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The halls of Nevermore Academy are opening as soon as once more—Wednesday is nearly again for Season 2. After a wildly profitable debut that turned the enduring Addams Household daughter right into a streaming sensation, followers obtained phrase in 2023 {that a} follow-up season was on the best way, with filming kicking off the next 12 months. Now, we’re lastly getting a more in-depth have a look at what’s in retailer.
With returning characters, recent mysteries, and even darker twists forward, Hollywood Life has rounded up every thing we all know up to now in regards to the subsequent spherical of chaos for Wednesday Addams.
‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Particulars
Netflix formally introduced the renewal of Wednesday on January 6, 2023. Within the Season 2 announcement video, Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams delivers a wonderfully on-brand message: “Over the previous few weeks, I’ve been hunted, haunted, and mimicked hundreds of thousands of instances throughout the web. It’s been pure torture. Thanks.”
The streaming service mentioned “extra distress is coming” and the “international phenomenon will return for season 2.”
“It’s been unimaginable to create a present that has linked with folks the world over. Thrilled to proceed Wednesday’s tortuous journey into season two. We are able to’t wait to dive head first into one other season and discover the kooky spooky world of Nevermore. Simply want to ensure Wednesday hasn’t emptied the pool first,” creators/showrunners/government producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar advised Tudum.
Wednesday grew to become an immediate hit for Netflix when it debuted on November 23, 2022. In simply its first week, Wednesday had 341.23M hours seen and have become the record-holder for essentially the most hours seen in per week for any English-language TV sequence on Netflix. Wednesday beat Stranger Issues 4, which beforehand held the title with 335M hours seen within the first week. Wednesday broke one other Netflix report in its second week with 411.29M hours seen.
The love for Wednesday Addams started when the fictional household was created by cartoonist Charles Addams. The primary Addams Household tv sequence premiered in 1964. Characteristic movies starring Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams debuted within the Nineteen Nineties.
Wednesday Season 2 Launch Date
Half one in all Wednesday Season 2 premieres on August 6, 2025, with half two set to drop September 3, 2025, on Netflix.
Filming for the brand new season started in early 2024, following delays as a result of WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes as unions negotiated new offers with studios. Manufacturing for Season 2 has shifted to Eire, a change from Season 1, which was filmed in Romania from September 2021 to March 2022.
‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Solid & Crew
Jenna is, after all, returning as Wednesday Addams—and this time, she’s not simply the star. As revealed in her Elle cowl story, Jenna will even function an government producer for Season 2.
With Wednesday returning to Nevermore Academy for an additional semester, a number of acquainted faces are again as properly. Anticipate to see:
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Pleasure Sunday as Bianca Barclay
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Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus
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Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Otinger
All these actors can be returning apart from Percy Hynes White.
Hunter Doohan will reprise his function as Tyler Galpin, regardless of his character being locked away on the finish of Season 1 after being revealed because the Hyde. He teased that Tyler’s arc is much from over, telling HollywoodLife, “I simply need to discover what’s subsequent for Tyler, and if he’s going to come back again after Wednesday… I assume the thought left on the finish is that he’s actually pissed off sufficient to remodel in that armed car and I assume escape.”
Tyler was beforehand underneath the management of Marilyn Thornhill (performed by Christina Ricci), whose destiny was left unresolved within the Season 1 finale. Hunter added that he’d like to see “what Tyler and the Hyde are like with out having a grasp in Thornhill.”
The Addams household can also be anticipated to seem all through the season. Catherine Zeta-Jones (Morticia), Luis Guzmán (Gomez), Isaac Ordonez (Pugsley), George Burcea (Lurch), Victor Dorobantu (Factor), and Fred Armisen (Uncle Fester) are all more likely to pop in—and followers are hoping for much more screentime.
“We felt like we simply touched the floor with these characters and the actors are so wonderful in these roles,” Miles advised TVLine. “Catherine is, I feel, an iconic Morticia. The connection between Wednesday and Morticia can also be important to the present, and the concept that Wednesday is making an attempt to forge her personal path exterior the household is essential.”
Season 2 can also be bringing in recent blood. Steve Buscemi joins the solid as Nevermore Academy’s new principal. Girl Gaga has been confirmed for a mysterious function, and extra visitor stars embody:
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Thandiwe Newton
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Haley Joel Osment
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Heather Matarazzo
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Joanna Lumley
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Frances O’Connor
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Joonas Suotamo
Tim Burton, who directed the primary 4 episodes of Season 1, is again to direct one other 4 in Season 2.
‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Plot
At Tudum 2025, Netflix unveiled the primary six minutes of Season 2’s premiere episode, titled “Right here We Woe Once more.” The opening scene options Wednesday confronting a serial killer generally known as the Kansas Metropolis Scalper, performed by Haley Joel Osment, showcasing her rising psychic talents and setting a darker tone for the brand new season.
A trailer for Wednesday Season 2 Half 1 was launched in July 2025, and it reveals Wednesday grappling with new supernatural threats at Nevermore Academy. After turning into a reluctant hero in Season 1, Wednesday is haunted by disturbing visions, together with one in all her greatest pal Enid’s demise. She vows to cease it, saying, “Enid dies and it’s all my fault. I’ll die making an attempt.”
Whereas on The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon in March 2023, Jenna gave somewhat trace as to what to anticipate in season 2. “We simply began getting a writers’ room collectively and speaking about it,” she mentioned. All people’s being actually cool. I feel we need to up the form of the horror side somewhat bit and get Wednesday out of the romantic state of affairs and simply let her be her personal particular person and combat her personal crime.
Jenna gave a style of what’s to come back throughout her Selection Actors on Actors interview with Elle Fanning in 2023. She mentioned on the time they wished to “lean into the horror side of the present” extra in season 2.
“I simply obtained a few the outlines for the primary couple episodes. So it’s nonetheless very a lot coming collectively,” she mentioned. “We’ve had lots of conversations and we’ve determined issues that we need to improve and dive somewhat bit deeper in. I feel we need to lean into the horror side of the present extra as a result of it’s so light-hearted. I feel that we’re form of ditching any romantic love curiosity for Wednesday, which is nice. After which additionally, now we have such unimaginable feminine leads within the present.” She added, “I feel we’re gonna get much more bolder. Much more darkish.”
On the finish of the primary season, Nevermore Academy was shut down for the rest of the semester. Co-showrunner Alfred advised THR that the college being closed “gave us essentially the most prospects for season 2, and I feel that’s one thing that we’re excited to discover.”
He famous that the present is finally in regards to the “feminine friendship” between Wednesday and Enid. Nonetheless, many followers consider Wednesday and Enid have romantic emotions for one another. Right here’s what Miles needed to say:
“As Al mentioned, this concept of sisterhood is vital to the present. We’re not gonna low cost something, and, clearly, generally characters reveal themselves, which is the enjoyable factor we love about tv, that it’s an natural journey. We’ve got a roadmap, and we’d prefer to have routes alongside that map that take you in sudden instructions. So, we’re open to every thing. We wanna discover that friendship in each approach, however we’re not gonna be, that is the place you generally get misdirected by followers and issues like that, so it’s simply being actually open to see how these characters develop and that friendship. As Al mentioned, that friendship is vital to our type of imaginative and prescient of the present.”
Wednesday did open her coronary heart somewhat in season 1 and developed emotions for Tyler. When he turned out to be the Hyde, that was clearly a shock to the system. Within the closing moments of the finale, Xavier gave Wednesday her first cellphone and hinted that she ought to textual content him someday. Xavier and Wednesday positively had a will-they-or-won’t-they ingredient in season 1, so season 2 may go down the romantic route for them.
Throughout Netflix’s TUDUM occasion on June 17, 2023, the Wednesday solid filmed a video and mentioned fashionable fan theories. “Wednesday season 2 is being labored on proper now, and the storyline is so high secret, even we don’t know what’s going to occur,” Emma Myers mentioned within the video.
‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Teaser Trailer