It has been a protracted, lengthy wait, however we’re lastly getting a second season of the Netflix supernatural horror comedy, Wednesday. The streaming big dropped the primary teaser and a number of other first-look photographs to whet our appetites for what guarantees to be a superb follow-up to the pleasant first season.

(Spoilers for S1 beneath.)

As previously reported, director Tim Burton famously turned down the chance to direct the 1991 function movie The Addams Household, impressed by characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams for The New Yorker in 1938. Wednesday showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar—greatest identified for Smallville—anticipated Burton to show them down as properly after they made their pitch. He signed up for the undertaking as a substitute.

This was an older, edgier, and even darker Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) than the dour younger lady Christina Ricci made well-known within the Nineteen Nineties. Aloof, sardonic, and resolutely impartial, she was very a lot the issue youngster, even by Addams requirements, having been expelled from eight colleges in 5 years. Therefore her enrollment at Nevermore Academy, a haven for so-called “outcasts” and the alma mater of her mother and father.

Wednesday struggled to slot in at first, clashing along with her cheery werewolf roommate Enid (Emma Myers) and the varsity queen bee, a siren named Bianca (Pleasure Sunday). Then she started investigating a string of brutal murders, main her to resolve some long-standing household points and delve into the varsity’s darkish historical past. All of it added as much as a profitable components—principally an excellent eight-hour Burton film with a spooky homicide thriller at its core.