Wednesday Addams is not like other girls. Portrayed by Jenna Ortega in Netflix's Addams Family spin-off series, she's a goth oddball from a loving family of fellow oddballs, and they don't care about fitting in (or even seem to notice when they don't).
After months of buzz and anticipation, Wednesday began streaming on November 23 and became an instant hit—it even beat Stranger Things' record for viewership in a single week. With only eight episodes in the first season, viewers are wondering if there might be another one coming up to complete Wednesday's story. After all, she does type “The End?” in the last episode.
Here's what we know about the second season.
Has Wednesday been renewed for season 2?
Finally, yes. Netflix announced the renewal on January 6, 2023 with a video that promises “more misery is coming” in Wednesday season 2. (The clip is soundtracked by Lady Gaga's “Bloody Mary,” of course.)
“We can’t wait to dive headfirst into another season and explore the kooky, spooky world of Nevermore,” co-showrunners Miles Millar and Alfred Gough told Tudum.Gough previously shared in an interview that he and Millar had been discussing the prospect of continuing Wednesday for another season. “Miles and I are talking amongst ourselves about it. There's definitely more that you can explore in the world of the Addamses,” he said.
That hints at the alternative direction the show could take; potentially, there could be a series for every character in the family. In another interview with Vanity Fair, Millar and Gough explained they didn't want Wednesday to be seen as a “reboot of the Addams Family.”
The show focuses on “what happened before” with the family and it was important to them while working with executive producer Tim Burton that the project be something new.
“That's something that was very important to the show—that it didn't feel like a remake or a reboot,” Millar said. “It's something that lives within the Venn diagram of what happened before, but it's its own thing. It's not trying to be the movies or the '60s TV show. That was very important to us and very important to Tim.”
Millar told TV Line that he wanted to explore more of the family if the show were to continue. (After all, season 1 includes a flashback of passionate lovers Morticia and Gomez as teens and the terrifying murder mystery that was a part of their story.) “We felt like we just touched the surface with those characters and the actors are so amazing in those roles,” he said. “Catherine [Zeta-Jones] is, I think, an iconic Morticia. The relationship between Wednesday and Morticia is also essential to the show, and the idea that Wednesday is trying to forge her own path outside the family is important.”
He added that he and the team “definitely want to feature the family as we did this season in a couple of episodes if we were to get a second season.”
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