Yahoo News New ‘Wednesday’ Footage Promises A 'Bigger and More Twisted' Season 2
Spoilers below.
Wednesday Addams is Not Like Other Girls™. Portrayed by Jenna Ortega in Netflix’s Addams Family spin-off series, she’s a proudly goth oddball from a loving family of fellow oddballs, ones who don’t care about fitting in (or even seem to notice when they don’t). Those same oddballs earned an influx of new fans when, after months of buzz and anticipation, Wednesday began streaming on November 23, 2022, and became an instant hit—beating Stranger Things’ record for viewership in a single week.
But with only eight episodes in the first season, viewers were left wondering how much of Wednesday’s story was left untold. (After all, our protagonist does type “The End?” in the last episode.) Here’s what we know about the rest of that story, now that season 2 has been confirmed.
Has Wednesday been renewed for season 2?
Yes. Netflix announced the renewal in January 2024 with a video that promised “more misery is coming” in Wednesday season 2. (The clip was soundtracked by Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary,” of course.)
“We can’t wait to dive headfirst into another season and explore the kooky, spooky world of Nevermore,” co-showrunners Miles Millar and Alfred Gough told Netflix’s Tudum.
Millar told TV Line in 2022 that he wanted to explore more of the family if the show were to continue. (After all, season 1 includes a flashback of Wednesday’s parents, Morticia and Gomez, as teens—and the terrifying murder mystery that was part of their story.) “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.”
He added that he and the team “definitely want to feature the family as we did this season in a couple of episodes if we were to get a second season.”
When will Wednesday season 2 be released?
Netflix has yet to share an exact date, but the company has confirmed fans can expect season 2 to drop in 2025.
What will Wednesday season 2 be about?
The Addams Family as a concept has been around for a long time, so there’s a lot of material to mine from. The characters began as cartoons created by Charles Addams in 1938, which were published in the New Yorker. From there, the comics became a popular TV show in the ’60s, and eventually were made into movies in the ’90s, which is where many fans will recognize the characters from—especially Wednesday, who was played in the films by Christina Ricci. (Ricci even makes a guest appearance on Wednesday as a callback to her original role—except this time she’s the villain.)
The Netflix slice-of-life series follows Wednesday Addams as she arrives at her new school, Nevermore Academy. She has newfound psychic abilities and supernatural powers, and there are mysteries at her school and in her town to unravel, including monsters, mayhem, and murder. But the threads the show sets up in the last few moments of the eighth episode include a renewal of Wednesday’s rivalry with the school’s popular Siren; Wednesday receiving threatening anonymous texts from her “first stalker”; and a shot of Tyler transforming into his Hyde persona in the back of a black van. We have a new villain and a continuation of another monster’s story, which could be interesting to explore in season 2.
Ortega would even want to see Wednesday heading further down a dark path. “I kind of want her to be darker,” she told Entertainment Tonight in November 2022. “I think I want it to continue down an antihero stream rather than a typical hero.”
She later gave an update on season 2’s status during her Variety Actors on Actors segment in June 2023. “It’s still coming together,” she said of season 2, “but we’ve decided we want to lean into the horror more. We’re ditching any romantic love interest, which is really great. We’re going to get bolder, more dark.”
Finally, in September 2024, Netflix dropped a behind-the-scenes video teasing season 2. In the clip, Zeta-Jones promises, “This season is going to be bigger and more twisted than you can ever imagine.” Adds Ortega, “If we showed you any more, your eyes would bleed. And I’m not that generous.” Watch the video below.
Who will be in the cast?
Ortega will definitely come back as Wednesday. Her parents Gomez and Morticia Addams, played by Luis Guzmán and Catherine Zeta-Jones, are also confirmed to return. The season 2 cast also consists of: Emma Myers as Enid, Joy Sunday as Bianca, Hunter Doohan as Tyler, Victor Dorobantu as Thing, Moosa Mostafa as Eugene, Isaac Ordonez as Puglsey, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Deputy Santiago, and Georgie Farmer as Ajax.
Christina Ricci and Gwendoline Christie, who appeared in season 1, sadly won’t return for the next season. Neither will Percy Hynes White, who played Wednesday’s love interest Xavier, or Naomi J. Ogawa, who played vampire Yoko Tanaka. But Netflix has announced a few important newcomers, including Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, and Noah Taylor as new series regulars. Guest stars will include original Addams Family star Christopher Lloyd (who played Uncle Fester in the ’90s films), Joanna Lumley, Thandiwe Newton, Frances O’Connor, Haley Joel Osment, Heather Matarazzo, Joonas Suotamo, Jamie McShane, and—of course—Fred Armisen. (McShane, who plays Sheriff Donovan Galpin, was formerly a series regular but will now appear as a guest star, Deadline reports.)
Is season 2 filming yet?
Yes. Netflix announced on May 7, 2024, that production had officially begun in Ireland. “We are thrilled that the entire Addams family will be enrolling in Nevermore Academy this season along with a dream cast of icons and new faces,” showrunners Gough and Millar said in a statement.
The streamer shared a photo of the ensemble together, as well as a video of Thing handing out scripts to the cast. The footage even teases that season 2, episode 1, is titled “Here We Woe Again” and is once again directed by Tim Burton.
Is Wednesday leaving Netflix?
Nope, that was just speculation. In early January 2023, reports broke questioning whether Wednesday might be pulled from Netflix thanks to the show’s production company, MGM, getting purchased by Amazon. After the deal finalized, some wondered if it might result in Wednesday moving to Prime Video instead.
However, Deadline reported weeks earlier in mid-December 2022 that, “even though MGM has been restructured into Amazon Studios, under Jen Salke, no one expects that to derail future seasons [of Wednesday].” In fact, MGM Television produces content for a number of other streamers outside of Prime Video, such as The Handmaid's Tale for Hulu, Fargo for FX, and Vikings: Valhalla for Netflix.
“[Amazon], truthfully, is in business with everybody and is expected to continue to do that in multiple dimensions,” a source told Deadline. The outlet reported at the time that producers were already looking for new additions to the season 2 writers room and considering filming locations.
Sure enough, when Wednesday’s renewal was announced, the streamer confirmed the show would be “only on Netflix.”
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