‘Wednesday’ Season 2: Netflix Reveals First Six Minutes!! Check It Out!!

Wednesday Season 2 may still be a few months away but Netflix is giving fans a taste to tide them over before the return of everyone’s favorite storm cloud. At Tudum, the streamer unveiled the first six minutes of the sophomore season of the Tim Burton show. Jenna Ortega returns once again as Wednesday Addams and brings along her family to her second year at Nevermore Academy. From the trailer, we know she’s never gone back to the same school for a second year in a row, so Nevermore really must be different in a way Wednesday will never admit.

In the first six minutes, we get a glimpse into what Wednesday kept herself busy with the summer before returning to Nevermore. She wakes in the basement of a serial killer’s home, next to the doll (among dozens of others) that she gives Enid (Emma Meyers) in the images released earlier this year. She walks it back, talking about how she’s mastered her psychic ability over the summer and with that accomplished, she’s determined to come face to face with a serial killer that she’s been obsessed with since early childhood. Once she’s able to use her abilities to identify him, played by The Sixth Sense‘s Haley Joel Osment. And because she’s Wednesday, she quickly outsmarts Osment’s serial killer and the preview ends with a menacing Wednesday heading for him, asking if he wants to play dolls.

‘Wednesday’ Creators Tease an Even Darker Tone in Season 2

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough teased how the series will shift to an even darker tone in Season 2. Millar explained:

“Season 2 definitely has some moments which are more straightforward horror, and we’re very aware that the show is watched by everybody in terms of the age groups. So we want to make sure that it’s never torture porn, but that there’s enough bite to it that it feels that there are real stakes and that people die in this world, and it’s scary at moments. And I think that’s the great tonal shift that the show makes between comedy and horror.”

Adding a darker tone and a hugely stacked cast for Season 2, sets the 73% Rotten Tomatoes score show up for success. Millar tells Entertainment Weekly that for Season 2, “We certainly set out to really stretch ourselves and stretch what the show could do and see where our characters could go.” The mystery of Season 2, in addition to being darker in tone is “more complex,” says Gough. He says he “also just feel[s] like the world is bigger and you get to really explore other characters.” From the trailer, fans already know that Wednesday’s little brother, Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) will be joining her at Nevermore (with some pretty cool electrokinetic powers) and we’ll also see the return of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán as Morticia and Gomez Addams. Coupled with a long list of guest stars including the likes of Billie Piper and Steve Buscemi, there will be a lot of moving parts within that bigger world that Gough talks about.