Cast, Release Date, Everything We Know

Updated with the latest: Wednesday‘s sophomore season has become the latest to get the two-part release treatment from Netflix.

After the runaway success of Netflix and Tim Burton‘s Addams Family stand-alone series Wednesday starring Jenna Ortega, the streamer renewed it for a second season in January 2023. That decision came less than three months after the eight-episode Season 1 premiered. It eventually became the most-watched original series ever on the streamer, with more than 252 million views to date, far surpassing Stranger Things Season 4, Dahmer, and Season 1 of Bridgerton on the all-time list.

Season 1 received 12 Emmy nominations, including for Ortega in Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She became just the third Latina ever to be nominated in a leading actress category. The series won four Emmys, though Ortega lost out to Abbott Elementary‘s Quinta Brunson on Emmy night.

When will Season 2 be released?

Netflix has deemed Season 2 of Tim Burton’s Wednesday as the next season that will have a split release in two parts.

Part 1 will arrive on the streamer August 6, and Part II will follow starting Sept. 3, just in time for fall and the Halloween season.

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Is Season 2 in production?

Netflix revealed Dec. 4 that production on Season 2 of Wednesday had officially wrapped.

The Hollywood strikes in 2023 delayed a return to production for the MGM Television-produced series. In November 2023, it was confirmed that shooting for Season 2 would begin in late April 2024 in Ireland. That’s a change from Season 1, which was shot in Romania (the series’ success made the location a tourist hot spot, but logistical challenges made a move inevitable).

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During press for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024), Jenna Ortega revealed to Extra TV that four episodes of Wednesday had been shot.

What is Season 2 of Wednesday about? How will Wednesday Season 2 expand on Season 1?

As of July 9’s full trailer, the plot of Season 2 has become more clear as Wednesday has a vision of her roommate Enid’s (Emma Myers) death. Even more gruesome, Wednesday says it is all her fault. Wednesday’s mother, who knows what the ink-black tears streaming down her daughters face mean, asks about this vision and vows not to let history repeat itself. Joanna Lumley’s Grandmama will also guide Wednesday this season.

Creators Al Gough and Miles Millar hinted that there might be more Addams family members — confirmed by the cast during a Tudum appearance, though they wouldn’t say who — and the idea of an expanded universe is already in the works with a spinoff series revolving around Uncle Fester already in the works from Netflix and series producer MGM Television. Fred Armisen played Fester, the bald but soft-hearted brother of Gomez Addams, in a guest appearance in Season 1 when he showed up Nevermore Academy to help Wednesday and Thing out of a jam.

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Gough and Millar also said that Wednesday’s relationship with her mother (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones in Season 1) might also get some more screen time in Season 2, a hint further confirmed with Zeta-Jones, along with Luis Guzman and Isaac Ordonez, now elevated to series regulars. Ortega, who is now also an executive producer, also suggested that the new season would have a stronger emphasis on horror over teen romance, which Season 1, er, flirted with a bit.

“I think everything is bigger,” Ortega said of Season 2 on the red carpet at the Emmys. “It’s a lot more action-packed. I think each episode will probably feel a little bit more like a movie, which is nice.”

Are the original Wednesday cast members returning?

As production on Season 2 began, Netflix confirmed that Zeta-Jones (Morticia), Guzman (Gomez), Ordonez (Wednesday’s younger brother Pugsley) and Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Sheriff Deputy Ritchie Santiago) are now series regulars. They are joined by new series regulars Billie Piper, Steve Buscemi, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter and Noah Taylor.

Netflix also confirmed that Percy Hynes White (Xavier), Jamie McShane (Sheriff Donovan Galpin and Tyler’s father) and Naomi J Ogawa (Yoko Tanaka) will not be returning in that capacity. McShane has been listed as a guest star.

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That first-year cast was led by Ortega and included Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, McShane, Hunter Doohan, White, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Georgie Farmer, Ogawa, Christina Ricci and Moosa Mostafa, with Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman recurring.

Christie’s Principal Weems, Lindhome’s Dr. Kinbott and even Ricci’s Marilyn Thornhill aka Laurel Gates certainly seemed to be in dire straits by the end of Season 1, but can anyone really be ruled out future episodes given the series’ fantasy elements?

Are there any new actors joining the cast of Wednesday?

In addition to the new series regulars, Netflix confirmed that Season 2 guest stars will include Joanna Lumley as Grandmama, Thandiwe Newton as Dr. Fairburn, Frances O’Connor, Haley Joel Osment, Heather Matarazzo and Joonas Suotamo. Armisen is reprising as Uncle Fester, with Christopher Lloyd, who played Fester in the movies, also guest starring.

Steve Buschemi will also join the series in an undisclosed role. Lady Gaga is the latest star set to appear in Season 2 of Burton’s macabre series. Her role is under wraps.

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How to watch the series:

Like the first season, Wednesday streams on Netflix, which offers three tiered plans: Standard with ads ($6.99/month), Standard ($15.49/month and Premium ($22.99/month).

Is there a trailer for Wednesday Season 2?

A full trailer arrived July 9, teasing what’s in store for Season 2 as Wednesday returns to Nevermore Academy.

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Netflix released a 2-minute teaser trailer that watches Ortega’s titular Wednesday Addams return to Nevermore Academy in Jericho, Vermont, where a new murder mystery awaits her and her friends. Her Addams Family parents Gomez and Morticia feature prominently in the clip, and there is a shot of Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) in a bath tub. New faces such as Steve Buschemi and Joanna Lumley also appear in the clip that kicks off with Wednesday pulling a seemingly never-ending supply of weapons and torture devices from her pockets and bag in the airport security line.

Dolls also seem to be a theme in the trailer as Wednesday’s roommate Enid is gifted one that looks like her with soft curls “made of real human hair.” Wednesday tells her mother not to fret because she does her best work in the dark.

Will there be any more seasons of Wednesday on Netflix?

Yes, the streamer has renewed the show for a Season 3.