Should you watch The Addams Family?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
The Addams Family
Series · 1964
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
The sides of The Addams Family
- A family that loves the macabre
- Gomez and Morticia, madly in love
- Lurch the butler and a hand in a box
The Addams Family is good for you if…
- you like a family that finds normal people frightening.
- you like a black and white sitcom turned upside down.
- you like Gomez kissing his way up Morticia's arm.
The Addams Family is bad for you if…
- you find black and white sitcoms dated.
- you want stakes and suspense, not gentle gags.
About: difference · marriage · family
Closest to The Addams Family
More like this
The Munsters 1964Good for you if you like a monster family that is sweeter than its neighbors.
Bewitched 1964Good for you if you want a gentle sitcom where every mess is fixed by the end.
The Flintstones 1960Good for you if you like a gentle sitcom where Fred's schemes go wrong but the two families stay close.
Step by Step 1991Good for you if you want a gentle sitcom where everything works out.
Married... with Children 1987Good for you if you like Al Bundy's endless bad luck.
Dinosaurs 1991Good for you if you like a sitcom dad bullied by his own baby.