Wednesday Season 2: Gwendoline Christie’s Professor Weems Returns as Wednesday’s Reluctant Spirit Guide

Hi, I’m Avery Sinclair. Can’t wait to see how this turns out. Here is the no-nonsense rundown of Wednesday season two part two, where past corpses and school drama collide in the most predictable supernatural way possible.

If you somehow missed the teaser chaos, here is the headline fact: Gwendoline Christie is back as Professor Larissa Weems in the closing episodes of Netflix’s Wednesday season two even though Weems was murdered in season one. Yes, the show that reanimated a clockwork kid for comic effect is also bringing back a dead principal to act as Wednesday Addams’s new spirit guide. The trailer for part two, premiering September 3, makes that resurrection weirdly domestic and slightly passive-aggressive, which fits this series’ tone to a T.

The trailer opens with Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday waking in a hospital bed after a brutal encounter with Tyler in his Hyde form. She sits up with Dracula-style panache and finds Weems standing over her offering a sponge bath. Wednesday’s reaction, “What pregnant hell is this?” is textbook deadpan, and Weems’s answer, “This isn’t hell, Ms. Adams. But I understand the confusion,” is equally on-brand and mildly condescending. Then the plot dump: Weems declares herself Wednesday’s new spirit guide, stepping into a role vacated when Goody Addams sacrificed herself at the end of season one.

Yes, Goody gave up the ghost to save Wednesday, which cleared room for another spectral mentor. Unlike Goody, who was a rare soft spot in the Addams saga, Weems intends to be far more involved in Wednesday’s daily life. The trailer teases this new dynamic with quick cuts of Weems chiming into conversations, scolding and advising with the tone of a strict educator who will not tolerate nonsense from a teenage sleuth. In one scene, Enid reminds Wednesday that Tyler’s escape is technically her fault, and Weems dryly interjects, “She’s got a point you know.” That line tells you everything about how this resurrected authority figure will operate: helpful, bossy, and emotionally inaccessible.

The stakes remain high. The Nevermore students must unite to stop Tyler’s murderous rampage while also handling typical boarding school cliffhangers like fracture lines in their friend group and literal fractured graves in the Addams family plot. Morticia, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, drops the family-level reality check when she tells Wednesday, “Every family has dark chapters.” The trailer visually punctuates that with a broken family grave and Weems’s voiceover warning, “If you don’t hurry, you’ll have nothing left to save.” Translation: The finale wants emotional stakes and hubbub, and the show plans to deliver both with melodramatic flair.

So what does this mean for the series? Bringing back a murdered character as an active, recurring spirit guide is not subtle, but it is very Wednesday. It allows the show to keep Gwendoline Christie’s commanding presence in play while also providing a supernatural cheat to give Wednesday guidance, exposition, and the occasional moral pinch. It also lets the writers escalate emotional tension without inventing a brand-new mentor. Fans get more Christie and more gothic mentor-versus-protégé friction, all while the Hyde threat ticks toward an electrocution-style climax.

Part two of season two drops on September 3, which gives viewers a little time to speculate, roast the logic, and decide whether the series is leaning on ghostly returns because it has to or because it likes the chaos. Expect the finale to hand out big gestures, some family tragedy, and an ending that tries to be both poignant and punchy. Will Weems be a helpful spirit or another thorn in Wednesday’s side? Likely both. Will the Hyde be stopped without turning the whole show into a disaster movie for gothic teens? We’ll see.

And yes, if you forget already, this universe has no trouble bringing characters back from the beyond when plot convenience calls. The show has reanimated mechanical children before and now resurrected a principal for snappy lecturing. Welcome to Nevermore, population: unresolved.

Witty closing note: So there you have it, another dead person brought back because drama is cheaper than fresh plotting. You’re welcome.

Sources: Celebrity Storm and E! Online, Netflix trailer
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