Wednesday Season 2 (blu-ray TV review)
Wednesday Addams (actress Jenna Ortega) has a busy school holiday. She’s stalks a stalker who captures her but regrets it. Returning home, she is whisked back to school and finds her brother, Pugsley (actor Issa Ordonez), is going to be in the lower form and exhibiting the same kind of electrical power as their Uncle Fester (actor Fred Armisen). She can cope with that, after all, when young, she tried burying her baby brother. Less helpful is her mother, Morticia (actress Catherine Zeta-Jones), will be spending time at the school as a fundraiser and needs to go through their list.
Much of this second season is dealing with Pugley’s zombie pet that is slowly regenerating but that’s spoiler. The same with what the new college dean is up to. No one quite knows why Wednesday cries black tears but she can’t beat her mother in a sword fight. Wednesday does succeed in stopping her room mate Enid (actress Emma Myers) dying in her precognition but has now put one of her own family at risk. Morticia’s book career must surely mean something in the future. Uncle Fester is still wanted for breaking out of prison even if what he was convicted of is rather precarious.
We do learn the origin of Thing (hand in by Victor Dorobantu) and why Gomez (actor Luis Guzmán) has no electrical abilities. Enid is also an alpha werewolf, able to change into the werewolf without a full moon but harder to change back and likely to be the principle plot of season 3.
I’m only covering the highlights above. There’s a lot more in the detail and reading the character names, you do have to be old school to know. The list of actors has a lot of cameos but they are so into the parts you might miss many of them. I certainly didn’t recognise the original second Wednesday, Christine Ricci. Saying that, Billie Piper and Joanna Lumley can’t even be recognised by their voices and I only spotted Billie because of her eyebrows.
Its rather interesting seeing a body swap between Wednesday and Edna, allowing Ortega to show she can be more than sullen. It’s even more amazing that this series was recorded in Ireland but does explain why there are so many British actors.
Currently, like a lot of recent TV series on blu-ray, I pulled my copy from China via ebay. Where you find one, there will always be other series to bolster the postage which is still cheaper than getting anything from the USA. The Addams Family would be proud.
GF Willmetts
December 2025
(pub: 2025 Productions, 2025. 2 blu-ray disks 8 * 50 minute episodes. Price: varies. ASIN: LG-M5504)
