Wednesday Season 2 Part 1 has landed on Netflix, and it packs a lot into four episodes (maybe a little too much) – but does that include the death of Jenna Ortega’s pig-tailed princess of death?
After an excruciating three years, the Addams Family spinoff is back on our screens. Picking up where Season 1 left off, Wednesday is back at Nevermore Academy and she’s got her very own stalker (not to mention a gaggle of fangirls).
She’s also dealing with her psychic abilities, a new headmaster, family drama, and a bigger mystery than ever before – one that could threaten the life of her bestie Enid.
But the biggest shock comes in the final scene of Season 2 Episode 4, which ends with a jaw-dropping twist. Before we get into it, be warned: spoilers ahead!
Does Wednesday die in Season 2 Part 1?
As Wednesday herself said, “This story is about to take a dark turn,” and it certainly does. But no, we can be 99% certain that she isn’t dead at the end of Season 2 Part 1, even if the show really wants you to think she might be.
One thing we know for sure is she’s in critical condition. You see, earlier on in the episode, Wednesday enlists the help of Uncle Fester, Thing, Enid, and Agnes to break into Willow Hill Psychiatric Facility and find Lois, a person she believes to be an outcast serial killer.
The plan is to stop her before she can target Enid, but she ends up uncovering a far bigger conspiracy (more on this shortly). Along the way, all hell breaks loose, with Marilyn Thornhill setting a vengeful Tyler free.
Soon enough, he transforms into the Hyde, killing Thornhill before finding his way to Wednesday. They stare at each other before he ruthlessly launches her out the window and onto the floor below.
By this stage, the police have shown up to handle the chaos at Willow Hill, with an onlooker calling for an ambulance. Wednesday lays lifeless on the floor as Thing tries to revive her to no avail.
In the very final moment, Wednesday herself narrates, “I’ve always dreamed of looking death in the face. But in my final moments, all I hear is my mother’s words ringing in my ears.
“Maybe I have made everything worse. Much worse.”
Before you start panicking, let’s make it clear that there’s no way a Netflix series of this magnitude would kill off its main character without warning. Plus, with Wednesday being renewed for Season 3, we can expect plenty more snarky quips for years to come.
Who is Lois?
Wednesday takes a leaf out of Gen V’s book, as Season 2 Episode 4 reveals that Lois isn’t a singular person. It stands for ‘Long-term Outcast Integration Study’ – a cruel, long-running experiment conducted by normies who kept a selection of outcasts as living experiments.
The outcasts Wednesday thought were dead are still alive, but their deaths were faked in order to stop their loved ones from looking for them.
It’s revealed that Augustus Stonehurst, a former Nevermore professor, spearheaded the LOIS project in a bid to extract the powers of outcasts and give them to normies. As Wednesday describes it, “This is a basement bargain attempt at Dr. Moreau.”
Although his experiments left him incapacitated, he successfully turned his normie daughter – revealed to be Judi, Willow Hall’s unassuming administrator – into an Avian, giving her the ability to control birds.
She, of course, uses this power to carry out her evil biddings, even getting her ravens to murder Donovan Galpin, Tyler’s father, and his private investigator friend Carl Bradbury, who were both close to cracking the LOIS case.
After confronting Judi, Uncle Fester uses his electrical powers to cause an outage at the facility, thereby freeing the outcast prisoners (and Tyler). The test subjects seek revenge on Judi, chasing her down, although she seemingly escapes.
Who dies in Wednesday Season 2 Part 1?
While Wednesday’s fate hangs in the balance, there are a few character deaths that we see play out on screen. Five, to be precise, including Carl Bradbury, Donovan Galpin, Marilyn Thornhill, Dr. Rachael Fairburn, and Augustus Stonehurst.
Bradbury is the first to go, and it’s rather gruesome – he’s brutalized by Judi’s evil crows, who peck out his eyes. Tyler’s dad Donovan is killed in the same way shortly after.
The rest of the deaths unfold in the Part 1 finale after the LOIS prisoners are set free, including a very hungry zombie. He kills and devours Fairburn before turning his sights on dessert: Stonehurst. You could say it’s “just desserts,” as Stonehurst was his tormentor.
Prior to this, Tyler transforms into Hyde and kills Thornhill for training him up to be her own outcast hunter, stabbing her through the torso with his giant claws.
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