The rumors had been in the air for weeks and the confirmation has finally arrived. Netflix has just announced the renewal for a second season of Wednesday, a series focused on the young protagonist of the Addams Family played by Jenna Ortega. The show, which traces Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy, hit the streaming platform Nov. 23, breaking viewership records.
Wednesday’s second season arrives on Netflix
The announcement of Wednesday 2 it happened with a short teaser that traces the global phenomenon of the first season, including the Italian presentation at this year’s Lucca Comics & Games together with Tim Burton. In the cast of the series to interpret the other iconic members of the Addams family we find Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzman in those of Gomez Addams e Isaac Ordonez in those of Pugsley Addams. The series, created by Al Gough and Miles Millar, is centered on the character that gives its name to the title. The latter will attempt to master her emerging psychic abilities, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery involving her parents 25 years ago. The first season, consisting of 8 episodes, also saw the renewal of the collaboration between Tim Burton and Danny Elfman, who composed the soundtrack.
The showrunners had already expressed themselves on the possible plans for a second season of Wednesday, explaining how they already had ideas in the pipeline to continue the narrative arc of the Addams Family. Specifically, they underlined how Wednesday’s growth path outside the family and his relationship with Morticia will be quite important. Wednesday surpassed one billion viewing hours just three weeks after debuting, joining Stranger Things 4 and Squid Game as the third title to reach that milestone in its first 28 days. The series broke the record for the most hours viewed in a week for an English-language TV series on Netflix — not once, but twice — when it debuted in first place with a record 341.23 million hours viewed. , and again in its second week with a staggering 411.29 million hours viewed.
