Summary
- Lucius Hoyos and Gwen Jones leave a lasting impact despite limited screen time in Wednesday Season 1.
- Flashbacks reveal Gomez and Morticia's past in Nevermore, hinting at a potential prequel series for the duo.
- There's still much to be explored in Gomez and Morticia's love story, with endless possibilities for their future.
Despite two memorable performances from Lucius Hoyos and Gwen Jones, Young Gomez and Young Morticia Addams only appear very briefly in Netflix's Wednesday. Since Season 1 of Wednesday takes place in the present day, there's only a handful of scenes featuring Young Gomez and Morticia, but Hoyos and Jones made such a lasting impact that it might be worth revisiting the characters for Season 2.
Young versions of Gomez and Morticia Addams appear in flashbacks in Episode 5: "You Reap What You Woe." The flashbacks chronicle Gomez and Morticia's involvement in the "murder" of Garrett Gates. While Wednesday Addams investigates at Nevermore’s 1990 Rave’N Dance in the present day, adult Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzmán) retell the story as they recall it. Young Gomez and Morticia are often seen in old photographs scattered around Nevermore, which displeases Wednesday, who wishes to come out from under her parent's shadow.
Wednesday Season 2 Needs To Give Wednesday A Team
Wednesday season 2 should feature a storyline when the rebellious loner Wednesday Addams leans on the other fascinating characters.
In Wednesday's many flashbacks, it is revealed that Gomez and Morticia met and fell in love at Nevermore. In one flashback, Wednesday learns that Morticia was the one who killed Garrett Gates, a local boy who became infatuated with Morticia and subsequently tried to kill Gomez in a jealous rage. At the time of the murder taking place, Sheriff Galpin suspected Gomez of intentionally murdering Gates, but later evidence confirms that Gates died from unintentional nightshade poisoning.
Wednesday Needs To Give Gwen Jones and Lucius Hoyos Another Chance To Shine
Wednesday was the first acting credit for Gwen Jones, while Hoyos has played quite a few roles before Gomez Addams. He was the voice of Carlos in PAW Patrol, portrayed Parsley in Little Charmers, Jose Gutierrez on Heroes Reborn, and McCalister on Netflix’s Between, among other notable credits. While Jones and Hoyos aren't the most memorable part of Wednesday, they certainly leave their mark as worthy successors to Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán for a potential prequel series, which is already a highly requested project from the Wednesday community.
Jones and Hoyos' performances were so well received that Wednesday fans have been calling for a prequel series to be made. While Wednesday only offers a small glimpse into the lives of a Young Gomez and Morticia, a prequel series could further explore the shenanigans the couple would inevitably get themselves into. A prequel series would also offer a more comprehensive rundown of the Addams Family history, specifically how the family became so infamous and how each family member was brought into the fold.
There's Still Much To Be Discovered About Gomez and Morticia's Past
Not too much has been revealed about Gomez and Morticia's past in the Addams Family timeline. In the 1964 sitcom, The Addams Family, Gomez is portrayed as being of Spanish descent, sickly and unwell before meeting Morticia, and a law student. As an adult, he is an athletic billionaire with a knack for sword-fighting. The Addams Family's rendition of Morticia sees her strumming a Japanese shamisen or tending to her exotic pet, a carnivorous plant named Cleopatra. Morticia seems to have a more colorful background than Gomez, as the sitcom traces her family tree back to the witch trials era of Salem, Massachusetts. Morticia herself has been referred to as a "witch" on numerous occasions and witchcraft is also implied to be part of her heritage. Gomez might even have supernatural powers of his own in Season 2, which ties in to Morticia's witchy upbringing.
There are different allusions as to how Gomez and Morticia met and fell in love. In The Addams Family episode Green-Eyed Gomez, it's mentioned that Gomez first fell in love with Morticia when he saw her riding "sidesaddle on a buffalo." It is additionally implied in the two-part story "Morticia's Romance" that Gomez was to be married to Morticia's sister, Ophelia Frump, whom Gomez's mother had selected for him. When Morticia came along for the ride, the pair instantly formed a connection. In the 1990s Addams Family movies, Gomez and Morticia met at a funeral, where Gomez turned on the charm by saying that Morticia was so beautiful, it distracted from the sight of the corpse.
While Wednesday has already written in a chapter of Gomez and Morticia's love story, there are still countless possibilities for how their story could evolve. Executive producer Tim Burton has his own vast knowledge of gothic horror and troubled romances (see: Barnabas and Angelique from Dark Shadows and Edward Scissorhands and Kim Boggs in Edward Scissorhands), so it wouldn't be too difficult to do a deep dive into Gomez and Morticia's history. After Gomez was exonerated from a crime he didn't commit, the rest of the pages in Gomez and Morticia's story as young adults remain blank. That's either for the audience to fill in or for a potential prequel to flesh out. If an Uncle Fester spin-off might be in the works, there's no reason a prequel series couldn't be.
Either way, Gomez and Morticia's story isn't done yet. There's still a lot to be explored between the patriarch and matriarch of the Addams Family. Even if Wednesday doesn't address their past in Season 2 any further, there's still hope that a potential prequel series will tell all about one of history's most fascinating couples.
Wednesday
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- Release Date
- November 23, 2022
- Cast
- Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Hunter Doohan, Moosa Mostafa, Christina Ricci, Georgie Farmer, Percy Hynes White, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Naomi J. Ogawa, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez, Iman Marson, Max Pemberton, George Valentin Burcea, James Clay, Caroline Lawrie, Johnna Dias-Watson, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Calum Ross, Cezar Grumazescu, Simon Furness
- Showrunner
- Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
- Directors
- Tim Burton, James Marshall
- Writers
- April Blair
- Franchise(s)
- The Addams Family
- Seasons
- 2
- Story By
- Charles Addams
- Streaming Service(s)
- Netflix
