A spin-off of The Addams Family would always be welcome (at least in this broken neck of the woods), and it's no surprise that the family member who got the special treatment was the eldest child Wednesday.
Christina Ricci's chilling, charismatic turn in the Barry Sonnenfeld movies elevated the firstborn Addams to iconic status. And when the franchise went animated in 2019, Wednesday was once again the focus (this time voiced by Chloë Moretz).
There's a new Netflix mystery series with our favorite emo (short for 'emotionally dead inside') at the center.
Wednesday delivers, as promised, an indulgent helping of weird and wonderful — along with some choice monochrome fashions and unforgettable dance moves — as it cracks open the mind of arguably the most mysterious Addams on her quest to find out who's maiming and killing the residents of Jericho.
Naturally, like Wednesday (Jenna Ortega), we went mining for clues about the series' future after its finale.
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shed up a couple of twists for its final season-one episode, leaving fans to guess who that mysterious text was from, but we'll certainly need more than speculation to satisfy our curiosity. The most obvious solution is another season, but will there be one?
Here's everything we know about Wednesday season two.
Wednesday season 2 release date: When's it back?
Hallelujah! After 10 weeks of misery, Netflix officially confirmed that a second season is on the way.
On January 6, Netflix released a video in which Jenna Ortega as Wednesday says, over a montage of season-one clips and footage of fan events: "Over the past few weeks I've been hunted, haunted, and mimicked millions of times across the internet. It's been pure torture. Thank you."
To the tune of Lady Gaga's 'Bloody Mary' (the dub that TikTok's Wednesday obsessives have preferred to use in their dance tributes, over the original 'Goo Goo Muck' by The Cramps), Netflix announced: "More misery is coming. The global phenomenon will return for season two."
That's it — no date, no details, just the commission. But it's fine. We can work with that.
In an interview with Netflix's TUDUM, Wednesday co-creator Miles Millar said: "It's been incredible to create a show that has connected with people across the world. Thrilled to continue Wednesday's tortuous journey into season two. We can't wait to dive head first into another season and explore the kooky spooky world of Nevermore. Just need to make sure Wednesday hasn't emptied the pool first."
"It's encouraging and exciting to see how much engagement there is," Netflix's Head of US & Canada scripted series Peter Friedlander told Variety in December.
"How much people want to not only come to Netflix, but to finish these shows and then talk about them. Engagement. That's what we're pouring all of our efforts into."
He continued: "It's not just the dance, it's people dressing up and buying makeup and wanting to look like Wednesday Addams. The resurgence, for me, it's something that's been in the culture for a long time — but never this pronounced. It's something that we want to study and understand why this is such a phenomenon."
There was a great deal of speculation about where Wednesday season two might land. Industry rumour suggested that the second outing might not be on Netflix but rather on Prime Video following Amazon's merger with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the production company that makes Wednesday for Netflix.
But we now know that was nonsense, like we said at the time.
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