Wednesday S02

The second season of Wednesday was split into two by Netflix, and the remaining four episodes have too much action and narrative packed in. Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, with Tim Burton as executive producer and director, Wednesday has a lot going for it, but the story in the latter half of Season 2 is underwhelming despite each twist it throws at you. The makers are determined to involve every single character in its overstuffed plotline, leaving a very exhausted viewer at the end. The fallout from episode four leaves two dangerous fugitives from Willow Hill psychiatric hospital, the Hyde Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan) and Slurp (Owen Painter), the zombie that Wednesday’s (Jenna Ortega) brother Pugsley (Isaac Cordonez) befriends. Both Addams siblings set out to find them, and it leaves everyone converging towards a wild battle. At Nevermore, Enid (Emma Sinclair) discovers some distressing information about herself, while Principal Dort (Steve Buscemi) is insistent on having a grand gala for the school with possible donor Hester Frump (Joanna Lumley), Wednesday’s grandmother.

Wednesday Season 2 (Part 1: the first four episodes) arrives nearly three years after the goth-deadpan teenager and her morbid adventures became the most watched Netflix show of all time. Immortalised (not a term these characters are fond of) by actress Jenna Ortega, a death-coded Wednesday Addams saved her unmerry school of outcasts, the Nevermore Academy, by cracking a murder mystery and discovering that the boy she liked is a serial-killing monster puppeted by a psychopathic botany teacher. Season 2 takes an interesting route, more or less writing the new-age popularity of the series into its storyline. It opens with a Sixth-Sense-weds-Unbreakable tribute — extra marks for that — to show that Wednesday has learnt to control her psychic powers. She returns to Nevermore for the Fall semester. Except now she’s famous — and it annoys the hell out of her. Everyone knows her, and as an aspiring writer, it gets on her numbed nerves.

The quirky and mysterious Addams family is back in Netflix’s top show Wednesday for Season 2. In the first half of season two, Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) happily returns to Nevermore Academy, where new mysteries await her. Created by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar, the show also focuses on the rest of the Addams clan, with mother-daughter conflicts and younger sibling woes. After the massive success of its first season, the pressure is on for this next round. The dark comedy manages to tick all the boxes that made it a success the first time around. Rooming with her werewolf bestie, Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers), again, Wednesday is actually pleased to return to school. However, she became a celebrity after saving the school last year and Wednesday doesn’t like the attention. The teen doesn’t have much time to waste, receiving a premonition of Enid’s death and another set of strange murders to solve. This time, she deals with a persistent stalker, some old enemies, and a stubborn mother, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who wants a progress report on her psychic abilities.