Warning: Spoilers ahead for Wednesday season 2! I’m still emotionally recovering from ‘Woe Thyself,’ the episode that turned Wednesday into a goth Freaky Friday fever dream — and I mean that as the highest compliment. As someone who has absorbed every body-swap trope from the 1976 Disney original to Lindsay Lohan’s 2003 era and the more recent Freakier Friday, I can confidently say Wednesday season 2, episode 6 nailed the assignment.
The Supernatural Swap Setup
The whole consciousness exchange begins when Wednesday visits the grave of Lady Gaga’s Rosaline Rotwood, a former teacher and powerful Raven who could help Wednesday regain her abilities. Enid, being the golden-retriever bestie she is, interrupts the spectral meeting. Rosaline had warned Wednesday not to let that happen, and poof — the girls wake up in each other’s bodies. The price? If they don’t swap back by dawn, both of them die. So it’s not just a comedy of manners; it’s a supernatural doom clock with werewolf-sized consequences.
Jenna Ortega and Emma Myers Understood the Assignment
Jenna Ortega’s performance as Enid trapped in Wednesday’s body is a masterclass in chaotic positivity. The episode opens with ‘Wednesday’ bopping to BLACKPINK’s ‘BOOMBAYAH’ while slapping on brightly colored makeup, then skipping around Nevermore offering compliments. I laughed, but I also felt deeply unsettled. It’s not Wednesday until it’s Wednesday, and Ortega perfectly channels Emma Myers’ bubbly, constantly moving energy.
Myers does the reverse with surgical precision. As Wednesday inhabiting Enid’s body, she barely moves, deadpans her way through social interactions, breaks up with Bruno for betraying Enid, and even leads Agnes’ rescue at Willow Hill. The bit where trapped-Wednesday ‘wolves out’ because her suppressed emotions overload Enid’s werewolf system? Pure chaotic brilliance.
A Very Addams Family Dinner Disguise
The humor escalates when Enid-as-Wednesday has to survive an Addams family dinner. Watching someone try to imitate Wednesday’s dark poise while her cheerful micro-expressions keep leaking through is one of the show’s best comedy beats. Then the stakes flip when Wednesday-as-Enid uses the werewolf transformation to save Enid and Agnes from Tyler. It’s both hilarious and weirdly touching.
The spell finally breaks after the two stop hiding their lives and actually talk. Wednesday and Enid share real appreciation for each other, which is the emotional skeleton key of any good body-swap story. They reverse the swap just in time, setting up the next challenge: Enid is now an Alpha.
Body Swap Cheat Sheet
| Physical Body | Brain Actually Inside | Biggest Tell |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday Addams | Enid Sinclair | Bright makeup, compliments, BLACKPINK cardio |
| Enid Sinclair | Wednesday Addams | Deadpan stare, zero small talk, strategic werewolf chaos |
What the Cast Said
Emma Myers admitted she was ‘so scared’ to body-swap into Wednesday. She apparently kept clips of Jenna Ortega pulled up during filming and found the stillness a nice break because playing Enid requires constant movement. Ortega countered that playing Enid required ‘a lot of physicality,’ which is the opposite of Wednesday’s stillness. She also called the episode one of the strongest points of the show because it forces Wednesday and Enid to see the world through each other’s eyes.
They only learned about the body-swap plan about a month before filming, so they leaned on each other — a very body-swap lesson in itself.
Emma Myers Had Already Swapped Before
This wasn’t Myers’ first rodeo. She starred in Netflix’s Family Switch, a whole-family Freaky Friday riff with Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, and Brady Noon. So when Wednesday asked her to inhabit a different character, she already had some body-swap muscle memory. That makes the episode feel like a stealth sequel to her own filmography.
Why This Episode Works
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🖤 It uses the body swap to deepen Wednesday and Enid’s friendship, not just for laughs.
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🐺 The werewolf twist turns emotional overwhelm into literal monster stakes.
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💅 Ortega and Myers commit so hard that the comedy never feels cheap.
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🔮 It honors Freaky Friday while adding a gothic, life-or-death timer.
Final Verdict
Wednesday’s body-swap episode isn’t just a gimmick. It’s a satisfying character study disguised as a supernatural comedy. The body swap forces Wednesday and Enid to walk a mile in each other’s shoes, and the result is the kind of weird, heartfelt chaos this show does best. I’d happily watch Lady Gaga’s spirit trigger more body swaps in season 3 as a running gag — just saying, Netflix.
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