Wednesday. (L to R) Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair, Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in episode 201 of Wednesday. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Netflix’s Wednesday season 2 was one of the anticipated releases of 2025 for the streamer, and the primary 4 episodes didn’t disappoint. Following the discharge of Quantity 1, collection director Tim Burton, in addition to star Jenna Ortega and different members of the forged and crew, weighed in on all the things that occurred.
Wednesday season 2 takes viewers on one other bizarre and eccentric journey to Nevermore, the shadowy and macabre college for Outcasts. However this time, issues are totally different. Not solely is it the primary time that Wednesday Addams has willingly returned to a college, however she’s now (very unwittingly) an area superstar after saving the varsity within the earlier time period. The season marks the return of quite a few collection favourites, together with Wednesday’s excitable roommate Enid (Emma Myers), Ajax (Georgie Farmer), and Bianca (Pleasure Sunday). As well as, there are a number of new faces, reminiscent of Bruno (Noah B. Taylor), new Nevermore principal Barry Dort (Steve Buscemi), and music director Capri (Billie Piper).
In our 4-star review, we referred to as Wednesday season 2 “as charming and dazzling as ever,” naming the collection certainly one of Netflix’s standout exhibits.
Notice: These feedback got here from a press pack supplied by Netflix.
Director Tim Burton discusses Wednesday season 2.
Wednesday. (L to R) Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Govt Producer/Director Tim Burton in episode 204 of Wednesday. Cr. Owen Behan/Netflix © 2025
Following the discharge of Quantity 1, Netflix caught up with director Tim Burton. Whereas one of the esteemed filmmakers within the business, Burton was compelled to tackle the problem of tacking a narrative the place it strikes from one yr to the subsequent, exploring how Wednesday would change in that point. “I’ve by no means carried out one thing the place it’s one yr then the subsequent,” he stated. “Wednesday’s a humorous character as a result of she’s very sturdy in who she is. Her stage of progress is maybe not instantly recognized to the seen eye. She could be very particular, and he or she doesn’t transfer a lot.”
“The important thing ingredient is preserving her true to herself whereas encountering new individuals, new conditions. She’s nonetheless going to highschool — not her favourite factor, which I may relate to. She’s such a powerful character that we attempt to discover new nuances, however inside a restricted bandwidth. The present has all the time been concerning the characters on the coronary heart of it and who Wednesday is. It doesn’t matter what will get a little bit bit greater this season, all these components stay the identical.”
Burton was notably enthused by the arrival of latest Nevermore principal Barry Dort, performed by Steve Buscemi. He beforehand labored with Buscemi on Massive Fish (2003). “I labored with Steve Buscemi many, a few years in the past, and I all the time wished to once more,” he defined. “It was such a pleasure to work with him on this as a result of he introduced one thing totally different. Weems was very a lot about making an attempt to suit into issues. Each new principal brings in their very own agenda. They bring about in their very own form of ‘Nevermore without end’ perspective. It was actually enjoyable to observe him and work in a kind that’s totally different from a movie.”
“He’s any person who walks onto the set and you may see that there are extra individuals on set that day — forged, crew, everyone. You may simply sense when individuals love watching any person work and respect any person’s work. Identical for me. I actually loved on daily basis as a result of it was enjoyable and it was inventive.”
Viewers could have additionally observed that season 2 leans heavier into the dynamic between the Addams Household. This was a deliberate transfer, and the concept was to have an iteration of the enduring household that felt true to their predecessors, however was additionally extra grounded in actual household dramas.
“One of the attention-grabbing issues about Wednesday is the Addams household mythology. We’ve grounded that ingredient of the story in order that we may establish actual household points that occur in actual life. Previous iterations can skew extra cartoony, and we’re bringing it again to actual feelings, actual emotions, actual household points. Clearly there’s the basic mother-daughter challenge between Wednesday and her mom, Morticia, however we added to that this season by introducing Morticia’s mom and their dynamic.”
The entire mother-daughter dynamic — each between Morticia and Wednesday, and Morticia and Grandmama — are the important thing relationships that the season tackles “The dynamics between moms and daughters over two generations had been very attention-grabbing to discover. Children all the time neglect that their dad and mom are literally human beings. What children don’t usually understand is that individuals change and evolve. And this concept of the entire Addams household being drawn again to highschool at this level of their lives is attention-grabbing, and it causes friction,” Burton explains.
Jenna Ortega talks Wednesday’s journey and her expanded function as a producer.
Wednesday. (L to R) Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Victor Dorobantu as Factor in episode 203 of Wednesday. Cr. Helen Sloan/Netflix © 2025
Not solely is Jenna Ortega enjoying the titular Wednesday Addams once more, however season 2 marks the primary time that she’s taken on the function of producer. Working each in entrance of the digital camera and behind it has been an immense pleasure (and studying curve) for her. “It’s been a very superb expertise being a producer on Wednesday. Now that I’m acquainted with the crew and everyone knows one another and have labored collectively for thus lengthy, it’s positively a snug, secure setting to ask questions and study a bit extra.”
Her function as a producer has meant she’s been ready to participate in inventive discussions. “I’ve realized a lot this season, and it’s been so cool being part of conversations, speaking concerning the coloration of blood, or the colour of prosthetics and if the mind isn’t sufficiently big –– issues like that which can be fairly foolish, however actually do make such an enormous distinction on the present.Attending to see everybody’s costumes earlier than they’re permitted, stuff like that, could be very enjoyable.”
“To have the ability to study from somebody like Tim firsthand is a really particular expertise,” she added. “Additionally, as a result of I noticed them on daily basis on set, it was simpler for
them to simply feed me information in between takes and issues like that, which was actually informative.”
Having accomplished her first college time period in season 1 — and saving the varsity within the course of — Wednesday is an area superstar within the halls of Nevermore. Whereas her friends might need warmed to her, Wednesday herself hasn’t grown all that a lot. “There’s no actual emotional progress being made right here, which is the joke along with her, as a result of she doesn’t actually develop emotionally,” Ortega explains. “She has moments of weak spot right here and there, and there’s all the time one thing along with her mother, there’s all the time one thing with Enid (Emma Myers). Perhaps as a result of it’s a brand new setting for her, or Nevermore was a brand new setting for her within the first season, within the second season she’s gotten a little bit bit extra snug.”
One among Jenna Ortega’s highlights from season 1 was working alongside newcomer Joanna Lumley, who performs Grandmama. Whereas Wednesday can’t divulge heart’s contents to anybody, she comes shut with Grandmama. “They love one another,” she explains. “They each have a look at Morticia and roll their eyes a bit. They’re very alike, very onerous, not very delicate or open to issues, love all issues gothic and darkish.”
As for working with Lumley, her expertise was one of the memorable of her profession to date. “She is simply the sweetest. Each time I noticed her on set, and he or she referred to as me ‘honey’ or ‘darling’ or ‘child,’ I simply melted. She’s bought the sweetest voice and he or she’s hilarious. She could be essentially the most skilled particular person on set, simply in the best way that she carries herself and the best way that she speaks and all the time is aware of her strains and all the time has good questions.”
Jenna Ortega teases Wednesday’s destiny on the finish of episode 4
The midseason finale ended with the present’s largest cliffhanger so far. After being let out and killing Thornhill, Tyler units his sight on Wednesday. In his Hyde kind, he throws her out of a window a number of tales excessive. Regardless of struggling what seem like immense accidents, Wednesday seems alive and aware, however closely bloodied and gravely injured. “I’ve all the time dreamed of wanting demise within the face,” Wednesday narrated. “However in my last moments, all I can hear is my mom’s phrases ringing in my ears. Perhaps I’ve made all the things worse. A lot worse.”
Discussing this climactic second, Ortega defined the way it happened:
“It was chaos. The units had been fantastic, it was so nice having Christina Ricci again, and I completely love that we didn’t see Tyler truly bodily throw Wednesday out the window. That was Tim’s last-minute concept the place you simply see the stress between the 2 earlier than it occurs, after which what breaks the silence is the shattering of the glass. I believed that was a cool method to finish that episode. As a result of we’ve taken so lengthy to ship the season — we’re so sorry — if you happen to’re going to have a break in a season like that, it’s good to go away on most likely the darkest notice that we’ve ever left on in an episode. I used to be excited to do this halfway via the season.”
“After we had been capturing it, we thought that it was actually humorous and attention-grabbing,” she concluded. “Tim and I had been crying laughing. We had a lot enjoyable capturing that.”
Isaac Ordonez teases Pugsley’s story in Quantity 2.
Wednesday. (L to R) Joonas Suotamo as Lurch, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Jenna Ortega as Wednesday, Isaac Ordonez aș Pugsley Addams, Factor, Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams in episode 201 of Wednesday. Cr. Helen Sloan/Netflix © 2025
With season 2 increasing the of tales of all of the Addams Household, there’s maybe none extra notable than Pugsley’s bigger involvement. Pugsley has now entered his first yr at Nevermore Academy. Turning into pals with Eugene, he shortly will get into wacky and harmful conditions of his personal. As an illustration, when he hears a narrative a couple of former, long-dead scholar who changed his coronary heart with a mechanical, clockwork coronary heart, Pugsley units out to seek out him — and his electrokinesis permits him to restart the person’s clockwork coronary heart. The person rises as a zombie, whom Pugsley names Slurp.
“Episode 4 was superb and a few loopy stuff occurred — Tyler (Hunter Doohan) escaped confinement, Marilyn Thornhill (Christina Ricci) died, Wednesday bought thrown off a second-story constructing, the Avian was revealed, Slurp ate extra individuals,” he stated.
As for what lies forward for Pugsley, the antics proceed into quantity 2. “Pugsley goes on a search celebration with some household,” Ordonez teased. “Let’s simply say he finds what he’s trying to find and it enormously impacts the remainder of the present.”
Marilyn Thornhill could in the future return: “By no means say by no means”
One of many huge twists on the finish of Quantity 1 got here when Tyler, freed by Marilyn Thornhill, morphed into his Hyde kind and killed her. It looks as if there’s no mistaking her destiny. “Marilyn Thornhill is useless useless,” co-showruner Alfred Gough stated.
A minimum of, she’s very a lot useless in that second. However this can be a whacky fantasy present. Mortality is hardly everlasting, which co-showrunner Miles Millar was eager to reiterate. “I’ll say on this present, nobody is formally useless useless. There’s all the time a approach,” he stated, including: “Christina [Ricci] is simply a tremendous particular person and actor, and he or she brings such worth to the present, and the character’s so fantastic. By no means say by no means.”
If this isn’t sufficient gas for the hearth of fan theories, I don’t know what’s. As for Wednesday’s destiny, she is alive, however not with out scars. “Any regular human could be in traction for the subsequent six years,” Millar stated. “However if you happen to look in the back of her head in Episode 5, she has a bunch of staples.”
Regardless of a fall that’d be deadly for a lot of, Wednesday manages to flee comparatively harm-free. “No damaged bones,” Millar says.
Wednesday season 2, quantity 1 is now streaming on Netflix. Quantity 2 drops on September 3.