Who doesn’t love a good ol’ cliffhanger? Wednesday’s feast of mystery leaves viewers with a perfect aftertaste thanks to its lovely little garnish in the show’s final moments. It is all killing me.
Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega), is solving a mysterious monster at Nevermore Academy. Season 4 concludes with a pleasant surprise. Although her more pressing antagonists, Ms. Thornhill (Christina Ricci) and Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan), have been caught, a third player is still lurking in the shadows, with the show’s finale revealing that Wednesday has her own personal stalker. This is great news for Season 2, but it’s terrible news for those of us who will have to wait. In the meantime, let’s take a look at who this foreboding stalker could be (the show’s already given us some sneak peeks into their potential identity).
What we know so far
Wednesday’s mystery involves a monster hunting down its students and a secret overseer controlling said monster. Throughout the show, we learn that the monster is actually Tyler, Wednesday’s first-ever crush, who possesses the ability to turn into a ravenous beast on demand. We also learn that the person behind all that ferocity is Wednesday’s teacher, Ms. Thornhill, a conniving manipulator orchestrating the defeat of Nevermore to satisfy her family’s lifelong dream of ending the school once and for all. While Wednesday manages to thwart the duo’s plans and save the day, the show’s finale reveals she may have one final foe to beat before securing Nevermore’s (and her own) safety.
The scene plays out with Wednesday receiving her first iPhone, a gift from her classmate Xavier Thorpe (Percy Hynes White), who’s very much in love with her and who should very much be her boyfriend next season (argue with the wall). And while it’s all very cute, the teenage romance is cut short when she receives an ominous text from an unknown sender declaring that they’re watching her, adding a sneaky eye emoji for some extra pizazz. Wednesday’s texts are then flooded with photos the stalker took of her, hinting that they may be closer than she thinks. Keen-eyed viewers will notice that the photos are exact replicas of the photographs she found of herself in Ms. Thornhill’s home, suggesting that the stalker was helping Thornhill and Tyler all along, and may be planning to see their thwarted mission through.
Who could this stalker be?
It seems that the stalker could be another Nevermore student. This route explains how the stalker was able get photos of Wednesday at close quarters. He also knew her exact location and had access to the phone Xavier gave her. We know Xavier lives alone at his dorm. Also, we can see from standard iPhone setups that he already plugged his number into her phone. Which means it would have been very easy for a student stalker to sneak into Xavier’s room, check out Wednesday’s phone, and get her number.
The student theory also answers some of Ms. Thornhill’s unexplainable insights, like how she knew the location of Nevermore’s secret society room (easy, with someone from the inside giving her all the details on how to get in). Tyler and Ms. Thornhill always seemed one step ahead, so Tyler had a student stalker watching Tyler’s movements and guiding her.
There are definitely some students in the mix we can rule out: We know Wednesday’s trusted confidants include her roommate Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers), Xavier, and Nevermore’s own Regina George, Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday), with her clique of sirens who ultimately all become Wednesday’s friends. The possibilities are endless with a student body that includes werewolves and sirens, telekinetic kids, and sirens. My money is on the sirens or gorgons, which are creatures well-known for manipulating, omnipresent monitoring, and a thirst to exact revenge.
You might also want to look into other suspects
Although a student stalker may seem more likely, we know from this season. WednesdayTakes pleasure in the unexpected. It could be someone from outside of the school. Another likely contender is someone from the Gates family, aka Ms. Thornhill’s family, who were all believed to have died. Ms. Thornhill’s “survival” could suggest that the other reported deaths were also a farce. While this theory might seem absurd, the Gates family as the ultimate puppet masters makes perfect sense. Wednesday’s grander scheme, with the final showdown a family feud betweenThe AddamsGates.
I also have my eyes on Nathaniel Faulkner, the mysterious Nevermore student who attended the academy during Gomez (Luis Guzmán) and Morticia’s (Catherine Zeta-Jones) time there, and who was the first person to document the existence of hydes, the monster species Tyler belongs to. Faulkner was so fascinated by hydes. Is there an ulterior motive? Wednesday casually name-drops him and brushes past his pivotal involvement in the show’s big mystery, which beckons a greater question surrounding his character’s arc. We know that Tyler is still alive by the show’s finale; although he’s strapped down and being monitored 24/7, his hyde self is there and coming out whenever he wants it to. Maybe Faulkner (if he isn’t the stalker) will be a key to figuring out how to stop Tyler, and will play a larger role next season.
It’s clear that WednesdaySeason 2 will be a boisterous affair with its stalker cliffhanger. However, no announcements have been made about its renewal. This means that we still have many questions to ask before getting answers. But Season 1 was an. Easter–egg fest of clues and hints, so maybe our stalker’s already been discretely revealed. They may be hiding from plain sight.
