“Live Feed is Wednesday Really Dead? Who will try to kill enid? And What’s Going on with Slurp? Thr Breaks Down The Biggest Mysteries Before The Netflix Show Returns Sept. 3. Publissed on August 28, 2025 Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in ‘Wednesday.’ ONATHAN HESSION/NETFLIX/COURTESY EVERT COLLECTION LOGO Text Wednesday Returned with The First Part”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Is Wednesday Really Dead? Who will try to kill enid? And What’s Going on with Slurp? Thr Breaks Down The Biggest Mysteries Before The Netflix Show Returns Sept. 3.
Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in ‘Wednesday.’ ONATHAN HESSION/NETFLIX/CURTESY EVERTT COLLECTION
Wednesday Returned with the first part of season 2 this month, and the show brough with it new and familiary Familias Along with a new mystery for Our endearingly weird Proagonist.
The First Four Episodes Found Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) Having Psychic Visions of Her RoomMate, Enid (Emma Myers), Dying and Bloaming Wednesday for Her Death. Meanwhile, A FLOCK OF CROWS IS Murdering Local Townsfolk, Including the Death of Donovan Galpin A Killing Spree Last Season and As A Result Is Now A Patient at Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital. Elsewhere, Pugsley Addams (ISAAC Ordonez), Now a Student at Nevermore Academy, Sets Loose A Zombie He Calls Slurp (Owen Painter), Who Also Used To Be A Student Thee.
In episode 4, we LEARN THAT WILLOW HIMPLOYEE JUDI SPANNAGEL (Heater Matarazzo) is not on the person beynda attacks But Also Running A Program Called LOST. Doing Experiments on Outcasts. Meanwhile, Laurel Gates/Marilyn Thornhill (Christina Ricci) Returns to Set Tyler Free, Only to Be Kildled by Himnts Later. The Fourth Episode Also Ends with What Appears to be Wednesday’s Death After Tyler (As Hyde) Pushes Her Out A Window.
Among The Many Other New Characters IntroduCed this Season: Nevermore Student Agnes Demille (Evie Templeton), Wednesday’s Fangill/Stalker; Morticia Addams’ (Catherine-Zeta Jones) Mother, Hester Frump (Joanna Lumley); New Nevermore Principal Barry Dort (Steve Buscemi); Dr. Rachael Fairburn (Thandiwe Newton), Who Runs Willow Hill and Meets an Untimely End; Ron Kruger (Anthony Michael Hall), A Phoenix Cadet Master Who Goes Head-To-Had-Had with Wednesday, ALSO BEFORE MEETING HIS OWN UNTIMELY End; Miss Capri (Billie Piper), Nevermore’s New Music Teacher; And Professor Orloff (Christber Lloyd), A Nevermore Teacher. Returning to the Show Are Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams, Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester, Lurch (with Joonas Suotamo Taking Over the ROLE FROM GEORGE BURSAA) AND PUGSLEY ADAMSLEY ADAMSLEY. Regular).
Ahead of The Part 2 Premiere, The Hollywood Reporter Takes a look at something of the burning quests and fan theories surrounding the New Season.
- Is Wednesday Really Dead?
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After She Lands on the Pavement and We See Her COVED IN BLOOD, WEDNESDAY SAYS IN VOICE-Over: “I’ve Always Dreamed of Looking Death in the Face. But in My Final Final’s, All I Hear Isa Maybe i have Made Things Worse. But Don’t Expect a The Last of Us-Style Shocker. With the show renewed for a Third Season, It’s Highly Unlikely She’s Dead; The Series Is, After All, Titled Wednesday. Not to Ment, A Teaser for the Second Part of the Season Shows Wednesday appearing to wake up from a coma. - What role does lady gaga play?
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In May, Netflix Posted on X: “Lady Gaga Will Guest Star in Wednesday Season 2 Part 2 As Rosaline Rotwood – A Legendary Nevermore Teacher Who Crosses Paths with Wednesday. ” However, Ortega Later Told Entertainment tonight: “She’s Not A Teacher. That’s Your Little Clue. She’s Not. Whatever You Heard, It’s Wrong.” One Theory Posits That She Might Show Up As Wednesday’s New Spirit Guide, Replacing Goody Addams (Also Played by Ortega in the First Season). Another Suggests She Might Be A Villain, Given That We Already Found Out Who The Stalker is and Who Is Controlling the Crows. Yet Another Theory Suggests That She Might Show Up To Reveal Nevermore Secrets Cruce to What’s Really Going on the School And/Or Psychiatric Hospital. - Who is the Mystery Woman that wednesday saved in the lois chamber? Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix
Wednesday Helps an Unnamed Willow Hill Inmate (Frances O’ConNor) ESCAPE FROM LOIS IN EPISODE 4. SO FAR. Other Speculate that Gaga Will Be Playing Ophalia. However, Seeing As Gaga Appears Only in One Episode and Only in the Second Half of the Season, and Ophalia is Become Central to this Season’s Storyline, Theory Theory Sems. Another Theory Suggests that Miss Capri, The Music Teacher, Is Actualally Ophalia, Given Her Advice to Wednesday About How to Reach Her Full Potentiial BYTORLATING (AND HEROSIC. Other Way AUND. (Some Fans Are Specialting That Miss Capri Also Might Wind Up Being Wednesday’s New Spirit Guide.) Or Could the Woman Be Tyler’s Mom? That would explain how galpin Knew about the lois experts. Her Reaction to the Hyde (Aka Tyler) Also Was Not One of Fear or Surprise But More of a Calm Lack of Emotion. But if she were his mom, who would be dr. Fairburn Need to Bring in Laurel/Marilyn to Help with Tyler? (IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT SLEUTHS BELIEVE they have Figured Out Who Her Character Is Based on the Dubbing of the Show, But We Won Spoil That Here. You Can Can Find.
- How Are Gus and Slurp Connected?
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Augustus stonehearst (Philip Philmar), Who Is Now in the Psychiatric Hospital, Is a Former Nevermore Professor and Facher to Judi Who Began Began The Experts on Outcasts. A so-called normie, gus wanted to figure Out How to transfer the outcasts’ Powers to HimSelf and Even Experamented on His Daughter, Giving Her The Power to Contorol. However, his Experiments Caused Him to Go Mad, Leading to His Being Admitted As A Patient at Willow Hill. At the end of episode 4, slurp dines on gus’ brains, but not before speaking to him (The First Words The Reanimated Corps Utters): “Hello, Old Friend.” Do they know each Other from Nevermore? From Willow Hill? One Theory Suggests that Slurp Was Gus’ Former Student. Another Posits that slurp was one of his early subjections. Yet Another Suggests He May Have Helped Gus Build The Machine HE USED FOR EXPERIMENTS. Or perhaps a combination of all Three is correct. - Is slurp regeneration? Image Credit: Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
We See that he’s growing a brain and was if to speak to gus before he took a bit out of him. Fans have noted that he gets smarter every time hee eats someone. At any rate, Many believe this zombie Will Play a big role in the upcoming evnts given Hown how Much Screen Time the Character Has Received Thus Far.
- Who will kill (or try to kill) enid? Image Credit: Netflix
Before he escapes the psychiatric hospital, tyler Tells Wednesday he Plans to Kill Enid. But is the Answer That Obvious?
- Is laurel/marilyn Really Dead? Image Credit: Helen Sloan/Netflix
CO-CREATORS AND SHOWRUNNERS ALFRED GOUGH AND MILES MILLAR WON’T SAY SHE’S DEFINITIVELY DECEASED. “Christina Ricci is Just Anazing Person and Actor, and She Brings Such Value to The Show, and the Character’s So WONDERFUL. Never Say Never,“ Gough Told Flix. Added Millar: “I Will Say, In this Show, No One Is Official Dead Dead. There’s Always a Way. ”
- WHAT IS DORT’S ROLE IN All This, and WHY IS HE SO OBSESSED WITH MONEY? Image Credit: Netflix
Dort asks morticia to be this year’s gala chair and then extrarts bianca (joy Sunday) to use her siren song to form the addams matrich to ask Her Mother for A Big Donation. One Fan Theory Is That HE OWES A LOT OF MONEY toings. Adding to the Suspicion Surround Him Is A Phone Conversation Bianca and Ajax (Georgie Farmer) Overheard Him Haming in His Office: “I’ve Always Had your Back About anything. One Theory Speculates That He’s Working with Someone on a Way to Further The Lois Experts. Another Theory Speculates That HimSelf Is An Avian – Someone Who Can Control Birds, Like Judi – Given His Reaction to Wednesday’s Query. Yet Another Fan Suggests That HE MIGHT Be A Descendant of Edgar Allan Poe Given There’s Been Multiple References to The Author This Season, Including Dort Reference The Lyrics About Poe Were Being Sung by the Students in the School’s Alma Mater.
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Agnes, Who Can Become Invisible, Was Reveed to Be Wednesday’s Stalker. Meanwhile, Enid have a new love interest, bruno, who STOPPED Enid who she bared her claws at agnes. Many Fans Seem to Think Both Are A Bit Suspicious and Play A Bigger Role in Everhting that’s Going on that It Might Seem. The Evidence? Agnes tied Up Both Enid and Bruno in a twisted game that nearly kildlled them unil wednesday showed Up (Turns Out It Was All A Stunt To Impress The Youngs). But How Did A Girl of Such A Petite Frame Carry Them Both Up Inside That Tower? Did she have help? If so, might it have been bruno? Moreover, Some Fans Suggest, The Characters Sems to be Designed Purely to Keep Wednesday and Her RoomMate Preocccupied with Other Things.
- WHERE IS COUSIN ITT? Image Credit: Helen Sloan/Netflix
We’ve Seen Everyone from Lurch to Fester, and Now Now Morticia’s Mother, So Wy Has The Hairy Figure Been Absent Thus Far? Ortega have prevuresly said she’d “love to see cousin itt,” But There’s Been No Indication That An Apperance Will Happen in Season 2. However, Some Fans Haves. Line, Leading Many to Wonder If That Might Be A Hint of Things To Come.
- WILL WEDNESDAY GET HER PSYCHIC POWERS BACK?
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Morticia Burned The Book That Wednesday Believes would Help Her Get Her Powers Back. One Theory Suggests That Someone – Maybe Ophalia or Even Wednesday’s Own Grandmother – is the Culprit. Morticia Reveals that Ophalia Had the Same Psychic Powers and Starting Experienceing the Same Black Tears that Wednesday Was. Another Theory Speculates that Grandmama is Manipulating Wednesday as a Way to Drive a Wedge Between Morticia and Her Daughter. - How does Bianca’s Mom, Gabrielle, Figure Into All of This? Image Credit: Netflix
YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS OURS, TUOUGH INTERESTINGLY, ONE THEME THAT RUNS THRUGHOUT THIS SEASON THUS FARIS THAT OF THE SOMETIMES Shaky Mother-Daughter Relationship: Wednesday with Morticia, Morticia and Ophalia with Hester, and Bianca with Gabrielle.
- Will We Get To See Wednesday Dance Again? Image Credit: Stefania d’Alossandro/Wireimage
Gaga Will Drop A New Song, “Dead Dance,” that Also Will Appear in an Upcoming Episode. One of Season 1’s Highlights Was Seeing Wednesday Dance at A School Function, So One Can Only Wish for a Reprise. However, Director Tim Burton May Have Put A Damper on Any Heps for Another Viral Moment, Recently Telling The Hollywood Reporter WHEN ASKED ABOUT TRYING TO TOPT THAT MOMENT: “This Sums Up What I Like About Working With Jenna. We Didn’T A Big Broadway ReHearsal [for the dance scenes]. We didn’t Hire A Choreographer. I Picked the song and said, ‘you just go do it.’ She showed up on the day – I Think She Even Had Covid – and We Just Did It. IT WAS The MOST FUN I Had on the Show Because we just let it go. But to your quest: no, we didn’t THINK ABOUT it this time because we didn’t THINK [about the dance number being a big deal] to begin. It Gets Dangerous to Say, ‘We Have to Do Something Like This Again.’ ‘
Part 1 of Wednesday Season 2 is Streaming on Netflix. Part 2 Will Be Released Sept. 3.
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