India, Aug. 16 -- It's been three years since Tim Burton, the patron saint of oddballs and the modern Gothic, presented the world with Wednesday. Dressed in black and putting the "dead" in "deadpan", Jenna Ortega in the titular role is teenage angst at its coolest.

In Season 1, she is sent to Nevermore Academy, where she makes friends with a siren and a werewolf, discovers she has inherited her mother's psychic abilities, falls for one hell of a bad boy, and finishes her first novel.

Things are different in Season 2. From being a problem child, Wednesday is now Nevermore's star student, with teachers and students fawning over her. Morticia Addams (Catherine Zeta-Jones) has moved into a cottage on the school campus, determined to be ther...