Netflix has premiered a new featurette for the second season of its hit dark comedy/horror series “Wednesday”.
Jenna Ortega returns as Wednesday Addams and is joined by four returnees who’ve been upgraded to regulars for the new season – Luis Guzmán and Catherine Zeta-Jones as her parents Gomez and Morticia, Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley and Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Ritchie Santiago
Also back are various classmates like actors Emma Myers and Hunter Doohan. Joining the cast for the new run are Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper, Noah Taylor, Evie Templeton, Joanna Lumley, Thandwie Newton, Frances O’Connor, Haley Joel Osment, Heather Matarazzo, Christopher Lloyd and Lady Gaga.
The new season will be darker and have more of a horror tone than the first, eschewing the high school romance angle. The featurette offers a better look at Wednesday’s fellow family members who are more involved in the new season, thile the scope of the show is expanded.
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (“Smallville”) are the writers and showrunners, with Tim Burton executive producing and directing several episodes. The first season remains Netflix’s most-watched English-language series along with scoring four Emmy wins from twelve nominations.
The second season is being released in two parts – the first on August 6th, the second on September 3rd.
