So I watched Wednesday ...again.

So I watched Wednesday again on Netflix. Following the release of the second half of season two on Wednesday, September 3, 2025; I was inspired to start again at Season One. A whole new world started to re-weave itself around me. In this little part two of So I watched..., I wanted to discuss what in my weed-enduced psychosis I found in the underlining story that writer Tim Burton shares with us.

In my psychedelic state earlier today, I sat down to watch Wednesday on Netflix. After a herrowing 15 hours, the total runtime of Wednesday both seasons one and two, I noticed a couple of elements of this macomb fanfiction twist on the story of The Addams Family.

First introduced as The Addams Family in 1964, this quirky modern family would devastate their neighborhood with interesting takes to introduce the oddity that was The Addams Family. For thirty minutes each week, these episodes would take us on a new and interesting adventure through modern takes on family dinamics for the odd family. Anything from inviting neighbors into their home, only to be met with the strange looks from spectators' lenses, from their neighbors, as if they walked into a Spencer's Gifts or Spirit Halloween for the first time ever. To stopping people who were looking to steal their family fortune in the later 90's movie adaptations with the same name: The Addams Family and The Addams Family Values. Which doesn't even bring up their iconic cameos in cartoons like Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, or their animated movies in the late 2010s with the same name.

I was more than excited to hear a new adaptation was releasing in 2022. Which sees the main character Wednesday Addams embark on an adventure through young adolescence at a school for gifted individuals called The Outcasts that reside at a boarding school called Nevermore Acadamy. Which even have their own super secret society called The Nightshades, that is accessed through a statue of Edgar Allan Poe and a secret command S.N.A.P. T.W.I.C.E. an anagram that answers the riddle found in a copy of the Secret Society book in Poe's hand. The only way to access the hidden library behind the statue.

It wasn't until the later half of season two that I began to see it start to make sense.

Everything that's happening on Netflix's Wednesday is happening in Wednesday Addams' mind. What do I mean by this? A lot, sprinkled through very little, that says a lot about the two seasons as a whole and separate stories that are being told.

It's just a Theory....

Everything happening in the show is happening in Wednesday's head. Starting with Season One, Episode One, we see Wednesday Addams open the show by freeing her brother from a locker and having, what could only be described to the viewer as a seizure. And with most seizures have created a sense of wonder about the future. Her friends and family's future, to be exact. Most medical journals that cover them, seizures, head trauma, or dissociative episodes can create altered states of consciousness. These pockets of consciousness have created with them, a way for Wednesday to cope through trauma. These traumatic events I'm talking about take place primarily in Season One with its' major contributing plots as they bead together the story of Season One.

Wednesday's mind

Wednesday's mind creates the elaborate Nevermore experience as a way to cope with and process real traumatic events, starting with the piranha incident at Wednesday and Pugley's old public high school. We see a warped reality unfold as Wednesday's already established but dishelved mind protects itself from the truth.

The school Nevermore Acadamy represents Wednesday's mental state after the trauma, as she's being enrolled into an In-patient Mental Facility. We later find out might be Willow Hill Penatentry.

These symbols include an old gothic castle that mostly represents the inner workings of Wednesday Addams' mind as Wednesday navigates her new reality after a psychotic breaking point.

We see more of that in Season Two Episode Six Woe Thyself, when we see her "swap minds" with her roommate Enid Sinclaire.

Each area of the castle represents a different variation of Wednesday Addams mind as her roommate represents a split in the psychosis of her mind. The top of the castle, Ophelia Hall, represents the headroom and each class represents a different area of the mind Wednesday's psychosis may be trying to mend.

So far as we know, the real trauma in theory, might have been getting kidnapped and tortured some. Which we see at the beginning of Season Two of Wednesday. Where we see Wednesday Addams access more of herself through these longer epileptic episodes, through such symbolism as black tears. We see how it differs from reality alternating switches that we see occur in Season Two Episode Eight when Wednesday's weakened psychosis sees a reality where her mom who she has struggled with throughout the series gets hurt and in an odd artistic twist brought on by director Tim Burton, sees her recover from it quickly.

In the show Wedesday, a lot of the overall theory takes place in Season Two after Wednesday gets thrown out of a window. Which, to some, can represent an overdose on drugs that many of the characters may represent. Which has me revisiting my original statement about trauma, where we see the trauma layer itself as it mirrors Wednesday in healing. Revisiting such layers as the pihrana attack being initial behavioral or social trauma, kidnapping and torture being a major psychological break, followed by a potentially fatal overdose or worsening psychotic symptoms. All while being admitted to the hospital of Nevermore Academy inside such a place as Willow Hill.