Wednesday season 2 gives a former Tim Burton a role outside the star competition with

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The distinctive vision of Tim Burton defines the “Wednesday” of Netflix, which is back with a second season in two parts which promises to double the Gothic mysteries offered by the first. Indeed, Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) is drawn in a mysterious case as soon as she returns to the Nevermore Academy, which serves as a perfect site for the monsters of Ooky Spooky (and the strange harasser) to go out and play. Season 2 is based on the aesthetics of Burton to create its own visual identity, which comes to life through deaf but colorful pallets, a macabre Gothic architecture and a dark presence of Wednesday (which contrasts and completes its environment).

But Burton’s vision sums up much more than the world we see on the screen, because it also includes socially accepted characters who vehemently oppose those who exist along societal fringes. The standards introduced in season 1 are a good example, because they seem determined to disseminate the parias by pure prejudices, attacking what they perceive as strange or particular. In addition, some intimidators prove to be betting themselves, targeting Wednesday due to an instinctive impulse to make fun of what they do not understand. These intimidators are ultimately redeemed, either given their co -prone, but they have always existed in the work of Burton to represent the psychology of those who are sufficiently desperate to integrate into the price of others.

From all the work of Burton, it is perhaps “Edward Scissorhands” who best explore the themes of ridicule societal, isolation and self-expression through a fantastic lens. In the film, characters like Jim (Anthony Michael Hall) react negatively in the holder figure only because they embody non-conventionality and do not integrate into the accepted societal molds of what a teenager should look like or act. Now, 35 years after the release of this film, Hall found Burton to play yet another Bully figure, this time as a prompt guest star in “Wednesday” season 2, episode 3, “Call of the Woe”. Let’s talk about it!

Nothing shouts the unpredictable pleasure / Whimsey like a summer camp only excluded, which also means that Wednesday has no interest in going there. However, when Thing (Victor DorobabaTu) informs him of a potential index involving his harasser near Camp Jericho, on Wednesday, although he is bored by the dominant presence of his family. While students are starting to do as they wish, like Pugsley (Isaac Ordonnez) who is trying without success to hide his pet zombie, the new director of Nevermore, Dort (Steve Buscemi), gives an exciting speech on pride and the community building. However, just when things are starting to improve, the Master Cadet of Phoenix, Ron Krueger (Hall), arrives with his group of teenagers Normie, saying that they were the first to book the campsite. Tensions are increasing.

After reaching a dead end, Wednesday offers a flag capture game to decide who can stay, where each team is supposed to resume its Zephyr (a symbolic team logo) and resume the delay. The result is a small fun sequence that uses the animation to explain the rules, followed by the Parias winning the match (as well as their complaint on the campsite).

Krueger de Hall, however, is not a good sport about this fair victory. Instead, he encourages children Norma to take revenge on the parias, which turns against his brains (!!) unexpectedly by the pugsley zombie animal. Of course, his death is treated with the same dark humor semi-serious that the spectacle has embraced from the first day, showing how Krueger is intolerant that Krueger obtains their co-pump to sow seeds of hatred and unused prejudices.

Krueger himself doubles with a playful wink to the Hall’s antagonistic character in “Edward Scissorhands”, which is presented as an aggressive and sectarian force in contrast with the radically empathetic nature of Edward (Johnny Depp) throughout the film. Despite Jim’s twisted efforts to vilivate Edward and avoid him from the dominant society, he is finally punished for hatred in his heart when he falls at his death towards the end of the film. The role of Hall as Krueger, in turn, serves to bring things in a thematic circle with regard to the appearances of the actor in Burton’s projects, strengthening the rewarding natural laws that govern the fantastic fictitious worlds of the wacky artist.

The first part of season 2 “Wednesday” is now in trouble on Netflix, the second part arriving on September 3, 2025.