Wednesday is full of woe – and also heart in long-awaited return

Creepy. Kooky. Mysterious. Spooky. These words describe none other than the Addams Family. And now that devilish daughter Wednesday is a teenager she's earned her own spin-off series to document the trials and tribulations that occur when an outcast comes of age.

- Jennifer Cartwright on Wednesday Season Two

It's been a long woe-filled wait for the second instalment of Tim Burton's Wednesday.

Though the series only comprises eight episodes, it took almost three years to finish as the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike delayed production for months on end.

However, the time gap has greatly reduced momentum for Wednesday's sophomore season. I remember finishing Season One on the edge of my seat and desperate for more episodes asap to tie off loose ends.

I started Season Two unsure of exactly what had happened before and unable to tell what characters I had seen before.

However, even if you haven't seen Season One or have simply forgotten everything that happens, the first 10 minutes perfectly reintroduce the show.

We encounter the birth of the main plot of the season where a mysterious murder of crows literally murders people, while we reunite with Wednesday herself, who has been stopped at airport security not for her batch of archaic weapons but for her SPF sunscreen.