“Wednesday” season 2: Woefully repetitive

My “Addams Family” credentials include the following: an obsession with the original movie, a longing for a romance like Morticia and Gomez and, obviously, my position as the smart, eldest daughter in my family with a fervently protective watch over my slightly idiotic younger brother.

I loved season one of “Wednesday,” even watching it twice; so naturally, I binged all of season two in one sitting once it was released.

However, this season’s plot was full of holes and missed opportunities.

The setup of both seasons is relatively the same: seven episodes of random minor story lines and side quests, and one finale episode that somehow manages to weakly connect all the random plot points yet still include some loose cliffhanger that keeps us wanting another season.

In season one, Wednesday arrives at Nevermore Academy while a monster terrorizes the nearby town of Jericho. She travels to Jericho chasing answers about a psychic premonition she had, in which she was behind the destruction of the school.

In the end, Wednesday manages to avoid the fate of her vision, uncovering secrets from her parents’ time at the academy and exposing the truth that a Nevermore staff member has been plotting against the students all along.

Wednesday makes several enemies for herself in the process: she lands on the bad side of a group of Jericho bullies, Principal Weems and fellow student Bianca Barclay. All of these hateful relationships seemingly vanish in the brief summer hiatus that is said to have happened between seasons.

At the end of the finale, Xavier, Wednesday’s friend and fellow Nevermore student, who we never see again without explanation, gives Wednesday a phone. She receives a looming text that says “I’m watching you” with an eerie image of her being killed. While season two reveals a stalker with no intent to kill her, we never get a direct explanation of who was watching her with such murderous intent.

In season two, Wednesday arrives at Nevermore while a murder of crows is beginning to terrorize the nearby town of Jericho. She travels to Jericho chasing answers about a psychic premonition she had in which she is at fault for Enid’s death.

In the end, Wednesday again manages to avoid the fate of her vision, uncovering secrets from her parents’ time at the academy once more and exposing the truth that another Nevermore staff member has been plotting against the students all along.

Sound repetitive? It is.

Let me set this straight — I did really enjoy watching the new season. It was incredibly binge-worthy and very entertaining in the moment. But the more I think about it, the more boring I realize it really was.

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As someone who values a good plot twist, I wasn’t entirely shocked by most – if any – of the things revealed throughout the season. They made all the deaths and betrayals pretty obvious from the get-go. Even the final cliffhanger felt predictable.

Some plot lines, like the stalker piece, got revealed too early and never got explained, and others got brought up too late and also never really got explained. I felt as though I was left with more questions than answers at the end, and not in a suspenseful way that left me excited for the next season.

Overall, while entertaining, season two of “Wednesday” was largely a disappointment, and though I’ll absolutely be tuning in for season three, my hopes for a unique, shocking storyline are long gone, like alpha Enid, who disappeared into the wind.

Rating: 6/10

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