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‘Wednesday’ Is Back. Here’s What to Remember Ahead of Season 2

August 5, 2025
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‘Wednesday’ Is Back. Here’s What to Remember Ahead of Season 2
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The idea was perhaps overdue: Take Wednesday, the sullen and morbid daughter of the Addams Family, and give her a show of her own. The resulting Netflix series, “Wednesday,” starring Jenna Ortega and directed partly by Tim Burton, was an immediate hit: Season 1 is the most-watched season of English-language programming in Netflix history, spurring countless memes, themed parties and a genuine dance craze.

Equal parts “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” with a dash of “Veronica Mars,” the show seemed all but guaranteed to be renewed for a second season. (It was just renewed for a third.) But nearly three years have already passed since we last saw the deadpan teen and her assorted friends and foes. Here’s what to remember ahead of Season 2, the first four episodes of which arrive on Wednesday. (The rest arrive on Sept. 3.)

It’s all Wednesday, all the time

Unlike earlier Addams Family depictions, going back to the original comics by Charles Addams, “Wednesday” takes place largely outside Addams Mansion. Wednesday’s parents, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzmán), are mostly sidelined after they drop off their daughter at Nevermore Academy, a boarding school for supernatural misfits, where most of the action is set. But Season 1 did give plenty of screen time to Thing (Victor Dorobantu), the disembodied hand whom her parents sent to spy on her — but who proved to be a loyal and helpful companion.

Despite their absence, Wednesday’s family haunted her nevertheless because Nevermore was where her parents met and fell in love. The school’s no-nonsense principal, Larissa Weems (Gwendoline Christie), who sometimes helped and sometimes hindered Wednesday, also once roomed with Morticia and was a rival for Gomez’s affections.

School cliques

As Wednesday’s bubbly werewolf roommate, Enid (Emma Myers), explained in the first episode, Nevermore’s social scene is divided among the Fangs (vampires), Furs (werewolves), Scales (sirens) and Stoners (gorgons) — all of them “outcasts” in the academy’s parlance. Some students’ talents fall outside these categories, including Wednesday, who experiences intrusive psychic visions triggered by touch. There’s also a secret society, the Nightshades, which Morticia helmed in her student days.

An inveterate loner, Wednesday initially rejected all overtures of friendship. But she eventually thawed, discovering allies in Enid and Eugene (Moosa Mostafa), a self-professed outcast among outcasts with a special connection to bees. Other friends included Ajax (Georgie Farmer), a gorgon who was sweet on Enid, and Bianca (Joy Sunday), a queen-bee antagonist turned comrade-in-arms.

Wednesday also found herself at the center of a love triangle. One of her suitors is Xavier (Percy Hynes), a sensitive artist who has prophetic dreams and is also Bianca’s ex. The other is Tyler (Hunter Doohan), a normal human without supernatural abilities — a so-called normie. Tyler, who last season was mourning his mother’s death, was also the son of the local sheriff (Jamie McShane).

Normies and Jericho

The school has an uneasy relationship with the nearby town of Jericho, founded in the 1600s by the pilgrim and outcast hater, Joseph Crackstone (William Houston). Nevermore students rarely venture into Jericho — mostly to visit the Weathervane, the coffee shop where Tyler worked in Season 1, or on Outreach Day, a community event created to help normalize relations between normies and outcasts.

But tensions often erupt anyway. In Episode 4, a normie gang staged a “Carrie”-like prank during the Nevermore ball, piping red paint through the dance hall’s sprinkler system to splatter partygoers. This echoed an earlier incident involving Wednesday’s parents, which ended with the accidental death of Garrett Gates (Lewis Hayes), the scion of an influential normie family.

Murder mystery

The first season’s central mystery was a series of brutal murders committed in the woods on the edge of campus. Sheriff Galpin, already distrustful of Nevermore, suspected that the victims, disemboweled and missing body parts, had been attacked by an outcast. Meanwhile, Wednesday’s psychic abilities and penchant for solving mysteries placed her squarely in harm’s cross hairs.

With the help of her Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen), Wednesday uncovered a likely culprit — a Hyde, whose monstrous alter-egos are unlocked through trauma, drugs or hypnosis by a master who then controls them. Unpredictable and dangerous, Hydes had been banned from Nevermore more than 30 years before.

Dark history and double crosses

Wednesday’s investigation led her to her ancestor Goody Addams (also played by Ortega), with whom she shared a psychic connection. Centuries before, Goody had killed Crackstone and imprisoned his soul in retaliation for his deadly siege on her family and friends.

But Crackstone’s descendant Laurel Gates sought to revive him through dark magic. (Laurel is played by Christina Ricci, who starred as Wednesday in the Addams Family films from the early ’90s.) Like her older brother, Garrett, and the rest of her family, Laurel despises outcasts. Years before the present timeline, Laurel faked her death and then re-materialized as Marilyn Thornhill, a milquetoast botany teacher and Nevermore’s first normie faculty member.

Wednesday’s deductions and a key insight from Eugene led them to realize that Laurel had released the Hyde, who turned out to be Tyler. When confronted by Principal Weems, Laurel plunged a poisoned syringe into her neck, killing her.

How it ends

Wednesday’s arrival at Nevermore had finally given Laurel the ingredients she needed to resurrect Crackstone: a blood moon, body parts from Tyler’s victims and blood from Goody’s direct descendant. Enter Zombie Crackstone. Still, Wednesday and her fellow misfits made quick work of him, reducing him to a pile of ash. Laurel made a last-ditch effort to gun down Wednesday, but she was thwarted by a swarm of Eugene-directed bees.

Laurel survived, ultimately, as did Tyler, whom we last saw with his Hyde Eyes bulging inside an armored prison truck. It is unlikely we’ve seen the last of them.

With Weems gone and the school partially destroyed, Nevermore was shuttered for the rest of the year. But as Wednesday was driven away from the school’s iron gates, an ominous text from an unknown contact flashed on her phone: “I’m watching you.” Clearly, more mysteries await the grim, pigtailed sleuth.

The post ‘Wednesday’ Is Back. Here’s What to Remember Ahead of Season 2 appeared first on New York Times.

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