Wednesday Season 2 First Look

Wednesday Addams is back — and she’s trading summer vacation for serial murder investigations and TSA-approved weaponry. The first six minutes of Wednesday Season 2 just dropped at Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event, and let’s just say the teen sleuth has not been tanning by the pool.

The season premiere, aptly titled Here We Woe Again, sees Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) in peak gothic form, already entangled in another unnervingly intimate brush with death. After spending her break tracking the Kansas City Scalper — a hair-obsessed beauty school dropout turned serial killer named Chet (played by Haley Joel Osment) — she ends up tied in a basement, surrounded by dolls, one of which is a disturbingly perfect version of herself.

A Very Wednesday Summer

Of course, it wouldn’t be Wednesday without some barbed brilliance. In flashbacks, we see six-year-old Wednesday gleefully traumatizing her classmates with a deep-dive presentation on the cold case. “It had to be something insane and dark,” says co-creator Miles Millar, summing up the Addams energy with an evil wink. And what’s more darkly comedic than airport security confiscating sunscreen but letting you waltz through with nunchucks?

Thing, as always, remains her loyal sidekick, helping spring her from Chet’s clutches in a bloody, brutal, and somehow hilarious fight sequence involving a handmade knife and a lot of creepily cute porcelain heads. “Let’s play dolls,” she says, as if she wasn’t already America’s favorite teenage nightmare.

Glitches in the Psychic Matrix

But there’s a deeper thread woven through this second season. After mastering her psychic powers in Season 1, something’s changed — and not in a good way. During a confrontation with Chet, Wednesday’s usual psychic vision is warped, her black tears hinting at a disturbing transformation. “This season, Wednesday’s psychic visions change,” explains Millar. “It’s a struggle to recover her power.”

That internal conflict promises to drive much of the emotional core of the new season, even as she faces off against increasingly grotesque villains. And Jenna Ortega is, once again, pitch-perfect: cool, calculating, and constantly surprising in how she plays against genre expectations.

Cast, Chaos, and What's to Come

Expect plenty of returning faces and new blood. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Isaac Ordonez, and Luis Guzmán reprise their Addams roles, while new characters — including Linda Hamilton’s mysterious Dr. Kay — add even more spice to the bizarre ecosystem of Nevermore and beyond. As the mystery of the Scalper unfolds and Wednesday’s powers falter, questions linger: What exactly is happening to her visions? And how does the Upside Down dollhouse nightmare connect to the bigger threat?

You’ll get answers — and plenty of iconic deadpan one-liners — when Wednesday Season 2 drops in two parts: Part 1 arrives August 6, and Part 2 lands September 3. Until then, sharpen your eyeliner, prep your daggers, and remember: she’s not the damsel. She’s the storm.