We’re just days away from Netflix’s most-watched English-language show of all time returning to the streamer.
The first part of Wednesday season 2 debuts next week and it seems mega-fans of the plait-wearing nihilist are already getting ready to dive back into the world of Nevermore Academy.
The show’s first eight episode season has rejoined the streamer’s top 10 ranking of TV shows, as fans likely squeeze in a rewatch to refresh their minds on how the last season wrapped up.
Lest we forget, the show became an global juggernaut when it was first released in 2022.
Thanks in part to Wednesday’s marvellously macabre school dance moves, which went viral online, the show was watched 252,100,000 times, making it Netflix’s most popular show ever (in English, with the one exception of Squid Game for the all-timer list).
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So where did we leave off with Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams? She was one point in a love triangle, with Tyler (Hunter Doohan) and Xavier (Percy Hynes White) that saw absolutely nobody pair off in the end.
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Instead, Tyler turned out to be the murderous monster that had been plaguing the students of the school and was hauled off to live in four locked walls with a mattress instead (photo evidence up top).
Meanwhile, Wednesday decided romance wasn’t really for her and never committed to Xavier either.
Instead, as school broke up for the summer having narrowly avoided the very sudden demise of all its students, Wednesday was heralded as a savior for fighting off the villain within the school itself.
It turned out Wednesday’s sweet normie teacher Laurel Gates (Christina Ricci) was in fact the dastardly mastermind behind the Hyde attacks. Motive? It was revealed she was descended from a pilgrim who had made it their mission to eradicate Outcasts from the town of Jericho.
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Jenna Ortega had quite the task stepping into Christina Ricci’s shoes as misery-worshipping Wednesday. In the years since the 90s films, her hard-relate lines, delivered with defining deadpan, had become talismans for the Tumblr generation. (Why did she turn out in her usual get-up for Halloween? ‘I’m a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else.’)
Netflix’s TV adaption on said affectless tween touted not only the gothic stylings of Tim Burton on board to direct, but Ricci herself back as a teacher at Nevermore. So did the first season reach the creepy intensity of The Nightmare Before Christmas or Edward Scissorhands? Not quite.
The show focused a bit much on the romantics and pulled its punches on the fear factor – it probably shouldn’t strictly be classified as a horror, the scares are so thin on the ground – but it was still murderously good fun for the whole family.
And given that Netflix is trying to scoop up the broadest audience possible, that’s probably exactly what they wanted, with the numbers ot prove it paid off.
Not everyone got away unscathed though, as Principle Weems (Gwendoline Christie) met an untimely demise at Laurel’s hands, all because she had the ability to shape-shift and had tricked the not-so-normie-after-all teacher into revealing all.
It was a death, the Game of Thrones actor said she didn’t even see coming herself. ‘I feel like Weems would never be defeated by something as commonplace as death,’ Christie told Netflix’s Tudum. ‘So really what I was playing in that moment was that Weems was confounded by the situation.’
If you’re in need of a proper refresh of that first season, you can join the other Netflix users streaming the show ahead of its second season launch next week.
Wednesday’s second season launches on August 6, with the second part arriving on September 3.
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