Wednesday Season 2 is coming out today, Wednesday, Aug. 6 (I see what you did there, Netflix). So, before you jump back into the world of Nevermore Academy, I thought it would be helpful to share a recap of what exactly went down in Season 1, since it originally appeared back in 2022! Here's everything you should know:

Note: Spoilers ahead for Wednesday Season 1.

1. Episode 1: "Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe"

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Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) is super reluctant to go to Nevermore Academy, where her mom, Morticia, and dad, Gomez, played by Luis Guzmán and Catherine Zeta-Jones, went to as teenagers and fell in love. The only reason she is being transferred to a new school is because she was expelled for doing a "prank" on a student who bullied her brother, Pugsley. 

However, when Wednesday arrives at Nevermore, she's required to see a therapist per her mother's request; finds out the headmaster Larissa (Gwendoline Christie) is Morticia's old roommate; and is placed in her mother's old dorm room with a new werewolf roommate, named Enid (Emma Myers) who can't turn yet but has a very cheery personality, which Wednesday is NOT a fan of. Thankfully, she is not alone at school because Gomez gave her Thing to keep her company and watch over her. 

That's not all: Police officers have discovered a dead body in the woods near the school, and there were two similar attacks a week prior — and they might be connected.

Wednesday meets other students: Rowan, Bianca, Xavier, and Tyler through various not-so-great situations. However, when she meets Tyler, an employee at the coffee shop, she comes across his dad, the town's sheriff, who believes her dad, Gomez, is a murderer from a previous incident.

Throughout this first episode, it is slowly revealed that Wednesday has some sort of "psychic powers," where she can see into the future and sometimes, see how people will die. Although she tries to escape school multiple times, at the end of the episode, she is caught in a fight with Rowan, who tries to kill her because he found an image of a girl who looks just like Wednesday in a book his mom wrote. The prediction: She was going to destroy Nevermore and all of its students. Luckily for Wednesday, a monster comes out of nowhere and kills Rowan on the spot.

And after all this, Wednesday finally deems the Nevermore Academy worth her time. 

2. Episode 2: "Woe Is the Loneliest Number"

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At the beginning of the episode, we discover that Rowan is "dead," but his body is nowhere to be found, and the sheriff doesn't believe Wednesday's statement of a monster attacking him. Oh, and it doesn't help that Rowan turns up "alive" the following day, which, of course, sparks Wednesday to investigate the mystery even further. 

Wednesday tries to talk to Rowan, but the headmaster informs her that he was expelled for reasons she can't share. So Wednesday sends Thing to follow Rowan before he goes home for good. In the meantime, she talks to Xavier, Rowan's roommate before he was expelled, and discovers Rowan has been on edge for the past few weeks.

When Thing follows Rowan to the train station, we learn that the headmaster is a shapeshifter and has been pretending to be Rowan to cover up the murder, but Wednesday or Thing doesn't know this yet.

Next, Wednesday goes into the woods with Tyler to find "evidence" that Rowan is actually dead. She finds his glasses, which triggers her to have a vision when she touches them. She discovers that Rowan was the one who tried to kill her earlier in the first episode. She also discovered the book from which the "prophecy" of her destroying Nevermore came, with a mysterious man making an appearance. Apparently, according to Nevermore's first normie teacher, Ms. Thornhill, it used to belong to an old student society that no longer exists, called the Nightshades.

During this episode, there is a student competition named the Poe Cup. While Wednesday and Enid team up and win the boat competition, Wednesday has another vision when she retrieves her team's flag: She sees herself in an all-white ensemble, saying that she is "the key." But the key to what?

And that's not all, she also discovers an Edgar Allan Poe statue that holds a book with riddles. Naturally, Wednesday solves each riddle and snaps her fingers twice to open the secret door. Where does it lead? To the Nightshades headquarters, of course, which also happens to be a secret library. What does she find? The book Rowan was talking about, as well as a picture of the Nightshades, which shows that her parents were apparently members. Unfortunately, her time in the Nightshades headquarters is cut short when she is captured by someone!

3. Episode 3: "Friend or Woe"

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The episode starts off with Wednesday in the same position she was in at the end of Episode 2: captured. By whom? Her nemesis: Bianca and the rest of her squad. Apparently, they are the new Nightshades, and it's been a secret to everyone, except the headmaster, who "allowed" it. While some members want Wednesday to join their society, Wednesday has no interest in the matter and leaves, with the book in her hands.

The next day, Wednesday is forced to do things by the headmaster: Not only does she and the rest of the students have to complete volunteer work, but she also has to play her cello at a later event to unveil the new Joseph Crackstone statue, a founding Pilgrim of Jericho. The good news is, she found out from Xavier, Rowan's ex-roommate, that Joseph is also in the book she found.

For Enid, her volunteer assignment was to work at Pilgrim World, a "theme park," but after learning of Joseph Crackstone (who was also a pilgrim), Wednesday asks Enid if they could trade assignments so she could take her place. At Pilgrim World, Wednesday decides to break into the museum that is dedicated to Crackstone with the help of a new friend, Eugene. There, she finds an image that matches the vision she had in the previous episode: The young girl covered in white with blonde hair who looks exactly like her — and she's holding a book, the Codex Umbrarum. 

Now, Wednesday needs to find the original meeting house of Jericho, so she goes to the cafe to ask Tyler for help. Who else is there? Xavier warns her to stay away from Tyler, which she ignores. Tyler tells her the house is in the woods, and she goes with Thing. 

Right when she's about to leave with no luck, Wednesday has a vision that shows the blonde lookalike, named Goody Addams, a distant relative, being accused of witchcraft. Joseph locks Goody and everyone else who was accused of being a witch — including her mother — in the house and sets it ablaze, but Goody escapes because she's the only one who is not chained to the building. Unfortunately, everyone else died in the fire.

When Wednesday's vision finishes, she awakens with the monster staring at her, but runs away. Even though she tries to chase him, she loses him in the woods and finds out that the monster has the ability to change into a human because of footprints changing mid chase on the ground. Xavier shows up to find Wednesday and tells her he's starting to believe that Rowan is, in fact, dead.

Wednesday gets back to town just in time to play the cello for the ceremony with the high school band. However, Wednesday asked Thing to help destroy the statue by filling the statue's fountain with gasoline and using a powder trail to set it on fire. The headmaster instantly clocks that Wednesday is behind it, but can't "prove" it's her.

At the end of the episode, you find a homeless man from an earlier scene at the original meeting house with a camera. While he tries to work the camera, the monster comes and attacks him, and the camera glitches and takes pictures of the murder. Next, you see Ms. Thornhill snapping her fingers twice in front of the Poe statue. And finally, you see the sheriff at the crime scene, finding the camera, and then printing the images in the darkroom. The images show the monster. 

4. Episode 4: "Woe What a Night"

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Since the last episode ended with a murder, this episode begins with Wednesday and Thing breaking into the coroner's office to investigate the body. Unfortunately, though, the sheriff and the coroner also arrive, and Wednesday hides away. She finds out through their conversation that the monster/human is cutting body parts from each of its victims. 

The following day, Wednesday notices that Xavier has a "neck wound" and doesn't believe his excuse. So she spies on him by following him to a shed, where he keeps paintings that he has made of the monster. She grabs a few to use for evidence, but right as she was about to leave, Xavier sees her, and to cover her tracks, she asks him to the Rave’N dance. And he excitedly says yes.

When Wednesday heads back into town, she mostly convinces the sheriff to work together on the investigation after showing him the drawings of the monsters. She just needs to find hard evidence.

Since Enid didn't want the monster drawings in the dorm room, Wednesday asked Eugene if she could keep them in the beehouse. While looking at the drawings, he recognizes a pattern that matches a cave nearby. Once they visit the cave, they find a broken claw, and she grabs it to run a DNA test on it.

Wednesday heads back to Xavier's shed to grab some of his DNA from a blood-soaked napkin to compare it to the claw, but Xavier catches her red-handed. Xavier explains that the monster has been appearing in his dreams/visions, and he has been processing them by drawing. Unfortunately, one of the monsters came to life in a drawing (Xavier has the ability to bring drawings to life), which is how he got attacked. It was also uncovered that Wednesday didn't really want to invite Xavier to the Rave’N dance, which broke his heart. Even though Wednesday believes Xavier's story could be real, she continues to give both pieces of evidence to the sheriff. 

As she was planning to head back to the cave with Eugene at night to stake out the monster, Tyler showed up at her door dressed up to take Wednesday to the Rave’N dance. Thing pretended to be Wednesday and wrote a letter to Tyler, asking him to the dance. Because of this surprise visit, Wednesday tells Eugene they'll visit the cave another night, but Eugene decides to go alone without Wednesday's knowledge.

When Tyler and Wednesday arrive at the dance, a lot of history is uncovered: When Headmaster Weems was in school, she was sad that Morticia went to the dance with her crush, Gomez, and Tyler once bullied Xavier. 

As for Enid, she went to the dance with Lucas to make Ajax jealous after she believed he stood her up for their date prior. But Enid found out later that it was all a misunderstanding and made up with Ajax, and left Lucas when she found out that it was his idea to do the "bloody" prank at the end of the dance to get revenge on the "freaks" who blew up the statue in the previous episode.

However, things end up horribly for Eugene. When the dance abruptly ends, Wednesday has a vision that Eugene is attacked by the monster. Even though she tries to save him, she's too late. 

5. Episode 5: "You Reap What You Woe"

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Wednesday always thought she knew who her parents were until she attended Nevermore Academy. Now that Tyler has given Wednesday Gomez's police file from when he was in school and was accused of killing a normie, named Garrett Gates, she decided to investigate the truth behind her dad's history with the law to find out what really happened that night.

The entire episode flashes back and forth between 1990 and the present day of 2022. While one storyline weaves through what happened the night the normie was killed, another focuses on Parents' Weekend at Nevermore Academy. 

In 2022, the headmaster states that Eugene is on the mend, but Wednesday says to Enid that he's in a coma and she's the reason he's there in that state. The headmaster also sees an opportunity to talk with the Addams family about Wednesday's recent behavior, where she suggests that the family see Wednesday's therapist. However, as they drive to the therapist's office, the sheriff notices Gomez in the car. Soon after, the sheriff receives a phone call and finds out that the coroner has killed himself.

At the therapy session, Wednesday's family is discussing how much they miss her while Wednesday demands that her father tell her what really happened that night with Garrett's death. Moritica becomes furious and states that the session is over. 

While Wednesday visits Eugene to give him some honey, the sheriff heads to the coroner's office to find out what happened to the coroner. There, he reads the coroner's suicide note stating that he felt guilty about falsifying a report for Garrett Gates's case. This signals the sheriff to immediately arrest Gomez while he's at Nevermore Academy.

Wednesday visits her father in jail and inquires about the night Garrett died. Gomez explains that Garrett was infatuated with Morticia but became a stalker when she didn't reciprocate his feelings. Gomez and Morticia tried to report it to the police, but they were ignored. Then on the night of the Rave’N dance, Garrett saw Gomez kissing Morticia and, out of rage, tried to kill him. But one thing led to another, and when Gomez picked up a sword, Garrett accidentally ran into it, killing him. As Gomez explains, "It was a terrible accident." But even though the story feels credible, Wednesday believes her father is lying to her, yet decides not to bring it up at that moment. 

Right after, Wednesday heads to the sheriff's office to tell him this is all a huge distraction from the main case. Someone is trying to derail her from the investigation and how far she has come in solving it. But the sheriff doesn't care what Wednesday believes and instead, notifies Wednesday that the rest of Garrett's family is dead: The mother died by suicide, the father drank himself to death, and the sister drowned.

Wednesday finds her mother in the Nightshades headquarters and asks her mom to tell her the truth about that night. Morticia confesses that she was the one who accidentally stabbed Garrett with the sword. But Wednesday suspects that something was off, as Morticia mentioned that Garrett was "foaming at the mouth like a rabid beast." 

To find out if their poison theory is true, they go to Garrett's grave to dig him up; however, they're both arrested. Luckily, Wednesday grabs one of Garrett's fingers. Around the same time, she gets a vision. This time, it involved Garrett's dad demanding that his son kill all the outcasts at Nevermore by spiking the punchbowl with Nightshade poison. However, when Garrett was pushed into a pillar during the fight with Gomez, the Nightshade poison entered his body and killed him slowly.

The next morning, Wednesday and Morticia were able to get out of jail to have a direct conversation with the mayor, who was the sheriff in the Garrett case back in the day. He confessed that he knew the truth the whole time, but decided to have the coroner write up a fake report because he had a reputation to protect. The mayor asked what the women wanted, and they said, "All charges dropped."

When Parents' Weekend comes to an end, Morticia gives Wednesday her yearbook. Here, she finds that the headmaster is actually a shapeshifter. This leads to Wednesday confronting the headmaster about what really happened to Rowan and finding out that Rowan's dad knows and agreeing to the cover-up. Right in the middle of this argument, noise is heard from outside. Wednesday and the headmaster head to the balcony and discover a message in the grass made out of fire: "Fire Will Rain."

6. Episode 6: "Quid Pro Woe"

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Wednesday wastes no time trying to get to the bottom of this mystery. At the start of the episode, she is doing a seance to connect with Goody, her distant relative. But the seance is cut short with a visit from Enid and a mysterious letter that randomly appears from under the door that reads: "If you want answers, meet inside Crackstone's crypt. Midnight." However, it was a ruse to get Wednesday out of the dorm to go to her surprise birthday party.

Wednesday doesn't care about the party, though. In fact, she finds an inscription inside the crypt that says: "Fire will rain when I rise.” When she touches it, a vision emerges, where Goody appears again, but this time, she tells Wednesday, inside the vision, "To stop Crackstone, this place you must seek," while looking at an old mansion.

The next day, the mayor and the headmaster meet to find out who wrote the image in the grass, while Wednesday goes to visit Eugene, who is still in a coma. She bumps into her therapist, Dr. Kinbott, who asks who Goody is after overhearing Wednesday talk out loud in the hospital room, but even though Wednesday answers, in a vague way, she ends the conversation quickly. 

Moments later, Wednesday goes to visit Xavier at his painting studio to ask about the old mansion. He tells her it's the old Gates’ mansion; however, Thing reveals a hidden painting of Wednesday playing her cello, and Xavier confesses his feelings for her, which Wednesday shuts down. 

When Wednesday visits the mansion, she nearly bumps into the mayor, but finds a way to hide in the trunk of his car to find out what he knows after he searches the house. However, while the mayor walks to the cafe to meet with the sheriff after parking his car, he gets hit by another car, which he survives. Wednesday tells the sheriff that it seems everything is leading to the Gates family, but he doesn't believe her.

Once the headmaster got news of the mayor's situation with Wednesday, she put the whole school under lockdown — but that doesn't stop Wednesday. Instead, she calls Tylor to take him up on the "birthday date" he offered earlier in the episode that she initially turned down, and he picks her and Enid up from Nevermore. Wednesday asks him to take them to the mansion, where they can look for clues. Enid and Tyler were both manipulated by Wednesday to do what she wanted.

They find the car that hit the mayor and Laurel's old bedroom, where Wednesday grabs an old music box. Unfortunately, their investigation comes to a halt when Tyler starts screaming that the monster is coming, and it starts chasing Wednesday and Enid throughout the house. When they get to the basement, they find all of the monster's "trophies," aka human remains. They narrowly escape and find Tyler outside, covered in scratches from the monster. Xavier also meets up with them after being tipped off by Thing.

They head back to Tyler's house, where the sheriff appears. Wednesday tells him he needs to see what they found, but when they return to the mansion, everything has been wiped clean. So he forbids her from seeing Tyler ever again.

Back at Nevermore, Wednesday tells the headmaster that she believes she (Wednesday) is the key to saving Nevermore, according to Rowan’s mother’s prophecy, and the headmaster lets her go back to her room; however, Enid is done with Wednesday after being manipulated into going to the mansion, and packs up her things from the dorm they share. Wednesday is officially alone. 

Unfortunately, when Wednesday is looking through pictures of herself that someone captured, which she found from the music box, the mayor is killed by someone in his hospital room in another scene.

7. Episode 7: "If You Don't Woe Me by Now"

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The mayor is dead, and everyone from Jericho is at the funeral, including Wednesday, who spots a mysterious figure watching from afar. However, when she chases after them, she realizes it's her Uncle Fester. He's in Nevermore to lay low after being chased by cops, and thought he could visit his niece. When Wednesday updates her uncle about what's been going on, he tells her the name of the monster she's been "hunting" is called a Hyde. He also tells her there's a secret diary written by Nathaniel Faulkner, Nevermore’s founder, that could have more information about the outcast monster, which can be found at Nightshade's headquarters.

Wednesday still seems to have issues connecting with her peers. She not only gets into another argument with Enid, but also with Xavier in Nightshade’s headquarters, as she questions why he always shows up right when the monster leaves. Eventually, they find the diary and read a section that describes what Hydes are. 

According to the book, Hydes are "artists by nature, but equally vindictive in temperament. Born of mutation, the Hyde lies dormant until unleashed by a traumatic event or unlocked through chemical inducement or hypnosis. This causes the Hyde to develop an immediate bond with its liberator, who the creator now sees as its master." Basically, Wednesday has to find two killers, not just one. Right after this discovery, Ms. Thornhill informed Wednesday that Enid has requested to permanently transfer to another dorm.

The next day, Wednesday and her uncle follow Xavier, who meets Wednesday's therapist in the woods. Unfortunately, when she goes to tell the headmaster that she believes the therapist is the monster's master, the therapist is already there. Good news is, Wednesday takes advantage of the situation and asks her therapist if she knows hypnotherapy, to which she answers yes. So they scheduled a new session together.

Wednesday's next course of action is meeting Tyler at the cafe to tell him what she's found. He asks her on a date, and she says yes. While she goes on the date, she asks Thing to watch the diary. Unfortunately, their date is interrupted by Tyler's dad, the sheriff, who is looking for Uncle Fester. 

When Wednesday returns to her dorm, Thing is stabbed, and the diary is gone. She brings Thing to her uncle, who resuscitates him with electricity. Thing couldn't identify who stabbed him, and Wednesday told her uncle to leave Nevermore because the cops were gaining on him.

Later that evening, Wednesday tells the headmaster and Ms. Thornhill what happened. Here she finds out that Nevermore's founder was actually killed by a Hyde and had been banned from campus for over 30 years. Right after, she meets with Bianca and the mayor's son, Lucas, who have been seeing each other romantically, to get information that Lucas found on his dad's laptop. Apparently, Laurel Gates drowned, but her body was never recovered. They believe Laurel Gates is actually alive, that she bought the old Gates home under a fake name, and that she is the Hyde's master, all to get revenge for her family's death.

Even though Wednesday and Dr. Kinbott already had a scheduled session for another day, she shows up unannounced at her office. Wednesday corners her therapist, expecting her to confess that she is Laurel Gates, but she doesn't. After Wednesday leaves, the therapist calls the principal, but gets attacked by the monster in the middle of the call.

Wednesday believes that at this point, she has it all figured out. She takes the sheriff to Xavier's art studio to tell him everything. Since the sheriff found evidence at the shed, they arrested Xavier on the spot. 

At this point, Enid and Wednesday make up and live as roommates again, and Wednesday heads to the cafe to see Tyler. But when she finally kisses her crush, she gets a vision of him killing Dr. Kinbott. Tyler is the Hyde, not Xavier. 

8. Episode 8: "A Murder of Woes"

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It's the final episode of the season, and Wednesday just found out her crush is the Hyde. She asks him to meet her in the woods so she can confront him about being the Hyde. Per Wednesday's request, Bianca shows up to use her siren powers to sedate him. 

Once they have him chained to a chair in Xavier's art studio, he begins to plead with Wednesday, who decides it's time to torture him to get the truth out. Bianca and her siren friends didn't feel comfortable with this, so they went to find the headmaster to tell her what was happening. She calls the sheriff to save the young boy.

The sheriff brings everyone to the police station, and Tyler finally secretly admits to being the Hyde to Wednesday — and that he remembered everything and loved killing every victim. He told her, "You have no idea what's coming."

At this point, the headmaster has no choice but to expel Wednesday, but instead of packing up her things, she visits Xavier in jail to ask for his help — but he denies her.

Before Wednesday leaves the school for good, she finds out that Eugene finally woke up from his coma, so she goes to visit him to say goodbye. There, he tells her that the person who set the cave on fire was wearing red boots, which signaled exactly who Laurel Gates is to Wednesday: Ms. Thornhill. 

She goes to Nevermore to confront the normie teacher and brings Tyler with her (who is actually the headmaster in a shapeshifter form). Ms. Thornhill confesses and tells Wednesday that she is actually a descendant of Joseph Crackstone. But when the headmaster shows her true identity, she is killed by Ms. Thornhill with Nightshade poison, and Wednesday is hit over the head with a shovel. 

Enid finds out through Eugene and Thing that something has gone terribly wrong with the headmaster and Wednesday, so Enid, Eugene, and Ajax go to try and save her.

After Wednesday was knocked out, Ms. Thornhill/Laurel has taken her to Joseph Crackstone's crypt and chained her to it. Ms. Thronhill tells Wednesday that she plans to bring Joseph back with all the body parts that she collected from the victims after Goody locked away his soul after killing him. However, she needs Wednesday's blood (an Addams relative) to unlock the sarcophagus, which needs to happen on a blood moon. 

Ms. Thornhill/Laurel cuts Wednesday's hand and uses her blood to resurrect Joseph, who stabs her and leaves her in the crypt to bleed out as they head to Nevermore to burn it to the ground. But Goody appears and tells Wednesday how to defeat him by stabbing his black heart. She can also heal her by using the talisman necklace Morticia gave her; however, it will cause Goody's spirit to vanish forever. Wednesday sadly agrees and is healed by Goody. 

Enid asked the Sirens to help evacuate the school, while Wednesday goes after Ms. Thornhill/Laurel and Joseph. Unfortunately, she is ambushed by Tyler, who tries to attack her. Luckily, Enid starts officially turning into a full-fledged werewolf because of the blood moon and protects Wednesday by attacking Tyler as a Hyde. 

This is also when the sheriff appears after Eugene's mom called the police station earlier to notify them of everything her son had told her. Unfortunately, when he arrived at the fight between Enid and the Hyde, he saw that his son was the real Hyde after he shot it and reverted back to Tyler, so Enid could knock him out. 

At Nevermore, Wednesday arrives to see that Joseph has set the school on fire, but she's not alone in trying to save it. Bianca and Xavier arrive to do everything they can to stop Joseph and to give Wednesday the opportunity to stab his black heart, which she does. 

Of course, Ms. Thornhill/Laurel doesn't accept defeat when Joseph dies, so she takes a gun and aims at Wednesday to kill her. Luckily, Eugene comes in to save the day by instructing his bees to attack Ms. Thornhill/Laurel. Eugene says, "That's what you get for messing with Nevermore, bitch." Wednesday then kicks Ms. Thornhill/Laurel while she is down.

In the end, Wednesday pays her respects to the headmaster, she says goodbye to her friends because the rest of the semester has been canceled, and Xavier gives her a phone with his phone number inside and instructs her to text him. However, Wednesday receives a random text from an unknown caller that says, "I'm watching you," with images of her with Xavier and Tyler, and a GIF that shows a knife being lodged into her head. 

Wednesday believes that secrets still need to be revealed at Nevermore, and she is interested to learn that she has her first stalker. Although she doesn't know, we see Tyler turning into the Hyde as he's being transported to jail. 

Are you excited to watch the next season of Wednesday? Tell us what you loved most about the first season, or what remaining secrets you need answered in the next in the comments below.