Wednesday Season 2 Ending Explained: Every Death, Twist, and Reveal Fans Can't Stop Talking About

Major spoilers ahead for Wednesday season 2. If you are not caught up, back away now and save yourself the headache of trying to unsee what follows.

Previously, on Wednesday

Season 2 opens with Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) waking up in a hospital after being yeeted out a window at Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital. Hyde Tyler (Hunter Doohan) is loose, a zombie killer is roaming town, and her vision that best friend Enid (Emma Myers) is doomed is still hanging over everything. Also, yes, the very dead Principal Weems (Gwendoline Christie) has returned as Wednesday's dry-as-bones spirit guide. Over at Nevermore, the new principal, Dort (Steve Buscemi), is busy manipulating siren Bianca (Joy Sunday) to do his bidding. Pretty normal semester, honestly.

Did Wednesday save Enid?

Kind of. The death vision gets derailed thanks to a body-swap with a twist: Rosaline Rotwood (Lady Gaga) orchestrates a one-day life swap that forces Wednesday and Enid to walk in each other's creepers. Wednesday learns Enid is not just a werewolf but an Alpha, which historically means two awful possibilities: permanent wolf form and a very lonely life.

Ms Capri (Billie Piper) tries to coach Enid through controlling that Alpha surge. It works until Wednesday is in danger. Enid wolfs out to save her and then realizes she cannot shift back. To avoid hurting anyone, she bolts from Nevermore. So yes, the death is averted. No, Enid is not OK.

Principal Dort's whole scam

Dort is not just a manipulator; he is a long-game con artist. He is secretly the guy behind the Morning Song cult that trapped Bianca and her mother. He even hired an actor to play the cult's glossy leader, Gideon. When Gideon went off-script and the world came for him, Dort pivoted: slipped into Nevermore, built a new grift, and kept Bianca under his thumb using a pocketwatch that blocks siren commands.

When Wednesday's grandmother Hester (Joanna Lumley) announces she is donating her entire fortune to Dort and Nevermore, Wednesday smells rot. She confronts Bianca, who breaks down and tells her everything, then compels Wednesday to forget to protect her mom. Wednesday had a contingency: her vanishing stalker-turned-friend Agnes (Evie Templeton), who lurks unseen and later repeats Bianca's confession back to her. Cold. Effective. Very Wednesday.

At the Nevermore gala, Wednesday's crew runs a heist. Agnes and Enid dance to distract Dort while the incriminating pocketwatch quietly disappears. Bianca then joins Dort on stage with Morticia and Hester and compels him to confess to the entire student body. Dort grabs Bianca and tries to bolt. Ajax whips off his hat, flashes his Medusa gaze, and turns Dort to stone. A chandelier promptly drops and smashes him to gravel. Subtle exit? Not so much.

Slurp was... Isaac Night?!

Pugsley's pet zombie Slurp starts as a gag and turns into a full-on nightmare. In life, he was Isaac Night, a DaVinci-level tinkerer who built himself a clockwork heart and designed Willow Hill's LOIS machine that strips outsiders of their powers. He is also Francoise's brother — as in Tyler's mother, the same woman Wednesday helped escape from Willow Hill.

Isaac snacks on brains to restore his face, reunites with Francoise and Tyler, and resumes his life's work: "curing" his sister's Hyde by any means necessary. Everyone else is expendable.

Flash back 30 years: Isaac's school bestie and roommate was Gomez (Luis Guzman), who then had electrical powers. Isaac secretly drained Gomez to juice his machine and nearly killed him. Morticia intervened, hacked off Isaac's hand, and blew up the lab. They buried Isaac beneath the Skull Tree and never spoke of it again. The severed hand reanimated in the blast and grew a separate life. You know it as Thing. Yes, that Thing.

Finale: the last experiment

• Isaac, Francoise, and Tyler prep the LOIS redo to rip the Hyde from Francoise. They bury Wednesday under the Skull Tree and reattach Thing to Isaac's body to make him "whole" again.
• In Isaac's repurposed school lab, Pugsley is strapped into an electric chair as a living battery. At the last second, Francoise forces Tyler into the chair instead, insisting it is "too late for her." Tyler does not want a cure and is fine staying a Hyde. She does not care.
• Enid (fully wolfling) and Agnes dig Wednesday out. The entire Addams family storms the lab. Tyler begs Wednesday to kill him; she releases him instead. He transforms and clashes with his mother, who also shifts. Their rooftop brawl ends with Francoise plummeting to her death.
• Isaac melts down over losing "the only person he ever loved" and starts choking Wednesday while the family looks on, helpless.
• Thing switches sides — literally. He attacks Isaac from his own shoulder and yanks out the clockwork heart. Isaac dies. Thing detaches and crawls back to his real family. Hero hand, hero move.

Where everyone lands

With the immediate nightmare over, Wednesday immediately plans her next one: tracking down Enid, who is stuck in Alpha form and heading for the Canadian border. She recruits the only logical partner for a possibly feral rescue mission: Uncle Fester. They bounce in his moped sidecar, with Wednesday now carrying Aunt Ophelia's diary like a road map to the weird.

Meanwhile, future trouble is already loading

Tyler returns to his parents' graves and runs into Ms Capri, who has a pitch: join a pack of Hydes and never need a master again. When he asks how she knows any of that is real, she drops the reveal — her father was a Hyde. Tyler gets in the car.

Back at Casa Hester, the real jaw-dropper: Hester has been hiding Morticia's sister, Ophelia, locked in a cell beneath her home. Ophelia is scrawling a mission statement on the wall:

"Wednesday Must Die."

One stray quote that hits different

"Too late for her."

Francoise's rationale for strapping Tyler into the chair sums up the whole Isaac-Francoise tragedy: control dressed up as love.

Odds and ends

Weems is still sniping from the afterlife as Wednesday's spirit guide. Bianca finally breaks free of Dort's leash. Agnes proves that an invisible friend is useful when you are planning a con. And yes, that really was Lady Gaga as Rotwood and Billie Piper as the very complicated Ms Capri.

How to watch

Wednesday season 2 is streaming now on Netflix. In the UK, plans start from £5.99 a month. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass and Virgin Media Stream.