After that deadly ‘Wednesday’ shocker, series creators preview Part 2 (exclusive)

This post contains spoilers for Part 1 of Wednesday season 2.

Things are not looking good for Wednesday Addams.

In the Part 1 finale of the Netflix hit’s second season, all the patients of the Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital were released moments after Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) discovered that Augustus Stonehearst’s daughter (Heather Matarazzo) was the Avian behind the bird killings she’d been investigating. And furthermore, that she was part of a secret program called LOIS — Long-term Outcast Integration Study — where her father extracted abilities from outcasts and injected them into normal humans.

“We didn’t want to repeat ourselves, as second seasons are tricky things with a lot of shows, and we wanted to change up the mystery storytelling,” co-creator Alfred Gough tells Entertainment Weekly for our latest digital cover story. “So the idea is that at the end of episode 4, literally all hell breaks loose. It propels you forward, but I don’t think you quite know where it’s going.”

But that’s not to say that the mystery has been fully solved. “One aspect of the mystery is solved,” Gough clarifies. The larger issue at hand? Tyler (Hunter Doohan) is free, and he’s already murdered Thornhill (Christina Ricci) and launched Wednesday out of a second story window.

“The beast inside has overwhelmed him,” co-creator Miles Millar says. “It’s always good when you do kill people of significance — it’s the fun that we have with people’s expectations. We were very focused on making sure the season was compelling and didn’t want to get complacent or rest on our haunches in terms of really wanting it to be bigger and better than season 1.”

However, Wednesday’s fate is not nearly as dire as Thornhill’s. “Well, the show’s called Wednesday, so that’s the biggest clue we’ll give,” Millar says. And then there’s the fact that she’s been shown in both a preview of Part 2 and in EW’s exclusive Part 2 images.

But that doesn’t mean she’s safe with the Hyde on the loose. “Now you’ve let out Tyler, and he’s very plainly stated what he wants to do. So I think that’s something else that then needs to be dealt with,” Gough says. “And then who is he without a master? He’s the ultimate wild card, and Wednesday is responsible for that. It’ll all have ramifications.”

As Doohan puts it, “He’s free. He’s out in the world again. It’s gonna be so fun.” 

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And let’s not forget that all of Part 1 centered around Wednesday’s visions that Enid (Emma Myers) was going to die. As Millar says, “You should still be very worried for Enid.”

For more, read EW’s latest digital cover story.

Part 2 of Wednesday premieres on Sept. 3 on Netflix.