“Wednesday”: Jenna Ortega reacts to the renewal and the creators talk about the future of the series

“Wednesday” was a hit for Netflix, so the streaming platform matched the renewal of the series for a second season. He did so with a commercial set in the remix of ‘Bloody Mary’, a song by Lady Gaga that went viral on social media for accompanying a video of Wednesday dancing in her peculiar and original way. The last to pronounce on the renewal of the series was Jenna Ortega, an actress who gives life to the protagonist.

The actress quoted the teaser released by Netflix announcing the renewal of ‘Wednesday’ on Twitter and wrote a short message: “Thanks to everyone who made next season possible. It was all quite surreal.” The official account of the streaming platform that broadcasts the series replied “thank you”that was “a legend every fucking day of the week”.

Thanks to everyone who made this upcoming season possible. This was all pretty surreal https://t.co/cIeJLr9qwh

? Jenna Ortega (@jennaortega) January 6, 2023

Netflix isn’t far from reality when calling Ortega a legend, the series starring the teenage daughter of the Addams Family fired 2022 as the leader on Netflix in hours viewed during the last five weeks of the year. Also, was close to overtaking ‘Stranger Things’ season 4 as the most-watched series on the platform in 2022a good result if we take into account the fact that “Wednesday” was released at the end of November, “Stranger Things” in the summer and that the latter has had a huge fandom behind it for years.

multiple seasons

Although the announcement of the second season is very recent, the success led by Jenna Ortega makes us wonder if “Wednesday” will have more than two seasons and will position itself as one of the main representatives of Netflix for the next decade, as was the case with ‘Stranger Things’. Alfred Gough and Miles Miller, the showrunners of the series, clarified in an interview with Variety that they think beyond a second season: “For us it’s always about looking to the future and when we sit down to create a series, the ideal is to think about several seasons. So you always plan at least three or four seasons of possible storylines for the characters. It can evolve and change. You often want to see which characters or performers stand out and who you enjoy writing about. So you want to keep it open enough and organic enough to change and evolve, but honestly, we have a pretty good idea of ​​what we want to do in the next few seasons.”