Summary
Wednesday Season 2 continues apace in Episode 2, which heats up the main mystery while folding in multiple other compelling subplots.
Wednesday Season 2 started as it means to go on, capably proved by Episode 2, which makes it clear that things aren’t going to get any simpler as we go. There’s a murderer at large and a zombie on the loose, and that’s just for starters. “The Devil You Woe” is a denser episode that builds on all the plot threads the premiere introduced, while also throwing in a couple more. Everything’s likely connected, in one way or another, but that doesn’t make it any easier to lay everything out in the meantime. But I’ll do my best.
We have an answer about the black tears, at least — Morticia tells Wednesday that they’re a sign of psychic exhaustion. This is proved almost immediately, since when Wednesday goes to see Galpin, she finds him dead with his eyes pecked out, and when she tries to use his corpse to trigger one of her psychic visions, she realizes she’s suddenly powerless. Luckily, she still has plenty of support, so when she’s arrested by Sheriff Santiago, Gomez, as her legal representative, is able to free her pretty quickly.
Wednesday isn’t deterred by her close brush with the law, but it’s more difficult than usual to get anything done at Nevermore, since the place is in the midst of the annual Prank Day. Wednesday gets back to her dorm room to find Enid dead with her throat cut, but it’s just a joke, albeit not an especially funny one given Wednesday’s vision at the end of the premiere. Her stalker is also in a pranking mood, leaving one of Galpin’s eyes on Enid’s pillow and texting Enid from Galpin’s phone.
Through Dr. Orloff, Wednesday learns that people who can control birds are called Avians, but there hasn’t been one at Nevermore for over a decade. For more answers, she decides to go and see Tyler. She hijacks Enid’s driving lesson to get to Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital, where he’s being held under the care of Dr. Fairburn, who is hoping that prolonged separation from Marilyn, who is being housed in a separate facility, will help to rehabilitate him. But no such luck. Tyler doesn’t want to play ball, and when he hears about the deaths of his father and Carl Bradbury, he just threatens to kill Enid until Wednesday verbally eviscerates him.
Elsewhere, Pugsley shows Eugene his new pet corpse, whom he christens “Slurp” after he gobbles down some honey and throws up on them. If you’re thinking that Pugsley isn’t anywhere close to capable enough to secretly look after a zombie, you’d be right — Slurp escapes almost immediately, gets knocked down by Enid’s driving instructor, and then eats his brains. At least he’s performing as advertised.
It’s also Thing’s birthday in Wednesday Season 2, Episode 2. Naturally, the entire Addams family has forgotten. It’s only Enid who seems to notice, breaking away from Bruno for a moment to cheer him up. This brief distraction is all it takes for some unknown observer to kidnap her and Bruno both. They wake up chained together at the top of Iago Tower, a medley of swords and daggers suspended ominously above them. When Wednesday gets back to the dorm, she receives a call saying she has just 30 minutes to find Enid before she’s killed.
Wednesday follows a postcard to the music room organ, and through the tunnel it opens to Iago Tower, where she’s able to save Enid and Bruno — albeit interrupting their romantic moment — in the nick of time. Wednesday’s stalker reveals herself as Agnes Demille, one of the younger students who has been fawning over Wednesday ever since she returned to Nevermore. Agnes might be obsessed with Wednesday, but she didn’t kill Galpin, and in fact, offers to help solve the case to win Wednesday over. You can’t really trust a murderous stalker, but Agnes can turn invisible, which is a useful ability.
And Wednesday will need all the help she can get, since when she returns to her room to gift Thing an antique thumbscrew as a belated birthday present, she realizes that Morticia took Goody’s spell book for her own protection. Since she needs the book to get her powers back and her powers to solve the case, she isn’t best pleased.
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