Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Tori Preston | TV | September 8, 2025
Wednesday returned for the second part of season two, and the last four episodes of the season were spent breezily tying together all the various disjointed plot threads into one convenient, if not always satisfying, knot. Questions were certainly answered, even if they weren’t questions you were necessarily asking, like “Whose hand was Thing, originally?” Turns out Thing was Tyler’s uncle’s hand, who also happened to be Pugsley’s zombie, who also happened to be an old classmate of Morticia and Gomez. The guy’s name was Isaac Night — “Thing” is an anagram of “Night,” get it?! Isaac was also the person who stole Gomez’s zapping powers. Did you ever wonder why Gomez was an Outcast despite being powerless? No? Oh well, now you know anyway.
The good news/bad news of Wednesday is that the plotlines that seemed so disconnected in the first part of the season do come crashing together in the second part, even if the manner of their resolution is perfunctory, bordering on desperate. If a Rian Johnson mystery fits together with Swiss watch precision, then Wednesday’s mysteries are like a word jumble: Take the elements that exist and rearrange them until they spell something new. There’s a new school principal! There’s a cult! Guess what? The new school principal runs the cult!
And if there is no easy solution to a mystery? Just shift the goal post. Wednesday’s premonition about Enid dying, which hung over the entire first half of the season, sort of just … morphs into a different premonition in the back half, when she sees a gravestone marked “Addams” and must figure out which member of her own family is at stake. Did her vision change because she succeeded in saving Enid? Sort of, except that all the dangers we thought were linked to her vision (remember the crows?) had nothing to do with it. Enid was actually in danger because she Freaky Friday-ed with Wednesday thanks to a curse from a dead psychic (‘Sup, Lady Gaga!). Wednesday and Enid swap bodies and need to fix it by sunrise, or they’re both doomed — except “fixing it” turns out to be, like, demonstrating they understand each other or whatever. So, the premonition that drove a wedge between Wednesday and Enid in the first place is resolved when they just choose to remove the wedge, essentially. I’d call it anticlimactic but hey, at least we got another viral Jenna Ortega dance meme out of it!
Which isn’t to say that Enid emerges from season two entirely unscathed. The biggest mystery on Wednesday’s plate heading into the already-confirmed third season will be the whereabouts of her bestie, who is missing and might be a full-time werewolf now. Enid discovered that her unreliable powers indicated she was likely an Alpha werewolf, which for the purposes of drama means that if she transforms during a full moon she risks remaining in her wolf state permanently. Oh, and rather than controlling other werewolves, she’d be hunted by them. So naturally, when Wednesday gets buried alive by Isaac on the night of a full moon, Enid chooses to transform, knowing the risks, in order to have the strength to dig out her best friend — and then runs away.
The season ends with Wednesday riding off in Fester’s sidecar, on the hunt for Enid, but that’s just one of several plot threads left dangling for next season. It looks like we’ll finally get more answers about Morticia’s sister Ophelia, who had powers similar to Wednesday’s and who suffered some cruel, unexplained fate because of them. She’s the reason Morticia was so overprotective of Wednesday, until she finally relents and gives her daughter Ophelia’s diary as a peace offering. When Wednesday reads it, she has a vision of Ophelia, who appears to be locked up in a cell by Grandmother Hester - and is scrawling “WEDNESDAY MUST DIE” on the wall. So don’t worry y’all, Wednesday’s life is already in danger next season!
The show still doesn’t seem to be done with Tyler, who finished out the season with no family, no master, and no reason to hold a grudge against Wednesday anymore after she saved him. Just when it looks like he has no purpose left, the mysterious Miss Capri shows up to offer him refuge with a secret group of Hydes who help each other maintain control in place of having a real “master.” Somehow, his plot will loop right back to Wednesday, of that I’m sure, but the bigger news here is that Billie Piper’s Miss Capri still has a part to play in the show. Considering Nevermore Academy is no more, that’s at least one teacher who will be sticking around - and after being such a tantalizing waste of casting this season, at least there’s hope that Piper was brought in for some long game we have yet to understand.
Oh, right: Nevermore Academy is being shut down! School’s out forever, maybe - unless another principal arrives to save it. Maybe Morticia will run it! Maybe Wednesday will enroll in another school. Or maybe the show will send our grim heroine packing to the place fans seem to really want her: Her family home. I doubt Wednesday season three will become The Addams Family season one or something, but then again, I never thought I’d learn whose arm Thing was lopped off from either. In a show that takes this many chaotic swings, I’m not ruling anything out.
