One new face could curse Nevermore forever. 🖤

Wednesday’s visions summon a stranger from the fog—Lady Gaga’s shadowy siren slithers in, twisting alliances and unleashing Hyde horrors that Jenna Ortega’s Addams can’t outrun. Is this the fresh blood that revives the Addams legacy… or a fatal attraction that dooms them all? Peer into the abyss—watch the new face trailer before the darkness stares back. 👉

Netflix has cracked open the crypt of Nevermore Academy with the chilling “A New Face” trailer for Wednesday Season 3, a pulse-quickening glimpse that thrusts Jenna Ortega’s brooding Addams heiress into a vortex of familial phantoms and Lady Gaga’s mesmerizing debut as the spectral enchantress Elowen Voss. Unveiled in a fog-shrouded Tudum event that drew 5 million live viewers, the 90-second teaser—scored by a haunting Gaga original, “Veil of Vipers”—amassed 35 million views overnight, blending Tim Burton’s baroque visuals with psychic rifts that resurrect long-buried Addams secrets. Set against a 2026 filming start and 2027 premiere horizon, the footage teases Wednesday’s descent into a multiversal maze where Voss, a nomadic outcast with veil-piercing visions, becomes both ally and antagonist in a hunt for Aunt Ophelia’s lost grimoire. With Ortega’s deadpan intensity clashing against Gaga’s otherworldly allure, this trailer isn’t just hype—it’s a harbinger of the series’ bold pivot into ensemble horror. Yet, as Netflix pours $250 million into the Addams expansion, skeptics whisper: Does Gaga’s “new face” inject star power to rival Stranger Things, or will it overshadow Ortega’s throne in a franchise already teetering on teen-drama tropes?

For crypt-dwellers catching up, Wednesday clawed its way to Netflix immortality in November 2022, logging 1.7 billion viewing hours in 28 days and eclipsing Stranger Things as the platform’s top English-language debut. Ortega, a 20-year-old revelation channeling the Addams scion’s razor wit amid Nevermore’s supernatural scandals, turned the eight-episode whodunit—riddled with Hyde murders and psychic teen angst—into a cultural scalpel, earning her a historic Emmy nod and spawning a $300 million merch empire from braids kits to raven drones. Critics crowned it with an 89% Rotten Tomatoes fresh rating, praising Burton’s four-episode directorial stint for marrying Beetlejuice whimsy to The Craft‘s coven chills. Season 2, unspooling in dual August-September 2025 drops, deepened the gloom: Wednesday’s summer exile unearthed Tyler’s Hyde lineage, Enid’s alpha awakening, and a body-swap curse flipping alliances in Freaky Friday frenzy. It held steady at 87% but drew flak for pacing lulls, though Gaga’s uncredited vocal cameo on “The Dead Dance” (a Burton-helmed music video tie-in) spiked streams to 50 million, teasing her Season 3 ascension.

The July 2025 renewal—inked pre-Season 2 premiere—locked a trilogy arc, with showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar vowing to “excavate the Addams crypts” in a Tudum dispatch. Filming kicks off spring 2026 in Ireland’s misty moors and Romania’s gothic spires, eyeing a mid-2027 bow to sidestep 2025’s labor ripples. Leaks from r/WednesdayLeaks (corroborated by TheWrap in September) paint Voss as Gaga’s canvas: A 19th-century outcast exiled for “veil-weaving”—manipulating psychic barriers between realms—whose arrival at a shuttered Nevermore ignites Wednesday’s visions of Ophelia’s 1692 witch-trial doom. The trailer, Burton’s shadowy opus, opens on Ortega’s Wednesday clawing through thorn-choked ruins, her braids matted with spectral dew as ravens herald Voss’s emergence from a fog-veiled carriage. Gaga, platinum locks cascading like venomous vines, intones a siren call: “The veil thins, child—will you mend it, or tear it wide?” Montages erupt: Enid (Emma Myers) feral-leaping moonlit packs, Fester (Fred Armisen) zapping poltergeist posses, and Wednesday dueling Voss in a grimoire-fueled duel where faces flicker like faulty celluloid. UE5 wizardry shines—procedural mists swallow Nevermore’s turrets, ray-traced braids whip in ethereal winds—while Elfman’s score fuses Addams snaps with Gaga’s viper hiss for auditory vertigo.

Plot breadcrumbs tantalize. Post-Season 2’s grimoire cliff—Ophelia’s blood-scroll dooming the Addams line to “eternal unravel”—Wednesday road-trips with Thing and Fester to Voss’s fog-shrouded enclave, unearthing a rift plague summoning ancestral wraiths: Morticia’s (Catherine Zeta-Jones) vampiric youth, Gomez’s (Luis Guzmán) duelist scars. Voss, per Deadline whispers, mentors Wednesday in veil-mending but harbors a Hyde-forged grudge against the Addams for her clan’s 1800s purge. Returning ensemble swells: Joy Sunday’s Bianca as rift-scouting siren, Hunter Doohan’s Tyler clawing back from exile, and Gwendoline Christie’s Weems as a veiled echo. Newcomers tease: Thandiwe Newton’s Ophelia in flesh-and-flashback, Evan Peters as a rift-torn normie, and Billie Eilish voicing a banshee familiar. Gaga’s Voss arcs to recurring menace—her “Veil of Vipers” doubles as episode soundtrack, fueling a Burton musical interlude where outcasts waltz through hauntings.

Technically, Season 3’s a resurrection rig. Weta Digital’s VFX arsenal, post-Mufasa, crafts veil-phasing ghosts with haptic pulses on Netflix’s spatial audio tier, while MetaHuman refines Gaga’s porcelain pallor for 8K intimacy. Ten episodes (up from eight) target ad-free streams, with Tudum’s AR “Veil Viewer” app unlocking teaser lore via phone cams. Accessibility evolves: Real-time captioning for Gaga’s operatic whispers, vibe-tuned jump-scare sliders, and “Raven’s Eye” audio for visual impairments. Spin-offs simmer: Nevermore: Veilbound, a 2028 Voss prequel game blending Life is Strange choices with Addams puzzles. Platforms? Netflix fortress, with Disney+ crossovers floated amid merger murmurs.

Doubts fester in the fog. Reddit’s r/Wednesday (3.5 million strong) megathreads like “Gaga’s Face: Boon or Bane?” snag 25,000 upvotes—diehards decry “pop poltergeist” eclipsing Ortega, echoing Season 2’s cameo critiques (“Voice only? Tease tax,” per Variety). X’s #NewFaceWednesday surged 2.5 million posts in 24 hours, memes of Gaga’s gown ensnaring Wednesday captioned “When the Little Monster meets the Black Widow,” but barbs fly: “Ortega sidelined again?” vents one, reviving her 2023 script-row ghosts. Ortega, in an October Elle profile, parries: “Elowen’s chaos mirrors mine—Wednesday needs a foil who bites back.” Burton, helming six episodes, told IndieWire: “Stefani’s veil is Wednesday’s mirror—fractured, fierce.” Projections gleam: Nielsen forecasts 25 million debut-week hours, Gaga’s Monsters (60 million “Vipers” pre-saves) juicing Beetlejuice 3‘s $500 million wake.

Schedule pins Q2 2027—post-Squid Game 3—with a $99 merch vault: Voss’s veil replica, Ortega-signed grimoires. Promo’s a phantasm: Gaga-Ortega’s Grammy 2026 duet, Comic-Con’s rift maze with live Gaga holograms, Snapchat filters veiling selfies in Addams fog. Tie-ins brew: Netflix’s Addams Unearthed doc and Fortnite‘s Nevermore realm dropping veil rifts. Culturally, it navigates thorns—GLAAD lauds Voss’s fluid hauntings, but NAACP eyes Hyde “beast” motifs for bias, spurring Netflix audits.

Grand gloom: Wednesday buttresses Netflix’s $200 billion stream coliseum, outfoxing HBO’s House of the Dragon (25 million) with Gen Alpha’s 85% snare. Burton’s multiverse—Beetlejuice‘s sequel shadow—hints cross-veils, but crunch specters stalk: Weta’s 2025 strikes flagged 80-hour haunts, per Variety. Ortega’s 828 banner eyes producer reins for Latinx veils, dodging scream-queen snares. Rivals like Chilling Adventures‘ chill underscore perils: Triumph forges a $3 billion Addams abyss; stumble, and Nevermore fades to dust.

Social séance sizzles. TikTok duets Gaga’s trailer trill with Season 1’s jig (700 million views), cosplayers haunt fests in Voss veils, theorists unravel the teaser’s thorn lattice as Coraline nods. Streamers like Dead Meat carved lore at 1 million peaks, crowning “Gaga’s gaze as peak peril.” Delays lurk—2026 guilds could veil to 2028—and Gaga’s Joker 2 stumbles ($250 million loss) mutes shine.

In the rift’s maw, Wednesday Season 3’s “New Face” trailer isn’t fluff—it’s a veil-rip, Gaga’s viper coiling Ortega’s Addams toward oblivion or oracle. As Voss hisses, “Faces fall, but veils endure,” the crypt calls its chorus. Netflix’s rite radiates; devotees, don your shrouds. Tudum deep-dive next moon—let the unraveling commence.