Alfred Gough: Hello, we're Al Gough and Miles Millar, the twisted minds behind 'Wednesday'. We're here to break down the first 6 minutes of Season 2. Enjoy, but don't blink. You might miss something.

["Wednesday Main Titles" plays]

[TITLE CARD] ALL OF THE EASTER EGGS IN THE FIRST 6 MINUTES OF WEDNESDAY S2

[CLIP] Jenna Ortega (as Wednesday Addams): It's been an eventful summer.

["Favorite Things" plays, dips] 

Alfred Gough: The most fun about this was … "What would Wednesday do during her summer vacation?" 

Miles Millar: It had to be something  insane.

Alfred Gough: Insane …

Miles Millar: And dark. 

Alfred Gough: And dark, and very Wednesday. And chasing a serial killer felt like the perfect thing for her to do. That said, initially, it was a much bigger teaser. There were more things in that opening sequence in the script. We didn't even shoot them.

Miles Millar: The first part of the teaser, originally, was her mastering her powers.

Alfred Gough: Right.

Miles Millar: So we saw that the pendant, for example … She was doing this sort of spell over Goody's book, and then the pendent turned from back to red.

Alfred Gough: Right.

Miles Millar: That was the first thing. So it signaled that she had actually gained power. Then she went and sort of did a "test drive" with the powers by catching the …

Alfred Gough: Right. The dog napper.

Miles Millar: The dog napper. And then she, like, tied him up.

Alfred Gough: Right.

Miles Millar: And then she got to the scalper. And then in the middle of that was the Starbucks. And we cut throughout that she was going to a Starbucks and the barista kept …

Alfred Gough: Yes. Messing up her name.

Miles Millar: … misspelling her name. And finally it was, like … I think it was Wendy with an "I" …

Alfred Gough: Wendy with an "I."

Miles Millar: She was like, "That's it."

Alfred Gough: "That's it."

Miles Millar: And so she went with Lurch …

[Al chuckles]

Miles Millar: … and blowdarted him, right?

Alfred Gough: [laughs] She blowdarted him and then he woke up in a dumpster with her name tattooed across his …

Miles Millar: Forehead.

Alfred Gough: Forehead. Yeah. We thought, "Maybe we don't need that."

[CLIP] Karina Varadi (as Young Wednesday): [bell rings] Before dying, victim number 11 described the suspect.

Miles Millar: Another great scene. We loved the idea of Wednesday going to show and tell. Terrifying her friends.

[CLIP] Jenna Ortega (as Wednesday Addams): To psychically locate him, all I needed was an object from one of his crime scenes.

[intriguing music plays]

[inaudible conversation]

Miles Millar: This scene was shot in our production office.

Alfred Gough: Yes. It was definitely a nod to 'The Big Lebowski'. But again, it's just funny. It's just visually funny seeing Thing rolling a bowling ball with a duck in it. 

Miles Millar: We had a whole story with the ducky, who's the, uh … 

Alfred Gough: Yes. 

Miles Millar: The bowler …

Alfred Gough: She was the victim.

Miles Millar: Yeah, the victim.

Alfred Gough: Which we see a little bit here of.

[CLIP] Jenna Ortega (as Wednesday Addams): With the scalper finally in my crosshairs … I had one final, harrowing obstacle to overcome.

[indistinct chatter]

[PA chimes]

[announcer] Welcome to Newark Airport. 

Alfred Gough: Going through, uh … Basically … TSA at Heathrow Airport is the worst.

Miles Millar: Yeah. The biggest Easter egg here is actually sitting at the X-ray machine getting his big cameo finally, after 33 years in the business. 

Alfred Gough: Here's my line. Wait, it's coming. 

[CLIP] Alfred Gough: (as TSA Officer): Can we get a bag check over here?

Alfred Gough: There it is. There's my big line. 

Miles Millar: And we spent a lot of time doing the X-ray of Thing. It doesn't … It didn't really read.

Alfred Gough: Right.

Miles Millar: We finally nailed it with visual effects.

Alfred Gough: Yes. [laughing]

[CLIP] Jenna Ortega (as Wednesday Addams): I'm heading to the Junior Embalmer’s Convention in Kansas City, hence the prosthetic hand.

Alfred Gough: Then the idea she'd find a hand.

Miles Millar: And be completely blasé about it.

Alfred Gough: Yeah, that's fine. 

[CLIP] (TSA Officer): That's not the problem. You care to explain this?

[intriguing music plays] 

[CLIP] Jenna Ortega (as Wednesday Addams): Curious. 

Miles Millar: It just felt like a universal … that Wednesday speaks for all of us.

Alfred Gough: All of us.

Miles Millar: It's the absurdity of modern life.

Alfred Gough: Yes.

Miles Millar: And she can call it out. 

[CLIP] (TSA Officer): I'd appreciate it if you didn't waste our time. 

[CLIP] Jenna Ortega (as Wednesday Addams): Sun cream? Seriously?

[grim music plays, ends]

[dog barking]

[man grunts, whistles cheerfully]

[whistling continues] 

[CLIP] Jenna Ortega (as Wednesday Addams): Are your serial killer services listed online, too?

[dramatic music plays] 

Alfred Gough: So the black tears came about because we needed a visual representation that her powers were glitching.

Miles Millar: And originally, actually, she had black veins. Often, the editorial process is about simplifying. 

Alfred Gough: The idea with Chet was he was obsessed with hair. He was, like, a beauty school dropout, who then became a serial killer. [laughs] 

Miles Millar: So you couldn't … You failed with human hair … So he became a … like, a …

Alfred Gough: Like, a pet groomer.

Miles Millar: Pet groomer. 

Alfred Gough: In L.A. you see those vans a lot in neighborhoods, where they … They come to people's houses.

Miles Millar: But he's a down on his luck pet groomer. And he has the … the creepiest serial killer van … with the creepy poodle design.

Miles Millar: He was playing the comedy to add some lightness to the fact that he's a killer. He's killed 25 people.

[CLIP] Haley Joel Osment (as Chet LaTroy): I made you a gift.

[eerie music plays]

[Chet gasps, chuckles hoarsely]

Miles Millar: This room, actually, was incredibly creepy to be in.

Alfred Gough: It was.

Miles Millar:  These dolls were like … 

Alfred Gough: The art department went above and beyond with the dolls. [chuckles] 

Miles Millar: And the idea that the serial killer makes a doll of all of his victims. So the Wednesday doll is perfect.

[eerie music plays] 

[CLIP] Jenna Ortega (as Wednesday Addams): Let me show you some of my own handiwork.

[creaking] 

Alfred Gough:  And then this … This is great. I love Thing here. [Laughs]

[tense music plays]

[Chet yelps]

Alfred Gough: Yeah.

Miles Millar: With this opening we were trying to top … Season 1, we had the piranha scene to open the show. We wanted something that was different but had the same sort of comedic darkness. Yeah. 

Alfred Gough: And also involves somebody's nuts getting, you know … [laughing]

Miles Millar: Exactly.

[Chet grunts, groans] 

Miles Millar: And obviously, he's miming this because Thing is not a real thing. Some of it's CG and some of it's Victor, who plays Thing.

[grunting painfully]

[intriguing music plays] 

Alfred Gough: And it was also setting up her powers …

[Miles] Yeah, that … Because the season's about sort of control and her losing control. What? It's nothing. Just a minor psychic glitch.

Miles Millar: That's Wednesday's summer vacation.

Alfred Gough: There it is. Wednesday's summer vacation.

[grim music plays]

[CLIP] Jenna Ortega (as Wednesday Addams): Now …

[metal clangs]

[wheezes and gasps] 

[CLIP] Jenna Ortega (as Wednesday Addams): Let's play dolls.

[screaming] 

Alfred Gough: We can't wait for you to see the rest of 'Wednesday', arriving on Netflix August 6th and September 3rd.