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Wednesday Season 2 Review

  • Writer: Chinmayi ShyamSundar
    Chinmayi ShyamSundar
  • Oct 23
  • 3 min read
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Introduction

Wednesday season 2 follows Wednesday Addams as she goes to her second year at Nevermore Academy, a school for outcasts and freaks located in Vermont. Wednesday returns more resolute and haunted than before. She must face sinister new forces and fresh challenges that are determined to stop her. View the official trailer here!


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The Good

  1. The actors' stellar performances. Some who really stood out for their on-screen talent included Jenna Ortega, Emma Meyers, Hunter Doohan, Joy Sunday, Georgie Farmer, Isaac Ordonez, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Evie Templeton, and Owen Painter. I especially felt that Ortega and Meyers breathed new life into Wednesday and Enid. Doohan also brought some nuance into Tyler's role and his internal struggles between good and evil, person and Hyde. Sunday and Farmer and the character development that their characters, Bianca Barclay and Ajax Petropolus, respectively, were a really underappreciated part of the season. Ordonez, who plays Pugsley Addams, was a delight to watch on-screen.

  2. The montages. This show has some of the best montages, like the ones in Part 1 of Season 2 where it seems like all of the new characters could be the new villain(s) (hint hint wink wink).

  3. The villain. I can't say much without spoilers, but I'll just say that the main villain in this season is way better than the last season, and Season 1's villain reveal had already set a high bar.


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The Bad

  1. The very dysfunctional Addams family. The original Addams family are all very close, and to see them become so dysfunctional, particularly the relationships between Morticia, Wednesday, and Grandma Frump is very disappointing.

  2. The world-building. I felt like the show introduced too many types of outcasts too quickly, and I didn't understand what a single one did. Or even why they existed, or how many there were. It was a total mess.

  3. The sub-plots. They crowded the season, and for no reason. Most of the sub-plots could have been done away with or saved for later seasons. They made the show feel a bit too busy. They also distracted from the main plot, leaving maybe only 45% of screentime for the main plot, and I'm still not entirely sure which one was supposed to be the main plot.


Reviews

Season 2 has an eighty-seven percent Tomatometer rating on Rotten Tomatoes, their meter for ratings from critics, and a seventy-six percent Popcornometer rating, their meter for ratings from audiences. The season also has an 8.0/10 rating on IMDb from approximately 469 thousand audience members.


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Cast

Returning

  1. Wednesday Addams - Jenna Ortega

  2. Enid Sinclair - Emma Meyers

  3. Tyler Galpin - Hunter Doohan

  4. Bianca Barclay - Joy Sunday

  5. Ajax Petropolus - Georgie Farmer

  6. Eugene Ottinger - Moosa Mustafa

  7. Pugsley Addams - Isaac Ordonez

  8. Thing - Victor Dorobantu

  9. Gomez Addams - Luis Guzmán

  10. Morticia Addams - Catherine Zeta-Jones

  11. Fester Addams - Fred Armisen

  12. Lurch - Joonas Suotamo

  13. Larissa Weems - Gwendoline Christie

  14. Marilyn Thornhill - Christina Ricci

  15. Donovan Galpin - Jamie McShane


New

  1. Bruno - Noah B. Taylor

  2. Agnes DeMille - Evie Templeton

  3. Principal Dort - Steve Buscemi

  4. Isadora Capri - Billie Piper

  5. Professor Orloff - Christopher Lloyd

  6. Professor Rosaline Rotwood - Lady Gaga

  7. Grandma Frump - Dame Joanna Lumley

  8. Sheriff Santiago - Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo

  9. Judi - Heather Matarazzo

  10. Francoise - Frances O'Conner

  11. Slurp - Owen Painter

  12. Dr. Fairburn - Thandiwe Newton


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Verdict

8/10. I thought it was good, but not as good as it could've been, largely due to the show being brought down by too many unnecessary subplots and new characters.


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