Three years after Jenna Ortega shot to superstar with her first run, “Wednesday” season 2 is as much a sensation as season 1 was. Indieview Brian Welk concluded that the 50 million views listed by the first four episodes of Season 2 that lost this month make it “effectively the biggest debut for English speaking Netflix series ever. “And it was only the first half of the season.
When “Wednesday“Season 2 Part 2 Unspools on September 3, it is likely that there will be another increase of interest. And the trailer for Part 2 below should really get the fans’ appetite for more (although IndieWire’s own review of “Wednesday” is much more muted.)
A major return seems to be in the crime, if not really in the way one might expect: In the Season 1 finals, Gwendoline Christie’s Rector Weems was murdered. Wednesday’s quasi-nemesis had also been its mother, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a few decades earlier. In her collaboration with Wednesday, and the constant threats of expulsion she liked, the main Weems always brought the forced smile and the joy of a Frenemy – a perfect foil to Ortega’s deathpan cynicism.
Now Weems seems to be back. Showrunner Alfred Gough Said via Netflix, “No one in our world is really dead.” Christie and her character made their return in the last part of Part 1, with many viewers who wondered how exactly she could live. Well, part 2 trailer explains it: she is dead, but she has returned to be Wednesday’s Spirit Guide and offers advice from Beyond. Hi, if there is any place where this could happen it would be Nevermore Academy, the show’s Central Boarding School which turns the entire series into a kind of Harry Potter meets the Addams family.
After Weem’s death, Steve Buscemis Barry Dort took over as principal. He gives a different tone to the role of someone who wants to wear this school’s posted status with over-the-top, perhaps an revengeful enjoyment. Indiege’s Ben Travers suggested in his review. He hoped that role would be a comment on “The Self-Serving Support of Education institutions for LGBTQ cause and dei-initiative-which gladly flies the flag of the rainbow when it makes school money, but less likely when it can cost them federal financing.” Should be interesting to see how Buscemi and Christie’s characters interact, if any supernatural event makes it possible.
“Wednesday” Season 2 Part 2 starts streaming on Netflix on Wednesday, September 3. See the trailer below.
