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After many attempted murders, a Freaky Fridayβstyle body swap, and way too little Lady Gaga, Wednesday Season 2 has come to a suitably spooky end.
The Addams family prevailed over the Night family, which included resurrected zombie Isaac (Owen Painter), his sister and Hyde Françoise (Frances O'Connor), and Hyde Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan). Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) also took down Principal Dort (Steve Buscemi) after learning he was the original head of the Morning Song cult. All in all, it's been one busy season for our favorite outcast!
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But Wednesday's adventures are far from over, as the finale introduces several twists that are bound to play a part in Wednesday Season 3. From werewolf hunts to estranged family members, let's break it down.
Wednesday's next goal? Un-wolfing Enid.
Emma Myers in "Wednesday." Credit: Courtesy of Netflix
The good news: Wednesday managed to save her bestie, Enid (Emma Myers), from certain death this season. The bad news: Enid may now be permanently wolfed out.
Over the course of the season, Enid learned that she is an Alpha werewolf. That means she can transform any time, not just during the full moon. However, being an Alpha comes with a major cost. Alpha werewolves are destined to be loners. Plus, when a young Alpha wolfs out under a full moon, there's a high chance the transformation they undergo is permanent. As if that weren't enough, the transformed Alpha will be hunted by other werewolves. It's the rawest of raw deals, and Enid takes every precaution on the night of the full moon to make sure she doesn't wolf out.
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However, when Isaac buries Wednesday alive, Enid has no choice but to transform in order to dig her back up again. It's the ultimate sacrifice, one made all the more bittersweet by Enid and Wednesday's body swap in episode 6, which brought them closer.
It's also not a sacrifice Wednesday takes lightly, as she and her Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) set out on a road trip to save a fleeing wolf-Enid. Look, if anyone can figure out how to reverse a permanent wolf out, it's Wednesday. But there's just the small problem of all the other werewolves hunting Enid down. How will Nevermore's most polar opposite roommates fare in a battle against whole packs?
What's the deal with Isadora Capri's Hyde pack?
Billie Piper in "Wednesday." Credit: Bernard Walsh / Netflix
Speaking of packs, let's talk about Nevermore's music teacher, Isadora Capri (Billie Piper). As Part 2 revealed, she's one of the few people to have survived a Hyde attack: Her encounter came at the hands of her boyfriend, Alfie Penn.
However, in the Season 2 finale, she spins a different story of her Hyde connection to Tyler, telling him a Hyde was her father. Now, she wants to bring Tyler to a place where Hydes are free to be themselves, with no need for masters. He accepts her offer and drives off into the sunset with her, but the whole situation seems fishy.
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In Wednesday and Capri's discussion about Hydes, Capri never once mentioned that her father was a Hyde. That seems like a pretty big detail to omit from that conversation! Instead, she focused on how Alfie attacked her at his jealous master's command, only to accidentally kill her in the process. But could Capri have been lying to Wednesday about Alfie's attack? The newspaper articles Wednesday reads about the attack provide solid evidence, but as the season has shown us from the faked obituaries of the LOIS subjects, these kinds of articles can be easily falsified. Perhaps Capri was more involved in the attack than we know. And perhaps Alfie isn't really dead, and is instead a member of Capri's Hyde Pack.
Why is Hester Frump keeping Ophelia locked up?
Joanna Lumley in "Wednesday." Credit: Owen Behan / Netflix
All throughout Season 2, Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her mother, Hester Frump (Joanna Lumley), have discussed the disappearance of Morticia's sister, Ophelia. Like Wednesday, she was a troubled psychic, and she wound up institutionalized in Willow Hill before vanishing for years.
Turns out, she was right under Wednesday's characters' noses the whole time. Or really, one character's nose in particular: Hester's.
In the last moments of the Season 2 finale, Morticia gifts Wednesday Ophelia's journal. While reading it, Wednesday gets a psychic vision of her aunt, proof that her mending her bond with her mother has begun to help her regain her outcast ability. With the help of this vision, Wednesday reveals that Hester knows damn well where Ophelia's been this whole time. She's been imprisoned in Hester's basement, where she scrawls charming, bloody messages like "Wednesday must die" on her prison walls.
The Ophelia reveal raises major questions for Season 3. What is Hester up to, locking her daughter away like this? Is it a protective measure to keep Wednesday safe? Some twisted form of motherly love?
Plus, what kind of visions has Ophelia been having to believe that Wednesday must die? And how in the world will Morticia react when she finds out what her mother has done with her sister?
So much of Season 2 was spent on strengthening the mother-daughter bond between Morticia and Wednesday, but Season 3 may very well see the full destruction of another such bond: that between Morticia and Hester.
After all, when it comes to family, Addams or otherwise, things are rarely ever straightforward.
Wednesday Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
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