Limited Edition Wednesday Addams Gushers
Wednesday, the Netflix series, came out in 2022. It was very popular, mostly for Jenny Ortega's viral dancing, but it WAS a while ago. Which is why I find it strange that they waited until 2024 to release a bunch of products Wednesday themed food products. (Season two won't be airing until 2025.) I get that she's' spooky, and it's Halloween, but is that enough?
I watched it when it came out, since I do love Halloween and all things spooky, but being an elder millennial, I more-so vibe with the Addams Family films and the animated series. I found the show to have too many plot holes** and romance arcs to enjoy it, but I DO love Gushers. So I had to pick these up for spooky season.
Opened, the Gushers are a dark purple color, similar to concord grape jelly.
Popping one into my mouth, I immediately taste grape: it's juicy and generic, similar to other purple-grape flavored candies. Then they're some rather authentic blueberry notes towards the end. It definitely delivers what it promised, but I still prefer the normal strawberry flavor.
I think this combination is perfect for a one-off limited edition run, and I'm sure plenty of kids will love this as is (which IS their target audience. Not 37 year-olds.) But I think this is too one-note. Which is an issue for most blueberry flavored things. (Probably why most candies go for blue raspberry instead of blueberry.)
Thinking blueberry jam would be a great addition to my filled shortbread cookie line-up, I added it into my rotation one year. In theory, it was great, but in actuality, it was really bland and getting left behind on the cookie plates. When I mixed the blueberry jam with lemon curd to cut through the sweetness and add some complexity, it worked a lot better. Which is something this fruit snack could benefit from.
If they added a sour element, either some kind of sour exterior coating or a sour goo inside, I think this would have been even more successful while staying on-brand for the character.
However, that is me looking at this through a more critical lens. Overall, I do think this is a really fun seasonal product and limited edition offering, and I'd love to see Gushers do more of this in the future. (Please bring back the spicy Gushers!)
**If Wednesday gets her vision ability from Morticia and her side of the family, then why would "Goodie Addams" (from Gomez's side) have the same ability and be her guide? Shouldn't it be "Goodie Frump," Morticia's maiden name? Wouldn't Wednesday be canonically happy her father was accused, and seemingly got away with, murder? After all, she set piranhas on the boys who attacked Pugsley, and she pointed out that it wasn't attempted murder. Because if she wanted to kill them, she would have. If anything, she should be disappointed that Gomez didn't actually murder anyone or that he was sloppy enough to presumably get caught. And if the big-bad hated magic and outcasts/witches so much, why use magic and basically become an evil wizard/witch yourself? Catherine Zeta-Jones was phoning it in BIG time as Morticia, and whomever did the wig for Luis Guzman is a criminal. He's got the potential to be a great Gomez, but his muted dialog and that costume department did him so DIRTY. This is is giving Addams-flavored Riverdale, and I'm not here for it. Positives: Enid is adorable, I really enjoy Myer's bubbly personality in contrast to Ortega's dead-pan. Thing's effects were an absolute delight. And Ortega is doing her best with the trash she's been given. She got heat for suggesting in an interview that she altered the script and went against the writer's decisions, but if you ask me, everything she suggested was right for the character.
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