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Considering it began life as a series of single-panel comics, The Addams Family has shown impressive staying power. The '60s TV show became a Broadway musical and the mid-'90s movies are cult classics today, but more recently, Wednesday was a surprisingly massive, social media-fueled hit on Netflix when it debuted in 2022.
After a long wait, the show is back for its second season, reminding us that in an age when the demands of conformity are as great as they've ever been, we all crave a little misfit inspiration—and it needn't stop there. After you've binged Wednesday season two, you might find yourself craving more adventures of the proudly weird, and these 13 shows will do you proud.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018 – 2020)
This one's pretty obvious: a spooky young lady leads a series full of supernatural shenanigans that (mostly) keeps tongue planted firmly in cheek throughout. Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) is an old-school witch living in a household that’s not at all unlike the Addams family: two witchy aunts (played by Miranda Otto and Lucy Davis) alongside her warlock cousin (Chance Perdomo) and her loyal familiar, Salem the cat, all of them living their witchy lives just out of view of the local normies. At the outset of the series, Sabrina's forced to choose between signing her name in Satan’s book and becoming a full-fledged witch, or staying in high school with her human friends. Instead, she refuses to choose. Cannibalism, human sacrifice, and blood rituals abound. You can stream Sabrina on Netflix.
The Midnight Club (2022)
The Midnight Club, a Mike Flanagan series based on several different YA Christopher Pike novels, involves a group of eight terminally ill young patients at a bucolic hospice home run by a secretive and mysterious doctor (A Nightmare on Elm Street's Heather Langenkamp). Each night the kids meet secretly to share scary stories, each also promising to return from beyond the grave when their time comes. It's spooky and often moving without ever getting schmaltzy or precious. The tone is slightly more serious than that of Wednesday, but it still offers plenty of creepy fun in its extended, imaginative storytelling sequences. It was planned as more than a miniseries, so the cancellation after just one season leaves several questions unanswered. You can stream The Midnight Club on Netflix.
Legacies (2018 – 2022)
A (sorta!) standalone spin-off from the Vampire Diaries universe, Legacies follows Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell), an orphan descended from bloodlines that include vampires, witches, and werewolves—meaning the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted suits her perfectly: supernatural beings of all sorts attend, and it serves as a secret haven and training ground for those with powers. It's a place where they can learn to control and/or conceal their abilities—sort of a cross between Wednesday's Nevermore Academy and Charles Xavier's School. Naturally, coming-of-age drama and teen angst abound. You can stream Legacies on Netflix or buy episodes from Prime Video.
What We Do in the Shadows (2019 – 2024)
Five vampires share a gothic, appropriately run-down Staten Island residence alongside familiar Guillermo, occasionally hatching plots to conquer humankind...but mostly content to hang out at home and get on each other's nerves. The tone is more outright comedic than Wednesday, and there's a significant flip in the premise: Where the Addams family, and Wednesday herself, are always presented as the cool kids in a world of squares, our Staten Island vampires are decidedly not. Though convinced that their powers should grant them an exalted status, they're hopelessly out of touch with the modern world and self-centered to a point of literal absurdity. What they all do have in common is that they're very much outsiders—and don't care one bit whether you like it or not. You can stream What We Do in the Shadows on Hulu or buy episodes from Prime Video.
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