Jenna Ortega Appears in Dark First Glimpse at 'Wednesday' Season 2 — Watch!
On Thursday, Jan. 30, Netflix unveiled a first look at the upcoming second season of the Jenna Ortega-led series in a promotional sizzle reel teasing the many titles hitting the streamer in 2025.
The video begins with a young woman who attempts to stream Stranger Things in a work meeting being transported through the many different worlds of Netflix's programming. From there, we see her encountering the guards of Squid Game and the iconic Black Mirror logo.
We then see the woman donning Wednesday Addams' signature braided ponytails while wearing a Nevermore Academy uniform before Ortega, herself, appears as the character.
The clip shows the gates of Willowhill Psychiatric Hospital, where Tyler Galpin's (Hunter Doohan) mom Francoise was admitted due to her transformation as a hyde — a mutated species of monster that was previously banned from Nevermore Academy.
As Ortega's Wednesday hits the screen, she stares down Tyler as he's chained to a wall.
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Wednesday, produced by Tim Burton (who also directed the first season), was an instant hit upon making its Netflix debut in November 2022. The series follows Ortega's titular Wednesday as she navigates her teenage years at Nevermore Academy.
Ortega, 22, starred alongside Joy Sunday, Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, Moosa Mostafa, Victor Dorobantu, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez and Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, all of whom are set to return for season 2. However, fellow season 1 stars Percy Hynes White, Jamie McShane and Naomi J Ogawa are reportedly not coming back for the upcoming installment, per Deadline.
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Production on season 2 recently wrapped and will arrive on the streamer later this year. Ahead of its eventual premiere, Ortega had teased that the new installment is dialing the scare factor up a notch.
"I think the feel that we're going for is a little bit more horror-inspired," she told Vanity Fair in August 2024. "Not to say that suddenly we're the goriest show of all time. I mean, there's six-year-olds watching. We're doing this thing now where Wednesday just kind of appears. She is a little bit of a jump scare herself."
Season 1 of Wednesday is available to stream in full on Netflix.
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