Wednesday Season 2 Brings Bloodier Mysteries, Jenna Ortega’s Darkest Turn
Info in Movie News | Wednesday Addams is back at Nevermore Academy, and no, she’s not thrilled about it. With new enemies lurking, a stalker sending cryptic threats, and her name now plastered all over campus like some reluctant rockstar, Wednesday’s sophomore year is shaping up to be even stranger than the last.
According to The Guardian, Season 2 opens with a flash of chaos. After saving Nevermore from the undead pilgrim Joseph Crackstone in Season 1, Wednesday has earned a cult-like following among her peers. However, the goth queen of gloom is rather unimpressed. However, the goth queen of gloom is not satisfied. “I liked it better when I was feared and hated,” she grumbles, while her peers gather around her, begging for autographs.
But there’s no time for admiration, or personal space. Within minutes of the first episode, we’re introduced to a fresh villain, the Kansas City Scalper. He’s a doll-collecting, serial-killing dog groomer in a velour tracksuit played with greasy glee by Haley Joel Osment. Turns out, Wednesday spent her summer tracking him down, getting briefly captured, and ultimately delivering him to the authorities, though, in classic Wednesday fashion, not without scalping him first. It’s bold, bloody, and never mentioned again, but something tells us that’s not the last we’ll see of him.
Bigger problems await back at Nevermore. A stalker from the end of last season has returned, sending increasingly aggressive messages to Wednesday. Who are they? What do they want? And more importantly, how do they know so much about her?
Meanwhile, crows are attacking private investigators, and Wednesday is having horrifying visions involving her werewolf roommate, Enid (Emma Myers). Add in a suspiciously upbeat new principal, Barry Dort (Steve Buscemi in full “trust-no-one” mode), and a mysterious new music teacher played by Billie Piper, who walks the line between "kinda sweet" and "possibly a necromancer", and it’s clear that Nevermore isn’t done throwing curveballs.
Behind the scenes, Jenna Ortega is not just acting, she’s producing. In a recent virtual press conference (July 27), Ortega revealed that she trained with more weapons this season than ever before, including axes and Swiss Army knives. “There were tools I had to learn to use that I’d never touched before,” she said, noting the importance of precision, especially in scenes with returning co-star Hunter Doohan (Tyler Galpin). “You don’t want to accidentally stab someone just because you missed a mark.”
Her dedication shows. Ortega’s Wednesday remains the show’s dark heart, emotionless on the surface, yet burning with quiet intensity. She carries the role with such casual menace that even her silence feels like a threat. Her speech at the Nevermore gala, warning fellow students not to put her on a pedestal, "The only place I will lead you is off a cliff", is a perfect snapshot of her charm.
Season 2 is broken into two parts, Part I (episodes 1–4) dropped on August 6, 2025, and Part II will follow on September 3. The series continues under the creative guidance of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, with Tim Burton back as executive producer and director. The scale is bigger, the tension sharper, and the story much darker, and we’re just getting started.
Netflix has already confirmed Wednesday Season 3, with a possible spin-off series also in early development. So if you thought Season 2 was the end of the line for Nevermore’s spookiest student, think again. This story’s far from over, and Wednesday wouldn’t have it any other way.
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