Wednesday (2022)
Wednesday is a 2022 sci-fi & fantasy series created by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough. It stars Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers and Hunter Doohan.
Wednesday Addams gets shipped off to Nevermore Academy, a boarding school for outcasts, and finds it every bit as tiresome as she expects: a relentlessly upbeat roommate, sniping classmates, and adults who keep pushing her to make friends. She would rather solve the strange mysteries piling up around town. Deadpan and allergic to sentiment, she pursues the truth on her own terms while old family history keeps surfacing. Jenna Ortega anchors the series, with Tim Burton directing several episodes and lending his gothic sensibility. The result is a snappy supernatural whodunit with a sharp comic edge.
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What is Wednesday about?
Wednesday Addams gets shipped off to Nevermore Academy, a boarding school for outcasts, and finds it every bit as tiresome as she expects: a relentlessly upbeat roommate, sniping classmates, and adults who keep pushing her to make friends. She would rather solve the strange mysteries piling up around town. Deadpan and allergic to sentiment, she pursues the truth on her own terms while old family history keeps surfacing. Jenna Ortega anchors the series, with Tim Burton directing several episodes and lending his gothic sensibility. The result is a snappy supernatural whodunit with a sharp comic edge.
When was Wednesday released?
Wednesday was released on 23 November 2022.
How many episodes does Wednesday have?
Wednesday has 16 episodes across 3 seasons.
Who made Wednesday?
Wednesday was created by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough.
Where can I watch Wednesday?
Wednesday is available on Netflix.
Where to watch Wednesday
Stream: Netflix
Cast
- Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams / Goody Addams
- Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair
- Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin
- Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay
- Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger
- Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus
- Victor Dorobantu as Thing
- Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Sheriff Ritchie Santiago
- Oliver Watson as Kent
- Jamie McShane as Donovan Galpin
- Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems
- Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams
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- Companion guide: Supernatural Teens
A few thoughts on Wednesday
Wednesday's blend of a deadpan teen outsider, dark powers, and school-set intrigue suits readers of the Shatter Me series, whose heroine wields a dangerous gift she never asked for, and A Court of Mist and Fury (Una corte de niebla y furia) for moody supernatural stakes built around a young woman. Both trade in the same gothic teen energy that drives Nevermore.
Teen outcasts and supernatural school mysteries
Wednesday drops a deadpan Addams into Nevermore, a boarding school for outcasts full of monsters and secrets to solve. These shows share that setup: young misfits with strange gifts, a creeping mystery and a town hiding something. If the whodunit-meets-monsters mix at Nevermore hooked you, these belong on the list.
Gothic horror with a dark comic streak
Tim Burton's fingerprints give Wednesday its gothic look and its taste for the macabre played half for laughs. These horror anthologies and monster tales share that mood, balancing genuine chills with a wink. Watch them when you want cobwebs and candlelight without losing the sly humor that keeps Wednesday fun.
YA fantasy to read after the show
Wednesday's world of gifted teens, rival cliques and buried family history maps neatly onto these young-adult fantasy novels. Each follows a sharp young protagonist through danger, magic and hard choices, the kind of book Wednesday herself might grudgingly finish. Pick one up when the season ends and you want more.
Witchy heroines and paranormal girls with attitude
Wednesday solves her mysteries alone, unbothered and unimpressed, a heroine who owns her strangeness. These stories put similar young women at the center, witches and psychics who bend the supernatural to their will. If you loved watching Wednesday refuse to soften, these paranormal leads share her spine.