Despite the gigantic success, an official renewal of “Wednesday” is still pending. But if even the Netflix series boss is so euphoric and optimistic, season 2 should really only be a matter of time.
Wednesday” has become an absolute mega-hit on Netflix at record speed. The series about the offspring of the cult creepy Addams family (played here by Jenna Ortega) has only been available on the streaming service for three weeks, but in that time it has already been watched by its users for over a billion (!) hours and has thus been able to catapult past this year’s true-crime success “Dahmer” to become the third most successful Netflix series ever (only “Squid Game” and the fourth season of “Stranger Things” did better).
Nevertheless, Netflix has not yet given the green light for a second “Wednesday” season, even if a renewal is probably only a formality given the fabulous figures. This is also indicated by new statements from Peter Friedlander. The head of fictional Netflix series in the USA and Canada also did not want to confirm the second season yet, but in an interview with the US industry journal Variety he stated that he was very confident in the case of “Wednesday”.
WHY IS NETFLIX WAITING SO LONG?
Although a confirmation of new episodes definitely looks different, anything else would be a bitter disappointment at the latest after these words. But then why is Netflix hesitating with such an announcement in the first place? Here Friedlander himself sheds some light with a few other statements.
For Netflix to really consider a title a success (and thus continue to hold on to it), it is not only short-term peaks in demand that are decisive, but above all a longer-term interest. This also explains why the streaming service again pulled the plug on all kinds of series in 2022 (including “Fate: The Winx Saga”, “Goosebumps at Midnight” and most recently “Warrior Nun”), even though they had been in the top 10 most streamed content for a while:
With “Wednesday”, too, they now want to observe how long the series’ breath really is and analyse exactly what has made it so rapidly the “cultural phenomenon” that it is according to Friedlander (here he cites, for example, the internet hype around Wednesday’s already legendary dance scene and the many people who currently dress up as Wednesday Addams).
Even if there is still a little doubt about the future of “Wednesday”, the viewing figures are so phenomenal even after three weeks that it would be a huge surprise if Netflix did not officially announce the second season soon. Rather, we can imagine that they are possibly waiting so long in order to work on further plans and come up with a bigger announcement that could directly include even more seasons (the makers already have plans for this) or possible spin-offs – even if this is still pure speculation at this point in time.
