Season 2 of Wednesday is finally available to watch in its entirety on Netflix. And while the first half introduced a solid return , the second half almost holds up before a messy to-be-continued conclusion.
Tim Burton puts his whole Burtonesque business on full display with a third-act antagonist reveal that both works and doesn’t. The Addams family being at the mechanical heart of another mystery creates a lot of fun lore for Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) to discover about her parents. This time Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) isn’t the only Addams with a dark secret; Gomez (Luis Guzmán) and Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) are also involved.
And it all, of course, ties back to what makes Nevermore the center of the drama, both in its past and in its present. But did it all come together in a