Wednesday is finally ready to hit Netflix for more spooks and scares! We have all the details.
“Wednesday” Season 2 Is Finally Premiering—And It’s a Lot Sooner Than You Think!
Published on Jun. 27, 2025
Oh, that Wednesday Addams. She’s creepy and she’s kooky, mysterious and spooky. Alas, she also hasn’t been seen in new episodes of her smash series since November 2022. The good news? There will be dancing again (very) soon at the Nevermore Academy with a new season of Wednesday.
Netflix has confirmed that Part 1 of the much-anticipated Season 2 will debut later this summer—well before Halloween season!—followed by Part 2 a few weeks later. “This season, Wednesday’s journey is darker and more complex as she navigates family, friends, new mysteries and old adversaries, propelling her headlong into another year at Nevermore,” co-showrunners, creators and executive producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar told Netflix’s Tudum online magazine.
Still, there’s no doubt viewers would, um, kill for more information After all, when Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega, Luis Guzman, Emma Myers, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Joy Sunday, premiered in 2022, the supernatural-tinged series quickly became one of Netflix’s most-watched English-language shows of all time, with more than 400 million hours watched in its first few weeks alone. Executive-produced by Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Batman), it supplied a fresh and Gen Z–friendly spin on the classic TV series The Addams Family, with the Emmy-nominated Ortega dazzling as the sardonic and macabre teen. (The show itself won four Emmys for its first season.) And while Wednesday did crack the murder mystery at her new boarding school in the finale, fans are still left with questions.
We’ve got lots of updated answers! Here’s everything you need to know about Season 2 of Wednesday.
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When will Wednesday Season 2 premiere?
Wednesday Addams is back in black starting on Aug. 6, with four new episodes dropping at once. The second batch of four installments premieres on Sept. 3.
Cameras actually started rolling May 2024—an extra-long wait due to the actors and writers’ strikes in 2023. Production was also moved from Romania to Ireland; the change was primarily made because Ireland has a tax credit for TV and movie filming. Filming wrapped last November.
The legendary Burton, fresh from working with Ortega in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, directs four out of the eight episodes. “He loves the show, and he loves working with Jenna,” says Gough. “When he loves something, this is the thing; he’s not cynical at all.”
What will the new season of Wednesday be about?
An April trailer, set to an eerie version of “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music, provided some tantalizing teases. Ortega’s Wednesday, clad in all black, first undergoes a security check at Newark Airport en route to Nevermore Academy. She puts her metal items aside—brass knuckles, flails and machetes, ha!—but gets stopped because of Thing’s oversized bottle of sunscreen.
Upon her arrival, Wednesday will learn that angst is all relative. “This year, we bring the family to Nevermore,” Burton has revealed in a new Netflix featurette. “Your family at school is the worst thing possible, isn’t it?”
That’s especially true because her little brother, Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez), is a new student and learns it’s not easy taming his powers of electrokinesis or living in his big sister’s shadow. “He really wants to fit in, and he really wants a friend, but it’s not looking very good,” says Ordonez in the featurette. Burton adds, “Poor Pugsley, he’s kind of an outcast among outcasts this season.” Meanwhile, Wednesday reunites with Enid (Emma Myers) in their dorm before all hell breaks loose. As our heroine says in the teaser, “Wherever there’s murder and mayhem, you will always find an Addams.”
Ortega, also taking on Wednesday executive producer duties this season, dropped a few more hints during her Beetlejuice Beetlejuice press tour last fall. “Every episode has one strong, kind of outstanding scene or factor, which is kind of nice,” she said in one interview. “This season just feels like we’re getting a little bit more of an opportunity to do the things we wanted to accomplish in the first one, maybe just didn’t have the resources or faith.”
The show will focus on its genre roots too. “We want to lean into the horror aspect of the show a little bit more because it is so lighthearted,” she told Elle Fanning during an Actors on Actors interview. “And I think a show like this with vampires and werewolves and superpowers, you don’t want to take yourself too seriously.” That means that any potential romance between Wednesday and her Nevermore Academy pals is DOA. “We’re kind of ditching any romantic love interest for Wednesday, which is really great,” she added.
Viewers should also expect major developments with those Season 1 cliffhangers. On the (semi spoiler alert) list? The whereabouts of classmate Tyler (Hunter Doohan), who turned out to be the monstrous and murderous Hyde, and the reveal of the stalker who sent that threatening text to Wednesday’s new phone.
What can we expect from the first episode of Season 2?
For starters, the Wednesday Season 2 premiere is titled “Here We Woe Again.” It is written by Gough and Millar, and directed by Burton.
The first six minutes of the episode were screened at Netflix’s Tudum 2025 live fan event on May 31. The footage began with Wednesday tied up in a serial killer’s basement—”Who said nightmares don’t come true?”—surrounded by life-size dolls. “He’s under the delusion that I’m his next victim,” she says. “I’ll let him cherish that notion while I explain my predicament.”
Cut to a flashback from six weeks earlier, showing Wednesday spending her summer vacation mastering her psychic ability. With her powers under control, she sets out to find the Kansas City Scalper, who happened to be her favorite serial killer as a child.
Eventually, Wednesday comes face to face with the Kansas City Scalper, who is played by Haley Joel Osment. He presents her with a doll he made that looks just like her.
“Let me show you some of my own handiwork,” she tells the villain as the clip ends.
Overall, “Nothing is what it seems in Season 2,” Millar told Tudum. “Wednesday goes into this season thinking she knows Nevermore. But as soon as she gets back, nothing happens that she’s expecting. She thinks she’s going to be in control, that she knows where all the bodies are buried, and she doesn’t.”
Which mega star will be appearing on the show this season?
Welcome to the show, Lady Gaga! The singer-actress is joining all the little monsters at school as Rosaline Rotwood, a mysterious and enigmatic teacher at Nevermore Academy.
The news was announced at the Tudum event, where the star took the stage for an electrifying performance. Emerging from a coffin with the words “Here lies the monster queen” on the lid and backed by Addams Family-esque dancers, Gaga performed “Zombieboy,” “Bloody Mary” and “Abracadabra” from her recently released album Mayhem.
Gaga was already associated with the show thanks to her song “Bloody Mary” from a scene in Season 1. She’s also forged an impressive career on the screen. Her previous credits include Joker: Folie Ă Deux, A Star Is Born, for which she won an Oscar for Best Original Song and was nominated for Best Actress, House of Gucci and, rather fittingly, two seasons of FX’s American Horror Story.
Who else will be in the new season of Wednesday?
It’s a sprawling cast for sure. “We felt like we just touched the surface with those characters, and the actors are so amazing in those roles,” said Gough.
Ortega returns as Wednesday Addams (duh), while Catherine Zeta-Jones (her mother, Morticia), Luis Guzman (papa Gomez), Isaac Ordonez (Pugsley) and Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Deputy Santiago) have all been upped to series regulars. A slew of classmates—played by Emma Myers (so pitch perfect as Enid), Joy Sunday (Bianca), Hunter Doohan (Tyler), Moosa Mostafa (Eugene) and Georgie Farmer (Ajax)—will also return, as will Victor Dorobantu as Thing and Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester.
But wait—there’s more! Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) steps in as Nevermore’s new headmaster, Principal Barry Dort. “Barry Dort is a bit of a mysterious figure,” the actor told Tudum. “Something about him is not right, but he loves the school and he has real outcast pride.” Bill Piper (Scooper), Evie Templeton (Return to Silent Hill), Owen Painter (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Noah Taylor (Law & Order: Organized Crime) round out the list of new regulars.
The guest-star list is bustling as well. It includes Thandiwe Newton as Dr. Fairburn and Joanna Lumley as Grandmama, plus Osment, Frances O’Connor and Heather Matarazzo. Also, be on the lookout for the ever-quirky Christopher Lloyd, who played Uncle Fester in the ’90s Addams Family movies.
Who won’t be returning?
It’s a wrap for Naomi J. Ogawa (Yoko Tanaka) and Percy Hynes White, who played Xavier Thorpe, one of Wednesday’s love interests. In 2023, allegations of sexual assault were made against Hynes White on social media; he denied accusations, calling the claims “a campaign of misinformation,” but his contract was not renewed for Season 2. Jamie McShane, who played Sheriff Galpin, will only appear on a guest-star basis. And, of course, Gwendoline Christie won’t be back either because—huge spoiler alert!—her character, Principal Weems, got a poisoned syringe to the throat in the Season 1 finale and died in Wednesday’s arms.
What other shows will tide you over till the premiere?
There are plenty of excellent TV shows to keep you cool this summer until the big premiere. Here are five of the best Wednesday-like series.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy basically invented the snarky-teen-takes-the-lead-in-a-supernatural-drama subgenre. In this series, which originally aired from 1997 to 2003, Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as the titular slayer who must juggle monster-killing with the traumas of teendom. Sunnydale High isn’t quite the Nevermore Academy, but it does feature demon principals and werewolf classmates. Also, her love triangle with tormented Angel and bad boy Spike is otherworldly. (Hulu, Disney+)
- The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Like Wednesday, this series—a darker version of the ’90s sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch—chronicles a teen with supernatural abilities. But here, Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) is a witch who leads a double life as a typical high schooler battling evil forces. She must ultimately choose between the two worlds. There’s gore and so much more. (Netflix)
- You: Want more Jenna Ortega in an off-kilter series? Done and done. She doesn’t show up until Season 2, but the intense stalker thriller is well worth the journey. Penn Badgley is Joe Goldberg, a seemingly normal bookstore manager who hides his tendency to ultra-obsess (and often kill) behind closed doors. Ortega plays his teen neighbor in Los Angeles who arrives on the scene after Joe relocates from New York City. The vibe is way darker than a typical Wednesday episode, but fans will appreciate its bone-dry humor. (Netflix)
- The Order: Yup, it’s another Netflix show in which a teen at a new school encounters danger and mystery to spare. College student Jack Morton (Jake Manley) joins a secret society called the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose to learn magic. He soon learns that its dark underworld involves conspiracies and an intense battle between werewolves. The students are a little older than the Wednesday group and the tone is a bit more serious, but it does the (magic) trick. (Netflix)
- I Am Not Okay with This: Though this coming-of-age comedy was a one-and-done, it made an impression among its loyal fans. It centers on Sydney (Sophia Lillis), a 17-year-old who learns that she has Carrie-esque telekinetic powers. To top it off, she must deal with the ups and downs of high school, her sexuality and a complicated relationship with her mother. Sound familiar? (Netflix)
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Sources:
- Netflix: “Wednesday Season 2 Will Snap Back This Summer”
- People: “Lady Gaga Officially Confirmed to Guest Star in Wednesday as Netflix Drops First 6 Minutes of Season 2”
- The Wrap: “Wednesday Behind-the-Scenes Look Teases Bigger, ‘More Twisted’ Season 2”
- Variety: “Wednesday Debuts with Nielsen’s Second-Biggest Streaming Week of All Time”
- Cinema Blend: “Jenna Ortega Revealed Wednesday Season 2 Will Have ‘Incredible Set Pieces’ I Hope One of Them Dives into a Big Season 1 Cliffhanger”
- Entertainment Weekly: “Jenna Ortega Says Wednesday Is Bidding Adieu to Love and Hello to ‘Horror’ in Season 2”
- Variety: “Elle Fanning and Jenna Ortega — Actors on Actors (Full Conversation)”
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- TV Line: “Wednesday Showrunners Share Potential Season 2 Plans for Addams Family Series”
