Wednesday Cast Drops Resurrection Bombshell at Sydney Doom Tour Finale
Sage Matthews here, because apparently someone has to be awake at 2 AM to narrate the slow-motion collapse of pop culture. Of course the Wednesday team chose a windswept Australian island to stage their final promotional circus and of course they saved the biggest stunt for last.
Netflix brought Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Tim Burton, series creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and a small army of purple-clad superfans to Cockatoo Island in Sydney on a gloomy Thursday to celebrate Season 2 and unveil a plot twist that will please the necromancy crowd. The weather matched the mood perfectly. Ortega arrived in full Wednesday regalia, deadpan face intact, while Myers played the sunny counterpoint as Enid Sinclair, and Burton provided the macabre seal of approval. That trio has been globe-trotting on what Netflix billed as the Doom Tour, with stops in England, Poland, Italy, France, Romania, the United States, Canada, and South Korea prior to this finale in Australia.
But the real show-stealer was Gwendoline Christie. In a theatrically inevitable moment, Christie emerged from behind a giant suspended moon to announce that her character Larissa Weems, the shapeshifting headmistress of Nevermore Academy who was poisoned in Season 1, will return from the dead in Season 2. She intoned a line that felt both campy and chilling, telling the warehouse crowd, “Did you really think Nevermore would let me go so easily? I was never gone. You just stopped looking.” That reveal was shared widely on Netflix Australia and New Zealand’s social channels and confirmed on stage by Christie herself as part of the event.
For anyone keeping score, Weems was a major presence in Season 1 and the former roommate of Morticia Addams, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones. Her poisoning by the deranged Laurel Gates, also known as Marilyn Thornhill and played by Christina Ricci in Season 1, felt like a bloody punctuation mark last season. Now, Netflix is bringing her back, which means Season 2 seems determined to knit loose threads together rather than let consequences stand.
Jenna Ortega, predictably, expressed gratitude for returning to the role that turned her into a streaming titan. “Oftentimes, you don’t get to revisit your character, so to be able to do it with someone like Wednesday. I feel very, very lucky,” she told the assembled fans. Tim Burton, looking every bit the auteur comfortable in gothic chaos, told the crowd he loves the character and agrees with “everything she says, everything she feels about family, school, psychiatry, and society,” which is about as on-the-nose as a director can be when standing in front of a giant papier-mache moon.
The event also doubled as teaser terrain for a fan-facing installation the next day. Cockatoo Island was set to be transformed into “Wednesday Island,” complete with immersive zones such as The Raven’s Passage, The Dead Lounge, The Doll House, and recreations of Wednesday and Enid’s room. Fans who scored tickets could wander through what essentially looked like a purple-themed haunted amusement park for adults. Naturally, superfans in purple Nevermore uniforms turned up en masse, because there is no such thing as too much cosplay when promotional theater is involved.
From a business angle, the timing of this hype makes sense. Despite a nearly three-year gap between Seasons 1 and 2, Netflix reported that Season 2 Part 1 posted no decline in viewership on premiere. Forbes noted that Wednesday reached 50 million viewing sessions in its first five days after Part 1 dropped on August 6, which places it on par with the Season 1 debut performance. Part 1 premiered with only four episodes, with Part 2 scheduled for release on September 3, so expect another surge when the remaining episodes hit the platform.
Plot-wise, Season 2 returns Wednesday to Nevermore where she pursues a fresh supernatural mystery. Expect the same razor-sharp sarcasm, obsessive detective work, and staged mayhem that made Season 1 bingeable. And now with Larissa Weems coming back from the dead, the show is signaling it will lean into resurrection drama rather than letting stakes carry weight.
This was the final, theatrically timed act of the global Doom Tour, and fittingly it closed on an island with rain clouds, a giant moon, and a resurrected character announcement. Fans cheered. The internet will overanalyze the implications for weeks. Producers will call it a triumph. Critics will scoff. Me? I will be here at 2 AM, muttering that of course this happened and waiting for the inevitable merchandising tie-ins.
Anyway, can’t wait to see how this gets worse.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and New York Post, Netflix (Australia & NZ social media), Forbes
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