasts almost completely with the darkness of Wednesday, having her half of their shared room in bright colors whereas Wednesday’s half is black and gothic. When asked at one point how she feels, Enid responds, “warm and fuzzy!”
Her upbeat nature initially causes Wednesday to keep Enid at some distance, but their relationship grows during the series, and in the second season now completed it’s revealed that Enid is not only a werewolf but an Alpha, capable of changing into her wolf form willfully without a full moon. Should she do so at this point, however, she will be permanently locked into her werewolf form, unable to transform back to human status…
Well, it turns out that when Wednesday is prematurely buried by a series villain and in danger of death by suffocation, Enid’s powerful werewolf form is needed to excavate Wednesday from her grave just in time. Fearless and unshaken, Wednesday declares “I enjoyed that” of her burial experience; you gotta love this dark girl! Enid, however, is locked in her werewolf form and feral, and goes on the lam. She is pursued by (hooray!) Uncle Fester and Wednesday at the end of the second season, with Wednesday riding in the sidecar of Fester’s motorcycle, and Fester ecstatic about the fun they’ll have pursuing such a dangerous creature!
It will be interesting to see the further development of Enid’s werewolf character, who Wednesday promised to pursue and restore. One hopes that Season 3 of Wednesday will not be long in coming…
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September 15, 2025 at 2:52 pm
You mean to say you’ve forgotten BIG WOLF ON CAMPUS (1999-2002) and TEEN WOLF THE SERIES (2011-17)? For shame!
BWOC was a Canadian TV series that was done mostly for laughs (sort of a cross between THE ADDAMS FAMILY and BIG BANG THEORY). While TWTS was really only _loosely_ based on the Michael J. Fox film. In fact, the titular werewolf, as played by Tyler Posey, was named after William Zabka’s character from THE EQUALIZER: TOS (1985-89)! Plus, it was mostly dark drama (like BTVS: TOS).
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September 15, 2025 at 2:58 pm
I suppose it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to hypothesize that “Howard” might have been lycanthro-Scott’s middle name. As no other middle name was ever canonically declared in any piece of spoken dialogue.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:27 pm
“Scott Howard McCall.” Yeah, that does have a nice ring to it! What Rob Petrie’s father, Sam, would’ve called “A nice name to do business with.”
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September 16, 2025 at 10:04 am
You know your werewolves, guy! 👍
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September 16, 2025 at 5:32 pm
Well, like James Hampton said in the original TEEN WOLF movie: “With certain obvious exceptions, werewolves are people (just like everyone else).”
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September 16, 2025 at 9:20 pm
Btw: if you like your horror mixed with political satire, you should see if you can scrounge up 1973’s WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON starring Dean Stockwell on Youtube. Just in case it’s not one of TCM’s October offerings, this year.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:48 pm
Of course, you might find the late Mr. Stockwell a little bit scarier in 1970’S THE DUNWICH HORROR (loosely based on the HPL story of the same name).
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October 10, 2025 at 7:54 pm
Speaking of HPL; did you know that the recent one-season wonder LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (from HBO) featured a South Korean woman who was part-kumiho?*
*That’s a nine-tailed fox spirit similar to the Japanese kitsune.
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