The Trailer and Sneak Peek of “Wednesday” Season 2 Are Fine, But I’m Still Not Excited

 

(This is the poster for the teaser trailer for Wednesday Season 2. I didn’t know they made posters for trailers. I hope they do an actual poster for Season 2 as a whole if I ever decide to review it. If not, then I guess I’ll just to use this poster again.) 

 

 

Well, I might as well talk about the trailer and sneak peek for Wednesday Season 2, even if I am late to the party on this one and it is old news by this point. It wouldn’t be the first time that I’ve written about a trailer that was already old news by the time I got to it, I’ve already done it with the teaser trailer to Predator: Badlands, the teaser trailer for Tron: Ares, and the announcement trailer for Godzilla x Kong: Supernova. I think the only times that I’ve talked about a trailer when it was still relevant when I talked the trailer for Plankton: The Movie and the trailer for Lilo & Stitch (2025), neither of which I’ve actually seen. One because I don’t have access to Netflix because of their password restriction feature and the other because I’m consciously choosing not to watch it out of sheer principle. I’m boycotting it. You can guess which is which. Oh, and there was also the time I wrote a post about the trailer to Predator: Killer of Killers, which is already out by the time I’m writing this, and the time I wrote about the trailer to Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie 🐿️, which I also can’t watch because it’s on Netflix and I don’t have my own Netflix account. 

Speaking of not being able to watch something on Netflix, I probably won’t be able to watch Season 2 of Wednesday even if I was actually excited for it. I should probably address the title right about now. Yeah, despite the trailer and the sneak peek being okay, I just have no excitement or enthusiasm for this second season of Wednesday. A lot has changed since the first season came out and was a smash hit that was well received by most critics and most fans and became this cultural phenomenon for a few months (mostly thanks to that viral dance that Wednesday does in that one episode), until the hype naturally died down a bit. This is a Netflix show after all. People became a more critical of the first season in the time in-between it and this upcoming second season (which may or may not already be out by the time I’m writing this), noticing a lot more of the flaws that people didn’t notice or were more willing to ignore when the first season first came out and the hype was at an all time high. It became a lot more culturally acceptable to criticize Wednesday over time, and it actually became cooler to hate it than to like it. So now, Season 2 is coming out and it’s coming out in a vastly different environment than Season 1, where Wednesday is no longer universally loved seen more as a flawed show and more people are more willing to acknowledge that it has flaws than when it was at the peak of its popularity. And it really doesn’t look like they’ve addressed or fixed any of the problems with the first season, except maybe the love interest thing ❤️, and have instead doubled down on them. Even amongst the people who like the show and did like the first season, the hype and enthusiasm isn’t as high as it would’ve been had this season come out a year or even two years after the first.

That’s the problem with streaming shows, the wait time in-between each season is so long that any momentum you had with your previous season is gone by the time you get to the next one. It took them three years to finally release a second season for this show, due to the development and filming time taking so long and due to Jenna Ortega being busy with other projects. She was working on Scream VI, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Death of a Unicorn 🦄, and Hurry Up Tomorrow in the time in between the first and second season of Wednesday. No wonder it took so long to film Season 2, she was busy filming three movies after Season 1, and they didn’t exactly want start filming Season 2 without their main star. Even Emma Myers, the actress that plays Enid, was busy filming a couple of movies too, Family Switch and A Minecraft Movie, possibly the biggest movie of the year so far, though no one was really watching that movie for her (in fact a lot of the young male audiences ♂︎ who saw that movie in theaters and went crazy for the “Chicken Jockey 🐔” scene booed every time she and the other actress in the movie, Danielle Brooks were on screen) and more so just watching for Jack Black, Jason Mamoa, and all the Minecraft references, as well as another TV show, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder ♀︎. 

 

Neither of the two movies Emma Myers was in after Wednesday Season 1 were all that great, especially not Family Switch, that movie looks terrible (I can’t believe it was directed by McG), but it wasn’t like the movies Jenna Ortega was starring around this time were any better. I had no interest in watching Death of a Unicorn 🦄 because of how stupid it looked and have pretty much vowed to never watch it after writing about the trailer on here. Not I’m missing out on much since hardly anyone watched it, it received mixed reviews, and currently has a 54% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes 🍅 (which is considered a “rotten” score on that website). Hurry Up Tomorrow is also a pretty bad movie, and possibly the worst film that Jenna Ortega has been in her adult career so far. I say “adult career” because she was a child star before this, and I’m only talking about the stuff she’s being doing as an adult. I’m not saying she’s an adult film star or anything, if she was, she’d have a completely different career than the one she currently has, and hardly anyone would’ve heard of her unless they were porn connoisseurs 🔞 like me 😁. BTW, there actually is a porn parody 🔞 of Wednesday, I’ve seen it. I’ve never watched A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder ♀︎ and I really know nothing about it other than it’s a British show 🇬🇧 and Emma Myers is in it, so I can’t really speak on it. 

 

BTW, since I mentioned A Minecraft Movie, you might think that it’s the highest grossing movie of 2025 so far, but it’s actually not. That honor goes to Ne Zha 2, a Chinese animated film 🇨🇳 that only got limited release here in the US 🇺🇸 and I didn’t even know existed until I looked it up on Wikipedia for this part of the post. The film grossed $2.2 billion 💵 against a budget of $80 million 💵 (¥600 million yuan; no banknote emoji for the yuan or renminbi as it’s also referred to as), making it not just the highest grossing animated film of all time, the highest grossing non-English language film of all time and the first one to make over $2 billion 💵, but also the first animated film in history to cross the $2 billion 💵 mark, and the fifth highest grossing film overall in history, being only the seventh movie in history to reach the $2 billion mark 💵. 

 

Not bad for a film that most people outside of China 🇨🇳 and Asia haven’t even heard of, let alone seen. I didn’t hear a hear a single person talk about this movie when it came out, not a single review from Western critics on the English-speaking side of YouTube and the Internet 🛜, meaning that this movie was a much bigger deal inside of China 🇨🇳, and in other Asian territories, maybe some European ones as well but mostly Asia. And China 🇨🇳 has a population of 1.4 billion people, so a movie like this could easily make $2 billion 💵 just in that one country alone, which is another one of its milestones, it’s the highest grossing movie in a single box office territory, that being China 🇨🇳 of course, and it’s the animated film with the most amount of tickets sold. But, who’s really counting ticket sales for movies anymore? 

 

I also learned, while looking into the list of highest grossing movies of 2025 so far on Wikipedia, that Lilo & Stitch (2025) has now grossed $858.4 million 💵, which is pretty disheartening for me, given how much I like the original movie and how much of a travesty this movie looked and how much it disrespected the original. I mean, I knew it was going to make money 💵, I wasn’t under any illusion that it would bomb 💣  like Snow White (2025) did, I’m not that stupid, but I didn’t expect it to make this much money 💵. I guess people really don’t care about quality, and are easily suckered in nostalgia and endless amounts of merchandising, just because they think Stitch is cute, and they wanted something to take their kids to, they needed something fun to do with the kids as a family. Even if that means taking them to see an inferior version of a movie that already came out 23 years ago and is available to watch for free on Disney+. Not completely free, you still have to pay for the subscription, but after you’ve bought your subscription, the movie is free, there’s no additional charge to watch the movie on there. And of course, if you own the DVD 📀, the Blu-Ray 💿, or the 4K 💿, you could just watch it on those instead of spending the insane amounts of money 💵 it takes to buy tickets and buy overpriced concessions 🍿🥤 for a whole family to see a movie in theaters. 

 

This also means that Disney will not learn their lesson from these live action remakes and will continue making them for the foreseeable future, not needing to improve or change the way they make them. And they’re making a sequel to this specific live action remake of Lilo & Stitch, oh joy 🙄. If you really are tired of these live action remakes and want Disney to stop making them, then stop paying to go to see them! If you really watch them for a review or just out of curiosity, then watch until they come on streaming or on home video, physical media, DVDs 📀, Blu-Rays 💿, and 4K 💿, though maybe not 4K 💿 since 4K Blu-Rays 💿 cost more than regular Blu-Rays 💿, and there’s no guarantee that you’ll actually like the movie in question and the money 💵 you spent buying the 4K 💿 will have been worth it.

I would say that I sort of lost interest in Wednesday Season 2 after I saw the trailer and I learned that it was going to take place at the school again. I was really hoping that the second season wouldn’t take place at the school again, and would instead be about Wednesday being a detective 🕵️‍♀️, solving cases while on summer break ☀️ or whatever. Maybe, put her in a completely new setting where she’s sort of out of her element and sticks more out like a sore thumb and isn’t surrounded by other Outcasts (which is what this show refers to mythical creatures and magical beings that live amongst humans), but regular people who would actually find her strange, not the Outcasts at Nevermore didn’t think she was weird, they did, and they’re all mythological creatures with magic powers and she’s mostly just a regular human with psychic abilities. That’s really the only thing that qualifies her as an Outcast, if she didn’t have that ability, she’d just be a weird goth girl ♀︎ who likes death and all things macabre. Maybe, we could even see other Addams family members, and we could see more of her family dynamic with her other family members since we saw so little of it in Season 1. But no, we have go back to Nevermore again and repeat the same formula as the last season 😒. Except this time, Pugsley’s actually going to the school too and will be a more regular character on the show, for many more seasons this show goes on for.

 

I feel this show is the people involved will just get tired of doing, and they’ll just want to move on. Especially Jenna Ortega, I feel like for her, she’ll just get tired of the role after awhile and will call a quits and end the series after this season or the next season if there is one, just so that she won’t have to play Wednesday anymore and she can move onto other things and broaden her horizons as an actress. I mean, that’s already kind of happened with Millie Bobby Brown and her role as Eleven on Stranger Things, I’m sure the same thing will happen to Jenna Ortega and her role as Wednesday Addams in Wednesday. I mean, she’s already typecast to only playing Wednesday type roles, and when an actor or actress gets typecast, usually they start to resent the role that made them famous in the first place. The same happened to Leonard Nimoy and his role as Spock on Star Trek, he even wrote a book 📖 about it called I Am Not Spock. For Jenna Ortega it would be, I Am Not Wednesday. It also happened with Tom Hardy and his role as Eddie Brock/Venom in the Venom movies, he was probably happy when Venom was finally killed off and the SSU came to an unceremonious end. Same thing with Dave Bautista and his role as Drax in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and MCU as a whole, you could tell in interviews that he was happy to be done with the role as Drax and move onto other things. 

Nevermore is pretty much just budget Hogwarts, so you understand why I’m enthusiastic about the second season taking place there again. Even some people who liked the first season admitted that Evermore was one of the weakest aspects about the show. In fact, when the hype was still real, the only thing people actually praised about the show was Jenna Ortega’s performance as Wednesday. They didn’t praise the story, they didn’t praise any of the other performances or characters, it was all just about Jenna Ortega. Even now, the people who actually hyped for Season 2 are only hyped because of her. They only want to see her. They really don’t care any of this other stuff. And that could be because everything else surrounding her was either so awful or wasn’t remarkable or worth remembering. I mean, how many people actually remember the characters, Weems, or Bianca, or Xavier, or Tyler, or even care about the mystery aspect of the show at all? It’s probably not going to lead to anything good or interesting. 

 

The only character that I was actually interested in seeing and was happy to see was Enid, but that’s only really because I like Emma Myers 🥰. And to be fair, we do see some more Addams family members, they show them or mention them in this trailer, including returning ones like Gomez, Morticia, and Lurch obviously, but also Uncle Fester, who was a standout and a scene stealer in Season 1, at least for me. I was hoping that we’d see Cousin Itt in this season, but no dice 🎲 😒. Maybe he might appear in later seasons, but he won’t be in this season as far as we know. I saw a lot of people in the comments of the trailer say that they like Enid’s new look in this season, and her hair looks great, but I disagree. I think her new hair looks terrible and I like her old look in Season 1 a lot better. Wouldn’t be kind of funny if they did a spinoff of Enid though? I would actually watch that since she has a vastly different personality than Wednesday and she’d be a much different protagonist than she is, plus it’d be cool to see her turn into a werewolf 🐺 more often than she does in Wednesday since I doubt they’ll have her turn into a werewolf 🐺 that much in Season 2 either. And of course, we could get some development with her and learn more about what her family life like when’s not at school and what her parents think of her now she has turned into a werewolf 🐺. 

 

They were trying to do this whole forced conversion allegory with them where they wanted her to turn into werewolf 🐺 even though she couldn’t yet, and they were trying to pressure her into becoming a werewolf 🐺 by sending her away to a summer camp ☀️🏕️ where they’d forcefully try to turn her into a werewolf 🐺, kind of like how parents of LGBTQ+ children 🏳️‍🌈 don’t accept their kids being LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 and they try to forcefully convert into being straight ⚤ and/or cisgendered with everything including electroshock theory ⚡️. It was really clunky, sort of unintentionally offensive towards LGBTQ+ people 🏳️‍🌈 and the trauma they go through with parents who don’t accept them the way they are and either disown them or try to forcefully convert them, and sort of sent mixed messages of what they were trying to say with that since Enid turns into a werewolf 🐺 by the end of the first season, meaning her parents got their wish and will probably be happy with their daughter and accept her for finally wolfing out 🐺. So, what lesson were they supposed to learn, and what was the audience supposed to take away from that? 

I’m a bit doubtful that they’ll actually keep their word about Wednesday not having a love interest ❤️, and they might just made Enid her love interest ❤️. I mean, Emma Myers obviously wants her to be Wednesday’s love interest ❤️, and Jenna Ortega doesn’t seem that opposed to it judging by her reaction when Emma Myers said that she wanted Enid to be Wednesday’s love interest ❤️ in her presence, though that interview that joke Emma Myers made about Enid and Wednesday being roommates and that’s why they should get together was by herself and done without Jenna Ortega there. But, I’m sure Jenna Ortega no doubt saw that interview, and and hasn’t said anything to really contradict it or rebuke it, so I’m taking her silence as her kind of being okay with that idea. 

 

So, I could easily see them doing that in either this season or the season after if there is a third season. I guess it doesn’t count if the love interest ❤️ is a woman ♀︎, right? I wouldn’t be opposed to them doing this necessarily, but it would be expected and a bit predictable and clichéd, like really, you’re going to have the two girls ♀︎ become lovers ❤️ just because they were roommates? We can’t have same-sex relationships that are platonic, they always have to be romantic ❤️ because they can’t just be friends, they have to be more than friends. Imagine if we treated male friendships ♂︎ the same way, in fact, we already sort of do if two guys ♂︎ are really close friends and if they seem “too close,” people automatically assume that they’re gay ⚣ or joke about them being gay ⚣. 

 

I mean, how many times have people joked about SpongeBob 🧽 and Patrick being gay ⚣ or assumed that they were gay ⚣ (even though SpongeBob 🧽 is actually canonically asexual, and aromantic depending on the episode), or joked about Mike and Sully being gay ⚣, or joked about Bert and Ernie being gay ⚣, or joked about Brian and Roman being gay ⚣ in 2 Fast 2 Furious at least, or joked about Chris Pine and Tom Hardy’s characters in This Means War being gay ⚣, or joked about Eddie Brock and Venom being gay ⚣, including me? I was apart of that since I said Eddie Brock and Venom were an unintentionally gay couple ⚣ and I wanted to review Venom: The Last Dance on Valentine’s Day ❤️ for that reason. I could’ve also waited to review for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈, which is going on now, Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 is June of every year, but I already reviewed it in April because I wanted to get it out of the way and review other stuff. 

 

I have this little joke that I tell myself about Venom: The Last Dance in relation to Wednesday. After the first trailer to Venom: The Last Dance came out and saw what the title of the movie was, I joked to myself about the final season Wednesday, whichever number that will be, being called Wednesday: The Last Dance, because of that viral dance that Wednesday does in that one episode that Jenna Ortega apparently choreographed herself, according to her. Maybe they could have her dance one last time before she dies or something, or before Enid dies or something like that. When you have a title like The Last Dance, you have to have a dance scene and you have to kill off one of the main characters, that’s just the rule. Venom established it. And if they really lean into Enid and Wednesday being lovers ❤️ in this season and the following seasons, it’d be even more fitting. They could use the same tagline: “Till death do they part.” People also joked about Ren and Stimpy being gay ⚣ and then they were officially confirmed to be gay ⚣, or at the very least bisexual since Ren in particular lusts after women ♀︎ in the very short-lived Ren & Stimpy reboot, Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon, though let’s pretend that show isn’t canon. I don’t even think it will be canon anymore, if it ever was, since there are or were rumors that another Ren & Stimpy series is being worked on for Comedy Central and I’m even involved in that show wants to ignore Adult Party Cartoon and pretend it never even happened, and honestly, that’s the best policy when it comes to Adult Party Cartoon. The less said about it the better. 

 

The sneak peek does show us more of that scene in the trailer where Wednesday is going through airport security and is having to remove all her weapons and Thing ✋🏻 from her bag 🧳, with the joke being that the TSA agents don’t care that she’s carrying all these weapons in her luggage 🧳 or that there’s a living hand ✋🏻 that can move on its own using its fingers as spider legs, but that she’s carrying an unauthorized hand cream 🧴, which Thing ✋🏻 brought because he’s a hand ✋🏻 and he likes staying moisturized 🧴. Something he really picked up from hanging out with Enid. Thing ✋🏻 is the other thing people came to this show to see. Besides Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday and Enid, he’s the only character that people actually liked and remember from Season 1, and left any sort of lasting impression. So you bet the people who are excited to see Season 2 are excited to see him again as well. 

 

We learn the reason why Wednesday and Thing ✋🏻 were boarding a plane ✈️ in the first place in this sneak peek, which encompasses the first 6 minutes of the first episode of Season 2 (the season premiere), and it’s because they’re tracking down a serial killer in Kansas City (they don’t specify which one, the Missouri one or the actual Kansas one, but I’m assuming it’s the Missouri one because that one is more well known and bigger) called the Kansas City Scalper. Not a very creative name I must say, then again most serial killer names aren’t very creative, Zodiac Killer, Golden State Killer, come on guys, we can do better than that. She immediately gets captured by him and held prisoner in his basement when she shows up at his home and she touches him and her psychic ability malfunctions and causes her to freeze like last time (she claims in her narration that she got it under control during her summer break ☀️ so this shouldn’t be happening), though she tries to play it off like she planned to get captured all along and that she knew what she was doing and was several steps ahead of the serial killer, and that she didn’t get captured because her psychic ability glitched out on her, but come on, we all know that she didn’t plan on getting captured. 

 

So, we do get some of what I was talking about Wednesday being a detective 🕵️‍♀️ and solving cases while she’s on summer break ☀️, even if she’s totally bad at it. But, I wanted that to be the whole season and for it not to go back to the school, and for it to focus on one case through the whole season. Maybe focus on a completely new bad guy who has nothing to do with the mystery in the first season or maybe it does, but Wednesday doesn’t solve that mystery at the school but outside of school on her summer break ☀️. That would’ve been so much more interesting than returning to the school again for another semester, or trimester, whichever Nevermore uses and goes by. Maybe, this is something they could do in a Wednesday movie if they were to make a movie out of this specific series and specific continuity. Kind of like El Camino for Breaking Bad. 

 

The show does try to make Wednesday seem like a better detective 🕵️‍♀️ than she actually is, and make her seem smarter than she actually is. When in reality, she’s actually pretty dumb and she’s a way worse detective 🕵️‍♀️ than she and the show its of wants us to think. She didn’t even solve the mystery behind who was really killing everyone, since she got it wrong at least twice, maybe even more than that, and Tyler has to flat out tell her that he was the one behind everything, at least behind the killings. She never figures any of this out on her own, with her own skills of deduction and investigation 🫆. This is one of the reasons why some people don’t like this version of Wednesday despite Jenna Ortega’s performance, other than her being bitchy and being mean and awful to everyone around her. She’s the kind of the person who’s really stubborn, who always thinks that they’re right and always has to be in the right, and refuses to admit that they’re wrong even when it’s clear that they are. 

 

The excuse for this being that she’s a teenager and teenagers are angsty and can be mean and rude to people, and while that’s true to a certain extent, Wednesday’s behavior goes beyond her being a teenager. She’s just written badly. She’s performed well, but written badly. That petty goes for every character in this show. The acting is good, but the writing is terrible, almost across the board. Not just the plot, but down to the individual character writing and dialogue. There is some really bad dialogue in Season 1, and I highly doubt most of it was intentionally bad. It’s a miracle almost that the actors were able to deliver these lines somewhat convincingly and with a straight face without cringing 😬 or bursting into laughter 😆. I don’t doubt at all that Season 2 will also have some pretty bad dialogue, since it seems most of the same people who worked on the first season worked on the second season, both in front of and behind the camera. 

Speaking of which, as the poster does show, Tim Burton is coming back to direct the first episode at least, just like he did on the first episode of Season 1. That seems like what he’s going to do for the rest of this series for however long it goes on, he’ll direct the first episode of every season, maybe direct a couple more throughout, and then just fuck off and be executive producer again. I don’t why he does it like that, but he does. It’s an easy paycheck for him, he only has to do so much compared to what he has to do on a movie. And to be fair, the episodes he directs are usually the best directed ones out of the bunch and are the best looking ones stylistically. I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if there were a couple of episodes in this season or the one that comes after that directed by one actors, like Jenna Ortega. Jenna Ortega might’ve directed an episode or might direct in the future if this show gets a Season 3 because she’s been given a lot more creative control on this season than she had on the last one (even having a producer or executive producer credit if I’m mistaken) and that’s usually happens on TV shows. Eventually the actors direct some episodes of the show, or direct at least one. Like Bryan Cranston directed an episode of Breaking Bad, and Nathan Kress directed a few episodes of the iCarly revival series that got canceled in 2023 after three seasons. 

The second season is also going to released in two parts with the first part coming out on August 6, 2025 and the second part coming out on September 3, 2025, which is annoying thing that Netflix has been doing lately with some of their shows. They infamously did this with Season 2 of Squid Game 🦑, another popular show that premiered around the time as Wednesday, and now they’re doing the same thing with Wednesday. I don’t understand why they’re doing this, can’t they just release the full season all at once like they used to do? Why they do have to release it in two parts? People already had to wait long for the season to come out, and now you’re going to make them wait again for a whole month till they finally watch the rest of the seasons? It’s really stupid, it’s a really stupid business practice and release method. I know they want to maintain interest and keep the fans in bristling with anticipation, but this is not the way to go. 

 

Also, Lady Gaga’s going to be in this season, which is another thing that killed my excitement or enthusiasm for this season 😒. Between this, House of Gucci, and Joker: Folie à Deux I’m getting kind tired of seeing Lady Gaga everywhere 😒. I like her music, but don’t really care for her acting. I’m not the biggest fan of her as an actress. Though she is a better actor than The Weeknd I’ll give her that. I think this season would’ve been better off without her. At least it isn’t Katy Perry 🤷‍♂️. And I suppose Steve Buscemi being in this season does make up for Lady Gaga being in it. I’m still not sure if I actually want to watch Season 2 of Wednesday even if I was able to access Netflix or it was available on physical media like the first season was because of everything that I’ve talked about here regarding the first season and the series as a whole. I just wanted to get this out of the way so that I can review Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem later on this week. If I do decide to watch Wednesday Season 2, if I am able to access to Netflix or if it’s available on Blu-Ray 💿, and review it, I will be fair in my assessment. And I’ll try not to let the negative reviews I’ve seen of the first season paint my views of the second season. 

 

 

 

(This is a wallpaper image for Wednesday. The same image used on the Blu-Ray cover 💿 for Season 1, it was elongated, the dimensions were different, and we saw more of Wednesday’s body than what this wallpaper shows.) 

 

 

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(This is the teaser trailer and 6 minute sneak preview of Wednesday Season 2.)