WEDNESDAY Season 2 First Reviews Tease A Triumphant Return To Nevermore; Rotten Tomatoes Score Revealed

WEDNESDAY Season 2 First Reviews Tease A Triumphant Return To Nevermore; Rotten Tomatoes Score Revealed

Though some critics were not overly impressed, the majority of reviews for the first part of the second season of Netflix's Wednesday have been positive...

By MarkCassidy - Aug 06, 2025 09:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Television

The first five episodes of the second season of Wednesday are now streaming on Netflix, and the first reviews hit early this morning.

For the most part, the critical reception has been positive, although some feel that the second season is a step down in quality from the first. The entire cast - Jenna Ortega is, once again, said to be a major standout - come in for praise, but quite a few reviews mention that an overstuffed, formulaic plot does hold the show back.

Despite a few negative verdicts, Wednesday season 2 is currently sitting at 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Have a read through some reviews at the links below.

Wednesday also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, Luis Guzmán as Gomez, Isaac Ordonez as Pugsly, and Thing... as Thing.

The first season proved to be a massive hit for Netflix, breaking the record for most hours viewed in a single week… twice. In the first week, it raked in 341.23 million hours viewed; in its second, 411.29 million hours viewed.

The coming-of-age comedy series, which has Al Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville, Into the Badlands) on board as showrunners, is said to be "a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore."

Burton made his TV directing debut with the show, and also executive produced alongside Jonathan Glickman, Andrew Mittman, Kayla Alpert, Gail Berman, Steve Stark, and Kevin Miserocchi.

“We can’t wait to dive headfirst into another season and explore the kooky, spooky world of Nevermore,” Millar and Gough told Tudum in January 2023. “We just need to make sure Wednesday hasn’t emptied the pool first.”

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