Who Is Wednesday’s Stalker? Season 2’s Massive Reveal Defined

This publish incorporates main spoilers for “Wednesday.” 

Season 1 of “Wednesday” had already teased the existence of a mysterious stalker in Nevermore. Proper after Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) resolves the Crackstone/Hyde debacle on the finish of the season, she receives a cryptic textual content on her telephone, replete with images of her being stalked. The brand new season sees our protagonist return to the academy, the place she is quickly plagued with extra stalker-adjacent issues, which begin to take a extra sinister flip. On the similar time, Wednesday has to take care of one thing she has by no means contended with earlier than — she is now the focus, having gained superstar standing after saving Nevermore from spoil. As anticipated, she detests being below the highlight and diverts all her consideration to fixing the brand new stalker drawback.

At first, she receives some cryptic letters that specific morbid fascination, however the scenario escalates after the stalker steals Wednesday’s manuscript (of the novel she has labored on for 2 years) and threatens to destroy it. Whereas Wednesday manages to avoid wasting her treasured work from being set aflame through the faculty bonfire, this harmful sport takes a extra macabre nosedive quickly after. Former sheriff Donovan Galpin (Jamie McShane) and his good friend all of a sudden die as a result of brutal chicken assaults, which leads Wednesday to consider that her stalker is concerned with these grotesque murders. After dismantling a distressing near-death entice focusing on Enid (Emma Myers), Wednesday finds out that her stalker is none apart from Agnes DeMille (Evie Templeton), one other Nevermore pupil with the flexibility to render herself invisible.

Agnes’ motivations are twisted, however simple. As a Wednesday superfan, Agnes intentionally performed an elaborate cat-and-mouse sport to realize her idol’s approval, as she desires to be helpful to Wednesday in some form or kind. When confronted concerning the murders, Agnes states that whereas she did not kill anybody, she did exit of her method to acquire clues from the crime scenes to attract Wednesday’s consideration and acquire her approval. 

With the identification of her (benign) stalker out of the best way, Wednesday devotes her vitality to looking down the actual perpetrator, whom she dubs the Avian stalker. Who is that this malevolent stalker, and what do they need?

Wednesday’s drive to catch the killer is fueled by considered one of her visions, the place she sees Enid die, blaming Wednesday for her demise. This rattles our normally composed protagonist, which is why she enlists Agnes’ assist to collect clues from the 2 homicide scenes, as they may assist unravel a potential conspiracy. All indicators result in Willow Hill Psychiatric Facility, the place a freshly appointed Dr. Fairburn (Thandiwe Newton) and her assistant Judi (Heather Matarazzo) are seen dealing with the sufferers, together with an incensed Tyler (Hunter Doohan) and the resurrected zombie, Slurp (Owen Painter). After enlisting Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) to infiltrate Willow Hill and collect intel, Wednesday learns about Nevermore alumni Augustus Stonehurst and his Longterm Outcast Integration Research (LOIS), a horrific experimental program that has been focusing on Outcasts for many years.

Wednesday and Fester discover the check topics of LOIS inside a secret basement in Willow Hill, and this surprising reveal makes it clear that dozens of Outcasts have been kidnapped and experimented on by Stonehurst for his or her particular skills. The purpose is to siphon Outcast skills and inject them right into a Normie physique, permitting the latter to realize particular skills by way of genetic mutation. 

Stonehurst’s affected person zero was his personal daughter, who’s none apart from Judi, a Normie-turned-Outcast who can now harness Avian skills (management murderous birds), because of the unethical experiments which can be part of LOIS. Judi admits to being Wednesday’s actual stalker, though it’s unclear whether or not she had supposed to particularly goal Enid or was merely deterring Wednesday from discovering out the reality concerning the facility.

This explains why Galpin and his accomplice have been concerned, as the previous was apprehensive that his son, Tyler, would finally be inducted into this secret program. Judi killed each of them to tie all unfastened ends and commenced to intently monitor Wednesday as soon as she had began inching in the direction of the reality. By the top of episode 4, we see Judi being chased/attacked by the Outcasts she has wronged, though we’re not aware of her destiny simply but. With Wednesday’s personal destiny being up within the air as a result of a cliffhanger mid-season ending, it’s secure to say that the second a part of “Wednesday” will carry some thrilling twists and turns with it.

The primary a part of “Wednesday” is streaming on Netflix, with the second half slated to premiere on September 3, 2025.