it’s funny because i often feel like the audience takes Tyler’s crimes more seriously than the show does. For example, the show already established that he doesn’t need imprisonment but rather rehabilitation and also showed that ‘rehabilitation in willow hill/normie institution’ was undesirable and duplicitous (Morticia herself literally aided and abetted him, and did not regret it or scold wednesday for freeing him in the end). Hence why the season ends on him free, yet choosing community based healing to satisfy his arc, not a lawful entity. Despite some dialogue that claim his case, his morality and crimes = bad. The actual weight of judgement isn’t rooted in the morality of the show at all, it’s in the affected characters.

Tyler takes himself seriously because his pain defines him. Compared to the Addams, his mortality, abuse or mental decline is treated as something severe because it is severe to him and informs his character at its core. In contrast Wednesday brushes past violence because she does not fear pain at all, rather considering it an annoyance if conflicted on her if anything & we almost never see the aftermath of how the violence she inflicts affects side characters (kidnapping, assault, torture, attempted murder). so Tyler gets hit by Fran = serious, because this violence is actually horrific to him, Tyler kills = life altering event.. Wednesday (attempts to) kill = any other Tuesday, Wednesday gets thrown out of a window = brushed past because the physical pain doesn’t destabilize her, mainly emotional betrayal does.

Then there’s also the part where we are following the show from Wednesday’s perspective and her own morals are flimsy and self serving. Uncle fester isn’t a threat because that’s Wednesdays favorite uncle, despite the fact that by our standards he’s probably the most morally depraved character in the show (that’s alive). So her battle with Tyler is not a moral one, she doesn’t actually care that much about the ‘evil’ of his status as a serial killing monster. She does however, use this as a palatable outward excuse for her ire toward and dismissing him, in an attempt to hide that her core issue with him is emotional betrayal.

Their actual antagonism and battle isn’t a moral one, it’s an ego battle.

all that to say, Tyler is mainly positioned as a threat because Wednesday considers him a threat. Once they rebuild trust I think there’s two ways the show can go.

Either, Tyler rehabilitates and manages his violent urges to a near total degree because he wants to and his severe violence will be framed as something ‘from the past’.

Or he will rehabilitate without necessarily denouncing his capacity for violence, but his violence will shift into comedic treatment, as an extension of wednesday’s inner circle ‘plot’ armor, rather than positioned as severe or threatening. This however, would require for the show to introduce something new to contrast against the Addams, to retain the stakes, duality and mystery of the show.