10 Best Shows Like "Wednesday" To Watch On Netflix

Wednesday has rocketed to success in its first season, becoming Netflix's third-most-watched English-language series in just two weeks. Although no official announcement has been made, fans are anticipating the inevitable second season of the supernatural horror comedy.

Regardless, it will be some time before Season 2 comes to television. In the interim, there are similar series on Netflix that are worth viewing. There are coming-of-age themes, supernatural components, and grim undertones in each of these Netflix series.

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1. The Umbrella Academy
2. The Order
3. The Midnight Club
4. The End Of The F***king World
5. Stranger Things
6. I Am Not Okay With This
7. Fate: The Winx Saga
8. A Series of Unfortunate Events
9. Adventures of Sabrina
10. Riverdale

1. The Umbrella Academy

The characters in The Umbrella Academy and Wednesday are misfits and outcasts. It gives the shows a similar "banding together against the world" atmosphere. The Umbrella Academy is a superhero program about a dysfunctional adoptive family cut off from mainstream society, much like the pupils of Nevermore.

There are other powers at The Umbrella Academy, including one individual who is half-ape and another with extraordinary strength. Nonetheless, the diverse cast of characters, each with their own unique powers and abilities, might be compared to the students at Nevermore Academy, as can the dysfunctional interaction amongst them.

2. The Order

A college student called Jack joins The Order, a hidden group that trains its members how to do magic. As Jack researches the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose's history, he discovers terrible family secrets lurking beyond the veil.

The Order is a horror drama worth seeing since it has supernatural aspects such as werewolves, secrets, and history. It may not have the same adolescent appeal as Wednesday, but it comes close. The Order, with only two seasons, is also a fast watch.

3. The Midnight Club

Despite being cancelled after just one season, The Midnight Club is a great program to watch if you miss Wednesday's dark and foreboding demeanor and how she was driven to things like death. The kids in this series are terminally ill hospice patients who gather in secret every night. In a group called the Midnight Club, they discuss terrifying ghost stories.

However, a previous pact is fulfilled when one of them passes away: the first one to do so will return and speak to the others from the grave. Fans of Jenna Ortega's show will find The Midnight Club to be an intriguing watch because it is darker and more spooky than Wednesday.

4. The End Of The F***king World

The End of the F***king World is a British black comedy about a young guy named James who believes he is a "psychopath." He, like Wednesday, eventually comes to terms with his darker side and resolves to commit suicide.

However, when he meets Alyssa, whom he believes is the ideal first human victim, he becomes too attached to her and is unable to let go.

The relationship between James and Alyssa is similar to that between Wednesday and Enid: while Wednesday did not want to kill her new roommate, she threatened to do so.

The 18 episodes of The End of the F***king World could be precisely what you need to satisfy your craving for dark teenage drama and romance until Wednesday (hopefully) returns.

5. Stranger Things

Stranger Things, another enormously successful Netflix program, is as dark as Wednesday, but more comic. The two shows have some fascinating parallels. The sci-fi horror drama follows a group of kids, one of whom possesses exceptional abilities.

The others are simply "normies," as Wednesday might put it. They do, however, battle monsters and demons, as well as contend with the day-to-day obstacles of fitting in.

Stranger Things' core premise is that despite being "regular" kids, the main gang never quite fits in with their peers. It's evocative of how everyone at Nevermore Academy feels like an outsider.

Stranger Things characters, such as Max, have characteristics similar to Wednesday. Both are often depressed, uncommunicative, and snarky, and don't appear to care what others think of them.

6. I Am Not Okay With This

I Am Not Okay With This only had one season, but it is worth viewing to pass the time until the next season of Wednesday is released. The show is a coming-of-age black comedy about a 17-year-old girl named Sydney who finds she has telekinetic powers.

Like Jenna Ortega's Wednesday, Sydney has a turbulent connection with her mother and struggles with managing and regulating her powers.

7. Fate: The Winx Saga

Similar to Wednesday, Bloom in Fate: The Winx Saga enrolls in a new school that happens to be magical and supports her fairy fire abilities. While there, she meets her new roommate, Stella, who is the polar opposite of her: Stella is a light fairy.

Wednesday and fate have ancient animals, shady pasts, supernatural happenings, and threats in common. Even though Fate is more of a teen drama than a horror show, and it isn't one of the finest adolescent series to binge watch, the main characters' tales are uncannily similar. This may make it enticing to Wednesday fans.

8. A Series of Unfortunate Events

A Series of Unfortunate Events has a lighter tone and is about three orphaned children brought to live with Count Olaf. His motivation is to gain access to the wealth of their family before the oldest reaches adulthood and becomes entitled to it.

The parallels between Wednesday and A Series of Unfortunate Events are found in the revelation of the family's membership in a secret organization and the story's enigmatic, melancholy tone. While the siblings escape Olaf's clutches, their attention shifts to discovering the truth about their murdered parents.

It's comparable to Wednesday's obsession with discovering the truth about her parents and the events that transpired when they were at Nevermore.

9. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is another high school-set drama centering on a character with extraordinary talents that exists in the same universe as Riverdale, with minor crossovers between the two shows.

Sabrina, on the other hand, is a half-witch, half-human who attends a regular school. Because few people know her actual identity, she leads a double life as an ordinary adolescent girl by day and a young witch training at school by night. One story has Sabrina changing into Sabrina Morningstar, a more sinister version of herself who, like Wednesday, enjoys the shadows.

Wednesday and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina would appeal to the same sort of audience in terms of love relationships, pursuing bad people, and dealing with gloom and evil.

10. Riverdale

Riverdale is a dark take on the Archie Comics and its characters Betty, Veronica, Archie, and Jughead as they navigate high school and young adulthood. Wednesday and Riverdale share many parallels, from terrifying monsters assaulting youngsters in the forest to kids with superpowers and strange deaths.

Wednesday's fascination with the macabre is easily analogous to Betty's darker side. Everyone in Wednesday, from school personnel to parents, has a Riverdale counterpart.

Despite its flaws, Riverdale is worth checking out before the second season of Wednesday premieres.