Alan North
Wednesday Season 2 got off to a strong start, upping the horror elements and banishing Season 1’s pesky love triangle.
The season’s first four episodes also answered some of our burning questions from the end of Season 1. Who is Wednesday’s (Jenna Ortega) stalker? None other than fangirl Agnes DeMille (Evie Templeton). Who is Nevermore’s new principal? The spirited Barry Dort (Steve Buscemi). Would Hyde Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan) return? Yes, even breaking out of Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital by the end of Season 2, Part 1.
However, despite gifting all these answers, Wednesday Season 2, Part 1 still left us with several more questions to ponder. (As any good mystery should.) So as we prepare for the month-long wait until Part 2, let’s take a look at the 10 biggest questions we have going into the final episodes of Wednesday Season 2.
Is Enid actually going to die?
Emma Myers in “Netflix.”
Credit: Jonathan Hession / Netflix
Wednesday received a horrifying vision of her roommate Enid Sinclair’s (Emma Myers) death in Wednesday Season 2’s very first episode, and since then we’ve been waiting on pins and needles (a punishment I’m sure Wednesday would love inflicting on her enemies) to see if that vision would come true. So far, so good. By the end of Part 1, Enid is alive and kicking.
However, things don’t look so good for her heading into Part 2.
Remember, in episode 2, Wednesday visited Tyler in the Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital, where he vowed that he’d murder Enid the next time he saw her. At the time, that threat seemed fairly low-level given that Tyler was imprisoned in a very secure cell. However, at the end of episode 4, he’s managed to escape — and Enid is first on his kill list. Things aren’t looking good for Nevermore’s bubbliest werewolf.
Will Wednesday get her psychic powers back?
Jenna Ortega in “Wednesday.”
Credit: Jonathan Hession / Netflix
After spending a whole summer honing her psychic abilities, Wednesday loses her powers after seeing a vision of Enid’s death. She believes she can get them back by re-examining Goody’s spellbook, but there’s one big problem there: Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) has burned it.
Will Wednesday take the loss of the book as an opportunity to try and find a psychic to guide her? Or will she continue to push herself and drive herself to madness, like her Aunt Ophelia? Speaking of…
Did Wednesday free Ophelia from Willow Hill?
Jenna Ortega in “Wednesday.”
Credit: Netflix
All season-long, Morticia has talked about her younger sister Ophelia: How she went mad from her psychic visions, how she was sent to Willow Hill by their mother, and how she’s been missing for 20 years. But what if she wasn’t really missing? What if, during her time at Willow Hill, she was forcibly brought into LOIS (Long-term Outcast Integration Study)? Willow Hill faked all the other subjects’ deaths, so it stands to reason they’d fake a disappearance too.
With that in mind, I’m fairly sure that the last LOIS subject Wednesday frees from Willow Hill (played by Frances O’Connor) is actually Ophelia. First, she seems to be in the correct age range. Second, Wednesday takes great pains to separate her from the other LOIS subjects. She doesn’t try to kill LOIS mastermind Judi Stonehurst (Heather Matarazzo) — instead, she sticks by Wednesday’s side as they try to make their escape. Was this asylum escape also a twisted family reunion? Only in the Addams Family.
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Why is Principal Dort so obsessed with Morticia’s mother?
Joanna Lumley in “Wednesday.”
Credit: Owen Behan/Netflix
Throughout Wednesday Season 2, Part 1, Principal Dort has been on a one-man mission to get Morticia’s mother Hester Frump (Joanna Lumley) to donate to Nevermore. And look, I get it. I’ve seen Absolutely Fabulous, I understand the fan girling over Lumley. But why in the world is Dort so hellbent on securing her donation in particular? Is it just because she’s really, really rich? Or is there a darker reason why he’s targeting her?
What’s really going on with the Nevermore gala fundraiser?
Steve Buscemi in “Wednesday.”
Credit: Helen Sloan / Netflix
While we’re on the subject of Dort and his fundraising tactics, why is he so invested in this fundraiser, to the point that he blackmails teen siren Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday)? Something shadier is going on here beyond just trying to raise money for the Nevermore gala, and I’m going to need Part 2 to tell us exactly what it is, stat.
Who was Principal Dort talking to on the phone?
Steve Buscemi in “Wednesday.”
Credit: Helen Sloan / Netflix
I’m not done with Dort just yet, because that man is ringing all the alarm bells! On top of blackmailing Bianca, Nevermore’s principal has another suspicious moment in episode 4, when Bianca and Ajax (Georgie Farmer) overhear him on the phone in his office telling someone: “I’ve always had your back, you’ve always had mine. So relax. I’ve never been more confident about anything. I have it under control.”
You have what under control, Dort? The school, or some dark secret project? Let’s throw some crazy theories out there. I’ll start. Maybe he’s in cahoots with Judi, and, like her, is a Normie who received Outcast powers through the LOIS program. Maybe he infiltrated the school to find new Outcast test subjects, and the gala is a way to gather them all in one place. I’m onto you, Barry! I might not be correct, but I know something is up!
Where does Bianca’s mother fit into all this?
Joy Sunday in “Wednesday.”
Credit: Netflix
An interesting subplot of these first four episodes has been the arrival of Bianca’s mother Gabrielle (Gracy Goldman) in Jericho after the Morning Song cult was shut down. As of the end of Part 1, cult leader Gideon Sterling is on the run from the FBI. We don’t have a lot of details on what befell the cult or why Gabrielle fled, but now that she’s stashed away in an old classroom at Nevermore, here’s hoping we get some more information on her plight soon.
What happens when Slurp is fully de-zombified?
Isaac Ordonez in “Wednesday.”
Credit: Netflix
Pugsley Addams (Isaac Ordonez) started his time at Nevermore with a bang — or should I say, a zap. The youngest Addams resurrected the corpse of a former Nevermore student and got his own personal zombie in Slurp (Owen Painter).
However, the more Slurp eats (both of Nevermore’s cafeteria mystery meat and human brains), the less zombified he gets, until he’s even able to talk during the big Willow Hill prison break sequence. At the rate he’s going, he’ll be back to human in no time — so what in the world will happen then?
We do know, according to Ajax’s ghost story in episode 1, “The Tale of the Skull Tree,” that Slurp was buried in the exact spot as the protagonist: the boy who invented a mechanical heart for himself and then grew up to become one of Nevermore Academy’s brightest minds — though his ambition led to his death there. Will we learn more when Slurp’s brain completes?
Where is Lady Gaga in Wednesday Season 2?
Netflix had already announced that Lady Gaga would only be appearing in Wednesday Season 2, Part 2, but that doesn’t make her absence here sting any less. She’ll be playing Nevermore teacher Rosaline Rotwood, who somehow isn’t around for any of the mayhem of the first half of the season. I’m sure she’ll deliver come Part 2 though, and maybe we’ll even be blessed by a Lady Gaga needle drop. (I’m thinking “Zombieboy” for a Slurp scene, obviously.)
As reported by Variety, Lady Gaga will also be releasing a new song, titled “Dead Dance,” tied to the release of Part 2. New banger incoming! And perhaps we’ll get a new iconic Wednesday dance scene to go along with it? After all, Wednesday’s dance in Season 1, originally set to The Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck,” found viral fame online when set to a sped-up version of Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary.”
Where the heck is Cousin Itt?
This question harkens back to our Season 1 question round-up, but it bears repeating. So far, Wednesday Season 2 has given the entire Addams Family, including Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen), far more to do. It’s also introduced new faces in Grandmama Hester and potentially Ophelia.
But one legendary Addams is missing, and that’s Cousin Itt! Where is this magnificent hairball, and when will he be swooshing onto our screens? If not within the next few episodes, we can keep our fingers crossed for him to pop up in the already-announced Season 3. Come on, Wednesday, we need Itt!
Wednesday Season 2 Part 1 is now streaming on Netflix. Part 2 premieres Sept. 3.
