With more than 1.2 billion hours watched – in the first 28 days since its release – Wednesday has become Netflix’s second most popular English-language series.
And even if it is one of the most successful series, with the first four episodes directed by Tim Burton, it is not without flaws. Indeed, its creators, Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, missed a spurious connection that you’d probably miss if you weren’t paying attention.
The bug is in episode 5 and therefore went unnoticed despite a long validation chain. This false connection may not be obvious to you during normal viewing. But if you pause at two very specific moments, he can’t get away from you.
A moving corpse
Wednesday’s fifth episode brings a little more interest to the past of the heroine’s parents, namely Gomez (Luis Guzman) and Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who attended Nevermore Academy.
Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) comes across an old police file in which she discovers her father was accused of murdering Garrett Gates (Lewis Hayes), who was so in love with Morticia that she became obsessed with him.
Twice during the episode, Garrett is seen falling from the roof of the academy pierced by a sword.
At 32 minutes and 53 seconds, this is what the scene looks like:
The body is lying on the ground, the head is turned to the right
But only after that, at 33 minutes and 13 seconds, do we see a change:
The body is lying on the ground, the head is turned to the left
We realize that Garrett’s body is not in the same state. As both scenes show Garrett immediately after the fall, it is impossible to imagine him climbing to change position, especially given the height of the building. The shock was too severe and death was inevitably instantaneous.
We can try to explain this false connection. The two scenes in question are flashbacks. The first time the scene was shot from Morticia’s point of view, and the second time from Gomez’s point of view.
Thus, we can see the effect of Rashomon, with reference to Kurosawa’s masterpiece. It is a concept that defines an event that defies interpretation by the individuals involved.
This body, with the head on the right in the foreground and the head on the left in the second, would not eventually move on its own. If we give Ganja Monteiro, the director of this fifth episode, the benefit of the doubt, this amusing detail is just an expression of subjectivity…
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