It’s the least surprising renewal news in some time: Netflix’s blockbuster hit Wednesday will return for a second season. “It’s been pure torture,” Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) deadpans in the announcement video, speaking of all the attention and imitation. “Thank you.”
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Wednesday is a simultaneously enjoyable and infuriating take on the beloved Addams Family—one that puts a really lovely friendship at its heart, then muddies the waters with (among other issues) not one but two potential boring love interests and a cliched and out-of-character divide between teen Wednesday and her mother, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Hopefully some of the show’s freshman-year weaknesses can get cleaned up by season two, though, and we can get on to more loving Addams shenanigans—and Nevermore Academy hijinks (though it just won’t be the same without… well, spoilers).
In less than a month, Wednesday racked up more than a billion viewing hours on Netflix. Though the series was developed by Smallville‘s Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, executive producer Tim Burton (who directed the first four episodes) is the name you’ll most often hear attached to it. Along with Ortega and Zeta-Jones, the generally stellar first-season cast included Luis Guzmán, Gwendoline Christie, Christina Ricci, Emma Myers, Jamie McShane, Percy Hynes White, Hunter Doohan, Joy Sunday, Naomi J. Ogawa, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer and Riki Lindhome—thought it would be rude to speculate on which of these folks will return for round two.
No premiere date has been announced for Wednesday‘s return. We’ll just wait in enjoyable misery until it arrives.
