Netflix’s Wednesday discovered a strategy to carry Christina Ricci again in season 2 — however not for lengthy.
Throughout the first a part of season 2, which premiered on Thursday, August 6, Ricci’s character, Laurel Gates, was delivered to Willow Hill as a prisoner after she was beforehand stored in a separate facility to maintain her distant from Tyler (Hunter Doohan). However distance didn’t assist diminish her emotional connection to the Hyde facet of Tyler, so Laurel was introduced in to assist deal with him.
The primary reunion didn’t go as deliberate when Tyler reworked into the Hyde and nearly killed Laurel.
“He thought I had deserted him however he would by no means kill me,” Laurel mentioned. “If a Hyde murders their grasp, they seal their very own doom.”
Laurel in the end sealed her personal destiny when episode 4 ended with outcasts breaking out of Willow Hill. She used the chance to go assist Tyler, who was nonetheless chained up in his cell — and never keen to forgive her.
“I may by no means abandon you,” she informed Tyler, who replied, “Want I may say the identical. You’re the motive I’ve been locked away in right here. You’re not my mom. You’re my grasp. Or ought to I say you have been?”
Tyler gave Laurel a 5 second begin as he as soon as once more turned the monstrous Hyde. He then chased her down and appeared to kill her — this time for good. Tyler (in Hyde type) then ran into Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) and the subsequent shot confirmed her being thrown out the window and her destiny unknown.
Wednesday, which premiered in November 2022, is predicated on the character initially launched in The Addams Household cartoons. The idea later was tailored right into a TV sequence, a number of characteristic movies and a reside musical adaption. (It has since been rebooted in a number of completely different mediums.)
Ricci, 45, beforehand performed Wednesday Addams in 1991’s The Addams Household and its subsequent sequel, Addams Household Values, earlier than becoming a member of the Netflix sequence in a thriller function, solely telling Us Weekly in October 2022, “It was tremendous enjoyable. I used to be actually excited to work with Tim once more. Jenna is so superb and so good on this half and was so nice to work with. And so it was actually beautiful.”
After her character was seemingly killed off within the season 1 finale, Wednesday discovered a strategy to carry Ricci again. It stays to be seen if that can occur once more as followers await the second part of season 2.
Wednesday followers fortunately have much more to stay up for with the hit sequence already renewed for season 3. Showrunner Alfred Gough and Netflix chief content material officer Bela Bajaria launched an announcement in July confirming that there’s additionally a Wednesday spinoff within the works.
“It’s one thing we’re positively noodling. There are different characters we are able to have a look at,” Gough teased earlier than Bajaria added, “There’s loads to discover within the Addams Household.”
Wednesday season 2 half 1 is at present streaming on Netflix whereas half 2 premieres on September 3.