WEDNESDAY Season 2 Creators Unpack the Big Twist and Origin Fans Didn’t See Coming
Netflix has officially released the second part of Wednesday Season 2, giving fans the chance to binge the full set of episodes. Picking up right where the first part left off, the new chapters dive deeper into the mysteries of Nevermore Academy, while expanding the lore of the Addams Family in surprising ways.
Alongside new threats and shocking revelations, the season delivers one of its most emotional twists yet: the long-awaited origin story of Thing.
Series creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar revealed that this storyline was always meant to be the emotional center of Season 2. While talking to Deadline, Gough said:
“There wasn’t a Thing origin story What’s great for us with the Addams family is that there really isn’t any mythology or lore to them, other than the TV show, which is where they first got their names.
“And, of course, there’s the Charles Addams panels, but they didn’t have names in those. It was just called the Addams Family. For us, it’s a great blank canvas to really delve into these characters and figure things out. People always ask us, ‘Where’s Thing from?’ and ‘Are you ever going to tell Thing’s origin story?’”
Season 2 reveals that Thing is actually the severed hand of Isaac Night, played by Owen Painter, who was once the best friend and roommate of a young Gomez Addams, portrayed by Lucius Hoyos.
Decades earlier, Isaac deceived Gomez into powering a device designed to cure his sister Francoise, played by Frances O’Connor, of her Hyde curse. What he didn’t reveal was that the process would kill Gomez.
A young Morticia, played by Gwen Jones, stepped in to save him, severing Isaac’s hand and triggering an explosion that killed him while permanently stripping Gomez of his own powers. The machine’s electrical surge reanimated the severed hand, which was later embraced by the Addams family as Thing.
Miller went on to say:
“It felt like a natural idea and MacGuffin for a season. It was interesting following some of the comments. We thought it was pretty obvious from the very first moment that [Isaac/Slurp] appears, you see the hand come out of the dirt.
“You think that would be the big clue that gives it away. But I think many people hopefully didn’t see it and were surprised by that ending, and then exclaimed, ‘Oh my God! It was right in front of our faces the whole time.’”
According to Millar, the climax of Thing’s story was always intended to be the emotional high point of Season 2.
“That’s really the emotional heart of the show, and that’s the emotional climax of the season. That’s the moment when Thing obviously separates and stumbles back to the family, his real family, and takes ownership of that.
“It felt like that was really a moment we were driving to all season. Tim [Burton] directed it so beautifully, and it really does — we think — pack an emotional punch when you see that. It’s very bizarre, because it’s a disembodied hand and it should be moving, and I think it is.”
The idea also tied into exploring Gomez’s place within the world of outcasts. Millar said:
“It was one of the questions that came up in the writers’ room. We talked about how, in a world of outcasts, does Gomez fit into this? Why did he go to Nevermore?
“It led to the idea of, ‘What if he did have powers and they were taken away from him?’, And then it all combined into this moment in the climax, which we see in flashback.”
With this storyline, Wednesday Season 2 not only gave fans a long-desired answer about Thing but also delivered a deeper emotional layer to the Addams family’s history, cementing the disembodied hand as more than just comic relief.
Wednesday Season 2 is now streaming in full on Netflix.