Wednesday Season 3 Must Kill Off Its Weakest Element — Here’s Why!

Fans are calling for a bold shake-up as the series gears up for its next chapter, hoping that dropping the show’s weakest thread could finally make Nevermore Academy’s drama sharper, darker, and unmissable.

‘Wednesday’ Needs To Say Goodbye to the Weakest Part of the Show in Season 3

No setting defines Wednesday quite as much as Nevermore Academy, which makes it all the more surprising to learn the show might be ready to leave the school of outcasts behind. Considering where Season 2 ends, this kind of move would make a lot of sense for the story itself, as the priorities of Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) herself have shifted dramatically. It’s also not a story that can be repeated three times, and there are not many more tales for Nevermore to tell. Moving away from it would also provide plenty of refreshing creative opportunities for the show, as our characters are forced to make their way in a world that is still unfamiliar and deeply hostile to many outcasts.

‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Ends With Nevermore in the Rearview Mirror

Like any good mystery, the finale of Wednesday season 2 ties up a lot of loose ends rather nicely. Not only has the legend of the Skull Tree been fully reburied, hopefully for good, but the late Principal Dort (Steve Buscemi) is exposed as a fraud before meeting an untimely end. Of course, many secrets of the Addams Family line still remain, perhaps the most prominent of which involves a certain mysterious aunt, and the fate of several characters are left in a grim limbo. The most obvious case of this is Tyler (Hunter Doohan) in his Hyde form, who is left more alone than ever after killing his master and losing his mother, but the most tragic example remains the most important for where the story now seems to be headed.

Aside from Wednesday herself, the most important character in the show might be Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers) as her polar opposite. Her character struggled for much of the season, but her fateful decision to transform into a werewolf, possibly permanently, was a bold decision by the writers that made it all worth it. The fate of Nevermore Academy itself also remains in doubt, especially with the departure of another character creating a funding crisis for the school. Playful and conniving as ever, Agnes (Evie Templeton) later suggests that the school is indeed “never more” and might now be closed permanently. Even if it does stay open, Wednesday herself has much bigger problems to deal with, and she sets off north to find her best friend, arguably the only person she truly cares about.

Returning to Nevermore Has Become Repetitive in ‘Wednesday’

Leaving Nevermore behind might seem starkly at odds with the basic concept of Wednesday, which was billed as a college-style setting for the youngest girl in The Addams Family series. Yet, it might help resolve some of the most crucial flaws the show has been facing recently, including Wednesday herself. Having her be a celebrity among the other students might have been a great gag for one season, but it grew tiring pretty quickly, and she lost the appeal of being an outcast among outcasts. Now, she’ll have to spend more time in the human world, where her antics are much less likely to be tolerated by the people around her. That already makes the dynamics more fun, but it can also be a source of drama, as outcasts are still feared by the wider world. It’s still dangerous out there for her, as the first scene of this season displayed so well, and now those traps might multiply.

On a storytelling level, there is also the question of what else the academy has left to teach us. We’ve already earned closure for characters like Principal Weems (Gwendoline Christie) with her return as a spirit guide, and there are only so many times we can have a shady headmaster with a dark reveal. Sure, some characters were criminally underused this season, but there is not enough to justify a full return for eight more episodes, and we might see more of them anyway. Every possible secret that could be unearthed now has been, and there is little else for Wednesday to find there, as she herself would likely be first to tell you.

Leaving Nevermore Will Provide More Creative Freedom in ‘Wednesday’

Given the manner in which Season 2 ends, it’s a decent bet that Wednesday Season 3 will continue trends from the series so far. Now that he’s alone, Tyler has a chance to develop into his own character, maybe even achieve some kind of redemption. The primary focus, though, will likely be on our titular hero attempting to find Enid and turn her back to normal, which means she will have little time for another semester at Nevermore. She still might have time for Tyler, though, since the writing team appears dead set on pairing them as a romantic couple, which has proven divisive among the fanbase.

Even with these familiar elements, leaving the school years behind and placing Wednesday in an entirely new environment should give the show a breath of fresh air, one that it needs to avoid becoming too formulaic. There are still plenty of mysteries the series appears keen to explore, from the history of the family itself to more mythology about the Hydes, none of which concern Nevermore. A show like Wednesday has already shown an appetite for taking risks, and this would be the biggest one so far. Still, all the building blocks are there for it to work, and fans can now look forward to an entirely different season 3 when the hit show eventually returns.

All episodes of Wednesday can now be streamed on Netflix in the U.S.