Wednesday Season 2 Part 1 Ending: Jenna Ortega’s Fate and Shocking Mid-Season Twist

The Mid-Season Finale That Changed Everything

If you thought Wednesday Season 2 Part 1 was going to slow down and tie up loose ends, you definitely didn’t see that ending coming. The last moments of the finale, titled If These Woes Could Talk, left fans everywhere either yelling at their screens or scrolling for any hint about what’s coming next. Wednesday Addams, played by Jenna Ortega, is tossed out a window by Tyler—her old stalker and a Hyde monster—just after she peels back the curtain on a chilling secret at Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital.

The whole mess began in a graveyard. Wednesday and her grandmother Morticia go poking around after a string of murders tied to mysterious ravens. They stumble across urns that should hold the ashes of alleged outcasts but end up as nothing but empty props with fake death certificates. Augustus Stonehurst, a forgotten former Nevermore teacher, literally rubber-stamped these phony deaths before switching careers to Willow Hill’s in-house doc. Morticia and Wednesday realize the deaths were staged, pointing straight to a cover-up.

Barely having time to digest this, Wednesday ropes in Uncle Fester for a bit of breaking and entering at Willow Hill. The place isn’t your average psych ward—it’s a front for LOIS, the Long-term Outcast Integration Study program. That’s code for: they’re experimenting on people with supernatural powers, seeing what makes them tick. Fester cuts the hospital power, probably thinking he’s helping. What actually happens? Doors unlock in every direction, including the cell of Tyler Gallen, Wednesday’s biggest threat from the first season.

Where Does Everyone Stand Now?

The minute Tyler is free, things go haywire. He attacks Wednesday, throws her out a high window, and snaps up Miss Thornhill—who doesn’t survive the encounter. Flashbacks hinted at Wednesday seeing her own death, and now, her lifeless body lying in the rain looks way too close to that vision. Is Wednesday really dead, or is the show throwing us a curveball? We know her visions aren’t always literal, but the image is a gut punch for fans.

Meanwhile, ravens controlled by some unknown force have been behind vicious murders in town. And there’s Headmaster Dort, the new boss at Nevermore, who’s got ‘shady’ written all over him. His motives are murky, and his ties to Willow Hill and the LOIS program are nowhere near clear. While all eyes are on Wednesday, Dort is quietly nudging people like chess pieces.

The finale leaves several characters hanging. What about Enid, Wednesday’s loyal werewolf best friend? Her fate is just as up in the air, and fans are desperate for news. The showrunners, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, are loving every second of this chaos. They deliberately cut the season short here to ramp up the dread and speculation until Part 2 drops in September.

So here’s where things stand: the LOIS program is hiding something, Tyler is free and bent on revenge, and Wednesday’s fate is up in the air. Fans clamor for answers, and knowing this show, nothing is as simple as it seems. September can’t get here fast enough.