Wednesday Season 2 (2025): Wrath, Whimpers, and Woe

Wednesday (2022 – present) is a Hollywood dark comedy/murder mystery series created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and directed by Tim Burton for an exclusive Netflix release. The show currently spans 2 seasons, the latest of which was released in 2 parts; Episodes 1-4 on August 6th 2025, and Episodes 4-8 on September 3rd, 2025. Each episode has an average runtime of 60 minutes. The series follows Wednesday Addams, a character from the critically acclaimed Addams Family franchise, therefore acting as both a standalone story and a spinoff of the original franchise. It was also co-produced by Jenna Ortega, who stars as the titular main character.

Premise

Season 2 takes place a few months after the events of season 1; after an eventful but productive summer break, Wednesday is back at Nevermore Academy for the new school year. But much to her delight, trouble is never far behind.

Episode 1

It’s a new school year at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday returns to unexpected newfound fame due to the events of the previous year. Ahead of the celebratory start-of-the-year bonfire, new principal Barry Dort offers her the honor student title, while also attempting to persuade her mother, Morticia, to lead the planning and gathering of donations for the annual fund-raising gala. He also pressures Bianca to use her siren powers to secure more donations. After reuniting with Enid in their shared dorm, Wednesday realizes that she has a stalker, who later steals the manuscript for her self-written book, taunting her to recover it during the bonfire. Before then, private investigator Carl Bradbury has been oddly killed by a swarm of crows. Wednesday stumbles upon the crime scene and runs into former sheriff Galpin, who seeks her help for the case. She refuses, taking note of a peculiar crow, before walking off to her dorm, where she receives a gift from Xavier: a painting of the exact same crow, despite Xavier being thousands of miles away. At the bonfire, Wednesday finally recovers her manuscript after a life-risking attempt, after which she publicly denounces her newfound fame and rejects the school’s praise for her. Elsewhere, Pugsley (Wednesday’s little brother who has just enrolled at Nevermore) accidentally revives a dead student that was once believed to be an urban legend, unleashing new trouble. As events spiral, Enid rushes after Wednesday, but the latter collapses in black tears after a vision of Enid’s tombstone in a crow-filled graveyard, with Enid herself blaming Wednesday for her apparent death.

Episode 2

After recovering, Wednesday discovers Galpin dead in his home, swarmed by crows. She attempts to use her clairvoyance to identify the culprit, but is shaken when her powers fail her. On Nevermore’s Prank Day, she and Enid find one of Galpin’s eyes left in their dorm. Meanwhile, Pugsley reveals the dead student he revived (a zombie he has apparently named Slurp and kept as a pet) to his roommate Eugene, however the creature later escapes. Seeking answers, Wednesday visits Tyler (one of the main villains of season 1) at Willow Hill Psychiatric hospital, where she meets his doctor; Rachel Fairburn, and informs Tyler of Galpin (his father)’s death in order to taunt him.
Upon her return to Nevermore, Wednesday discovers that Enid and Enid’s werewolf crush, Bruno have been kidnapped, forcing Wednesday to solve a series of riddles to rescue them. The culprit, Agnes DeMille, is an admirer of Wednesday with invisibility powers. She confesses to being Wednesday’s stalker but denies killing Galpin or having anything to do with the crows. Meanwhile, Bianca urges Morticia to ask her estranged mother for a donation, but Morticia refuses. That is, until Dort, immune to Bianca’s siren powers and her attempts to stop him, manipulates Bianca into using said powers on Morticia. Afterwards, Thing reveals to Wednesday that Morticia has secretly taken Goody Addam’s book, with which Wednesday had previously been using to control her powers.

Episode 3

Wednesday hacks into Galpin’s phone and learns about the “Bullpen”, a hunting cabin once used as a rendezvous, and joins Nevermore’s first camping trip to investigate. Pugsley secretly brings Slurp, not wanting to neglect him at the academy. But Wednesday and Pugsley’s parents tag along as chaperones. A double-booking pits Nevermore against the Phoenix Cadets for the campsite, which Nevermore secures by winning capture the flag. At the Bullpen, Wednesday uncovers years of news clippings on Willow Hill patient deaths and the name LOIS scrawled on a wall. Deciding that she needs her powers for this, she challenges Morticia to a blind duel to reclaim Goody’s book, agreeing that if Morticia wins, the book will be burned. Morticia wins. When the Phoenix cadets, bitter about their loss, raid the campsite, they accidentally release Slurp, who kills their scoutmaster before Wednesday subdues him for attempting to attack her mother. Slurp is then transferred to Willow Hill, where Laurel Gates AKA Marilyn Thornhill, the main villain of season 1, is revealed as a new patient.

Episode 4

Wednesday learns that Augustus Stonehearst, now a patient of Willow Hill, signed the death certificates of its supposed victims. She enlists her Uncle Fester to infiltrate Willow Hill to investigate LOIS. Meanwhile, Hester, Morticia’s mother offers to make a large donation to Nevermore if Morticia returns Goody’s book to Wednesday, but Morticia burns it in defiance. Fester’s search fails, and he is held captive alongside Slurp. Wednesday rescues him and together they discover LOIS – Long term Outcast Integration Study, is actually a program stealing outcast powers for normies, with the “dead” patients still imprisoned, including a mysterious woman. The program is led by Augustus’ daughter, Judi, who has already used it to be come an Avian. In a wild rush of events, Fester frees the detainees, Slurp kills Fairburn and Stonehearst, and begins to talk. Meanwhile, Laurel frees Tyler, but he kills her in Hyde form. During the ensuing chaos, Tyler throws Wednesday out the window, leaving her gravely injured as the mysterious woman escapes.

Episode 5

After Tyler’s attack, Wednesday falls into a coma where deceased former principal Weems appears as her spirit guide, revealed to be her 13th relative. Awakening, she is threatened by Judi and then later by Tyler in disguise. During Outcast Day of Remembrance, Dort assures her that the Outcasts can handle Tyler. Reluctant to believe him, Wednesday learns how to control a Hyde. She shares her plan with Enid and the Nightshades, while Pugsley discovers Slurp wreaking havoc at Pilgrim World; despite wanting a reunion, he sadly lets Slurp go when the police arrive, and Slurp ends up visiting and murdering Judi. Meanwhile, Tyler infiltrates Nevermore and corners Enid, but the Nightshades intervene. As he transforms, Wednesday tries to control him but is attacked by another Hyde before Morticia intervenes as well. The other Hyde is revealed to be the mysterious woman from Willow Hill – who also happens to be Tyler’s mother, Francoise. The two Hydes leave, promising to never be seen again. Soon after, Enid unexpectedly turns into a werewolf despite the absence of a full moon.

The remaining 3 episodes spans builds up a pulse-rushing climax as the search continues to change Wednesday’s vision and save Enid, Slurp’s true identity is revealed – alongside his connection to both Tyler and the Addams Family, leading to the discovery of the origins of an unexpected character.

And much…much more.

Cast and Performances

Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams
Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams
Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams
Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams
Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin
Owen Painter as Isaac Night / “Slurp”

Lady Gaga also stars in a cameo role as Rosaline Rotwood.

Wednesday

Wednesday’s character remains as cold, dark and deadpan as usual. It’s what made us fall in love with her to begin with. But this season took a new turn by diving deep into her relationship with other people and the ensuing emotions. It was a major recurring theme throughout the entire season. And unlike in season 1 where she was practically rushed into a love story, this season felt a bit more balanced in handling the way a character like Wednesday, who already doesn’t acknowledge most emotions, deals with the sudden onslaught of them and how they affect her interaction with people and situations she can’t just ignore. Her volatile friendship with Enid, her already fragile dynamic with her mother, her lingering connection to Tyler, and her bond with Thing. Recurring flaws include her arrogance, her determination to always have the correct answer, her tendency to develop a one-track mind towards her goals, often neglecting or downright hurting people around her, and being frequently misunderstood as well. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable, but that’s what character development is.

Enid

Wednesday’s roommate. Her character traits are a bit more fleshed out in comparison to the last season, and it was really refreshing to watch her come into her own as a proper main character (although we definitely need to talk about her character arc being 60% love triangle angst). And despite the saddening fate of her character at the end of this season, I kinda expected them to have a better understanding of each other and therefore a more positive relationship. It started off so well in the beginning, with Wednesday not only willingly listening to her relationship issues, but even offering advice (in her own deadpan way), but down the line it just devolved into the same dynamic as season 1, misunderstandings galore until some life-threatening event forces them to reconcile.

Morticia and Gomez

It’s safe to say that these two will continue to be my favorite fictional couple for the foreseeable future. I’ve loved their relationship through every single iteration of the Addams family. There’s just something about the depth of their love that’s ironically surrounded in darkness that makes a girl swoon, y’know? And Gomez is such a doting father, doing whatever he can to keep his kids happy. I am unsure how to feel about Morticia sometimes, because I love her so much, but the rawness of the mother-daughter dynamic she shares with Wednesday often gets to me.

Pugsley

A new-ish character that I didn’t expect to love so much. Pugsley brings such an oddly refreshing boyish charm to the mix that I didn’t know the show needed until now. And I love that he was given his own story arc rather than get drowned in the enigma that is his sister (although I am curious as to how her popularity didn’t rub off on him). There is a soft quiet strength in him that has piqued my interest, I will be watching him closely in the future.

What I Liked and Didn’t Like

This show was quite a ride of ups and downs, starting with the plot…

All 57 of them.

I’m just exaggerating, obviously. But there is, in my opinion at least, an excess in plot points, themes, characters, things that need to be paid attention to. Some of these had to be cut off before they could even be explored properly because it would be too hard to insert them where there is already so much going on. A good example would be the plot point about Tyler as a Hyde and needing a ‘master’. At first, it was hinted that Marilyn would use her position as the master of a Hyde to make a massive comeback, but that is snuffed quickly when he kills her. Then it is teased that Wednesday would become his new master, further complicating their already tension-filled connection, then we later see that his supposedly dead mom becomes his new master, and we see a whole new dynamic that teeters between nurturing and abusive, which is also snuffed out almost as soon as it is established. It just feels like they tried to hit us with as many interests as possible, which I can respect, because it gives me a reason to rewatch it. But literally, at some point, I began to get a small headache because there was just so much going on.

But aside from them pretty much hurling at me as many plot points as they could, I genuinely like the pacing of the show. Given everything they had going on, it’s practically a miracle that the show managed to not feel too rushed. And like I said before, I really enjoyed watching the new, albeit rough, dimensions with Wednesday’s character in relation to other characters and how her words and actions affect them. Although I am getting quite weary of the “main character spends the whole show pissing off everyone around them until they end up alone and now has to spend the latter half of the story groveling” trope. The show seems to mainly explore how Wednesday’s personality is harming others, but never quite shows how their constant misunderstanding of who she is affects her as well. She might not willingly show it, but its glaringly obvious. And lastly, I liked the ending; Enid’s sacrifice, Wednesday’s new mission, and all of the new plot points that will be explored. I look forward to it.

Final Thoughts

This is a franchise that has developed a bit of a cult following over the years (yes, I’m talking about me), and honestly, it’s well deserved. There is a substantial lack of negative cliches, which I will always be grateful for, and a certain eagerness that it stirs within the viewer to see what’s next. And not to mention, the show’s dark/goth themes make it a perfect way to kick off the Halloween season.

Rating

I rate Wednesday (Season 2): 4 out of 5

Our Rating

Have you guys watched Wednesday? What do you think of her connection with Tyler? Let me know in the comments.

Author

Winifred Eze

Winnie is a business student by day and a writer by night, with a passion for movies and the art of storytelling. Whether it’s dissecting a film’s themes, exploring character arcs, or celebrating cinematic masterpieces, she loves diving deep into the magic of the big screen. She also strives to bring fresh perspectives and engaging discussions to fellow writers and readers.