Will our favorite Wicked Woeful Wednesday be back this year?
Bagging the most-watched Netflix series ever (surpassing Stranger Things), Wednesday is back for another Season full of mystery, uncovering horrid crimes, witty remarks, a Wednesday-Enid friendship, the legendary Addams Family, and a whole lot of weirdness. The anticipation for a Season 2 update is running at an all-time high, and it is difficult to turn it down. Wednesday has invoked a worldwide audience and will continue to do so throughout the upcoming seasons. As for Season 2, we have a few updates!
Ever since the groundbreaking announcement which was released by Netflix on January 6th, 2023, fans have been scratching their heads over what is awaiting them on the other side of Season 2. When will it release? And recent developments surrounding the strike have led us to ask one very important question: Has filming even begun yet?
Netflix confirmed a Season 2 renewal in an interesting announcement video where Jenna Ortega ironically thanks her audience for torturing her, saying,
“Over the past few weeks, I’ve been hunted, haunted, and mimicked millions of times across the internet(referring to her dance which caught the internet by storm). It’s been pure torture. Thank you!”
We have all the updates here, so continue reading!
Wednesday Season 2: Recent Release Updates
We are currently entering the third month of the strike, and so far, it is confirmed that filming has not taken place yet. However, it is speculated to begin this fall. All hopes point to the possible dissipation of the strike, and only then can filming actually begin. As of now, it is far-fetched on our part to make solid predictions given the current volatile situation of the strike.
Catherin Zeta-Jones (who plays Morticia Addams) confirmed that production will begin by the fall of 2023. Additionally, in a conversation with Jimmy Falon, Jenna Ortega said that the writers’ room has already assembled to determine the direction in which they wanted to steer Season 2. She said,
“No vacations or anything like that. We are starting to prep season two on Wednesday, which…has been exciting. Just developing new storylines and seeing where characters are going. Starting those conversations has been fun. I think it’s going to be bigger and better, which is cool.”
Additionally, Sophie Holland (the casting director) reported to Deadline saying,
“It’s still early doors and I’m still waiting on the script. We hope to roll at the end of the year. I think there are some exciting and kooky characters coming up in season two.”
That being said, it has been made clear by several sources that production will commence this fall, which means script writing is officially on for Wednesday Season 2.
How much of it will be affected by the ongoing strike? This is still under speculation. But given that the writers have joined WGA to raise the writer’s voices against unfair practices in the industry, the situation seems bleak for the scripts. It is essential to note that until a favorable negotiation has been met by the production houses, little hope remains for a Wednesday Season 2 in 2023 at all.
Let’s recap how Season 1 followed the filming and release trajectory. According to reports, the cast and crew started production in the fall of 2021 and wrapped in the spring of 2022 in Romania. The season was released about seven to eight months after production ended, so that’s the timeline we’re looking at for Wednesday season 2.
In that capacity, if the filming for Season 2 begins by fall (say October), we can expect a Season 2 release by 2024 Winter (November or December)
This prediction can only come true if the strike simmers down and the WGA SAG AFTRA demands are met by September or latest, October. Otherwise, we may be expecting a release in January 2025! Eeks!
So overall, we know for certain that Wednesday Season 2 is not coming in August 2023.
Wednesday Season 2: Who Will Return and Who Won’t
This is an unsure list because of the major cliffhangers we were left with in Season 1. But this is a fair guess of who will return in Season 2:
- Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams
- Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valeria Kinbott(most likely won’t return since Hyde killed her)
- Jamie McShane as Sheriff Donovan Galpin
- Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin
- Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe( might not return due to controversy)
- Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair
- Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger
- Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay
- Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus
- Naomi J. Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams
- Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams
- Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester
- Victor Dorobantu as Thing
- George Burcea as Lurch
- Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addam
The two speculated returns we are looking forward to are those of:
- Christina Ricci as Ms. Thornhill (She was defeated by Wednesday, but they never mentioned if she was killed. Moreover, her character had not yet fulfilled her purpose to rid nevermore of outcasts). Sidenote: Ricci played Wednesday Addams in the 1990s film.
- Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems. She was pronounced dead, but we never got to attend her funeral. This was also confirmed by Christie when she said,
“We haven’t seen her put in the ground, have we? I feel like Larissa Weems would not be prepared to entertain or be dominated by anything as commonplace as death.”
Another rumor is Lady Gaga is joining in Season 2. This is still a rumor since nothing has been confirmed yet. But just imagine how iconic it will be. (courtesy of Digital Spy)
Another interesting character we are speculated to watch is Christopher Lloyd (who played Uncle Fester in the 1990 Addams Family movie). In a conversation with Yahoo, he said,
“I’ve heard rumors trickling down that I might be coming on,” he says. “I’m not sure how, but I think [Ortega] is wonderful.”
Additionally, the cast in a show-up at Netflix TUDUM revealed that a new member of the Addams Family will be introduced in Season 2. Season 1 introduced Uncle Fester. Will Season 2 feature Cousin Itt(who Ortega prefers) or the Grandmother (who Hunter prefers)?
Netflix is extremely experienced in keeping things under wraps, so don’t expect anything until they confirm it. Till then, be patient. Justice will be served!
Wednesday Season 2: Expected Plot
*Major Spoiler Alert*
There are several speculations on what the plot for Season 2 will bring to the plate.
For instance, The Showrunners revealed to The Hollywood Reporter what they can expect out of Season 2.
“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, 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.”
With regards to Tyler’s role as the Hyde(Nevermore’s Beast), Hunter, in an exclusive interview with Digital Spy, said,
“I do think he escaped at the end. When I read that on the page, I was so excited. I was like: ‘Come on, don’t be dead, don’t be dead.”
We don’t have much information on that, but we do have information on the next theme, which is ROMANCE. Season 1 made it clear that romance was not cut out for Wednesday. The first boy she kissed turned out to be Hyde. Things with Xavier looked hopeful, but we doubt Xavier’s character will be back, given the actor’s recent controversial news.
Emma Myers (who plays Enid Sinclair) said,
“Anything is possible in the show. We haven’t really spoken about direction at all, so I don’t really know what the game plan is for anything. As far as love interests go for Wednesday, I feel like at least for a second season, she needs to take her season of singleness. She just had a whole fiasco with her men, she’s got to lay it off for a little bit. I would be deterred from dating anybody if I had gone through that.”
We don’t have much information on that, but we do have information on the next theme, which is ROMANCE. Season 1 made it clear that romance was not cut out for Wednesday. The first boy she kissed turned out to be Hyde. Things with Xavier looked hopeful, but we doubt Xavier’s character will be back, given the actor’s recent controversial news.
Emma Myers (who plays Enid Sinclair) said,
“Anything is possible in the show. We haven’t really spoken about direction at all, so I don’t really know what the game plan is for anything. As far as love interests go for Wednesday, I feel like at least for a second season, she needs to take her season of singleness. She just had a whole fiasco with her men, she’s got to lay it off for a little bit. I would be deterred from dating anybody if I had gone through that.”
Further, a recent Variety interview with Elle Falling featured Jenna Ortega, who confirmed that the ‘romance’ theme was discarded and replaced by ‘horror,’ saying, “We’re ditching any romantic love interest for Wednesday, which is really great.”
So it is clear that Wednesday Season 2 will solve a few burning cliffhangers from Season One, will steer away from romance and incline towards horror, and will steer more into the lives of the cult classic Addams family.
The obsession over Wednesday Addams actually stems from the cult classic O.G. the Addams Family, a series from the 1960s, which was then adapted into the movies in the 1990s (where Christina Ricci actually played Wednesday). Our interest in the Addams family was why we clicked to watch Wednesday in the first place, so it will be intriguing to watch the family doing their thing in Season 2. For one, we cannot get over the ethereal romance between Morticia Addams and Gomez Addams, a love story to be truly reckoned with, which has set the bar high for modern relationships. We wish to see more Gomez-Morticia romance montages in Season 2 since they will be stripping us of romance in Wednesday’s life.
Wednesday Season 2: Fan Theories On What To Expect In Season 2
After Season 1 was released, the internet was flooded with fan theories on some loopholes and clues left in Season 1 moving into Season 2. However, these were only theories until the cast of Wednesday, in conversation with Netflix TUDUM, decided to dive into these fan theories and teased a little about what we can expect to happen in Wednesday Season 2:
In the words of Morticia Addams, ” So, tell us everything!”
Crackstones Ring
We were probably distracted by the whole over-the-top bloody fight between the resurrected Joseph Crackstone(who wanted to expunge the earth of outcasts whom he considered as abominations) and Wednesday Addams, who went through a resurrection sequence of her own. Well, sort of. When Ms. Thornhill (Or Laurel Gates as we know it now) resurrected her ancestor Crackstone to complete his job, he ended up stabbing Wednesday(who happened to be the spitting image of Goody Addams, Crackstone’s Nemesis and the founder of The Nightshades to protect the outcasts). In an attempt to save her, the spirit of Goody Addams(which Wednesday could conjure through the Talisman her mother gave her) entered Wednesday’s body and breathed life into her.
When the two (Crackstone and Wednesday) butted heads, Wednesday stabbed Crackstone erupted in a volcano of fire, and his ring dropped on the ground.
Did someone pick it up? If they did, did they inherit his powers? Do we have a new villain in our hands, even though negative sketchy characters are in abundance on Wednesday?
Was it Thing who was always crawling around?
Is it Eugene? His lonely demeanor and weirdness only got him one friend: Wednesday( that’s not a surprise considering how weird she is herself), and he has been the subject of bullying in the past as well. If he did inherit Crackstone’s ring, would he use it to teach the bullies a lesson? Or will he and Wednesday emerge as an undefeatable power duo fighting crime and solving mysteries? Now there is a duo we didn’t think we needed.
Wednesday – The New Hyde Master?
This seems to be the case since a Hyde is triggered when its liberator says so since it creates a bond with it. We knew Ms. Thornhill nurtured Tyler to turn him into a Hyde, just like his mother. Thornhill used Tyler as Hyde to complete her mission of resurrecting Crackstone, and he helped her by killing people and collecting their body parts for the Blood Moon ritual.
Although it is unclear whether Thornhill was killed by Wednesday, something peculiar happened in the ending scene of Season 1. As soon as Wednesday’s car crossed the van in which Tyler was tied up, the Hyde inside him triggered.
Does this mean Wednesday is the new Hyde master? It would be interesting to see this dynamic since Tyler betrayed her trust, plus he tried to kill her, and we know how Wednesday feels about revenge. She popularly said
“I don’t believe in heaven or hell. But I do believe in revenge. I usually serve it warm with a side of pain.”
We will just have to wait to see the pain Wednesday inflicts on people who betrayed her in Season 2.
Weems – Lurch Theory
Principal Weems supposedly dies when Ms. Thornhill injects her with the nightshade poison. However, we never get to actually witness her funeral. Is she alive?
What’s interesting in the final part of Season 1 is Lurch’s eye color. It was black in the initial part of the Season, but in the ending scene, it turns blue. Weems had blue eyes, and she was a shape-shifter. She was so good that she convinced Thornhill that she was Tyler just to gather evidence.
We will see what is to follow in the next season but know this. Principle Weems does not go into the night gently.
While we await the tantalizing mystery which is to follow in Wednesday Season 2, we urge you to do a rerun of all the episodes of Season 1 to refresh your memories. Wednesday Season 1 is available to stream on Netflix right now.
Wednesday Season 2: Official Trailer
Since there is no firm speculation on when Season 2 will finally grace our screens, we don’t have an official trailer for the same in possession.
However, you can watch Wednesday Season 1 on Netflix in the meantime.
Also, here is the official teaser for Wednesday Season 1:
For more updates, stay tuned to Web News Observer. Also, what do you expect to see in Wednesday Season 2? Let us know in the comments section!