S2E1

Here We Woe Again

Wednesday · 2025-08-06 · 61 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 14 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

After a productive summer break, Wednesday returns to Nevermore as a grudging campus celebrity — and the target of a dangerous stalker.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 14 comments — 5 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit16 read

“Early on I was trying to imagine what personal reasons the killer could have to be targeting Wednesday specifically, since the one-eyed raven made itself obvious and all that, plus leaving all the ravens inside Donovan for the jump scare.”
JPUsernameTaken▲ 8about 0–15% inread it ↗
“leaving all the ravens inside Donovan for the jump scare”
JPUsernameTaken▲ 8about 0–15% inread it ↗
“The avian ended up feeling a bit underwhelming with the mistakes they made in episodes 3 and 4.”
JPUsernameTaken▲ 8about 33–66% inread it ↗
“the writing fell off a fkn cliff, imo, there was so much that didn't make sense, especially episodes 3 & 4”

who made it

directed: Tim Burton
written: Miles Millar, Alfred Gough

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Jamie McShane as Donovan Galpin
Rina Mahoney as Janet Ottinger
Oliver Watson as Kent
Haley Joel Osment as Kansas City Scalper
Joonas Suotamo as Lurch
EEmily Ring as Young Wednesday (Aged 7)
MMaria Besko as TSA Officer #1
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