SHOCKWAVES: The Wednesday Season 2 finale didn’t just end — it detonated 💥🖤
🔥 Betrayals, jaw-dropping deaths, and one last twist that flips everything fans thought they knew.
👉 Season 3 isn’t just coming… it’s promising absolute chaos.
Spoiler alert! The following contains details from the Season 2 finale of Netflix’s “Wednesday.”
Wednesday Addams sure knows how to make an exit.
In the Season 2 finale of Netflix’s gothic supernatural drama “Wednesday” (now streaming), our pale and raven-haired protagonist (Jenna Ortega) has solved all of her problems and created a host of new ones that will lead her skipping morbidly into a third season, announced by Netflix earlier this year.
But how did she get to the point where she was driving away in Uncle Fester’s (Fred Armisen) sidecar, with a new psychic vision, a best friend in peril and a potentially murderous imprisoned aunt? And what is the hero of Nevermore Academy going to do about it all?
Well, if the three-year gap between Seasons 1 and 2 is any indication, we may have to wait a long time before we return to the world of the Addams Family series, Neflix’s most-watched English-language show of all time. While we’re being as calm and patient as an alpha werewolf in a lupin cage, here’s everything we can glean about Season 3 based on the electrifying Season 2 finale, and hints the creators and cast have dropped.
How does Wednesday defeat the Night family? What’s up with Thing?
The climax of the finale centers on Tyler’s uncle Isaac/Slurp (Owen Painter) and mother Francoise’s (Frances O’Conner) plan to “cure” Tyler (Hunter Doohan) of his Hyde side, against his will. They need a machine fueled by Pugsley’s (Isaac Ordonez) electric powers, which will kill the Addams’ son just as it almost killed his father 30 years before, when Isaac tried to rid his sister of her Hyde. Wednesday and Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) thwart the plan, saving Pugsley, freeing Tyler and causing an explosion that kills Isaac, hopefully for good this time. Tyler, lost in rage in his Hyde form, kills his mother in the ensuing carnage.
The episode also reveals that animated amputated hand and all-around-cool-guy-to-have-at-parties Thing was actually Isaac’s severed hand all along. A flashback shows that Morticia cut off Isaac’s right hand during a fight three decades ago. While Isaac tries to claim it back, Thing wins in the end and saves Wednesday’s life, returning to his Addams family.
It’s a cathartic end for all the Addamses. Wednesday and Morticia finally have a breakthrough in their strained relationship, Pugsley realizes his family really does care about him. And Wednesday chooses her parents over her haughty grandmama Hester (Joanna Lumley). Morticia even gives Wednesday a journal belonging to Wednesday’s Aunt Ophelia, which may help her regain her lost psychic powers. It’s an olive branch: Morticia has been reluctant to aid Wednesday in the pursuit of more power, and tight-lipped about her long-lost sister Ophelia, a psychic “Raven” like Wednesday and Hester. But the journal only leads to new mysteries.
Aunt Ophelia is alive? Why does she want to kill Wednesday?
All season we’ve been hearing about mysterious Aunt Ophelia, described as “missing” by Morticia. But while examining Ophelia’s journal, Wednesday gets a powerful vision: Ophelia is alive, rocking a Coachella-style flower headdress and locked in a room in Hester’s house. And inside that room she’s painted “Wednesday must die” on the wall in what looks an awful lot like blood. And of course we never get to see her face.
Why does she want to kill her deadpan and lovable niece? Why has Hester locked her away? What does it have to do with getting Wednesday’s powers back? And what famous actress will play her? Series co-creator Miles Millar isn’t offering many hints about where the Ophelia plot will take us in Season 2.
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“That reveal is hopefully a nice bread crumb that leads audiences to wonder about Season 3 and what the new adventure for Wednesday will be,” Millar told Netflix fan site Tudum. “Ophelia has been gone a long time. It’s left a hole in Morticia’s life, and a lot of unanswered questions. The re-emergence of Ophelia is going to hit this family like a bomb.”
Can Enid be saved from her alpha werewolf fate?
For most of these last episodes, Wednesday’s roommate Enid (Emma Myers) has been confronted with the fact that she is an “alpha werewolf,” a supremely powerful creature feared even by other werewolves. It’s a gift and a curse, as her teacher and fellow werewolf Isadora Capri (Billie Piper) warns her: Alphas that transform on the night of the full moon often can’t change back, and are hunted and killed by other werewolves that fear them.
Enid is all set to stay chill and human come full-moon night, but when Isaac tries to kill Wednesday by burying her alive, Enid sacrifices herself by transforming into her werewolf self and becoming strong enough to dig Wednesday out of the grave. Enid then runs off into the woods, stuck in her “wolfed-out” form. But by the end of the episode Wednesday has set out on a mission with Fester to find her best friend and fix this mess.
“Fans should be very worried for Enid,” Millar told Tudum. “We’re certainly worried for Enid. … It’s a big deal for Enid and getting out of this is going to be difficult.”
What’s next for Tyler and Capri?
Season 2’s biggest villains are mostly gone (Francoise, Isaac and Heather Matarazzo’s chipper avian/mad scientist Judi are all dead by the end of the finale), but Tyler Galpin is still alive, and still a dangerous Hyde. He’s brooding over his mother’s grave when, of all people, Capri stops by. She reveals her father was a Hyde, and she knows a place Tyler can go to be free and among his own people, without a “mother or a master.” Traumatized and abused Tyler takes her up on the offer, and the two are seen driving away together in the episode’s final moments.
The episode also reveals that animated amputated hand and all-around-cool-guy-to-have-at-parties Thing was actually Isaac’s severed hand all along. A flashback shows that Morticia cut off Isaac’s right hand during a fight three decades ago. While Isaac tries to claim it back, Thing wins in the end and saves Wednesday’s life, returning to his Addams family.
It’s a cathartic end for all the Addamses. Wednesday and Morticia finally have a breakthrough in their strained relationship, Pugsley realizes his family really does care about him. And Wednesday chooses her parents over her haughty grandmama Hester (Joanna Lumley). Morticia even gives Wednesday a journal belonging to Wednesday’s Aunt Ophelia, which may help her regain her lost psychic powers. It’s an olive branch: Morticia has been reluctant to aid Wednesday in the pursuit of more power, and tight-lipped about her long-lost sister Ophelia, a psychic “Raven” like Wednesday and Hester. But the journal only leads to new mysteries.
Aunt Ophelia is alive? Why does she want to kill Wednesday?
All season we’ve been hearing about mysterious Aunt Ophelia, described as “missing” by Morticia. But while examining Ophelia’s journal, Wednesday gets a powerful vision: Ophelia is alive, rocking a Coachella-style flower headdress and locked in a room in Hester’s house. And inside that room she’s painted “Wednesday must die” on the wall in what looks an awful lot like blood. And of course we never get to see her face.
Why does she want to kill her deadpan and lovable niece? Why has Hester locked her away? What does it have to do with getting Wednesday’s powers back? And what famous actress will play her? Series co-creator Miles Millar isn’t offering many hints about where the Ophelia plot will take us in Season 2.
Start your streak: Solve a clue from today’s puzzle.
1A large body of salt water
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“That reveal is hopefully a nice bread crumb that leads audiences to wonder about Season 3 and what the new adventure for Wednesday will be,” Millar told Netflix fan site Tudum. “Ophelia has been gone a long time. It’s left a hole in Morticia’s life, and a lot of unanswered questions. The re-emergence of Ophelia is going to hit this family like a bomb.”
Can Enid be saved from her alpha werewolf fate?
For most of these last episodes, Wednesday’s roommate Enid (Emma Myers) has been confronted with the fact that she is an “alpha werewolf,” a supremely powerful creature feared even by other werewolves. It’s a gift and a curse, as her teacher and fellow werewolf Isadora Capri (Billie Piper) warns her: Alphas that transform on the night of the full moon often can’t change back, and are hunted and killed by other werewolves that fear them.
Enid is all set to stay chill and human come full-moon night, but when Isaac tries to kill Wednesday by burying her alive, Enid sacrifices herself by transforming into her werewolf self and becoming strong enough to dig Wednesday out of the grave. Enid then runs off into the woods, stuck in her “wolfed-out” form. But by the end of the episode Wednesday has set out on a mission with Fester to find her best friend and fix this mess.
“Fans should be very worried for Enid,” Millar told Tudum. “We’re certainly worried for Enid. … It’s a big deal for Enid and getting out of this is going to be difficult.”
What’s next for Tyler and Capri?
Season 2’s biggest villains are mostly gone (Francoise, Isaac and Heather Matarazzo’s chipper avian/mad scientist Judi are all dead by the end of the finale), but Tyler Galpin is still alive, and still a dangerous Hyde. He’s brooding over his mother’s grave when, of all people, Capri stops by. She reveals her father was a Hyde, and she knows a place Tyler can go to be free and among his own people, without a “mother or a master.” Traumatized and abused Tyler takes her up on the offer, and the two are seen driving away together in the episode’s final moments.
