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Wednesday Season 2: Everything You Should Know
By SHAE SENNETT
Season 1 of the Netflix hit series "Wednesday" ended with numerous cliffhangers, but the main question for fans is, how long will they have to wait for Season 2?
Ordered in January 2023, Season 2 would ordinarily launch in the fall of 2024. Series star Jenna Ortega said development started about two weeks before the writers' strike began.
Now, preproduction won’t even begin until there is agreement between the Writers' Guild of America and studios like Netflix, and the terms of the Screen Actors' Guild are met.
One thing is certain: Ortegas’s distaste for Wednesday's romance plot in Season 1. On an "Armchair Expert" podcast, she said, Wednesday "in a love triangle? It made no sense."
"I don't think I've ever had to put my foot down more on a set in a way that I had to on 'Wednesday,'" she said. Consequently, Season 2 will have a different and darker focus.
A new Addams family member may be introduced, too. Could it be Tim Burton's rendition of Cousin Itt or Grandmama? Or maybe the return of Uncle Fester played by Fred Armisen?
One character unlikely to return is Larissa Weems, played by "Game of Thrones" Gwendoline Christie. Weems suffered a stab wound to the neck in the finale, but is she actually dead?
Season 2 may see Tim Burton return to direct, as well as earn a higher age restriction than Season 1’s TV-14, emphasizing the show's horror aspects, not love triangles.
"I kind of want [Wednesday] to be darker," Ortega told Entertainment Tonight in November 2022. "I want her to get more in the nitty-gritty of things and not play things so safe.”