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Picture this: It is the year of our Lord 2022, and you get into mindlessly scrolling on Netflix, and suddenly your entire feed is just one pale girl in braids doing a dance that looks like it was choreographed by a possessed spider. That was Wednesday, and it didn’t just drop on Netflix…it detonated.

Overnight, Jenna Ortega became the new queen of goth while TikTok absolutely went feral. So much so that you couldn’t walk into a Halloween party without bumping into five Wednesday Addams cosplays and at least one sad attempt at Thing.

Fast forward, and you see Netflix already doubling down with season two. Which, let’s be honest, is not just about giving fans what they want. It is more about the platform reminding every rival streamer that spooky is their lane. Disney can keep its princesses and HBO can keep its dragons, but when it comes to eerie, gothic comfort TV, Netflix is the undisputed ruler.

The secret sauce is that Netflix doesn’t make “horror”; it makes spooky fun. The Haunting of Hill House broke our hearts, Stranger Things gave us monsters and mall nostalgia, and Wednesday? It wrapped creepy in a velvet bow of sarcasm, camp, and viral memes. It is scary, and there is no doubting that, but it’s one heck of a binge at the same time. Dark, funny and kind of glamourous in its eeriness, it’s basically horror with eyeliner.

And can we please talk about Jenna Ortega? Because season one did not just make her famous, it made her a cultural reset. She gave us one-liners that cut sharper than thorns and a death stare that deserves its own Netflix contract. But best of all, she gave us a performance so iconic it turned the Addams Family into a Gen-Z obsession. Season two could literally just be her sitting in silence for eight episodes, and people would still binge it. That’s called power.

The real magic is nostalgia done right. Netflix somehow made a decades-old franchise feel fresh without embarrassing itself. They leaned into the weirdness, kept the gothic DNA, and sprinkled in just enough eerie to set the internet on fire. It would be wrong to call it just a reboot, as it was a reinvention. And the fact that it worked once means season two is primed to do it again.

So while every other streamer is busy flogging superheroes and reboots, Netflix is just sitting pretty on its spooky throne. Wednesday isn’t just a show anymore; it is proof of a concept that creepy chic is alive and thriving. Proof that when it comes to turning the bizarre into binge gold, the streamer is still the one holding the crown.

It’s time to hold your breath to find out where our comatose protagonist will land up next, as volume two of Wednesday is all set to slay on September 3rd.