‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Part 2 Reveals Returning Dead Character, New Trailer

That would be Gwendoline Christie’s Principal Weems, who will return to be Wednesday’s much-needed spirit guide as she attempts to regain her powers and solve murder mysteries. The bulk of the trailer centers on the arrival of Weems as her new guide, and she’s only able to be seen by Wednesday, no one else. Here’s the trailer:

The main conflict appears to be centered on Tyler’s escape and his desire to hunt down and murder both Wednesday and Enid. He almost killed Wednesday in the season 2 part 1 finale, but I mean, who actually believed that was going happen?

There’s a new interview on Netflix’s Tudum with showrunners Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, who talks about her return, and who might be able to come back to life in the future. In short, anyone:

“When we got into the writers room, we were determined to bring Gwen back,” says Millar. “The audience has fallen in love with the Wednesday–Weems relationship … so we’re bringing her back in the second half of the season in a very special way that is as confrontational as it is delicious.” Gough adds, “Nobody in our world is truly dead dead.”

Christie also talked about her new role as the not-alive-but-still-back Weems:

“I’ve always said that Weems is my perception of a Hitchcock woman, which is something I’ve been obsessed with my entire life,” Christie says. “Whereas we were largely inspired by Hitchcock’s The Birds in Season 1, Season 2 is more in a place of Vertigo. A quote from the film is, ‘Do you believe that someone out of the past — someone dead — can enter and take possession of a living being?’ ”

I suppose there was no avoiding the reveal of Weems, saving it for the premiere of the show, unless you just skipped all marketing entirely. And now we know that really anyone is on the table to come back to life, so whoever may die this season could be back in some form or another in the future, so we should keep that in mind. Wednesday season 2 part 2 airs on September 3.

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