“Wednesday”: The showrunners of the series already have plans for a possible second season

“Wednesday” came out on Netflix this week, specifically and ironically, Wednesday November 23rd. The platform hasn’t yet ruled on renewing the series for a second season, but its showrunners have, Miles Millar and Alfred Cough, who said they have plans for the next installment.

As the showrunners told TVLine, Looking ahead to the second season, they want to continue to delve into the complex nature of the protagonist, Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega), and her relationships with the rest of the characters. On the other hand, they would also like to incorporate the rest of their macabre family into the main storyline. “The series is about a girl who sees the world in black and white and discovers that there are shades of gray. I think, like any relationship or friendship, it can be complicated by other factors. It will never be easy. And it is she who learn to navigate the ups and downs of friendship”, Gough explained.

The series focuses solely on the character of Wednesday, and while we will see and meet the other members of the Addams family, they will not have as much prominence in the storyline. Still, Millar was flattering the actors playing the rest of the family, and he wanted to tell TVLine about it. “We feel like we’ve only scratched the surface with those characters, and the actors are fantastic in those roles”, Miller commented. “I think Catherine is an iconic Morticia. The relationship between Wednesday and Morticia is also essential to the series, and the idea that Wednesday is trying to carve her own way outside of the family is important”.

Millar clarified that while they want to influence the rest of the Addams Family more, the dynamic won’t change for season 2, Because they want “focuses the series on Wednesday’s character”, explained. “Definitely, if we get a second season, we want to introduce the family like we did in a couple of episodes in this one.”

A detective mystery

“Wednesday” is about Wednesday Addams’ years at Nunca Más Academy, where we see the teenager’s attempts to master his budding psychic abilities.. The protagonist plans to stop a growing wave of murders, as well as try to solve a paranormal mystery in which her parents, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzmán), became involved 25 years ago.

The series consists of 8 episodes of 45 minutes and is already available on Netflix. It is directed, perfectly cast, by Tim Burton, who is also part of the production team. The main cast is rounded out by Isaac Ordoñez as Pugsley Addams, Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems and Christina Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill, among others.