Wednesday Season 2 Potential Release Date, Cast and Rumours

Get ready, Wednesday fans – season 2 of your favourite show is getting closer, as the crew has finally entered the series set. To mark the beginning of filming, Netflix published a short teaser that announced the cast of Wednesday’s new instalment. Besides the series regulars, there are several exciting guest stars.

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The iconic spin-off of The Addams Family was one of the biggest shows on Netflix when it debuted, triumphantly joining the likes of Stranger Things and Squid Game. Considering this, fans were puzzled by the prolonged silence regarding season 2. There was even speculation that another streaming platform could acquire the series.

Netflix finally broke its silence and renewed the series for a second season. However, there are still a lot of questions surrounding the production – here’s what we do know.

When could Wednesday season 2 be released?

According to rumours, the second season of Wednesday was supposed to arrive in 2024. However, production was halted after the beginning of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike in 2023.

Work on Wednesday’s set resumed on 30 April 2024. Filming is currently taking place in Ireland. Thus, everything points to the fact that season 2 won’t debut on Netflix until 2025.

This is further corroborated by Netflix’s 2024 slate, from which Wednesday was absent.

What is the plot of Wednesday season 2?

The season 1 finale explained the mystery of Goody Addams, Joseph Crackstone, and the lurking forest creature. However, not all threads were neatly tied up. In the last scene, Wednesday receives an anonymous message and a series of ominous photos. Evidently, someone else is lurking around the school, not pleased with Wednesday’s presence. Does this connect to Marilyn Thornhill’s case? And who is the stalker?

Speaking of Marilyn, her fate is undecided, much like Tyler, who escapes from the prison convoy. Will he seek revenge on Wednesday, or have a change of heart?

The first season also introduced a mysterious cult to which Bianca’s mother belongs. This dangerous organisation will undoubtedly be involved in one of the critical plot lines in the upcoming episodes.

There are many more questions to be answered. Who will lead the Nevermore Academy after Larissa Weems’ death? What about Wednesday and Xavier’s romance? How will the relationship between Wednesday and Morticia unfold?

As showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar said in an interview for Hollywood Reporter:

We wanna sort of explore and sort of complicate all of those relationships going forward. The school was closed when they left, which gave us the most possibilities for season two, and I think that’s something that we’re excited to explore. For us, the show also is really about this female friendship, with Wednesday and Enid really being at the center of that. The fact that they really connected with audiences, it has been really gratifying. So, we’re excited to explore now that Wednesday’s dipped her toe into the friendship pool, what’s that gonna look like? It’s like, she hugged. That was her big arc for the season, right? So it’s like now, we do that. Then, the other thing that’s really interesting is to continue to explore the Wednesday-Morticia mother-daughter relationship as well, which now that Morticia knows about the power, it has given her sort of an idea of how that’s going to go. How is their relationship going to evolve?

Interestingly, during a conversation on Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Jenna Ortega said that Wednesday season 2 might abandon teen drama themes and focus on horror instead:

We’ve decided we want to lean into the horror aspect of the show a little bit more because it is so lighthearted, and a show like this with vampires and werewolves and superpowers, you don’t want to take yourself too seriously. We’re ditching any romantic love interest for Wednesday, which is really great.

Who is starring in Wednesday season 2?

Thanks to the cast revealment clip, we know precisely who will star in the second season of the show:

The following cast members will reprise their roles:

Jenna Ortega – Wednesday Addams
Emma Myers – Enid Sinclair
Moosa Mostafa – Eugene
Georgie Farmer – Ajax Petropolus
Joy Sunday – Bianca Barclay
Naomi J. Ogawa – Yoko Tanaka
Catherine Zeta-Jones – Morticia Addams
Luis Guzmán – Gomez Addams
Isaac Ordonez – Pugsley Addams
Fred Armisen – Uncle Fester
Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo – Deputy Ritchie Santiago
Jamie McShane – Sheriff Donovan Galpin

Season 2 will also feature Steve Buscemi, known for such hits as Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos. The actor will play the mysterious character called Barry Dort, who, according to rumours, might be the new headmaster of the Nevermore Academy.

Billie Piper, known from shows such as Doctor Who, Penny Dreadful, and I Hate Suzie, will appear as a mysterious person called Capri.

Joanna Lumley, who starred in Fool Me Once and Absolutely Fabulous, will play Grandmama.

Thandiwe Newton, the star of Westworld and Crash, will play Dr. Fairburn.

The season will also feature Christopher Lloyd, who appeared as Uncle Fester in Addams Family. It’s unknown who he will be playing in the series.

Other additions to the cast include:

Evie Templeton
Owen Painter
Noah Taylor
Frances O’Connor
Haley Joel Osment
Heather Matarazzo
Joonas Suotamowill

As co-showrunners Miles Millar and Al Gough told Tudum:

Our goal this season was to discover some fresh faces as well as invite some acting legends we’ve always admired to join Jenna and the gang at Nevermore. When we survey the talent we’ve assembled we could not be more thrilled. Mission accomplished.

In season 2, we won’t see Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe. The actor left the show after allegations of sexual assault appeared on social media in 2023.