The 10 biggest questions we have for Wednesday Season 2 on Netflix

So you spent last Wednesday watching Netflix Wednesday, a show about Wednesday Addams, the teenage daughter of the Addams family.

Wednesday (the show, not the girl) takes Wednesday (the girl, not the show) to a funky goth boarding school for “outcasts,” where she meddles a lot of the action. From an old murder her parents were involved in to some crazy deaths in the small town of Jericho, Vermont, and from a love triangle and high school cliques to tensions between “outcasts” and “normies.” Wednesday (the show, not the girl) packs a lot into its eight-part first season.

It only makes sense that there are a handful of unanswered questions, loose ends for a possible second season to pull at.

[Ed. note: This post contains major spoilers for Netflix’s Wednesday.]

Why don’t Morticia and Wednesday get along?

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From the beginning Wednesday Off we go, we learn that Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) and her mother, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones), are joining the cast Not get along. This seems to stem from a simple teenage rebellion. Wednesday doesn’t want to be like her mother! But there’s also a bit of internalized misogyny – Wednesday doesn’t want to be like her mother because her mother is a mother and a housewife who is very much in love with her husband. If you consider goth queen Morticia Addams to be the epitome of traditional femininity, I have a lot of questions for you.

By mid-season, Morticia and Wednesday have reached a shaky, tentative agreement. But their fractured relationship is one of the many, many plot points this first season explores, largely because it’s also tied to the mysterious murder Morticia and Gomez were involved in when they were teenagers.

What is this cult that Bianca’s mother belongs to?

One of the coolest characters, both from an aesthetic and worldview perspective, is Bianca, a siren played by Joy Sunday. She’s the school’s queen bee and fencing champion, and she has really cool white and blue glowing eyes. Also, we find out that sirens can force people to bid, although that’s not really explored (because the show explores a lot of things). What we do know about Bianca’s siren powers is that her ex-boyfriend Xavier (Percy Hynes White) thinks she used them on him.

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We also learn that Bianca ran away from home because her mother is married to a cult leader who wants to use her siren powers to indoctrinate more members. The cult is disguised as a self-help application, but in reality it is designed to scam people out of their money. Bianca manages to convince her mother to let her finish the school year first. This only really comes up in one episode, but it’s such a meaty plot point that we’re sure it’ll show up in a hypothetical Season 2. You can’t just mention a cult disguised as a self-help app and then sweep it under the rug!

Who is Xavier’s father?

Bianca’s ex-boyfriend and one of the lynchpins of Wednesday’s love triangle is troubled artist Xavier Thorpe, whose power it is to bring his drawings to life. His father is a famous stage magician and psychic and he seems to have one a lot of by Daddy Issues™. He doesn’t like it when people compare him to his father, but he also talks about his father all the time. Considering Daddy Thorpe’s fame, it’s likely that he actually shows up later.

Will Tyler come back?

Speaking of love triangles, the Miscellaneous Love interest softboy barista Tyler (Hunter Doohan) – objectively the better love interest – actually turned out to be a murderous creature known as Hyde! As Hyde, Tyler was responsible for all of the city’s mysterious deaths! Technically, he was now controlled and exploited by Marilyn Thornhill (Christina Ricci), a descendant of the fanatical Pilgrim who founded the city of Jericho and wanted to kill all the outcasts. So… is there something good in Tyler or has he been brainwashed?

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The last time we saw him he was taken to a psychiatric ward. So he’s not dead. But were his feelings about Wednesday a lie from the start? Because they were really cute! And will we also learn more about his mysterious mother? There are a lot of loose ends when it comes to Tyler, and it would be a shame to just tuck him away.

Who Stalks Wednesday?

In one of the final scenes of season one, Wednesday opens a mysterious envelope filled with candid pictures of her. It’s been left by someone who’s still out there, who could take a picture of her on the last day of school (they all had to go home because of the #tragedy that happened), and who harbors a strange vendetta against her. Is it someone we’ve already met on the show or is it a new character? We’ll have to wait to find out.

What the heck is Gomez’s outcast ability?

So all students at Nevermore Academy are outcasts, which we know because it was a big deal that Marilyn Thornhill was the first Normie in the school’s hallowed halls. And most outcasts fall into familiar fantasy creatures like werewolves and vampires. Except when they have more idiosyncratic powers, like Wednesday and Morticia’s psychic abilities, or Xavier’s art thing.

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As a former Nevermore student, Gomez (Luis Guzmán) must have had some kind of power. But we’ll never find out what it is! Probably something to explore later. The Addams family themselves didn’t really appear much on the show, so there’s still a lot to discover later.

What was Edgar Allan Poe’s Outcast ability?

One of Nevermore’s most celebrated alumni was author Edgar Allan Poe. And because all of Nevermore’s students and alumni are outcasts, that means Poe definitely had powers. I want to know more.

What makes an outcast anyway?

Great question! Although the entire season focuses on tensions from Normie outcasts, we actually never really find out. Are they just magical beings? But then what about Wednesday, who didn’t tell anyone she had powers when she enrolled? Need to dress in black and enjoy the macabre? Then what about the brave werewolf Enid (Emma Myers), who likes everything pink and glittery? What is the criterion?

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It’s one thing to intentionally leave it vague for school jokes, but if the whole core of the plot hinges on what constitutes a normie and what constitutes an outcast, it would make more sense to make those definitions clear.

What does the rest of the world think about werewolves and vampires and all that?

Does only the city of Jericho hate outcasts? Xavier’s father is a well-known wizard, so I’m sure some people like outcasts. We shall see how far this prejudice reaches.

Where does the Addams family live?

I ask this mainly because in the Broadway musical they canonically live in the middle of Central Park and I think it would be really funny if they kept that.

Wednesday is now available on Netflix.