Get ready for the internet to break.

Netflix closed out its Tudum 2025 live event on Saturday by releasing the first six minutes of Season 2, Episode 1 from its biggest show ever, Wednesday.

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In the long-awaited clip (watch above), goth teenager Wednesday Addams, played by Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Jenna Ortega, recounts her “eventful summer” as she is tied up in a doll-obsessed serial killer (Haley Joel Osment)‘s basement. We then see the series of unfortunate events that led her there.

The show’s main cast is rounded out by Catherine Zeta-Jones (Morticia Addams), Luis Guzmán (Gomez Addams), Isaac Ordonez (Pugsley Addams), Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Ritchie Santiago), Emma Myers (Enid Sinclair), Joy Sunday (Bianca Barclay), Victor Dorobantu (Thing), Hunter Doohan (Tyler Galpin), and Fred Armisen (Uncle Fester).

New cast members for Season 2 include Steve Buscemi (Principal Barry Dort), Joanna Lumley (Grandmama), Billie Piper (Capri), and Thandiwe Newton (Dr. Fairburn), plus the following in undisclosed roles: Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, Noah Taylor, Christopher Lloyd, Frances O’Connor, Heather Matarazzo, Joonas Suotamo, and Lady Gaga.

Season 1 of Wednesday nabbed 12 nominations at the 2023 Emmys, including Best Comedy Series, and won these four trophies: Best Contemporary Costumes, Best Contemporary Makeup, Best Main Title Theme Music, and Best Production Design. Tim Burton was nominated for directing the pilot, and Ortega was up for acting.

Fans have been waiting almost three years for the second season to drop and, unfortunately, they’ll have to wait a bit longer. As reported in April, Episodes 1 through 4 will premiere on Aug. 6, while Episodes 5 through 8 will debut on Sept. 3 — both notably Wednesdays. That means Season 2 of the horror-comedy won’t be eligible until the 2026 Emmys.

The first season of Wednesday remains Netflix’s most popular series ever, with a whopping 252 million views. (For comparison’s sake, the No. 2 and No. 3 shows — Stranger Things 4 and Adolescence — both have 140 million views.) Watch the Season 2 trailer:

Season 2 picks up after the events of Season 1, with Wednesday returning to Nevermore Academy (after the aforementioned “eventful summer”) for the new school year, this time alongside her younger brother, Pugsley. Additionally, Wednesday’s parents, Morticia and Gomez, will have an increased presence on campus this year, which will no doubt frustrate their moody teenagers.

“Your family at school is the worst thing possible, isn’t it?” director-executive producer Burton recently said. “I never wanted my parents to come to school. Wednesday is an even more extreme version of that. Poor Pugsley. He’s kind of an outcast among outcasts, so I feel for him. He comes into Nevermore for the first time, so we get to see his experience at school. Everybody has their own specialty power, and he’s new to his own. He’s just exploring his newfound teenage powers.”

“Nothing is what it seems in Season 2,” creator Miles Millar added. “Wednesday goes into this season thinking she knows Nevermore. It’s the first time she’s returned to a school willingly. But as soon as she gets back, nothing happens that she’s expecting. She thinks she’s going to be in control, that she knows where all the bodies are buried, and she doesn’t.”

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