The power of Wednesday is still being felt. Tim Burton’s take on The Addams Family became an instant hit, gaining 1.2 billion hours of view time in its first 28 days. This type of success is wild, and the creators of the Jenna Ortega-led series are planning big things for the road ahead.
Showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar spoke to THR about the future of Wednesday, which involves the plans for more stories, including the fan-favorite ship Wednesday and Enid. But Gough says one of the main focuses is more of the Addams Family.
Gough says, “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 it’s like now, we do that.’
He adds, “Then, the other thing that’s really interesting 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?”
Turning to the fan-driven theory of Wednesday and Enid ending up as a couple, Millar gave his take on the fan speculation. Millar handled the question easily, answering without saying too much: “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…[which] is key to our sort of vision of the show,” says Millar.
Netflix is yet to confirm a second season of Wednesday at the time of writing, but the first season is available to stream now.
The series is 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.
Wednesday stars Jenna Ortega as Wednesday, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, Luis Guzmán as Gomez, Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley, and Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester alongside a cast that also includes Gwendoline Christie, Hunter Doohan, Percy Hynes White, Joy Sunday, Emma Myers, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Georgie Farmer, Naomi Ogawa, and Moosa Mostafa.
