Even though it's only been a little over a month since the first season of Wednesday hit Netflix, fans are already murderous for more of Wednesday's macabre hijinks. Breaking the streaming service's record of over 400 million hours watched within a week of its release, Wednesday has yet to be officially renewed for a second season—but it seems like it's only a matter of time.
Once the order comes through, series creators Al Gough and Miles Millar tell The Hollywood Reporter they're ready to go with a roadmap in hand. Sharing what viewers can expect from a second season, the duo teased more of a fan favorite friendship: Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) and her roommate at Nevermore Academy, Enid (Emma Myers).
"We wanna sort of explore and sort of complicate all of those relationships going forward. The school was closed when they left, which gave us the most possibilities for season two, and I think that's something that we're excited to explore. For us, the show also is really about this female friendship, with Wednesday and Enid really being at the center of that. The fact that they really connected with audiences, it has been really gratifying. So, we're excited to explore now that Wednesday's dipped her toe into the friendship pool, what's that gonna look like? It's like, she hugged. That was her big arc for the season, right? So now, we do that."
The showrunners teased that they're also excited to explore the relationship between Wednesday and her equally-morbid mother, Morticia (played in this iteration by Catherine Zeta-Jones) in later seasons, adding:
"Then, the other thing that's really interesting to continue is to continue to explore the Wednesday-Morticia mother-daughter relationship as well, which now that Morticia knows about the power, it has given her sort of an idea of how that's going to go. How is their relationship going to evolve?"
Will We See Wednesday & Enid Together or Not? Showrunners Say It's Still Up in the Air
Speaking of evolving relationships, fans are dying to know if the relationship between Wednesday and the polar-opposite Enid will ever bloom into anything more than their current budding, begrudging friendship. Though Gough and Millar are adamant that they won't be "misdirected" by fans who hope to see a romantic relationship between the roommates, the possibility isn't off the table—it all depends on how the characters organically evolve.
"As Al said, this idea of sisterhood is key to the show. We're not gonna discount anything, and, obviously, sometimes characters reveal themselves, which is the fun thing we love about television, that it's an organic journey. We have a roadmap, and we'd like to have routes along that map that take you in unexpected directions. So, we're open to everything. We wanna explore that friendship in every way, but we're not gonna be, this is where you sometimes get misdirected by fans and things like that, so it's just being really open to see how those characters develop and that friendship. As Al said, that friendship is key to our sort of vision of the show."
Season 1 of Wednesday is now available on Netflix.