She’s Back: Wednesday Season 2 Is Now Streaming

Welcome to the Summer of Woe: Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) has officially darkened your screens again, with all four episodes of Part 1 of Season 2 streaming now, to be followed by Part 2 on Sept. 3. Fresh foes and woes await everyone’s favorite storm cloud in this new chapter set in the Gothic halls of Nevermore Academy.

“This season, Wednesday’s journey is darker and more complex as she navigates family, friends, new mysteries, and old adversaries, propelling her headlong into another year at Nevermore,” co-showrunners and executive producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar tell Tudum.

Armed with her signature razor-sharp wit and deadpan charm, Wednesday is plunged into a new bone-chilling supernatural mystery. Along the way, fans will spot familiar faces — the rest of the Addams Family, including Morticia, Gomez and Pugsley, all have expanded roles this season — and meet some new and intriguing characters played by a heavy-hitting roster of stars.

“Nothing is what it seems in Season 2,” creator Miles Millar tells Tudum. “Wednesday goes into this season thinking she knows Nevermore. It’s the first time she’s returned to a school willingly. But as soon as she gets back, nothing happens that she’s expecting. She thinks she’s going to be in control, that she knows where all the bodies are buried, and she doesn’t.”

Keep reading for a complete Nevermore syllabus’ worth of Wednesday Season 2 news.

What is Wednesday Season 2 about?

Much to Wednesday’s utter horror (and not the kind that she enjoys), the line between her school and family lives doesn’t just get blurred in her second year at Nevermore Academy … it gets hacked to pieces. “This year, we bring the family to Nevermore,” says director and executive producer Tim Burton in a featurette — see below. “Your family at school is the worst thing possible, isn’t it?”

Yes, it’s safe to say the famously prickly budding novelist would rather face a bloodthirsty Hyde alone in the woods than endure any familial interference at Nevermore — but she’s not going to have a choice. First, her little brother Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) arrives on campus, and it’s not easy taming his powers of electrokinesis — you can see him blasting a stop sign in the video — or living in his big sister’s shadow. “He really wants to fit in, and he really wants a friend, but it’s not looking very good,” says Ordonez in the featurette, which offers a glimpse of him getting off to an unsure start with Eugene Ottinger (Moosa Mustafa). Burton adds, “Poor Pugsley, he’s kind of an outcast among outcasts this season … Isaac did a really beautiful job of capturing the pathos of Pugsley.”

Watch a Sneak Peek of the Addams Family in Wednesday Season 2

To heap woe upon woe, Pugsley and Wednesday’s parents, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez Addams (Luis Guzmán) have reasons to be on campus much more often. You already know that Wednesday and Morticia have a complicated relationship, to say the least, and in the second season they really clash — literally, with fencing swords. (In a very un-Wednesday behind-the-scenes moment in the featurette, Ortega gushes about Zeta-Jones during fencing rehearsals: “She’s so good! You can see she was a dancer.”) Even if Wednesday loathes a helicopter parent, Ortega relished exploring the relationship. “I feel really, really lucky to be experiencing this mother-daughter dynamic with someone as incredible as Catherine,” she says in the video.

Complicated dynamics get passed down matrilineally in the Addams family, and in Season 2, we’ll be introduced to Morticia’s formidable mother, Hester Frump — known to Wednesday as Grandmama. As evidenced by the rare smile from Wednesday in the featurette, Grandmama is one of the few people, aside from Uncle Fester (Portlandia’s Fred Armisen), who Wednesday is actually excited to see. “At the top of our list was Joanna Lumley,” Millar says of casting the new role, and Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous, The Wolf of Wall Street) fit right into the Nevermore world. “There’s always something thrilling about working for Tim Burton,” Lumley says. “The world that they’ve created here, it looks sensational. It’s gothic, sometimes quite bone-chilling, but it’s kind of playful.”

When can I watch Wednesday Season 2?

You can return to Nevermore Academy now. Wednesday Season 2 Part 1 is currently streaming, and Part 2 will premiere Sept. 3.

Watch the Wednesday Season 2 Trailer

Can I watch a trailer for Wednesday Season 2?

Yes! Watch it above, and go behind the scenes of Season 2 with Ortega, Burton, Gough, and Millar here.

Can I see photos from the Wendesday Season 2, Part 1 world premiere?

The first family of goth glamour has arrived in London. Ortega, Zeta-Jones, Guzmán and the rest of the Addams family cast — including newcomer Lumley — walked the purple carpet. Nevermore’s favorite faces also graced the world premiere event, including Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, and Georgie Farmer. And even Thing skated his way through the celebration. Take a look below for a peek at the festivities (yes, even Wednesday will allow some merriment on this momentous occasion).