Are you ready to be woeful once more? Wednesday Season 2 is officially confirmed as part of the upcoming Netflix show schedule.
The Netflix series ended up becoming a huge success back in November 2022 when it first premiered. With an excellent Wednesday cast, a fun story, and an ending that had fans everywhere talking, it was only a matter of time before a second Wednesday season was ordered. And of course, it’s coming very soon – but what do we know about it?
What Is The Wednesday Season 2 Premiere Date?
Don’t expect it to premiere on any 2024 TV schedule, as Netflix Tudum confirmed in a behind-the-scenes look at the show that it won’t come until 2025, with no specified date yet.
That does mean we’ll at least be getting it on the 2025 TV schedule, but we still don’t have an idea of when.
Netflix tends to take its time in releasing seasons. It’s usually pretty rare these days that you see seasons only a few months to a year apart. Some of their biggest shows on the streaming site, such as Bridgerton, The Witcher, and even Stranger Things have fans with a Netflix subscription wait years for another season.
The Wednesday Season 2 Cast
While there have been plenty of versions of Wednesday at this point, it wouldn’t quite be our version if Jenna Ortega didn’t return for Season 2. Thankfully, many other cast members are also coming back, thanks to Netflix Tudum in May 2024. Here is who we can expect as part of the main cast.
- Jenna Ortega as Wednesday
- Emma Myers as Enid
- Hunter Doohan as Tyler
- Joy Sunday as Bianca
- Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Deputy Ritchie Santiago
- Victor Dorobantu as Thing
- Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger
- Georgie Farmer as Ajax PetropolusEmpty list
The Addams Family
Something else that we know is that Wednesday’s family will be playing a bigger role. The showrunners confirmed to TV Line in November 2022 that they would be a much bigger part of the series, and now Tudum confirmed in May 2024 that Morticia Addams, Gomez Addams, and Pusgley Addams are all being upped to series regulars as well.
For a refresher, here is who plays them:
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams
- Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams
- Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams
Fred Armisen also plays Uncle Fester, but he will remain in a guest-capacity role.
New Wednesday Cast Members
There are also several new actors who have joined Season 2 as series regulars according to Tudum. These include:
- Billie Piper as Capri
- Evie Templeton
- Owen Painter
- Noah Taylor
- Steve Buscemi as Barry Dort
Exact character details for all of the new additions isn’t known, but Variety reported in April 2024 that Buscemi is reportedly playing the new principal of Nevermore Academy. Other than that, there’s nothing else out there just yet.
Additionally, the May 2024 Tudum report confirmed several guest stars that have been lined up for Season 2 of the show. These include:
- Christopher Lloyd
- Joanna Lumley as Grandmama
- Frances O’Connor
- Haley Joel Osment
- Heather Matarazzo
- Joonas Suotamo
- Thandiwe Newton as Dr. Fairburn
From Tudum, we know that Lumley will play Grandmama, Billie Piper will play Capri, and Thandiwe Newton will play Dr. Fairburn. Other than that, the rest of their names are unknown right now. But it’s a great cast line-up, especially Christopher Lloyd since he originally played Uncle Fester in two Addams Family movies in the 1990s. We don’t know who he’ll play in Wednesday.
I mean, talk about some great new additions. Wednesday cast member Emma Myers even spoke up about how much she “loves” the new cast and the story they’re bringing with them in an interview with Glamour in August 2024, and how excited she is for people to see the next season:
But I will say I’m in love with the scripts this season. They’re so fun. I love everybody’s character arcs, especially people coming into their powers and stuff. I love the new cast. Everybody’s amazing. We’ve been having a great time out here, so I’m just excited for everybody to see it.
Percy Hynes White Will Not Be Back
Something that was officially confirmed by Netflix, according to Variety in May 2024, is that Percy Hynes White (Xavier) was dropped from the series.
This confirmation comes after a report in September 2023 from NME that said the alleged reason he was being written off the show was because of sexual assault allegations that the actor was accused of, which he denied.
Ortega actually spoke about the change in an interview with Vanity Fair in August 2024, saying that it was a “weird redirection” to not have him anymore, but that the season is introducing so many new characters that it will “get lost” in the shuffle of so much stuff going on – which makes me eager to see how that gets played out.
We also know that two other actors are not returning as main stars alongside him, as reported by Deadline: Jamie McShane and Naomi J Ogawa.
McShane is slated to reprise his role as a guest star, where he’ll play Sheriff Donavan Galpin again, but he will not be a main character anymore. Ogawa played the vampire, Yoko Tanaki, and will just be “moving on” from the show since her character was left in the background.
What Is Wednesday Season 2 About?
There are so many directions that Wednesday Season 2 could go, but thankfully, we have a little bit of an idea of what the next season is going to be like thanks to some interviews:
The First Episode Title Has Been Revealed
While plot details are being kept under wraps, we do know from Netflix Tudum that the first episode of Season 2 of Wednesday will be called “Here We Woe Again.” The episode was written by the co-showrunners Miles Millar and Al Cough, and directed by Tim Burton. Other than that, we don’t know what the first episode will be about.
The Cliffhanger Of Season 1 Could Move In “Numerous Directions,” According To The Showrunners
Wednesday may have been renewed back in 2023, but not that much has come out about a potential story. However, the showrunners have teased that the cliffhanger could move in several different directions with another part of that ending – the stalker that Wednesday is facing.
In an interview with TV Guide in November 2022, they also confirmed that this specific storyline could move in any way, whether it be the stalker working with someone Wednesday knows or it being someone completely new:
The audience can think what they want. I think both those things are good in terms of, both of those are possibilities. The goal is to intrigue and to have an audience ask exactly those kinds of questions. The story could lead them in numerous directions, and it's up to a Season 2 to decide which one.
This was before Season 2 was announced, so now, it’s even more exciting to think about the possibilities of how they make this stalker plot work.
Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital Might Be A Big Storypoint
Speaking of that crazy cliffhanger, we can also talk about Hyde possibly escaping that car, but there’s a chance that this place – and the last person we saw taken there – might play a bigger role in Season 2.
Netflix released a tease of Ortega as Wednesday reading from a file with the Thing next to her on their Twitter account. The top of the file reads “Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital.”
For those who don’t remember, this was the same place that Tyler was brought to at the very end of Wednesday Season 1 – or was about to, before we saw the potential of him possibly breaking out of the car. Either way, the fact that Wednesday is reading this is a big deal, because that story might end up continuing more and more.
Jenna Ortega Wants Less Romance In Season 2 And More Horror
One thing that I think we can all agree on is that the love triangles in Wednesday Season 1 were a little less than fun to watch. While both of the boys were fine in their own way, I was here for Wednesday and her mysteries, because I didn’t really see her as someone who wants her life to revolve around boys.
It seems Ortega thinks the same way, as she agreed in an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in March 2023 that she wants to “up the violence” for Season 2 and have fewer love triangles.
Ortega even got the chance to speak about the scripts in an interview with E! News on the red carpet before the Emmys in January 2024, saying that what she wanted was happening, and that they were leaning more into the horror aspect of the show:
We’re definitely leaning into a little bit more horror. It’s really, really exciting because, all throughout the show, while Wednesday does need a little bit of an arc, she never really changes and that’s the wonderful thing about her. There’s really, really good one-liners and I think everything’s bigger. It’s a lot more action-packed. Each episode will probably feel a little bit more like a movie, which is nice.
Jenna Ortega Also Wants The Show And Wednesday Herself To Be “Darker”
While Wednesday Season 1 was a great first season with plenty of twists and turns, Ortega has openly said that she wants the next season of the show to dive into darker territory. In an interview that she did with Entertainment Tonight in November 2022 regarding the finale of the show in November 2022, Ortega revealed that she wants her character to get darker and not be “so safe” when it comes to the situations she gets into:
I kind of want her to be darker. I want her to get more in the nitty-gritty of things and not play things so safe, because there are a lot of lines about her saving the school and doing whatever, but for me, her main drive with the monster is of a competitiveness. Kind of, 'Man, how's this guy doing this?'
This is even more exciting from an interview that Ortega did with Vanity Fair in February 2024, where she stated that every episode felt like a movie and “stands out on its own:”
I mean, in the first season we had episodes that really stood out visually, like the dance episode was a really big one for people, and that setting was very particular and it felt like Prom Night, a little bit, or Carrie. Every episode [of season two] that I’ve read so far is like that. It just stands out on its own as a very memorable scene or bit or setting, which I think is what I’m most excited for, because to pull that off for eight episodes is, I think, really incredible and really lucky.
Ortega further said this in an interview with BuzzFeed in August 2024, saying that it felt like “every day” they were “tackling a big scene” for the show, saying how exciting it was:
It’s so funny. I feel every day so far on set, we’ve had a moment where we go, ‘Oh, that was good!’ We’re shooting 201 and 204 right now and there’s a lot happening in those episodes. It feels like everyday we’re tackling a big scene.
Okay, this just makes me more excited, dang it.
Production Is Ongoing As Of September 2024
Earlier this year, production on Season 2 of Wednesday officially began! Announced by Netflix on Twitter in May 2024, it was confirmed that production on the second season has officially commenced with picture of the full cast all together again:
Wednesday Season 2 is NOW IN PRODUCTION 🖤 Please give a round of double snaps to our cast — now including Christopher Lloyd, Steve Buscemi, Thandiwe Newton, Joanna Lumley, Haley Joel Osment, Heather Matarazzo, and Billie Piper! pic.twitter.com/v6nX6eLPP8May 7, 2024
Jenna Ortega herself even celebrated the news with her in full costume in a picture on her Instagram in May 2024:
We know as of August 2024 that four episodes have been completed. According to an interview that Ortega did with Entertainment Tonight during promotion for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Ortega said they were “four episodes” deep into the new season and that it was coming along:
We’re knee deep in that, and we officially finished four episodes. Everything is going well so far. It’s just, um, we’re sticking to our roots but it’s become much bigger and a lot more fleshed out, characters have really incredible arcs, we have incredible set pieces, the storylines. It just feels a lot more exciting from the jump, which I think audiences will have a lot more to play with.
A stunt coordinator, Vic Armstrong, for the show spoke with Screen Rant at the end of September 2024, saying they were about “two-thirds” through the filming process. Several sources have said that filming is expected to end in November 2024, but with nothing confirmed just yet, we’ll just have to sit and wait until we know for sure.
What are you the most excited for when it comes to Wednesday Season 2? I can only imagine what new trends and dances will emerge this time around. Let’s hope we get updates on Season 2 as soon as possible.
