Posted 1 minute agoSubscribe to Screen Time NewsletterCaret Down"Wednesday" Season 2 Looks Darker Than Ever - And Here's Everything You Need To Remember From Season 1Season 1 came out in 2022, so here is a much-needed refresher.by Raven IshakBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Wednesday Season 2 is coming out today, Wednesday, August 6 (I see what you did there, Netflix). So, before you jump back into the world of Nevermore Academy, I thought it would be helpful to share a recap of what exactly went down in Season 1, since it originally appeared back in 2022! Here's everything you should know: Note: Spoilers ahead for Wednesday Season 1. 1. Episode 1: "Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe" Netflix Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) is super reluctant to go to Nevermore Academy, where her mom, Morticia, and dad, Gomez, played by Luis Guzmán and Catherine Zeta-Jones, went to as teenagers and fell in love. The only reason she is being transferred to a new school is because she was expelled for doing a "prank" on a student who bullied her brother, Pugsley. However, when Wednesday arrives at Nevermore, she's required to see a therapist per her mother's request; finds out the headmaster Larissa (Gwendoline Christie) is Morticia's old roommate; and is placed in her mother's old dorm room with a new werewolf roommate, named Enid (Emma Myers) who can't turn yet but has a very cheery personality, which Wednesday is NOT a fan of. Thankfully, she is not alone at school because Gomez gave her Thing to keep her company and watch over her. That's not all: Police officers have discovered a dead body in the woods near the school, and there were two similar attacks a week prior - and they might be connected.
Wednesday meets other students: Rowan, Bianca, Xavier, and Tyler through various not-so-great situations. However, when she meets Tyler, an employee at the coffee shop, she comes across his dad, the town's sheriff, who believes her dad, Gomez, is a murderer from a previous incident.
Throughout this first episode, it is slowly revealed that Wednesday has some sort of "psychic powers," where she can see into the future and sometimes, see how people will die. Although she tries to escape school multiple times, at the end of the episode, she is caught in a fight with Rowan, who tries to kill her because he found an image of a girl who looks just like Wednesday in a book his mom wrote. The prediction: She was going to destroy Nevermore and all of its students. Luckily for Wednesday, a monster comes out of nowhere and kills Rowan on the spot.
And after all this, Wednesday finally deems the Nevermore Academy worth her time. 2. Episode 2: "Woe Is the Loneliest Number" Netflix At the beginning of the episode, we discover that Rowan is "dead," but his body is nowhere to be found, and the sheriff doesn't believe Wednesday's statement of a monster attacking him. Oh, and it doesn't help that Rowan turns up "alive" the following day, which, of course, sparks Wednesday to investigate the mystery even further. Wednesday tries to talk to Rowan, but the headmaster informs her that he was expelled for reasons she can't share. So Wednesday sends Thing to follow Rowan before he goes home for good. In the meantime, she talks to Xavier, Rowan's roommate before he was expelled, and discovers Rowan has been on edge for the past few weeks.
When Thing follows Rowan to the train station, we learn that the headmaster is a shapeshifter and has been pretending to be Rowan to cover up the murder, but Wednesday or Thing doesn't know this yet.
Next, Wednesday goes into the woods with Tyler to find "evidence" that Rowan is actually dead. She finds his glasses, which triggers her to have a vision when she touches them. She discovers that Rowan was the one who tried to kill her earlier in the first episode. She also discovered the book from which the "prophecy" of her destroying Nevermore came, with a mysterious man making an appearance. Apparently, according to Nevermore's first normie teacher, Ms. Thornhill, it used to belong to an old student society that no longer exists, called the Nightshades.
During this episode, there is a student competition named the Poe Cup. While Wednesday and Enid team up and win the boat competition, Wednesday has another vision when she retrieves her team's flag: She sees herself in an all-white ensemble, saying that she is "the key." But the key to what?And that's not all, she also discovers an Edgar Allan Poe statue that holds a book with riddles. Naturally, Wednesday solves each riddle and snaps her fingers twice to open the secret door. Where does it lead? To the Nightshades headquarters, of course, which also happens to be a secret library. What does she find? The book Rowan was talking about, as well as a picture of the Nightshades, which shows that her parents were apparently members. Unfortunately, her time in the Nightshades headquarters is cut short when she is captured by someone! 3. Episode 3: "Friend or Woe" Netflix The episode star