Your nightmares have been answered. Netflix confirmed on Friday (Jan. 6) that its huge hit collection Wednesday will return for a second season on the streamer. Although a date has not but been introduced for season 2, in an interview with Tudum, creators/government producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar talked about bringing again Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) for an additional go.
“We are able to’t wait to dive headfirst into one other season and discover the kooky, spooky world of Nevermore,” showrunners Millar and Gough completely instructed the Netflix information website. “We simply want to verify Wednesday hasn’t emptied the pool first.”
The information got here together with a video trailer teasing the return cued to the viral TikTok hit launched by Wednesday’s dance to The Cramps’ 1981 single “Goo Goo Muck,” which impressed customers to swap in Lady Gaga‘s 2011 Born This Approach deep reduce “Bloody Mary.” Within the 45-second clip, perennially dyspeptic teen detective Wednesday recaps being hunted by monsters, haunted by ghosts and mocked on the web.
“It’s been pure torture,” she says grinning because the sped-up model of Gaga’s “Mary” swells within the background and the display reads, “Extra distress is coming.”
“[Wednesday] sticks to her weapons, and she or he’s not out to please anyone,” Ortega instructed Tudum of the collection that smashed information for Netflix, with 411.29 million hours seen in its second week, 22 billion views on TikTok and 1.237 billion hours seen, making it the second most-popular English-language hit within the streamer’s historical past. “Which, as somebody who was once an immense folks pleaser, I actually respect.”
The viral “Bloody Mary” phenomenon helped push the Gaga monitor into the top 40 of the Billboard International Excl. U.S. chart las month regardless of it not being featured within the collection correct; the revamped dance sequence additionally helped propel “Bloody” onto the Billboard International 200. The development blew up so huge, in truth, that even Mom Monster acquired in on the motion, posting a black and white response video in early December by which she slips into the signature Wednesday Addams look and dancing together with her palms, palms, palms.
“It’s been unbelievable to create a present that’s related with folks the world over,” Millar and Gough stated whereas (spoiler alert) hinting that the stalker working round Nevermore within the season one finale stays a menace to Addams. “We’re thrilled to proceed Wednesday’s torturous journey into Season 2.” Millar and Gough stated that casting and plot information might be revealed at a later date.
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