Something wicked this way comes as Wednesday returns for a second season – and I mean that in the “really cool” way – throwing us straight back into chaos. We find Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) tied up in a creepy basement full of dolls as a greasy, mouth-breathing killer she’s been tracking over her school holiday (Haley Joel Osment) leers over her. A nightmare for most. For our heroine? Thrilling.
Spoiler: Wednesday escapes the basement. And shortly thereafter, the stony-faced, psychic teen is en route back to Nevermore Academy, this time with brother Pugsley (Issac Ordonez) in tow, who can now command electricity.
With Tyler (Hunter Doohan) – her kind-of-ex turned murderous creature who tore people apart in season one – now locked up in a psychiatric hospital, introverted Wednesday plans to “cocoon” this year: finish her novel, hang out with bestie Enid (Emma Myers), and be left the hell alone.
Fat chance. When she arrives at Nevermore, she’s a celebrity. Considered the school saviour after stopping outcast-killing zombie pilgrim Jacob Crackstone in her first year, not even siren queen bee Bianca (Joy Sunday) can keep Wednesday’s strange new superfans away.
Jenna Ortega’s performance as Wednesday Addams oozes charm in season two of Wednesday (Photo: Netflix)There’s a cool new music teacher (Billie Piper), too, and a new overly friendly principal (Steve Buscemi) on a mission to “bring back Nevermore’s glory days” with Wednesday as his star. It takes seconds for him to annoy her, especially when he invites her parents Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzmán) to stay on the grounds to become fundraisers. Buzzkill.
That’s just the start of Wednesday’s problems: her stalker is ready to kill for her attention, there’s a murder in town (murder of crows to be exact, killing people and plucking out their eyes in particularly gruesome fashion), and worst of all, she’s had a vision that Enid will die. With a new whodunnit to solve, Wednesday’s quickly off on a new investigation.
It’s hard to overstate how much of a high bar Wednesday set itself with season one. While it leant a little too heavily into a Riverdale–esque generic teen-horror for my tastes, it was universally loved, becoming Netflix’s biggest show ever – 252 million people racking up over 1.7 billion hours of watch-time can’t be wrong, right?
With a three-year wait between seasons to boot, the pressure was on to match their previous success. Thankfully, Tim Burton and co have achieved this – and then some. The camp and macabre modern twist on the classic Addams Family we were promised has now won me over in spades. It’s incredibly fun and endearing, with almost all of those season one kinks ironed out.
Those who critiqued the lack of Addams Family in season one will now see them everywhere: Pugsley’s off-kilter behaviour lands him with a pet zombie; Morticia’s desperation to connect with her daughter is matched only for her dislike of her mother (Joanna Lumley); literal right-hand man Thing is still the best; and Gomez is happy for some family time.
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Meanwhile, Wednesday’s know-it-all attitude (my personal S1 bugbear) now has actual consequences. Abusing her psychic powers to the point her eyes bleed, her aloof charm is beginning to grate – particularly on Thing, who feels taken for granted; werewolf Enid is branching out from her monochrome roommate to spend more time with the school’s wolf pack. But with motivations far clearer and Ortega’s performance oozing charm, we’re still rooting for Wednesday.
This second season is split into two parts – the other half dropping in September – and the first four episodes lay out an intriguing premise, giving every character room to grow. Wednesday season two is an absolute delight… though she’d kill us if she heard us say it.
The first four episodes of Wednesday season two are streaming on Netflix
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