Lena Headey and James Lance cast for Wednesday season 3

Wednesday’s third season started filming in Ireland earlier this year and is currently set for a 2027 release. That should make it marginally more punctual than the nearly three-year gap between the first and second seasons (the second part of the second season came out in September 2025).

One of the biggest unanswered questions around the upcoming season of this gothic murder mystery teen drama mishmash is whether it will see Netflix return to its now-familiar split-season format, something that arguably undercut the show’s latest eight-episode run. Interpreted charitably, the model is a way to get these shows back faster, limiting the number of lengthy three-year gaps. Less charitably, it’s a means for Netflix to stretch out how long drop-in, drop-out-style subscribers need to stay on the service to see all of their favorite shows. It seems likely that Netflix will return to this style of release for this series, given that the first season was Netflix’s most-watched English-language show of all time, while the second was the fifth most-watched in the service’s history. We’ll find out for sure sometime next year when Wednesday tackles her next murder investigation.