TV Romance
‘Wednesday’ Season 2: Is Tyler Truly In Love With Wednesday? Creators & Star Spill
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Wednesday Season 2 Episodes 1-4.]
Things aren’t looking too good for Wyler — aka Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) and Tyler (Hunter Doohan) — shippers right now. Or are they?
In Wednesday Season 2, we catch up with Wednesday months after being burned by Tyler. Before he revealed himself as the murderous Hyde in Season 1, Tyler pulled out all of the stops to make a dent in the Addams daughter’s impassive exterior. Up until that point, it actually did seem like Tyler was getting somewhere with Wednesday, gaining her trust and reluctant affection. But was Tyler’s interest in her ever real, or was he just using her as a means to an end?
Along with Doohan, Wednesday creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough have weighed in on Tyler’s feelings toward the titular character in Season 2. In an interview with ScreenRant, Millar called out the moment in Episode 2 when Wednesday reunites with her former flame in Willow Hill Psychiatric Facility, where he was being held for treatment.
“They have chemistry, and Tyler speaks to it and calls her out on it,” he explained. Tyler claims that like calls to like during the scene, taunting Wednesday that she fell in love with the monster in him. “I think there’s something there. On Tyler’s side, he definitely holds a flame for Wednesday, and he doesn’t let her forget that.”
Miller continued, “And those actors, Hunter and Jenna, have incredible chemistry together, so we love those scenes. There’s that happening, but the other kids are also exploring that avenue [of romance]. It felt like that was the right way to handle that area of the show and era of teen life.”
Miller added that Wednesday really did fall in love with Tyler, which is why she’s not pursuing a relationship in Season 2. “She’s definitely closed that door, and it feels like that’s what she should do,” he said.
The sincerity of Tyler’s feelings is even more difficult to decipher because he was under the control of the evil Laurel Gates (Christina Ricci) for all of Season 1. “Laurel had promised him all this stuff and was going to take care of him,” Doohan, speaking with Us Weekly, explained how he interpreted Tyler’s mindset in Season 2. “Then he is just totally abandoned and basically feels like he’s been left to die.”
That’s what led to Tyler constantly imagining what would happen when he faced off with Wednesday again. “So Wednesday felt like maybe the one person who — because she’s Wednesday Addams — wouldn’t be afraid of him and hate him for those parts of himself and might actually embrace it,” the actor said.
That’s why Tyler felt “jarred” when she treated him so coldly in their Willow Hill scene. “You can see it in Episode 2, the shift from the taunting in a flirty way and the way he is talking to her,” Doohan said. “Then when he finds out she’s just there for information, then it switches and he gets really angry because he’s so hurt.”
The characters don’t interact again until Tyler escapes confinement in Episode 4. Then, he rips Laurel to shreds in his Hyde form, but he doesn’t do the same to Wednesday when he has the chance. Tyler chucks her out of a window, which could be even more proof that Tyler still harbors feelings for her. “Not that throwing someone out of a window is very nice,” Doohan added.
Since the show’s team has confirmed that Wednesday’s feelings weren’t one-sided, could a lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers arc be in the cards? Doohan didn’t outright shut it down. “Can anyone be too dark for Wednesday Addams?” he mused.
Wednesday, Season 2, Part 2, Wednesday, September 3, Netflix
