Are you ready to be woeful once more? Wednesday Season 2 is officially confirmed.
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. The show was breaking records here and there, and fans were all wondering when we'd get a taste of the next season.
Finally, in January 2023, it was confirmed that Wednesday Season 2 was happening, which is quite exciting for fans of the series who either watched it or danced to it. But, who is going to be in this next installment? And what could the story be about? Let’s get into it here.
What Is The Wednesday Season 2 Premiere Date?
Unfortunately, there is no set release date for Season 2 as of February 2024, and don’t expect it to premiere on any 2024 TV schedule, because Deadline reported in January 2024 that Wednesday won’t be back until at least 2025.
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.
Maybe we’ll get Wednesday by early 2025, but one can really only hope at this point.
Jenna Ortega, Hunter Doohan, Emma Myers And Joy Sunday Are Coming Back For Season 2
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, she is expected to return, along with three other cast members, according to a special preview from Netflix Tudum in August 2023:
Jenna Ortega as Wednesday
Of course Jenna Ortega will be back for Season 2 of Wednesday, where she’ll play the titular character again. Ortega has since appeared in Scream VI, Miller’s Girl, and Finestkind, and will also appear in the upcoming Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Emma Myers as Enid
Emma Myers, who plays Enid, Wednesday’s roommate and closest friend, will return for Season 2. Myers has appeared in the Netflix family film, Family Switch, and will appear in the upcoming A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
Hunter Doohan as Tyler
Tyler, one of the two possible love interests for Wednesday, will return, and he is played by Hunter Doohan. The actor has since appeared in a few short films.
Joy Sunday as Bianca
Joy Sunday will be back as Bianca, a siren student at Nevermore Academy, and later, one of Wednesday’s allies. Sunday has since appeared in You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah.
There is one person that we might not see for Season 2 of the show. According to NME in September 2023, Percy Hynes White, who played Xavier, was reportedly written out of the series due to sexual assault allegations. The actor has denied the allegations, but as of updating this, there has been no update since it was reported that he wasn’t returning.
The Addams Family Characters And Who Plays Them
If you’re like me and you wanted way more of the actual Addams family besides Wednesday in Season 1, you are not alone – and now, the showrunners have confirmed that Season 2 is going to bring more of them in, telling TV Line that they only “touched the surface” of what they can do:
We felt like we just touched the surface with those characters and the actors are so amazing in those roles. Catherine is, I think, an iconic Morticia. The relationship between Wednesday and Morticia is also essential to the show, and the idea that Wednesday is trying to forge her own path outside the family is important.
And then, in that interview with Tudum from August 2023, it was confirmed that a new member of the Addams family was on the way to the show. Who it will be, we still don’t know, but I’m sure we’ll get some sort of announcement as time goes on.
Just for a refresher, here is who plays who in the Addams family on Wednesday:
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams
Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Morticia Addams in Wednesday, the matriarch of the family. Zeta-Jones has been around for years in movies and TV, but most might recognize her from Chicago, The Terminal, Ocean’s Twelve and many other major movies.
Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams
For those who don’t know, Wednesday’s father, Gomez Addams, is played by Luis Guzman, a famous Puerto Rican actor who has appeared in various movies and TV shows, such as Boogie Night, Punch-Drunk Love, Shameless and many others.
He did an excellent job during his short time on the show. A big portion of the first season talked about his past, and how he was once accused of murder. Wednesday took it upon herself to figure out what happened that night.
And it looks like we might get more of him soon. Guzman spoke to ScreenRant in February 2023 regarding his return for Season 2, saying that he was going to be around:
That's the plan. That's the plan. I'm going to dance; I'm going to have a sword fight. And there was one other thing. I don't know what it was, but yeah.
Be prepared for more amazing Gomez moments, because I surely am.
Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams
Isaac Ordonez plays Pugsley Addams, the youngest child. The actor is mainly known for his role on the Netflix show, but will be in a new movie called Trans Los Angeles.
Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester
Fred Armisen is Uncle Fester in Wednesday, and is the uncle of Wednesday with strange electrical abilities. The actor is known for many of his comedic roles, and was so popular that there is a chance of an Uncle Fester spinoff happening at Netflix.
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.
In that same interview with TV Guide, the showrunners even said they knew who the stalker is, but they couldn’t tease it because they didn’t know if Season 2 was happening or not. Now, I want my tease. I need to know.
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:
Everyone's being really cool. I think we want to up the horror aspect a little bit and then get Wednesday out of the romantic situation and just let her be her own individual.
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.
This just makes me even more excited, sign me up!
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.
Considering Ortega wants the show to lean more into horror and less into romance, I have a feeling this is the kind of tonal shift that Wednesday will thrive off of. Let’s see this darker version.
Principal Weems Is Dead – For Now
At the end of Season 1, we saw that Principal Weems, played by Gwendoline Christie, was poisoned and killed, and while we never saw her body, the showrunners did say in that TV Guide interview that for all intents and purposes, she is “dead.”
But that doesn’t mean that she can’t come back, saying that this show is “supernatural” and anything could happen:
We like the idea that people die in this world, that there are real sacrifices and there's loss – and that Wednesday has to react to that. For us, the fact that we could kill such a significant character, it was important that we did that. That said, it's a supernatural show, there are always ways people can return. Never say never, but at this point, she's definitely dead.
Even if the showrunners say that Weems is dead, Christie, on the other hand, has said in an interview with Digital Spy in November 2022 that they didn’t see the character’s body get “put in the ground,” so anything is possible:
We haven't seen her put in the ground, have we? I feel like Larissa Weems would not really be prepared to entertain or be dominated by anything as commonplace as death.
Truthfully, Principal Weems was one of my favorite side characters of the show – and I would give anything to see her in Season 2.
Production Will Reportedly Start 2024
A post from ProductionList.com says that something will be filmed for the upcoming season in London in April 2024.
In November 2023, Deadline reported that Wednesday was eyeing a production start in spring 2024. The news comes from the production changing locations to Ireland instead of Romania, where it filmed the first season. It’s possible that London could also be a part of that. We’re not entirely sure when full production will begin, but we at least know that something will be shot for the show soon.
In April 2023, Jenna Ortega had an interview with Glamour, where she commented that they were preparing for Season 2, and that it’s been “exciting” to work on the new stories:
We are starting to prep season two of Wednesday, which…has been exciting. Just developing new storylines and seeing where characters are going. Starting those conversations has been really, really fun. I think it’s going to be bigger and better, which is cool.
Ortega had to give up her spot in Scream 7 as well, according to Deadline, due to scheduling conflicts with the upcoming second season. So, at least that means that she is getting ready for the cameras to roll on the next chapter of Wednesday Addams’ story.
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.
