TV Review: Wednesday Season 2 (2025)

Wednesday Season 2 (2025) created for television by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on characters created by Charles Addams

Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) returns to Nevermore Academy, a school for "outcasts" where she saved the day in the last season. Now she is a campus celebrity, a situation that does not sit well with her. She wants to develop her abilities, especially her psychic ones that helped her hunt down a serial killer over summer vacation. After an intense vision that included the death of her roommate Enid (Emma Myers), Wednesday loses her powers just as new murders start happening in Nevermore and the surrounding community of Jericho. If those were not enough problems, new Principal Dort (Steve Buscemi) finagles Wednesday's mom (Catherine Zeta-Jones) into organizing a fundraiser for the school. So mom is around to provide feedback and stress for young Wednesday. Also, her brother Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) starts at Nevermore, creating more social and familial problems.

The show starts off a bit more gruesome than I wanted with Pugsley digging up a legendary corpse who is reanimated but very rotten physically. The gore scales back as the season progresses, more into what I was expecting. The plot moves along at a good pace, though I think it is probably impossible to guess where it is going since the mysterious reveals are pretty outlandish. Ortega and Myers make a good odd couple, especially when they get to play each other in a body-swap episode that is delightful. The acting in general covers the weaknesses in the plot or the wholesale borrowing from other horror classics like The Evil Dead II. It's an entertaining season that sets up the action for the next season.

Recommended if you are a fan of the previous season.

As I write (October 2025), this is only available streaming on Netflix.