Netflix just marked the calendar for the return of one of its biggest breakout series—Wednesday is officially back this summer, and it’s pulling out all the stops. The Jenna Ortega-led hit will return for Season 2 in two parts: Part 1 premieres August 6, 2025, with Part 2 dropping September 3.
And yes, we’ve got your first look.
In true Wednesday Addams fashion, the teaser trailer opens at an airport security checkpoint—where she nonchalantly places brass knuckles, nunchucks, pepper spray, a twin-spiked flail, and a literal taser gun on the conveyor belt like it’s a Tuesday morning run to Target. But what actually sets off the alarm? Her sunscreen.
Back for more are Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay, Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair, Luis Guzmán as Gomez, Isaac Ordoñez as Pugsley, and Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester—who, by the way, is not only in the teaser but rumored to be the center of a Wednesday spinoff currently in development with Netflix and MGM Television.
Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and executive produced by Tim Burton—who’s also directing four episodes this season—Wednesday Season 2 once again follows the quick-witted and darkly delightful Wednesday Addams as she returns to Nevermore Academy. This time, she’s facing off against fresh enemies, old wounds, and a supernatural mystery that could rock her world to its core. But as she tells her mother Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) in the trailer, “You don’t need to worry about me, Mother. I do my best work in the dark.”
New season, new blood: Steve Buscemi joins the cast as the new principal of Nevermore, with Thandiwe Newton, Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, Noah Taylor, and Lady Gaga stepping in to add their own spice to the already-loaded series. Joanna Lumley, Christopher Lloyd, Frances O’Connor, and Haley Joel Osment are just a few of the big names signed on as guest stars. Lloyd, who played Uncle Fester in the 1991 Addams Family movie, appearing in the same world as Armisen’s Fester? That’s multiverse-level nostalgia.
The series has been a juggernaut since it debuted in 2022, clocking 252 million views and becoming Netflix’s most-watched English-language series season ever—second only to Squid Game. With Ortega’s star on a meteoric rise (shoutout to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), expectations are sky-high for this next chapter.
So whether you’re in it for the chaos, the clever one-liners, or just to see what in the Tim Burton universe Wednesday’s getting herself into this time, the countdown begins now.
