Wednesday Season 2 goes full Addams in Part 2: character comebacks, surprise cameos, a body-swapping spell or two, and oh yeah — they finally explain how a severed hand became the franchise's stealth MVP. It is both weirder and more emotional than you might expect, which is kind of the sweet spot for this show.
So... Thing finally has an origin story
Thing — played in gloriously tactile fashion by Victor Dorobantu — isn’t just Wednesday Addams' (Jenna Ortega) deadpan sidekick. Season 2 Part 2 actually answers the question fans have asked forever: where did Thing come from? This is new territory for the Addams-verse; there isn’t much hard lore out there beyond the TV series and Charles Addams' original cartoons (which didn’t even give the characters names).
"What’s great for us with the Addams family is that there really isn’t any mythology or lore to them, other than the TV show... For us, it’s a great blank canvas to really delve into these characters and figure things out. People always ask us, 'Where’s Thing from?' and 'Are you ever going to tell Thing’s origin story?'"
— Alfred Gough, co-creator of Wednesday
The flashback that changes everything
Part 2 jumps back to Nevermore Academy, when a young Gomez Addams (Lucius Hoyos) and Morticia (Gwen Jones) were students. What starts as a school-days memory turns into a full-on Addams myth rewrite. Here’s how it plays out:
- Gomez’s roommate and best friend is Isaac Night — the guy who will literally become part of the family in a way no one saw coming.
- Isaac’s sister, Francoise (Frances O'Connor), is cursed as a Hyde. He builds a machine he swears will cure her.
- To power it, he needs Gomez. What he doesn’t mention: the process will kill Gomez.
- Morticia figures out Isaac’s plan and stops it at the last second.
- The machine explodes. Isaac dies. His severed hand survives — and that hand is what we come to know as Thing.
- The blast also strips Gomez of his own powers, which becomes a defining secret in the Addams family.
So that’s why Gomez has no powers
The series finally puts a pin in a long-running question. In this version of the family, Wednesday and Morticia are seers. Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) and Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) can generate electricity. Gomez (Luis Guzman) has nothing... because he lost it in that Nevermore incident. It reframes Gomez’s whole past and quietly explains a dynamic the show has been playing with since Season 1.
Inside baseball: building Addams lore from almost scratch
Because the Addams canon is famously loose, the show treating Thing’s backstory as a blank slate isn’t just a twist — it’s the writers taking advantage of rare franchise freedom. If you felt like this season was more mythology-heavy, that’s why.
The bigger Addams plan: a new animated movie is happening
Co-creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar aren’t stopping with Wednesday. On Deadline’s Crew Call podcast in August, they said they’re developing a new animated Addams Family feature with Amazon MGM Studios. It’s a reboot of the animated film franchise, overseen with Kevin Miserocchi (who runs the Addams Foundation and knew Charles Addams), along with producers Gail Berman and John Glickman. Importantly, it’s not tied to the two recent animated films and it’s not connected to the Netflix series — clean slate, again, and very early days.
"We’re working on it with Amazon MGM and with Kevin Miserocchi... We’re rebooting the animated film franchise. So it won’t have anything to do with the two films before it, nor is it connected with this show. It will be a brand new Addams feature... it’s in the very early stages."
— Alfred Gough
Short version: Season 2 Part 2 gives Thing a past, gives Gomez a secret, and quietly sets up a wider Addams future. For a show that loves a deadpan, it’s surprisingly generous with answers.