Lady Gaga just stepped out of the shadows in the new Wednesday Season 3 trailer… and holy hell, she’s NOT here to play nice. 😈🩸
Jenna Ortega’s ice-cold Wednesday is back, blood moon rising, Nevermore in chaos, and then… THAT voice. Gaga appears as a deadly siren dripping in black lace and venom, singing a song that literally makes people rip their own hearts out.
The final 3 seconds of the trailer? I’m still not okay. You’ll scream when you see who bleeds first.
Drop everything and watch “The Darkness Returns” trailer right now. Link below. Tell me whose side you’re on: Wednesday or Gaga? War starts below 👇🔥
In a move that’s got horror enthusiasts sharpening their pitchforks and pop culture diehards dusting off their black lace, Netflix dropped the first official teaser trailer for Wednesday Season 3 on Wednesday—because of course it did. Titled “The Darkness Returns,” the 90-second clip plunges viewers back into the fog-shrouded halls of Nevermore Academy, where Jenna Ortega’s iconic Wednesday Addams faces off against shadows darker than her wardrobe. But the real eyebrow-raiser? Lady Gaga struts into the frame as a enigmatic new outcast with a voice like velvet poison and secrets that could topple the entire Addams empire.
The trailer, which racked up over 5 million views in its first 24 hours, opens with that signature Wednesday vibe: a lone cello wailing over misty Irish cliffs as Wednesday, braids whipping in the wind, stares down a blood-red moon. “Some doors should stay locked,” she deadpans in her signature monotone, before the screen cuts to chaotic flashes—werewolf howls echoing through crumbling crypts, a ballroom waltz turning into a full-on claw-fest, and Gaga’s character, billed only as “The Siren,” crooning a haunting original track that blends A Star Is Born glamour with The Craft coven chills.
It’s classic Tim Burton territory, ramped up to eleven. Production kicks off in February 2026 in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains—prime Dracula country—and insiders whisper that this season’s budget has ballooned to $250 million, thanks to Gaga’s seven-figure payday and a VFX team poached from Marvel’s werewolf experiments in Werewolf by Night. Netflix execs are betting big: After Season 1’s record-breaking 1.7 billion hours viewed, the streamer greenlit Seasons 2 and 3 back-to-back, but delays from the 2023 writers’ strike and Ortega’s skyrocketing schedule (she’s juggling Beetlejuice Beetlejuice sequels and a rumored Scream return) pushed the premiere to late 2027.
But let’s rewind the Addams clock a tick. For the uninitiated—or those who binged Season 1 once and called it a day—Wednesday transformed Charles Addams’ macabre comic strip into a bingeable phenomenon when it debuted in November 2022. Directed by Burton, the show reimagined the pigtailed poisoner as a Gen-Z sleuth navigating teen angst at a school for “outcasts”—think vampires, sirens, and gorgons rubbing elbows like it’s Yale with fangs. Ortega’s portrayal earned her an Emmy nod at 20, blending deadpan snark with balletic fight scenes that went viral faster than a TikTok dance challenge. The series didn’t just slay; it resurrected the family-friendly horror genre, pulling in 341 million viewing hours in its debut week and spawning a merch empire from Thing plushies to Morticia-inspired makeup lines at Sephora.
Season 2, which wrapped filming in July 2025 and hits screens summer 2026, upped the ante with deeper dives into Wednesday’s psychic visions and a romance subplot that had fans shipping her with half the cast. But whispers from the set hinted at bigger swings for Season 3: more family reunions (expect Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Morticia to scheme her way back from a “diplomatic” exile in the underworld), expanded lore on the outcast world’s hidden history, and—per the trailer—a brewing war between ancient bloodlines that could spill into the “normie” world. “We’re not just telling stories; we’re building a universe,” showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar told Netflix’s Tudum blog last month. “Season 3 digs into the fractures of power at Nevermore, with Wednesday at the epicenter of a storm that tests her humanity—or lack thereof.”
Enter Lady Gaga, the wild card that’s got Hollywood buzzing like a hive of angry hydras. At 39, the Oscar winner (A Star Is Born), Grammy hoarder (13 and counting), and fashion icon who’s worn meat dresses and hosted SNL as a vampire, is no stranger to eccentricity. But stepping into the Wednesday sandbox? That’s a curveball even Uncle Fester couldn’t juggle. Sources close to the production spill that Gaga’s “The Siren” is a shape-shifting outcast with a tragic backstory tied to Wednesday’s lineage—think siren songs that lure victims to watery graves, but with a modern twist: her melodies manipulate minds via social media algorithms, turning TikTok trends into hypnotic curses.
“Gaga wasn’t our first choice,” a Netflix insider dishes to this outlet. “We courted Zendaya and Anya Taylor-Joy, but Gaga pitched herself after binge-watching Season 1 during her Joker: Folie à Deux press tour. She sent Burton a demo track—a goth ballad called ‘Echoes in the Abyss’—and boom, she was in.” Filming her intro scene reportedly took three weeks, with Gaga channeling her American Horror Story: Hotel vampira for a dance sequence that’s equal parts Suspiria ballet and Bad Romance video. Expect her to belt out at least two originals, co-written with Wednesday‘s composer Danny Elfman, blending orchestral swells with industrial beats that could soundtrack a Coachella set or a crypt rave.
Fans are already divided—and that’s putting it mildly. On X (formerly Twitter), the trailer sparked a frenzy: #WednesdaySeason3 trended worldwide within hours, amassing 2.3 million mentions. “Gaga as a siren? Genius or gimmick?” one user posted, racking up 15K likes. Diehards praise the casting as a “power move” to bridge Wednesday‘s teen demographic with Gaga’s queer icon status, potentially boosting the show’s inclusivity arc (Season 2 introduced non-binary outcasts and fluid werewolf packs). Critics, though? They’re snarling. “Stick to music, Stefani,” a Reddit thread groans, fearing it’ll overshadow Ortega’s subtle menace. And don’t get us started on the purists griping about deviations from the original Addams lore—Charles Addams’ 1930s cartoons never envisioned sirens scrolling Instagram.
Yet the trailer’s true horror hook isn’t the celebrity splash; it’s the escalating dread. Quick cuts reveal Wednesday unearthing a forbidden tome in Nevermore’s library, its pages bleeding ink that forms visions of a “Great Eclipse”—a celestial event prophesied to unleash primordial evils. Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers) gets a glow-up, her werewolf rage dialed to feral levels after a “betrayal too raw to forgive,” while new castings like Jacob Elordi as a brooding vampire heir and Saoirse Ronan in talks for a psychic rival add layers of teen-triangle tension. And Thing? The disembodied hand steals scenes as usual, pickpocketing clues from Gaga’s character in a nod to its Season 1 antics.
Netflix’s gamble pays off in spectacle: The trailer’s VFX tease a hydra beast rampaging through Jericho town (population: one nosy sheriff too many), with practical effects from the Stranger Things team ensuring the gore feels tactile—think arterial sprays that’d make Eli Roth nod approvingly. But beneath the jump scares lies Wednesday‘s sly commentary on modern woes: social media as a siren call, identity crises in a filtered world, and the allure of darkness in an age of endless scroll. Ortega, now 23 and a vocal strike supporter, has teased in interviews that her character evolves “from observer to orchestrator,” grappling with visions that blur her Addams heritage with reluctant empathy. “Wednesday’s always been the outsider,” she told Variety last week. “Season 3 asks: What if the monster isn’t the monster?”
Of course, no Wednesday drop is without its backstage brouhaha. The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike halted pre-production for months, and Ortega’s brief walkout over “creative differences” (she wanted more input on fight choreography) fueled tabloid fires. Burton, ever the eccentric, clashed with Netflix over tone—insisting on “more whimsy, less woke,” per leaked emails—before compromising with a subplot on outcast allyship against normie bigotry. And Gaga? Her involvement reportedly sweetened the deal, with her Haus Labs cosmetics line launching a “Nevermore Noir” collection timed to the premiere: black-lip kits infused with “siren essence” (okay, it’s just activated charcoal).
As production ramps up, whispers of crossovers swirl like fog off the moors. Could we see a Beetlejuice cameo from Michael Keaton as the Bio-Exorcist? Or The Sandman ties, given Netflix’s DC ambitions? Gough and Millar play coy: “All we’ll say is, the Addams family tree has deeper roots than you think.” For now, the trailer serves as a tantalizing appetizer, whetting appetites for a season that promises to out-gloom its predecessors while injecting star power that could eclipse even the blood moon.
In an era where reboots rise and fall like zombies at dawn, Wednesday Season 3 feels like a resurrection worth rooting for. It’s got the bite, the glamour, and enough unresolved threads to keep water cooler chats (or Discord servers) churning till 2027. Will Gaga’s siren drown Nevermore in drama, or will Wednesday’s dead stare send her packing? One thing’s certain: The darkness is back, and it’s dressed to kill.
