Jenna Ortega‘s haunting and brooding Wednesday Addams is a TSA nightmare in the first teaser trailer for Wednesday Season Two. Heading through airport security, the titular character unloads an arsenal of weapons — from a taser and flail to mace and at least four different types of knives — but it’s the non-travel size sunscreen that gets her flagged. It isn’t even hers. Thing just wants to protect its scarred and discolored hand-only body. The popular Netflix series will return in two parts on Aug. 3 and Sept. 3 as Wednesday returns to Nevermore Academy following an extended break.
That Wednesday wants to return to Nevermore at all is a feat, her mother, Morticia, notes. She’s never willingly returned to a school before. But she does have some unfinished business there. When asked how it feels to be back, Wednesday responds: “Like returning to the scene of the crime. I already know where all the bodies are buried.” At the end of season one, Wednesday showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar told Netflix: “Not all the loose ends have been tied up as neatly as Wednesday thinks they have. And she loves the idea of a new mystery.”
The trailer includes the return of Wednesday’s roommate, Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers), and the debut of Steve Buscemi‘s new series regular character. Last year, Buscemi joined the cast with Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, and Noah Taylor. Lady Gaga will also make a special appearance in season two after her Born This Way deep cut “Bloody Mary” became the soundtrack to a viral Wednesday trend when season one premiered.
Earlier this year, Ortega teased some horror-flick-inspired elements of the upcoming season. “I feel like there are a lot of scenes and frames, and there’s a whole episode based on slashers, and we make a lot of horror references,” Ortega told Collider. “So, everything about it, I feel like we had a little bit more trust, and therefore, we felt like we could do bigger, more elaborate sequences, which is nice.”
From Rolling Stone US
