it's not The End — Wednesday season 2 is officially on the way, Outcasts. ICYMI: Everyone's favorite sadistic big sis finally got her own TV series. Netflix's Wednesday, the streamer's newest live-action show all about Wednesday Addams of the Addams Family came straight from the deliciously twisted mind of Tim Burton and the show's first season premiered in late November 2022.
20-year-old Jenna Ortega is the latest actress to step into the black-and-white attire of Wednesday Addams, and her modern version of the character can arguably brush shoulders with Yellowjackets star Christina Ricci's beloved, iconic portrayal of Wednesday from the early ‘90s. The gothic, death-obsessed teen and her macabre-loving family are back in the spotlight, and we truly can’t get enough.
By the finale in episode 8, we receive many satisfying — and TBH, shocking — answers to the mysteries Wednesday is wrapped up in for the season's entire arc, but we're left with a lot of questions, too. No spoilers, but… will Tyler return after escaping custody? Is Wednesday still in danger? Who sent her that stalker-like text message? What will happen to Nevermore now that Principal Weems is dead? Below, we've gathered a complete guide to everything we do know so far about Wednesday season 2, including the next installment's release date, plot details, cast info, trailer, and more!
What will Wednesday season 2 be about?
Wednesday has been called a unique mix of fantasy-horror-mystery-comedy – but has been described first and foremost as a coming-of-age series. The 8-episode first season followed Wednesday Addams' first year as a student at Nevermore Academy. The first chapter of Wednesday's story depicted her attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.
The Wednesday season 1 finale ended with multiple cliffhangers and a massive twist, so there's definitely more to explore — and many questions that need answering — in the second season.
The showrunners of the new coming-of-age series have already teased their storytelling plans to continue the Wednesday universe. While speaking to TV Line, co-showrunners Miles Millar and Al Gough revealed that they planned Wednesday storylines as far out as “four seasons."
“We felt like we just touched the surface with those characters and the actors are so amazing in those roles," Millar said. He also acknowledged that the show's focus on Wednesday Addams and her journey “to forge her own path outside the family is important," but that the writers room would be “definitely” be interested in featuring more of the Addams family dynamic in future seasons.
“For us, it’s always looking at the future, and when we sit down to create a show, it’s looking at multiple seasons, ideally," Millar also shared to Variety. "That’s never expected, but that’s the anticipation that hopefully the show is successful. So you always lay out at least three or four seasons’ worth of potential storylines for the characters. It can evolve and change. Often, you want to see which characters or cast pop and who you like to write for. So you want to keep it open and organic enough to change it and evolve, but we certainly have a pretty clear runway of what we want to do in future seasons.”
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The visual effects team for Wednesday told J-14 which characters they would like to explore more in the second season. At the top of that list? Thing. “I think it would be fantastic to explore what may have happened to lead him to be severed, possibly,” said Lon Molnar, co-president of the MARZ VFX team. They also expressed that they'd be excited to do “anything with that character front and center.”
“…We’re ready to take the helm and help him tell that story," said Molnar. "We’re open to anything.” MARZ VFX producer Casey Sincic shared that further developing Uncle Fester's character is also something the team would be interested in. "The work that we did with [Fred Armisen's] character was pretty minor,” said Sincic. “It was the electricity effects that he used, but I would love to see him be a bigger part of the show in Season 2.”
Series star Jenna Ortega also has some ideas about what she'd like to see from her character Wednesday in future seasons. “I kind of want her to be darker,” Jenna told Entertainment Tonight in November. “I want her to get more in the nitty-gritty of things and not play things so safe, because there are a lot of lines about her saving the school and doing whatever, but for me, her main drive with the monster is of a competitiveness. Kind of, ‘Man, how’s this guy doing this?’”
“I think I want it to continue down an antihero stream rather than a typical hero," added Jenna. While guest appearing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on March 9, Jenna shared some exciting new details on the progress of season 2 and where the plot is headed.
“We just started getting a writers room together and kind of talking about it, and everyone’s being really cool," said Jenna. "I think we want to up the horror aspect of it a little bit and then get Wednesday out of the romantic situation and just let her be her own individual and fight her own crime.” We definitely want that, too. Cross your fingers — and Thing's fingers!
Who plays Wednesday Addams in Wednesday?
Jenna Ortega was cast in the show's titular role back in May 2021. She posted a photo of herself on Instagram holding the pilot's script, with the caption: “New chapter. Hope I can do Wednesday Addams justice. *snaps twice*."
A little over a year later, Netflix finally released a first look at Jenna's transformation into the character — and she's terrifyingly unrecognizable as Wednesday Addams. In photos released by Netflix, Jenna can be seen wearing Wednesday's signature white-collared, long-sleeve black dress, her long braided pigtails, her strikingly pale complexion, and her apathetically gaunt expression. Jenna's metamorphosis into the character is so perfect, it's almost scary. Well, I guess that's the point, right?
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