Jenna Ortega is Gen Z’s official scream queen, and her new Netflix series, Wednesday, is more than enough proof that she perches upon the throne. Her take on the iconic Addams Family character not only had fans in a frenzy on TikTok, but gained critical acclaim. In season one of the Netflix hit, Wednesday discovers her psychic abilities, which lead to her preventing a killing spree that has terrorized the town surrounding her school, Nevermore Academy. She also makes friends — and enemies — along the way as she investigates a supernatural mystery involving her parents, Gomez and Morticia Addams, 25 years ago.
If you binge-watched all of Wednesday during Thanksgiving break and are wondering when to expect more, we’ve got you covered. Here’s everything we know about season two of Netflix’s Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega.
Will there be a Wednesday season 2?
We all gave thanks to the Addams family since the first season of Wednesday dropped right in time for Thanksgiving. However, there’s no word from Netflix on the renewal for season 2 just yet. Leading lady Jenna Ortega admitted to NME that she has “no idea” about the future of the series.
In a December 14 interview with Variety, Netflix executive Peter Friedlander briefly commented on the potential of a sophomore season. “You may know what I’m going to say — but I have nothing to confirm at this time,” Friedlander, who heads the streamer’s U.S. and Canada scripted series, said. “I am optimistic about Wednesday. We’ll leave it at that.”
We, too, are optimistic about a second season. And it seems we can hold out hope that we’ll return to Nevermore Academy, as co-creator Alfred Gough recently told Empire, “[Screenwriter] Miles [Millar] and I are talking amongst ourselves about it. There’s definitely more that you can explore in the world of the Addamses.”
In a November 2022 interview with Variety, Gough and Miller teased that they’ve laid out three or four seasons of the series in hopes of it getting renewed. “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. That’s never expected, but that’s the anticipation that hopefully, the show is successful,” Millar told the publication, confirming that they have a “pretty clear runway of what [they] want to do in future seasons.”
Fred Armisen, who portrays Uncle Fester in the Netflix series, also expressed hope for a sophomore season. “I thought that’s good writing to keep people wanting more,” he shared in an interview with E! News, commenting on the season 1 cliffhanger finale. “I think that’s difficult. Even as something that’s supposed to continue on, they did a really good job of keeping it exciting.” Gwendoline Christie, who stars as Larissa Weems, echoed Armisen’s sentiments. “I just love that it leaves you wanting more,” she told E!. “It leaves you absolutely hungry to see how this story’s going to develop.”
When does Wednesday season 2 come out?
The first season of Tim Burton’s highly anticipated Netflix series was recently released on November 23, 2022, so there’s no telling when (or if) there will be a second season. The show had a record-breaking debut week, according to Deadline, surpassing 341 million hours viewed. But it will have to be greenlit by the streaming service in order to start production on another season.
You already know we’ll be back here with more updates as soon as they’re available.
What will Wednesday season 2 be about?
The first season of Wednesday took viewers into the world of Wednesday Addams during her time as a student at Nevermore Academy. She discovers her psychic abilities, attempts to solve a chilling mystery involving her parents, and balances relationships with sirens, werewolves, and vampires at her new school.
At the end of the season, she discovers that her coffee shop crush and the Sheriff’s son, Tyler, is actually the Hyde monster who committed merciless murders at Nevermore. She also found that the school’s botany professor, Marilyn Thornhill, is actually a woman named Laurel Gates, who was believed to have died years prior. She sought to get revenge on the Outcasts who murdered her family and was the Hyde master who controlled Tyler and hypnotized him into his monstrous form. Wednesday and her frenemy, Bianca, ultimately defeat Laurel and her evil accomplices.
However, Wednesday isn’t totally in the clear. When her friend, Xavier, gifts her a cell phone, she receives a threatening message that reads, “I’m watching you” with a gif of a knife going into her head. It’s likely that this is a setup for the plot of season two if the series gets renewed by Netflix.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, showrunners Gough and Miller teased the premise of the possible season, saying, “We wanna sort of explore and sort of complicate all of those relationships going forward. The school was closed when they left, which gave us the most possibilities for season two, and I think that’s something that we’re excited to explore.”
Enid, Wednesday’s roommate, is also an important part of the premise to the showrunners. “The show also is really about this female friendship, with Wednesday and Enid really being at the center of that,” Gough said, “The fact that they really connected with audiences, it has been really gratifying. So, we’re excited to explore now that Wednesday’s dipped her toe into the friendship pool, what’s that gonna look like? It’s like, she hugged. That was her big arc for the season, right? So it’s like now, we do that.”
“Then, the other thing that’s really interesting is to continue to explore the Wednesday-Morticia mother-daughter relationship as well,” Gough added, “Which now that Morticia knows about the power, it has given her sort of an idea of how that’s going to go. How is their relationship going to evolve?”
What has the cast said about Wednesday season 2?
Lon Molnar, co-president of the MARZ VFX team for Netflix dished to J-14 about the Addams family companion and pet Thing and how its character could develop in the future. “I think it would be fantastic to explore what may have happened to lead him to be severed, possibly,” Molnar said. “I think that’d be — it was an idea that was floating around, and it would be fantastic to explore that for sure. But for us, anything with that character front and center, we’re ready to take the helm and help him tell that story. We’re open to anything.”
Jenna Ortega revealed what she wants from a possible season 2 of Wednesday, and her answer is really simple — more darkness.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Jenna said, “I kind of want her to be darker,” and added that she hoped Wednesday wouldn’t “play things so safe” in season 2. “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,” Jenna said. “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.”
Who is returning to Wednesday season 2?
While we still don’t know if Wednesday is coming back to our screens for a second season, if it does, we can only assume that most of the cast members for season one will return, including:
- Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia
- Luis Guzmán as Gomez
- Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley
- Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester
- Gwendoline Christie as Principal Larissa Weems
- Jamie McShane as Sheriff Galpin
- Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe
- Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin
- Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair
There were multiple deaths at the end of Wednesday season one, which means those characters likely won’t return for season two if it happens. Christina Ricci, Riki Lindhomoe, and Gwendoline Christie are some of the actors whose characters faced their demise.
In a November 2022 interview with Variety, showrunner Alfred Gough teased Tyler’s return in season 2. “Yeah. Absolutely. He’s out there. That’s what we wanted to convey,” he told the publication.
Wednesday’s other showrunner, Miles Millar, also told TV Line that he’d like to explore more of the Addams family dynamic if the show gets renewed for a second season.
“We felt like we just touched the surface with those characters and the actors are so amazing in those roles,” he said. “Catherine [Zeta-Jones] is, I think, an iconic Morticia. The relationship between Wednesday and Morticia is also essential to the show, and the idea that Wednesday is trying to forge her own path outside the family is important.”
