Wednesday has continued to dominate Netflix’s most-watched chart, pushing the expectation that a second season will soon be green-lit. Showrunner Miles Millar recently discussed a possible arc for season 2, and after the first season spent much of its time with Wednesday acting alone, it seems that Jenna Ortega’s next time around may be more focused on the young Addams’ friendships.
Wednesday has been receiving mostly positive reviews since its arrival on Netflix. This has included a lot of praise for Jenna Ortega’s portrayal of the title character, who is fleshed out from her usual secondary role in Addams Family movies. Turning Wednesday into an intelligent, mystery-solving student has brought out a new edge to the character that is both intriguing and a winning move, given the series' success. Millar told Variety about the possibility of what the second season could look like. He said:
"For us it’s always looking at the future and when we sit down to create a show, it’s looking at multiple seasons, ideally. That’s never expected, but that’s the anticipation that hopefully the show is successful. So you always lay out at least three or four seasons’ worth of potential storylines for your characters. It can evolve and change. Often, you want to see which characters or cast pop and who you like to write for. So you want to keep it open and organic enough to change it and evolve it, but we certainly have a pretty clear runway of what we want to do in future seasons.”
Tim Burton’s Wednesday Makes Thing a Trusty Sidekick
While Wednesday focuses on the titular child of Morticia and Gomez, the story also has the prominent presence of Thing throughout. The disembodied hand is left at Nevermore to watch over Wednesday, but she soon discovers its presence, and Thing becomes an integral part of her investigations. One thing that required was for Thing to have his own “language,” something Ortega said the whole cast contributed to making up. She previously said:
"It was so funny, because the Thing language was just made up on the day. Every day we'd show up and go, 'Ahhh...' [hand motions] 'That looks right. I feel like I kind of know what he's saying.' But Tim wanted it to be an actual actor like they did in the 90s films, so it was this magician named Victor [Dorobantu]. He would wear a full blue suit, and he would hide behind walls and underneath beds. Then they built this prosthetic on top of his hand so that it looked like a wrist knob, and he would walk around."
Thing has always been one of the most iconic characters in The Addams Family, and as nothing more than a hand that often has an important part to play in keeping the rest of the family from trouble in some way, it is not an easy role to portray. However, his expressiveness on Wednesday has also been elevated in the show, and fans will be hoping to see much more of Thing in any second season of the show.