Wednesday Season 2 Ending Explained: Aunt Ophelia, Enid Alpha Werewolf, More Explained

Is Aunt Ophelia alive? And what does that mean? 

Throughout Wednesday Season 2, Aunt Ophelia is described as “missing.” But that’s not exactly true. Because she’s actually alive — and her mother Hester knows precisely where she is. The final scene of Episode 8 reveals that Ophelia is locked away in a room in Hester’s house. It is unclear how long Ophelia has been in her spooky quarters, who put her there, or their reasoning. All that’s clear is that Ophelia has incredible taste in flower crowns and is demanding the demise of her niece and fellow Raven, Wednesday Addams. 

After a season of dropping breadcrumbs about Ophelia, Gough explains, “It was always the plan to give viewers a glimpse of her at the end of the season in a way that they weren’t expecting, and then that’s a driver into Season 3.” 

The co-showrunners know viewers will have questions about whether Ophelia will be a friend to Wednesday, or a foe — particularly since the two Ravens now seem to have a psychic connection. “That’s definitely something we explore in Season 2. How does Ophelia fit into the Addams family and what will she bring?” Millar says.  

After all, Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones) spends much of Season 2 concerned about the similarities between her daughter and her sister. “It’s going to be really interesting to see if Morticia’s concerns are realized,” Millar continues. “Ophelia has been gone a long time. It’s left a hole in Morticia’s life, and a lot of unanswered questions. The re-emergence of Ophelia is going to hit this family like a bomb.” 

What does it mean for Wednesday to have Ophelia’s journal? 

Wednesday only learns her aunt is alive because Morticia finally gifts her daughter Ophelia’s journal. That gesture is “huge,” Gough explains. In fact, it’s the climax to the “emotional arc” of the entire season, adds Millar.  

“The journal is really this sign of detente, acceptance, and embracing that Wednesday’s growing up,” Millar says. “It’s a moment of trust. It’s a big moment for Morticia. Wednesday acknowledges that.” 

Jenna Ortega — who was also a producer on Wednesday Season 2 — was glad to share a moment of growth with co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones. “I tried to have nice moments with Catherine, and she’s so easy to work with,” Ortega says. “I feel really lucky to have experienced this mother-daughter dynamic with someone as incredible as Catherine.” 

Does Wednesday have her psychic powers back? 

At the start of Wednesday Season 2, one of the titular detective’s biggest “problems” is the loss of her psychic abilities, Ortega explains. “She had gotten really good at using her psychic ability. But then she abuses it and uses it too much and ruins it for herself,” the actor says. “She has plenty of brains to work with, but it’s a lot more difficult for her this time around.”

So, Wednesday’s vision of Ophelia suggests Wednesday’s abilities “have been somewhat restored,” according to Millar. However, this evolution isn’t merely supernatural — it’s proof of Wednesday’s growth throughout Season 2. Over the season, Wednesday learns that she cannot control everything, and that her fractured relationship with her mother is dampening her abilities. 

“Once Morticia and Wednesday bond at the end, there’s that sense of a maturing relationship between the two of them,” Millar continues. “So Season 3 offers the hope that Wednesday’s powers will be back.”

What is an alpha werewolf? 

In Episode 6, Enid manages to transform into her werewolf form … without the need for a full moon. Capri, a werewolf herself, soon warns Enid that she has the markers of an alpha werewolf, including that she was a late bloomer who first wolfed out during a blood moon. Extremely powerful and often feared by other werewolves, alpahs often lead a solitary existence.

 By Episode 8, Enid definitively proves to be an alpha werewolf and transforms to save Wednesday from a fatal burial by Isaac Night (Owen Painter), fka Slurp, the zombie. Gough confirms Enid’s powers are a “double-edged sword” — especially for someone who has been searching for lupine community for so long. 

“In Season 2 Enid becomes part of the pack. She has everything she wants. But then this new twist on her ability — it isolates her again,” Gough says. “Alphas are a super leader, but they are also feared by other werewolves. Now she’s a full werewolf — will she be able to come back? How will that affect her relationships moving forward?”   

Although Myers finds Enid’s latest paranormal development “tragic,” the actor also says “it’s fitting.” “She struggles to fit in … Now she has to deal with potentially becoming a loner again,” Myers continues. “It’s a cool new element to add to the werewolf trope, which is going to be fun to continue exploring. I hope this brings her and Wednesday closer together, because at their core, they’re still outcasts even within their own designated group of outcasts.”  

Can Wednesday save Enid? 

“Fans should be very worried for Enid,” Millar says. “We’re certainly worried for Enid.” As Part 2 reveals, once an alpha werewolf transforms, they are unable to change back to their human form. Due to their dangerous nature, they are left isolated and hunted to death by other werewolves. “It’s a big deal for Enid and getting out of this is going to be difficult,” Millar continues. 

However, there are some bright spots. Enid’s decision to alpha wolf-out to save Wednesday — despite knowing the risks such a choice would bring upon herself — proves their connection as best friends. “Female friendship and sisterhood is the heart and soul of the show,” Millar says. “Wednesday and Enid had some ups and downs this season, but that moment of pure sacrifice is a really great climactic moment for Enid’s arc this season.” 

When asked why Enid would make such a sacrifice for Wednesday, Myers’ answer is simple: “Because Wednesday is her best friend. I would do the same for my best friend in real life. I hope and believe that anyone would do something like that for their best friend.”

Luckily for Enid, she has Wednesday’s most ingenious sleuth on her side. Armed with intel from Agnes DeMille (Evie Templeton), Wednesday ends the season speeding off to find her best friend — and Myers knows Enid would expect nothing less. “Enid is going to be stuck as a werewolf, having some crazy adventures up in Canada. But she’s going on a journey to find how to turn back into a human,” she says. “Wolf-Enid probably expects Wednesday to come find and help her — or, at least, I imagine she hopes for it.” 

What was Isaac and Francoise’s plan? 

Wednesday Season 2 makes it clear that the life of a Hyde is often a death sentence. Which is why, years before the events of Wednesday, a genius scientist and Nevermore student named Isaac Night figured out how to “permanently cure” his Hyde sister Francoise (Frances O’Connor). Isaac built a machine in Iago Tower to save Francoise and then turned to his roommate, a young Gomez Addams (Lucius Hoyos), to power it. Teenage Gomez still had his electrical abilities at the time and was more than happy to help his best friend. What Isaac didn’t tell Gomez was that the experiment would kill him. Young Morticia (Gwen Jones) saved Gomez, but broke the machine in the process. Isaac also died in the explosion.  

In Wednesday Season 2, the zombie that was Slurp regenerates into his true form: Isaac Night. With Francoise free from Willow Hill Psychiatric Facility’s secret LOIS program and her son Tyler on the loose once again, the entire Night family can reunite. Tyler is led to believe Isaac and Francoise want to reboot the former’s machine to keep Francoise alive. But, as Tyler learns in Episode 8, they actually intend to use the machine on Tyler and rid him of his Hyde abilities forever, in order to save his life.

“In the back of Francoise’s mind, as soon as Isaac came back into her life, that was the plan. She always wanted to save her son,” Gough says. “The show comes down to families in conflict and family drama. There’s always a family at the center of everything.” 

Tyler, however, is devastated by the betrayal. Not only will this plan remove a key part of his identity — it condemns his mother to death. “There’s a lot of anger that he’s going to lose his powers. Tyler has nothing without them,” Doohan says. “He was never loved by his father. And now his mom is trading places with him at the end, so she’s definitely going to die. So even if it’s going to be a short life, without his powers he feels like he has nothing.” 

Why does Wednesday save Tyler? 

The scheme to save Tyler requires power — and lots of it. Isaac goes back to his original plan from decades ago and kidnaps an Addams once again. This time, however, it’s Wednesday’s brother Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) who’s hooked up to the machine. The Addams family must destroy Isaac’s machine for a second time. As Wednesday creeps around the clock tower, she finds Tyler and he asks her to kill him. Instead, she chops his restraints off, sparing his life. “I missed,” she says as an explanation.  

“But Wednesday doesn’t miss,” Doohan points out. So why does Wednesday free Tyler? “I don’t think she even knows herself why she did that,” Millar says. “It’s great when you find those moments when Wednesday — who really goes into situations with great certainty — then she acts impulsively.” 

Gough also explains there are a few strategic reasons why Wednesday let Tyler go. “It gives the distraction she needs to take out the whole machine and save her brother. I think she also sees something in Tyler. Even though she says he’s irredeemable — what does she really think? As we get into Season 3, we’ll question why she did that.” 

Wait — so Thing was Isaac Night’s hand? 

Episode 8 spills one of the biggest Night family secrets: Thing is Isaac’s right hand. Morticia chopped off Isaac’s hand before he died, and it reanimated and became Thing. A visual card reveals that “Thing” has been an anagram for “Night” all along. 

“Everything leads back to the Addams family,” Millar says. “We wanted to explore the idea of the origin story of Thing and surprise the audience.” 

The Wednesday creative team went to great lengths to maintain the shock of the reveal, which happens at the start of the finale. Once the Nights lure Wednesday to the woods, they kidnap Thing. Isaac then removes his glove, unveils his missing hand, and re-attaches Thing to his body. Painter, who intentionally kept his right hand hidden until that moment, says he felt “free” once his character could step into his full power as a Da Vinci. As Isaac explains, Da Vincis are “nothing” without their right hands.

“It was like I was finally done with all of the baggage,” Painter says. “Before that, we were developing contraptions to hook my body parts together and my fingers in splints and things like that.” 

But, Isaac’s time with his right hand is short. The Addamses foil Isaac’s plan and beg Thing to return to their family. A brawl breaks out between Thing and Isaac and the former wins. Thing manages to pull Isaac’s clockwork heart out of his body, killing him. Thing then detaches from Isaac’s limp corpse and scampers back to his Addams family. “That scene is just so heartbreaking and beautiful and it’s everything we wanted it to be,” Millar says. 

In Wednesday and Thing’s final conversation, Thing rejects Isaac’s ring, which has a “knight” chess piece. Thing’s identity is now truly in his own … hand. 

What happens to Tyler? 

Despite his run-in with Wednesday and an axe — Tyler does not die. Although he still ends Season 2 at his lowest emotional point yet. Tyler gets to keep his powers, but loses the most important person in his life in the process: his mother, Francoise. Tyler killed her in the Hyde fight that erupts in Iago Tower. “Al and Miles and I talked about how all the emotions are intensified by a thousand when people are in Hyde form. It’s just rage. Tyler kills Francoise, but doesn’t mean to,” Doohan explains. “Tyler blamed Isaac a lot. Now he’s dead. His mom is dead. Tyler has nothing left.” 

So, Tyler finds himself at Francoise’s grave at the end of Episode 8. There, Capri appears and offers him a deal that sounds almost too good to be true. She promises him a life without “mothers and masters.” Instead, she offers a support system of Hydes, “hidden away where the world can’t find them.” This pack would transcend the need for a single master. Tyler knows a Hyde like him is careening toward death without a master. So, he accepts. 

“It goes back to Tyler having nothing to lose. Capri offers the slightest bit of hope,” Doohan says. “He owes it to himself and to his mom to explore if there is another way. We’ve seen him try every other path in this life.” 

Still, there are a lot of questions around Capri. During her conversation with Tyler, the werewolf reveals her father was a Hyde. “That’s obviously a surprise,” Millar says. “Does Capri have ulterior motives or is she altruistic? Why is she making this offer to Tyler? You don’t quite know who she is or where her allegiance lies.” 

When asked if she believes her character’s motives in that moment, Piper responds, “At the moment, I do believe her. I haven’t really been given any other reason not to, except that what she’s talking about is obviously a bit new. And if we’re talking about creating a safe space for specific outcasts, I suppose that could start as quite an innocent thing, and then become some sort of outcast social experiment that could go wrong. But I don’t know if it has malice. We’ll see.”

No matter what new terrors lie ahead, Doohan is excited to see what’s next. “Imagine if we got to see Tyler really smile in Season 3 — not a fake barista smile, not an evil grin,” he says. “It’ll be the first time for the audience — and for Tyler himself —  to meet the real Tyler. He’s got a lot of making up to do. And a lot to reconcile with. So I don’t know it’s going to be an easy journey.” 

What’s going on with Pricipal Dort? And is he really dead? 

Yes, Nevermore Academy has officially lost another principal. Episode 7 confirms that Principal Dort (Steve Buscemi) is actually the mastermind behind the Morning Song cult that has been plaguing Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday) since Season 1. Dort then came to Nevermore Academy to use his position to steal Grandmama Hester’s fortune and disappear. 

Once Dort’s many crimes — including manipulating Bianca and kidnapping her mother Gabrielle (Gracy Goldman) — are revealed, he attempts to take Bianca hostage. In the process, Dort sets a chandelier on fire. Desperate to save Bianca, Ajax Petropolus (Georgie Farmer) uses his Gorgon abilities to turn Dort to stone. The move turns permanent when the chandelier crashes down, crushing (and killing) Dort immediately. 

“We wanted to make sure Dort was the one who fired in the air [and set the chandelier on fire]. Nobody was intending to kill him,” Gough says. “Dort did it to himself.” 

Who is the new principal of Nevermore Academy? 

With Weems safely ensconced in the afterlife and Dort a pile of rocks on the ground, Nevermore is in need of a new leader for Season 3. Who could that be? “You will be very surprised,” promises Gough.

Is Weems gone forever? And will Wednesday get a new spirit guide? 

Speaking of Nevermore principals — toward the end of Episode 8, Weems announces she is taking a “sabbatical” from her role as Wednesday’s spirit guide. Does that mean the well-coiffed educator is gone for good? “Is anything ever forever at Nevermore?” asks Gough.

Should Grandma Hester Frump be trusted? 

For much of Wednesday Season 2, Hester is one of Wednesday’s closest relatives. But, between Hester’s disdain for Gomez and the hovering secrets around Aunt Ophelia, the gloomy tides may be changing. “For a show in tones of black and white, there’s nothing black and white about any of these relationships,” Gough says. “There really is more to learn in Season 3.” 

Learn the truth about Grandmama — and the rest of your favorite outcasts — when Wednesday returns for Season 3, which Gough calls the “darkest chapter of the Addams family” yet. Until then, (re)watch Wednesday Season 1 and Season 2 on Netflix, and keep coming back to Tudum for all your Nevermore news. 

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