Netflix’s hit supernatural series “Wednesday” returns for its highly anticipated second season this August. The Jenna Ortega-led dark fantasy show will follow a split-release strategy, with Part 1 premiering on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, and Part 2 arriving on September 3, 2025.
Global Release Schedule
The global release timing follows Netflix’s standard pattern, with simultaneous worldwide availability at different local times:
- North America: 12 a.m. PT / 3 a.m. ET (August 6)
- United Kingdom: 8 a.m. BST
- Europe: 9 a.m. CET
- India: 12:30 p.m. IST
- Australia: 5 a.m. AEST
For viewers planning their viewing sessions, Part 1 contains four episodes titled “Here We Woe Again,” “The Devil You Woe,” “Call of the Woe,” and “If These Woes Could Talk.”
New Season, New Horrors
Season 2 finds Wednesday Addams returning to Nevermore Academy for her second year – the first time she’s ever willingly returned to a school. Co-creator Miles Millar explains: “Wednesday goes into this season thinking she knows Nevermore. But as soon as she gets back, nothing happens that she’s expecting.”
This season’s plot centers on Wednesday being faced with a terrible vision: her werewolf roommate Enid is marked for death, and Wednesday must find a way to save her “or die trying.” Adding to the complications, Wednesday is now famous after saving the school in Season 1, bringing unwanted attention.
Family Invasion
To Wednesday’s horror, her family life and school life collide this season. Her brother Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) arrives on campus with his electrokinesis powers, while parents Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzmán) will have expanded roles and reasons to be at Nevermore.
“This year, we bring the family to Nevermore,” says director Tim Burton. “Your family at school is the worst thing possible, isn’t it?”
More Posts
The season also introduces Joanna Lumley as Grandmama Hester Frump, one of the few people Wednesday actually enjoys seeing.
New Cast Members
Season 2 welcomes several high-profile additions:
- Steve Buscemi as Principal Barry Dort, Nevermore’s new headmaster
- Joanna Lumley as Grandmama Hester Frump
- Lady Gaga as Rosaline Rotwood, a “legendary Nevermore teacher” (appearing in Part 2)
- Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, and Noah Taylor in new roles
Returning cast includes Emma Myers (Enid), Hunter Doohan (Tyler), Joy Sunday (Bianca), Georgie Farmer (Ajax), Victor Dorobantu (Thing), Fred Armisen (Uncle Fester), and Moosa Mostafa (Eugene).
Production Details
The second season moved filming locations from Romania to Ireland, with showrunners noting the Irish landscape adds “timeless beauty, wonder, and epic spectacle” to the show’s gothic atmosphere.
Tim Burton continues as director and executive producer alongside co-showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. The trio promises a “darker and more complex” journey for Wednesday with “greater challenges” in store.
With the first season becoming Netflix’s most-watched English-language series of all time (1.72 billion hours watched in its first 91 days), expectations are high for this new chapter in the Addams Family saga.
