According to rumours, work on the set of the next season of Wednesday will start at the end of April. Therefore, it’s no wonder that leaks are slowly appearing about what we can expect in the new episodes.
Wednesday, the iconic spin-off of The Addams Family, was one of the biggest things on Netflix when it debuted, triumphantly joining the likes of Stranger Things and Squid Game. Considering this, fans were puzzled by the prolonged silence regarding season 2. There was even speculation that another streaming platform may acquire the series.
Netflix finally broke the silence and renewed the series for a second season. However, there’s still a lot of questions surrounding the production – here’s what we do know.
When could Wednesday season 2 be released?
According to rumours, the second season of Wednesday was supposed to arrive in 2024. However, production was halted after the beginning of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA in 2023.
Work on the set of Wednesday is set to resume on 30 April 2024, and filming will take place in Ireland. Thus, everything points to the fact that season 2 won’t debut on Netflix until 2025.
This is further corroborated by Netflix’s 2024 slate, which Wednesday was absent from.
What is the plot of Wednesday season 2?
The season 1 finale explained the mystery of Goody Addams, Joseph Crackstone, and the lurking forest creature. However, not all threads were tied up. In the last scene, Wednesday receives an anonymous message and a series of ominous photos. Evidently, someone else is lurking around the school, not pleased with Wednesday’s presence. Does this connect to Marilyn Thornhill’s case? And who is the stalker?
Speaking of Marilyn, her fate is undecided, much like Tyler’s, who escapes from the prison convoy. Will he seek revenge on Wednesday, or will have a change of heart?
The first season also introduced a mysterious cult to which Bianca’s mother belongs. This dangerous organisation will undoubtedly be one of the critical plot lines in the upcoming episodes.
There are many more questions to be answered. Who will lead the Nevermore Academy after Larissa Weems’ death? What about Wednesday and Xavier’s romance? How will the relationship between Wednesday and Morticia unfold?
As the showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar said in an interview for Hollywood Reporter:
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. For us, the show also is really about this female friendship, with Wednesday and Enid really being at the center of that. 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, 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?
Interestingly, during a conversation on Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Jenna Ortega said that Wednesday season 2 might abandon teen drama themes and focus on horror instead:
We’ve decided we want to lean into the horror aspect of the show a little bit more because it is so lighthearted, and a show like this with vampires and werewolves and superpowers, you don’t want to take yourself too seriously. We’re ditching any romantic love interest for Wednesday, which is really great.
Is there a trailer for Wednesday season 2?
There is no full trailer for the second season yet, but a few months ago, Netflix published an announcement of the upcoming episodes:
Who is starring in Wednesday season 2?
We can assume that in Wednesday’s next instalment, most of the characters from season 1 will return – except for those who met a bloody end.
We can expect the following cast members to appear:
- Jenna Ortega – Wednesday Addams
- Emma Myers – Enid Sinclair
- Percy Hynes White – Xavier Thorpe
- Georgie Farmer – Ajax Petropolus
- Joy Sunday – Bianca Barclay
- Naomi J. Ogawa – Yoko Tanaka
- Catherine Zeta-Jones – Morticia Addams
- Luis Guzmán – Gomez Addams
- Isaac Ordonez – Pugsley Addams
- Fred Armisen – Uncle Fester
Variety reports that season 2 will also feature Steve Buscemi, known for such hits as Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos. According to the source, the actor will play the role of the new director of Nevermore Academy.
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