Wednesday

TV Show
STUDIONetflix
RELEASED2022

Wednesday Addams is expelled from her school after nearly killing a classmate. This is her eighth expulsion in five years. At wits end, her parents, Morticia and Gomez, send her to Nevermore Academy, Morticia's old school. A school for outcasts, Wednesday should fit in but it appears that even among outcasts she's an outcast. Meanwhile, a monster is killing people near the school.

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70 Sets, Six Sound Stages, One Season

Just to give a sense of the scale involved, Season 1 was built across roughly 70 different sets spread over six sound stages in Bucharest, on top of all the real castles and buildings used for exteriors.

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Wednesday and Her Principal Are Real-Life Friends

Gwendoline Christie, who plays Principal Weems, is a genuine off-screen friend of Jenna Ortega's, which makes their on-screen dynamic even funnier once you know it, especially with Christie towering at 6'3" over Ortega's 5'1".

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Morticia's Cottage Was Built in an Irish Forest

Rotwood Cottage, the place Morticia gets to renovate while acting as Nevermore's gala chair in Season 2, was actually filmed out in the Cloragh Woods of County Wicklow, Ireland.

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The Psychiatric Facility Was a College

Willow Hill, the psychiatric facility holding Tyler in Season 2, was filmed at Clonliffe College in Dublin. The location team picked it specifically because its gothic architecture already looked like it belonged in Wednesday's world without much extra work.

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Jenna Ortega Got a Seat at the Table for Season 2

The Wednesday set has apparently always been a collaborative place, but for Season 2, Jenna Ortega made that official by taking on a producer credit, giving her an actual say in decisions rather than just being the lead actor.

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Morticia's Cottage Is Full of 60s Show Nods

Keep half an eye on the background of Morticia's cottage in Season 2 and you'll catch a stuffed bear, an iron maiden and a taxidermied tortoise, all quiet little references scattered in from the 1964 Addams Family TV series.