Wednesday Is Returning to Nevermore for Another Semester

Thing (left) and Wednesday. Photo: Netflix

Get acceptable to dance, dance, dance with your hands supra your head, Wednesday fans. The Jenna Ortega–led amusement has officially escaped Netflix’s one-and-done cancellation curse and been renewed for a 2nd season. “It’s been unthinkable to make a amusement that has connected with radical crossed the world. Thrilled to proceed Wednesday’s tortuous travel into play two,” showrunners and enforcement producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar confirmed to Tudum.com May 7. “We can’t hold to dive caput archetypal into different play and research the kooky spooky satellite of Nevermore. Just request to marque definite Wednesday hasn’t emptied the excavation first.” Below, what we cognize astir the goth girl’s adjacent semester astatine Nevermore Academy, consecutive from Enid’s gossip blog.

Good question. Netflix unveiled the formed database for the upcoming play connected May 7, and 3 bid regulars person vanished from the roster. Jenna Ortega volition instrumentality arsenic the titular Addams Family character, alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán as Morticia and Gomez Addams, respectively. Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, Victor Dorobantu, and Isaac Ordonez volition reprise their roles, adding Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, and Noah Taylor arsenic bid regulars. Guest stars see Frances O’Connor, Haley Joel Osment, Joanna Lumley, Thandiwe Newton, Heather Matarazzo, Joonas Suotamo, and Christopher Lloyd, who’s known for his relation arsenic Fester successful the ’90s movies.

Percy Hynes White, Jamie McShane, and Naomi J. Ogawa volition not instrumentality to Wednesday as main formed members, Deadline confirmed. McShane, who plays Sheriff Donovan Galpin, volition solely look arsenic a impermanent star, apt wrapping up past season’s communicative enactment involving his lad Tyler (Hunter Doohan). Otherwise, Hynes White and Ogawa person exited the amusement altogether.

In January 2023, a Twitter idiosyncratic accused Hynes White of sexually assaulting her astatine a enactment portion she was drunk, claiming helium assaulted aggregate women and allegedly threw parties wherever helium provided underage girls with drugs and intoxicant to person enactment with them. The histrion denied the allegations successful June 2023 with a connection posted connected Instagram. “Earlier this year, idiosyncratic I’ve ne'er met started a run of misinformation astir maine online,” reads the statement, “Because of this, my household has been doxxed, and my friends person received decease threats. Underage photos of maine were used, and examples of maine acting successful quality were presented arsenic hateful.” Hynes White besides denied broader allegations of misogyny and racism.

In aboriginal January, fans began to speculate that the amusement could relaunch connected Prime Video oregon MGM’s streaming level Epix (which volition soon beryllium reborn arsenic MGM+), owed to Amazon’s acquisition of MGM. But this isn’t the case: A property merchandise has confirmed the show’s 2nd play volition aerial connected Netflix because, arsenic an manufacture insider previously told Vulture, Netflix and MGM signed their Wednesday woody good earlier Amazon’s purchase.

Wednesday is making the determination from Romania to Ireland, according to Deadline, with accumulation reported to commencement sometime successful April.

No merchandise day has been announced truthful far. But we’re betting that, similar the archetypal season, it’ll beryllium connected a Wednesday.

This station has been updated.