Breaking Down the Twisted Ending of Wednesday Season 2: Part 1

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After an absence of almost three years, the beloved gothic character Wednesday Addams, portrayed by Jenna Ortega, is back on our screens. And it seems like she immediately dove into perilous situations in the first part of Wednesday‘s second season.

Following her second term at Nevermore Academy, which she attended after spending a summer chasing down psychic serial killers, Wednesday soon became embroiled in another mysterious supernatural case. This time it involved a premonition of her werewolf roommate and close friend Enid’s (Emma Myers) untimely demise, a clandestine experimentation project hidden within the school, and an unknown, bird-controlling assassin who was part of the outcast population.

Due to the fact that only four episodes from Season 2 of Wednesday are currently on Netflix, with Part 2 (Episodes 5-8) set to premiere on Sept. 3, we’re still in the dark about many aspects of the story presented in the first half of the second season. However, let’s delve into everything that transpired during the confrontation at Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital in Episode 4 and what it might imply for Wednesday’s future.

What went down at Willow Hill?

After Laurel Gates, known as Marilyn Thornhill at Nevermore, moved to Willow Hill and resumed her roles as dorm mother and botany teacher, she believed she could reconcile with Tyler, who was once her Hyde prodigy but now her imprisoned student. However, it became clear that Tyler, having grown wary of his manipulative mentor due to her actions in Season 1, was not so quick to forgive Laurel for her deceitful tactics.

On Wednesdays investigation into the deceased outcast patients of Willow Hill, she found an unexpected twist: the urns believed to hold their remains were actually filled with animal ashes instead. Yet, just as she was gathering evidence in the form of obituaries, a one-eyed crow under the control of her avian adversary swooped down to snatch them away.

On Wednesday’s instruction, Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) was brought into Willow Hill as a patient, with the aim of uncovering information about “Lois,” a name linked to all the deceased outcasts on a detective board found at Sheriff Galpin’s cabin in episode 3. Thanks to advice from Grandmama Hester Frump (Joanna Lumley) and some investigative work by Agnes, her new assistant who was previously a stalker (Evie Templeton), Wednesday discovered that the person responsible for signing the outcasts’ death certificates was Augustus Stonehurst, a former science teacher at Nevermore who had been committed to Willow Hill after suffering a mental breakdown. Thing (Victor Dorobantu) then managed to sneak into Willow Hill and inform Fester about this connection, leading him to locate Stonehurst and repeatedly shock his parrot Ozzie until it revealed the numbers 51971 in relation to Lois.

On Wednesday, they too gained access to Willow Hill. There, Wednesday and Fester discovered that a series of numbers served as a security code for a maintenance room Stonehurst had hinted would lead them to Lois. However, it soon became clear that Lois wasn’t a person, but rather an acronym for “Long-term Outcast Integration Study,” a top-secret program aimed at extracting abilities from outcasts and transferring them to normals. They followed a concealed corridor that ended in a row of cells, where all the outcasts believed to be deceased were being kept captive. However, it was then that the previously elusive bird-like entity finally appeared and finally disclosed its true identity.

Who is the avian?

It became clear that the enigmatic bird-woman was none other than Dr. Rachael Fairburn’s assistant, Judi (Heather Matarazzo), who happened to be Augustus Stonehurst’s daughter. Judi revealed to Wednesday and Fester that she had manipulated Fairburn into being the public figurehead of Willow Hill so she could carry on her father’s work. As it turns out, Judi was Stonehurst’s first successful experiment herself.

In the chaotic aftermath of Fester’s reckless act that left the hospital powerless, the LOIS patients broke free, leading to a dangerous confrontation with Judi. Amidst the turmoil, I found myself drawn to one particular female patient who remained behind. Could this mysterious woman be none other than Morticia’s long-lost sister, Ophelia?

Intriguingly, in Episode 3, Morticia herself hinted at my overzealous reliance on my psychic abilities being reminiscent of Ophelia, a character known for her impulsiveness and determination. Given that these traits ultimately led to Ophelia’s downfall, driven by her powers, it’s not unreasonable to speculate that this could be the case.

In the midst of the commotion, Owen Painter’s zombie character, Slurp, burst into Fairburn and Stonehurst’s office. He swiftly devoured them both, which granted him the ability to communicate verbally. Simultaneously, Laurel succeeded in liberating Tyler. Unfortunately, he transformed into Hyde and fatally wounded her with his claws before it seemed like he left her for dead. Later on, Hyde Tyler crossed paths with Wednesday, but instead of killing her, he hesitated and threw her through a window, rendering her unconscious rather than causing her death.

In a thrilling sneak peek for the second season of Wednesday, it’s clear that our titular character will be found in a deep slumber at the beginning of episode 5. However, the anticipation builds as she appears destined to regain consciousness and confront not only the chaos left behind by the Willow Hill breakout but also the sinister forces that continue to lurk in the shadows. A haunting voiceover, reminiscent of Ophelia’s, whispers lines from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” hinting at darker events on the horizon: “By the twitching of my thumbs, something ominous approaches.

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2025-08-06 21:06