The Jenna Ortega-led series returns for its second season when Part 1 drops on Aug. 6

The first six minutes of the show’s highly anticipated second season were shown at the streamer’s Tudum 2025 live event on Saturday, May 31. After a nearly three-year wait, fans finally got to see what kind of spooky shenanigans Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) gets up to this season.

The footage begins with Wednesday tied up in a serial killer’s basement — “who said nightmares don’t come true?” — surrounded by life-size dolls. “He’s under the delusion that I’m his next victim,” she says. “I’ll let him cherish that notion while I explain my predicament.”

A flashback from six weeks earlier then takes place, showing Wednesday spending her summer vacation doing what any normal teen would be doing: mastering her psychic ability. With her powers under control, she sets out to find the Kansas City Scalper — which we discover was her favorite serial killer as a child.

The next scene shows Wednesday hilariously unloading her weapons — and Thing — while going through airport security, a scene from the teaser trailer Netflix released back in April.

Finally, Wednesday comes face to face with the Kansas City Scalper, who we now see is played by Haley Joel Osment, and he presents her with a doll he made that looks like her.

“Let me show you some of my own handiwork,” she tells the serial killer as the clip ends.

From left: Fred Armisen, Joanna Lumley, Isaac Ordonez, Jenna Ortega, and Luis Guzman at Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event.Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty

Back on stage at Tudum, the Wednesday cast announced that Lady Gaga will be joining season 2 in a guest starring role. The news marked the first time Netflix officially confirmed her casting and likely comes as a thrill to fans after Gaga was associated with the show thanks to her song “Bloody Mary” in a scene from season 1.

Additional details about who the “Born This Way” singer will be playing in season 2 were not announced.

Gaga closed out the show with a show-stopping performance, including “Bloody Mary” as well as her hit song “Abracadabra.”

The first season of Wednesday, co-created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, dropped in November 2022, introducing the world to Tim Burton’s take on the beloved Addams Family character. The series and Ortega were nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes.

Returning cast members for season 2 include Wednesday’s family members: her mom, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones); her dad, Gomez (Luis Guzmán); and her brother, Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez). Also back are Thing (Victor Dorobantu) and Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen).

Joanna Lumley joins this season as Grandmama Hester Frump while Joonas Suotamo comes aboard as Lurch, replacing George Burcea from season 1.

This season also welcomes Steve Buscemi as Principal Dort, the head of Nevermore; Billie Piper as Isadora Capri, head of music at Nevermore; Christopher Lloyd as Professor Orloff, Nevermore’s longest-serving teacher; Thandiwe Newton as Dr. Rachael Fairburn, chief psychiatrist at Willow Hill Psychiatric Facility; and Heather Matarazzo as Judi, Dr. Fairburn’s executive assistant.

The cast of ‘Wednesday’.Helen Sloan/Netflix

Netflix released a teaser trailer for Wednesday season 2 in April, featuring Ortega’s titular character hilariously unloading her weapons when going through airport security on her way back to school.

Elsewhere in the previously released teaser, Wednesday describes returning to Nevermore as “returning to the scene of the crime,” joking, “I already know where the bodies are buried.”

The following scenes send the creep factor through the roof before Zeta-Jones’ Morticia warns her daughter, “Every family has dark secrets, Wednesday. And secrets can have deadly consequences.”

This doesn’t phase Wednesday, though, who replies, “You don’t need to worry about me, Mother. I do my best work in the dark.”

Wednesday season 2 returns with Part 1 on Aug. 6 and Part 2 on Sept. 3 — all streaming on Netflix.