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At long last, woe is no longer us now that Wednesday Season 2 is finally here.
Following a nearly three-year hiatus, Netflix’s uber-popular Addams Family spinoff is back for a highly-anticipated second season that will see Jenna Ortega’s titular goth girl antiheroine return to Nevermore Academy for another year of outcast adventures, family drama, and supernatural mysteries.
When Wednesday debuted in November 2022, Season 1 broke the record for the most hours watched in a week for any English-language TV series on Netflix by earning a whopping 341.23M hours viewed in its first seven days on the streamer. And co-creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) are hoping for nothing less from Season 2 of their macabre coming-of-age dramedy—premiering with Part 1 (Episodes 1–4) on Aug. 6 and followed by Part 2 (Episodes 5–8) on Sept. 3.
“It’s always the biggest priority for us to not suffer a sophomore slump and no one’s expectations for Season 2 are higher than ours,” Millar told the Hollywood Reporter. “There are so many shows I watched and loved the first season, and then I watch the first 20 minutes of the second season and I’m out. So making sure the show delivered in terms of the comedy, the mystery, all the elements was our top priority, that we didn’t want to let the audience down.”
Here’s everything you need to know before tuning into Wednesday Season 2.
How did Wednesday Season 1 end?
After getting expelled from public high school over an incident involving flesh-eating piranhas at the start of Season 1, Wednesday found herself enrolled at Nevermore, the same magical boarding school outside the town of Jericho, Vt., that her parents, Gomez (Luis Guzmán) and Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), once attended. There, Wednesday was introduced to an eclectic mix of fellow so-called outcasts—like siren Bianca (Joy Sunday),…
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