The concluding episodes to Wednesday Season 2 will arrive Sept. 3 on Netflix with much to look forward to like Lady Gaga’s cameo and more.
Part 1 of Season 2 — the first four episodes — arrived Aug. 6. Wednesday Addams’ (Jenna Ortega) return to Nevermore introduced several new faces while the familiar ones of her family members stayed close. Wednesday’s parents were invited to stick around campus and stay in a guest cottage, which made Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) happy to be near both her children since Pugsley is now enrolled as a student.
A new investigation made itself known to Wednesday as a mysteriously gruesome murder of crows started wreaking havoc around Jericho and Nevermore. Find a full recap of Wednesday Season 2 Part 1 below:
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Principal Dort
Principal Barry Dort (Steve Buscemi) is one of the new Outcast authority figures present at the school. He took over for the late Larissa Weems (Gwendoline Christie), and he has pride in the school and wants to restore it to its former glory. He didn’t agree with the way Weems tried to blend more into the Normie world.
Part of his “nefarious” nature as Buscemi described to Deadline for Part 1, is fundraising, but in a sketchy way. He blackmails Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday) into being student liaison for a Gala he is planning, which he also asks Morticia to chair and organize. Later on in Part 1, he forces Bianca to use her siren song to make Morticia ask Wednesday’s Grandmama Hester Frump (Joanna Lumley) for a large donation to Nevermore. Bianca tries to coerce Dort with her Siren Song, but he has an amulet infused with Corinthian coral that prevents the song from affecting him.
Xavier Gone
Percy Hynes White’s Xavier Thorpe won’t be returning to Nevermore. The character was written off in Season 2 with the explanation that his father, a key donor to the school, pulled both his funding and his son from Nevermore and sent Xavier abroad to Reichenbach Academy in Switzerland. Gomez did an exchange program there for a semester.
Despite not appearing onscreen, Xavier left behind a final parting gift for Wednesday, who dropped the cell phone he gave her into a pot of boiling water shortly after she left school last semester. Enid presented a painting he made of a scary crow with a red cloudy eye perched atop a gravestone that was in shadow.
Enid’s Doomed Fate
The meaning of the painting becomes clear when Wednesday has a vision that Enid dies. In the vision, Wednesday sees the bird Xavier painted on a gravestone with an inscription of Enid’s name on it. When she turns around, Enid is standing there and viewers hear her say “I died because of you!”
As a side note, Enid doesn’t want to be with Ajax anymore, and she hints at this when he tries to visit her in the dorm she shares with Wednesday. She has grown closer with a werewolf named Bruno (Noah B. Taylor).
The Founder’s Day Pyre
Wednesday’s stalker, teased at the end of last season, returns in full force, sliding photos of Wednesday under her door and leaving her threatening notes. At the Founder’s Day Pyre, where Dort wants to honor Wednesday and her friends for saving Nevermore last semester, the stalker hides Wednesday’s only copy of her novel in the Pyre, which is shaped like a Raven, and Wednesday risks her life to recover the manuscript. Dort, whose power is setting fire through his fingertips, shoots flame at the bird, which is manipulated by Davinci magic and designed to fly through the sky.
Pugsley Revives A Zombie
After hearing a spooky tale of a boy at Nevermore who designed himself a clockwork heart, Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez), who is a student at Nevermore now and rooming with Eugene Ottinger (Moofsa Mostafa), goes to the Skull Tree during the Founder’s Pyre to see if the old rumor is true.
He trips, falls and accidentally sends shockwaves into the ground, reviving the buried body beneath the tree. He decides to name the zombie Slurp, but keeping Slurp a secret proves difficult.
Sheriff Galpin Dies
Wednesday found Tyler Galpin’s (Hunter Doohan) father Sheriff Donovan Galpin (Jamie McShane) dead in his house. A murder of crows flew out of his mouth, which makes the creepy birds more significant as this is Wednesday’s second sighting of them in association with a dark death after Galpin’s associate, Carl Bradbury, also died at their claws.
After consulting Dort and Professor Orloff (Christopher Lloyd) about an outcast with the talent to control birds, they turn Wednesday onto the search for an Avian.
Wednesday Visits Tyler at Willow Hill
Tyler is now under close watch at Willow Hill Penitentiary by Chief Psychiatrist Dr. Fairburn (Thandiwe Newton). Dr. Fairburn’s assistant Judi (Heather Matarazzo) keeps her organized. Wednesday takes Enid’s Driver’s Ed lesson to go there, scaring the instructor. Fairburn lets Wednesday visit Tyler, who is behind bars. Fairburn hopes that seeing Wednesday could help Tyler heal, but this does not happen. Tyler tells Wednesday that he plans to kill Enid the next time he sees her after Enid wolfed out and fought his Hyde self last season.
Wednesday’s Stalker Reveals Themselves
As a part of Prank Day, Wednesday’s stalker kidnaps Enid and Bruno and puts them in Iago Tower under a platform of knives that lowers unless Wednesday can solve a puzzle to save them. The stalker then reveals themselves as Wednesday’s new fangirl Agnes DeMille (Evie Templeton). Agnes’ outcast ability is turning invisible.
Agnes also got ahold of Galpin’s phone, which Wednesday uses in her investigation of the mysterious crows.
Morticia and Wednesday’s Relationship Is On The Rocks
Because she’s worried about her daughter’s psychic exhaustion as black tears stream down her face when she summons visions, Morticia confiscates Goody’s book of spells from Wednesday. Wednesday tells her mother about her vision of Enid’s death, but Morticia writes it off as an unreliable vision.
Hester Frump, Morticia’s mother and Wednesday’s Grandmama, tries to persuade Morticia to give the book back on Wednesday’s behalf. Morticia reacts by burning Wednesday’s book. This pisses off Wednesday, who later challenges Morticia to a blindfolded sword fight duel with the winner getting their wish, but Morticia wins.
Morticia’s concern for Wednesday stems from what she experienced with her sister Ophelia, who was also a Raven like Wednesday. Ophelia supposedly went mad from her visions and was placed at Willow Hill, but now her whereabouts are unclear. Morticia, as revealed in Season 1, is a Dove, and she has a more sentimental disposition.
Bianca’s Mother Escapes Morning Song
Bianca’s mother Gabrielle (Gracy Goldman), was in a cult called Morning Song where she was enlisted to use her Siren Song, but she wanted to escape Bianca’s stepfather Gideon, leader of the cult, and the FBI raided the compound. Bianca got her mother a room at the Inn at Apple Hollow to hide Gabrielle there and keep her safe.
Ajax later learns of this situation with Bianca, and he helps her sneak her mom somewhere else.
Camp Jericho
Dort takes most of the Nevermore student body on a camping retreat at Camp Jericho, but their plans are quickly challenged by a normie group of boy scouts and their strict counselor. Turns out the campground was double booked. Wednesday suggests a challenge between the two groups, the winners of whom will stay at the campground. Wednesday goes on this trip to examine Galpin’s cabin in the woods, which she finds as an address from a voicemail on Galpin’s phone — 2015 Pinecrest.
Wednesday leads the outcasts to victory in the game of capture-the-flag, or zephyr, rather, but the sore loser boyscouts try to overtake the camp anyway, triggering Slurp the Zombie, who has eaten the brains of several innocent bystanders by now, which is helping his body regenerate. Slurp is taken to Willow Hill, where viewers see the return of a familiar face…
Marilyn Thornhill (Christina Ricci) Comes Back Into The Picture
Thornhill was being held in a separate facility with Fairburn working off the theory that the longer she and Tyler were separated, the weaker their bond would become. This didn’t really work, and Thornhill surmised that Fairburn brought her back to try and help Tyler, because Thornhill is his master, after all, when it comes to the Hyde.
Wednesday Pays a Visit to Her Grandmama
Hester Frump manages funeral homes and graveyards. When Wednesday visits a graveyard to investigate remains of the Outcasts whose obituaries she saw in Galpin’s cabin, her Grandmama helps her discover that there are no human remains in the ashes in an urn for Patricia Redcar. Back at Galpin’s cabin, Wednesday saw newspaper clippings of the dead Outcasts and the letters LOIS.
While in the crypt, a crow steals Wednesday’s newspaper clipping evidence, and she sees the Avian drive away on a motorcycle in a hooded cloak. Wednesday asks her grandmother to buy the cemetary they visit and find out who authorized the creamations of the undead Outcasts. She also hints that Morticia will be jealous if Hester tells her she’s asking Wednesday to be part of the family business, something Hester has never asked Morticia.
Uncle Fester Also Returns
The welcome face and bald head of Fred Armisen’s Uncle Fester occurs in the fourth episode of Wednesday Part 1. Wednesday enlists her dad’s brother to help her get into Willow Hill and look for LOIS, who they think is a woman. Fester checks into the Inn at Apple Hollow and causes chaos to get committed to Willow Hill, and he disrupts Bianca’s mom’s safe haven in the process, but the display of antics works because he gets into the penitentiary.
Augustus Stonehurst & the Avian
Wednesday sends Thing to Willow Hill to look for Stonehurst after Fester mistakes the lunch lady for Lois. Her name is Louise. She helps Wednesday sneak into Willow Hill after Fester finds Augustus Stonehurst, an old professor from Nevermore who is a resident there now.
Thornhill sees Fester at Willow Hill, and she warns Fairburn about the con man’s pigtailed niece. Fester and Wednesday discover that LOIS was a set of experiments Willow Hill was performing on Outcasts whose obituaries were faked. They find the trapped prisoners in the basement and free them. One is a mysterious woman who takes a liking to Wednesday, calling her an angel.
It turns out the Avian was Judi Stonehurst, Augustus’ daughter, who had the talent transferred into her with a machine that Augustus was using in the experiments. He would extract the Outcast abilities and infuse normies with them. He wanted to be a Davinci, but his body couldn’t take it, so Judi took over his experiments.
Tyler Escapes from Willow Hill
Amid the chaos and discovery of Wednesday and Fester, Tyler escaped after he killed Thornhill, who tried to set him free. In Hyde form, he knocked Wednesday out of a third story window at Willow Hill. He runs away into the woods after the police shoot at him, and Wednesday is unconscious. Luckily, we know from Season 2 Part 2’s trailer that she’s not dead.
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Slurp also escaped after eating Dr. Fairburn’s brains, killing her.