Get ready for more dark, quirky chaos, because Netflix just unveiled a chilling sneak peek at Wednesday Season 2 during its Tudum 2025 event on June 1, 2025. The first six minutes of the season’s opening episode show Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams diving into a gruesome new mystery at Nevermore Academy, this time hunting a serial killer called the Kansas City Scalper, played by Haley Joel Osment. With Part 1 of the season dropping on Netflix August 6, 2025, and Part 2 following on September 3, the teaser is packed with the macabre charm fans adore. Here’s what we learned about Wednesday’s next twisted adventure.
The clip starts with Wednesday tied up in a serial killer’s basement, surrounded by eerie porcelain dolls. “He’s under the delusion that I’m his next victim,” she says in her deadpan delivery, before flashing back to explain how she got there. Over the summer, she’s been honing her psychic powers, a skill teased in Season 1. Obsessed with the Kansas City Scalper since she was 11, Wednesday tracks him down using a stolen bowling ball—nabbed by Thing from a police station—as evidence. We see her gliding through airport security, reluctantly surrendering a stash of weapons (brass knuckles, a spiked flail, a machete) while Thing’s giant sunscreen bottle triggers alarms. When she finally faces Osment’s Scalper, he shows off a doll modeled after her, but Wednesday’s unfazed, hinting at some “handiwork” of her own.
Showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are cranking up the horror, promising “horror movie-worthy” moments. “There’s some moments that are very intense,” Millar said in a recent interview with EW. Ortega, now a producer, described the season as “bigger, bolder, gorier” but also “sillier in the best way possible.” The logline teases Wednesday juggling family drama, old rivals, and a “bone-chilling supernatural mystery” at Nevermore, where her parents, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzmán), first met. The Addams family takes center stage, with Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) joining Nevermore as an awkward freshman and Morticia wielding a fencing foil, much to Wednesday’s dismay.
The cast is loaded, with returning stars like Emma Myers as Enid, Joy Sunday as Bianca, Hunter Doohan as Tyler, and Victor Dorobantu as Thing, plus new additions like Steve Buscemi as Dean Barry Dort, Billie Piper, Joanna Lumley as Grandmama, and Thandiwe Newton. A Tudum highlight was the reveal of Lady Gaga as Rosaline Rotwood, a legendary Nevermore teacher, appearing in Part 2. Gaga’s casting is a nod to her song “Bloody Mary,” which went viral with Wednesday’s Season 1 dance, choreographed by Ortega with inspiration from Siouxsie Sioux and Bob Fosse.
Season 1, a 2022 smash, racked up over 1 billion viewing hours in a month, earning Ortega Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG nominations for her deadpan take on the psychic teen solving a monster mystery. Critics loved it, calling it “relentlessly strange” and “oddly endearing.” Season 2 goes full horror, with Ortega revealing one episode pulls from 1980s slashers like Prom Night and Carrie, and another scene channels Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. The teaser’s serial killer plot suggests a slasher vibe, fitting Ortega’s love for dark stories—she’s admitted to feeling a strange connection to “serial killers, monsters, creatures.”
Filming wrapped in Ireland in December 2024, moving from Season 1’s Romania shoot, with Ortega calling the Dublin experience “sweet and awesome.” The teaser hints at new locations, like the Willowhill Psychiatric Hospital tied to Season 1’s lore, possibly connected to Tyler’s Hyde arc. Some Season 1 stars, like Percy Hynes White and Jamie McShane, won’t return, but the new cast and darker tone keep things fresh. Fans are already obsessed, with one calling it “creepy, campy perfection” online. With Wednesday’s sharp wit and a killer new mystery, Season 2 is shaping up to be a bloody blast.