The Trailer For Wednesday Season 2 Just Dropped & The Show’s Going Even Darker
Something tells us horror fans are going to be very happy with the new season.
Jenna Ortega is back in black, baby — the trailer for Season 2 of Wednesday just dropped, giving fans their first look at what the new season of the Addams Family-inspired show will be all about. And we also finally have confirmed release dates (that’s right, there are two). The new trailer announced that Wednesday Season 2 will be released in two parts, with the first half debuting August 6 and the second dropping on September 3. So, what can fans of the mysterious and spooky show expect?
In the trailer, we see Wednesday unload an armory’s worth of weapons before heading through a TSA security checkpoint, and then watch her arrive back at Nevermore Academy with her family in tow to drop her off. The voiceover hints that this season will follow Wednesday as she unravels some “dark family secrets,” with lots of shots of Morticia and Gomez suggesting the other Addams family members may play a larger role in the upcoming episodes.
There are also a whole lot of scary elements, from a creepy porcelain doll and someone in a freaky mask and cloak to a towering, snarling monster.
The horror elements in the trailer are in keeping with what we’ve heard before about what to expect from Wednesday Season 2. According to the previous tidbits from titular star Jenna Ortega, the new season is good news for those who like jump scares and bad news for those who like love triangles. Ortega sat down with fellow actor Elle Fanning for Variety, when conversation turned to Season 2 of the Netflix smash hit.
“We’ve decided we want to lean into the horror aspect of the show a little bit more,” she told Fanning. “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.”
Couldn’t agree more.
“We’re ditching any romantic love interest for Wednesday, which is really great,” she added, killing any chance of more sparks flying between Xavier Thorpe (played by Percy Hynes White) or anyone else, it sounds like. This news makes those of us who don’t see Wednesday as the boy crazy type want to do the viral Wednesday dance. Although those of us who enjoy watching Wednesday with our kids might be concerned about the level of violence or darker themes moving forward.
The show's creators have also said that Season 2 will explore storylines of some of the characters we met in Season 1, but didn’t have time to fully explore. Pugsley, for example, will be joining Wednesday at Nevermore for his first year, and it seems he has some shocking new powers to master during his school year.
What else do we know about the show’s return?
Another big piece of news is that Ortega will be a producer on the show for the first time.
“It was a natural progression,” she told Fanning in that same Variety interview. “With a character like Wednesday who is so beloved, I didn’t want to get her wrong. So I tried to have as many conversations as possible with the writers. We’d decide what works and what doesn’t. In preparation for a second season, we wanted to make sure that we could start the conversations earlier. I’m just so curious: I want to see the outfits, new characters, scripts.”
Wednesday’s second season was officially announced on Jan. 6, 2023, when Netflix confirmed another installment is coming by dropping a video mashup of Season 1 clips, fan videos, and a new Wednesday voiceover.
It’s little wonder the show got picked up for more episodes, considering it scored the second biggest week of streaming ever recorded by Nielsen, second only to Stranger Things Season 4. In its first five days alone, Wednesday accrued almost 6 billion watched minutes.
Who will appear in the series?
Ortega will clearly return as the main star, but it’s safe to assume most of the all-star cast will return. The trailer confirms the return of Catherine Zeta-Jones as Wednesday’s mother, Morticia Addams, Luis Guzmán as the Addams family patriarch, Gomez, Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester, and Isaac Ordonez as Wednesday’s little brother, Pugsley. We also catch a glimpse of Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin, and Emma Myers as Enid.
Joanna Lumley will join the cast as Morticia’s mother and Wednesday’s closest ally, Hester Frump, according to Netflix’s Tudum. Steve Buscemi is on board and playing Principal Dort, who is the new leadership at Nevermore, there to take over following Principal Weems’ demise in Season 1.
Other stars we could expect to reprise their roles in Wednesday Season 2 are:
- Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valeria Kinbott
- Jamie McShane as Sheriff Donovan Galpin
- Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe
- Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Otinger
- Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay
- Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus
- Naomi J. Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka
- Victor Dorobantu as Thing
- George Burcea as Lurch
How many episodes are there?
The first season totals eight episodes, and the IMDB listing for Season 2 indicates there will be eight eps in Season 2 as well. Millar and Gough are eager for fans to meet this new version of the Addams family. They insist that, while it centers around familiar (read: iconic) characters, it serves as its own entity in the Addams Family universe.
“That’s something that was very important to the show — that it didn’t feel like a remake or a reboot,” Millar explained to Vanity Fair in August 2022. “ It’s something that lives within the Venn diagram of what happened before, but it’s its own thing. It’s not trying to be the movies or the ‘60s TV show. That was very important to us and very important to Tim [Burton].”
Whatever happens in Season 2, Wednesday fans can take heart in knowing that the experience will prove to be a darkly fun and entertaining ride.
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