Netflix's Addams Family Spin-Off 'Wednesday' Sees 'Murder, Mayhem, Mystery' — and a Pool Full of Piranhas

Mar. 15, 2025

TheAddams Familyis returning to the screen — and it’s even creepier and spookier than before!

Netflix has released the official trailer for its new seriesTim Burton-directed seriesWednesday.

At the boarding school for outcasts, Wednesday “attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the murder mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago,” per a description from Netflix.

The new teaser trailer begins with Wednesday entering her regular public school at Nancy Reagan High School, donning her iconic long braided pigtails. While she makes her way into the school hall, her presence is met with stares from other students.

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A voice-over later can be heard saying in the background: “Miss Addams, you certainly had a very interesting education journey.” Another voice adds, “Eight schools in five years.”

The next scene shows Wednesday walking into the swimming pool area where male students are attending their swim practice.

“The only person who gets to torture my brother is me,” Wednesday replies before revealing two plastic bags full of piranhas in her hands and releasing them into the water.

Catherine Zeta-JonesandLuis Guzmán— who portray Wednesday’s parents, Morticia and Gomez Addams — later take their daughter to her new school.

“You will love Nevermore,” Gomez reassures his daughter. “It’s a magical place.”

“Finally, you got to be around peers who understand you,” Morticia says as a group of students from the academy welcome Wednesday into the school. “Maybe, you will even make some friends.”

As Wednesday begins her new chapter at the school, one friendly student asks, “Wanna take a stab at being social?”

Wednesday quips, “I do like stabbing.”

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The clip continues with a slew of horror and brutal incidents, including “murder, mayhem and mystery,” as Wednesday describes in her voice-over. “I think I’m going to love it here,” she adds.

Addams' characters were first introduced in a New Yorker comic strip in the late 1930s, consisting of parents Gomez and Morticia Addams, children Wednesday and Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Grandmama, butler Lurch and Cousin Itt.

Several onscreen adaptations have been created since, including an ABC sitcom running from 1964 to 1966, two animated series in 1973 and 1992, another live-action show titledThe New Addams Familyin 1998,The Addams Familymovie in 1991 and its 1993 sequelAddams Family Values, andtwo animated filmsin 2019 and 2021.

In addition to Ortega, Zeta-Jones and Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez (Pugsley Addams), Gwendoline Christie (Principal Larissa Weems), Jamie McShane (Sheriff Galpin), Percy Hynes White (Xavier Thorpe), Hunter Doohan (Tyler Galpin), Emma Myers (Enid Sinclair), Joy Sunday (Bianca Barclay), Naomi J Ogawa (Yoko Tanaka), Moosa Mostafa (Eugene Ottinger), Georgie Farmer (Ajax Petropolus), Riki Lindhome (Dr. Valerie Kinbott) andChristina Ricci(Marilyn Thornhill) are set to star inWednesday.

With this new Netflix series, comprising of eight episodes, Ortega joins the list of actresses who’ve played the iconic character over the years, including Ricci,Lisa LoringandChloë Grace Moretz.

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Wednesdayis expected to drop later this year on Netflix.

source: people.com