It seems sneaking out an about to turn werewolf from Lupin cage is not at all a difficult job in Wednesday Season 2

Wednesday Season 2 is full of unexpected twists and turns, and safety in Nevermore Academy had never even been part of the conversation. If you thought that breaking out of the Lupin cage would be a difficult job, the second season of Wednesday will prove you wrong. The Lupin cage appears to be more of a college dormitory closet, designed to look visually safe from the outside, but not actually constructed to hold back anyone who is determined to escape.

The show also presents us with two big rescue scenes that demonstrate how simple it is to break free when friends intervene. In Wednesday Season 2 Episode 6, a ritual goes wrong, and Enid and Wednesday end up in each other's bodies. When Agnes follows the Hyde-zombie family to Willow Hill and chaos ensues, Enid (still stuck in Wednesday’s body) is able to liberate Wednesday (in Enid's body) from the Lupin cages without much hassle.

Again, in the eighth episode of Wednesday Season 2, we are provided with a similar situation, only with much higher stakes. Enid seals herself in so she cannot turn on a special full moon, yet her devotion to her friends and some timely assistance easily get her out of the cage.

What looks like poor security on paper, turns out to be a means through which the show puts emphasis on friendship, tension, and emotional stakes.

The body swap that turns into a quick jailbreak in Wednesday Season 2, Episode 6

Wednesday Season 2, Episode 6 has a classic Freaky Friday premise, with the Lupin cages becoming a significant plot point. When Wednesday fails to complete the ritual to gain temporary psychic powers and is interrupted by Enid at Rosaline Rotwood's grave, the two swap bodies.

Now Enid, in Wednesday’s body, learns drastic truths that Wednesday hid from her, for instance the fact that Wednesday's been trying to protect Enid all this time based on a premonition she had, and that she lost her psychic abilities because she pushed herself too hard to save Enid's life. Meanwhile, Wednesday in Enid's body discovers Enid's alpha wolf condition and how she has been dealing with it all by herself.

In a turn of events, Professor Capri tells Wednesday (thinking her to be Enid) to lock herself in the Lupin Cages so she doesn't turn into a werewolf, despite the night not being a full moon due to her alpha condition. However, Wednesday and Enid must find a way to undo their condition before dawn, or it could prove fatal. When Enid comes down to the Lupin cages to free Wednesday and reverse the curse, the two learn that Agnes, who secretly followed the Galpins and Issac to Willow Hill, is in trouble. Enid immediately lets Wednesday out and they head towards Willow Hill to rescue Agnes.

Nevertheless, the fact that it is so easy to unlock a prison without any grown-ups interfering, indicates how fragile the rules in Nevermore can be. The sixth episode in Wednesday Season 2 uses the body swap to give emphasis to the characters and add lore without losing the fun and pace of the episode.

The rescue that costs everything in Wednesday Season 2, Episode 8

In the final episode (episode 8) of Wednesday Season 2, the emotional stakes are increased, but the pattern remains unchanged: the cages are not firmly enclosed spaces, but needed for temporary detention. Foreshadowing her potential status as an Alpha werewolf, Enid intentionally locks herself away in the Lupin cages so as to cope with the risk of permanently transforming into her wolf self during the full moon. But she is not someone to be guided by imposed security and heavy rules. She prioritises her friends and loved ones over her own safety.

When Agnes, with her power of invisibility, shadows Wednesday only to find her buried by the zombie-hyde uncle-nephew duo in a grave under the skull tree, she runs to Enid for help. Enid instantly leaves the Lupin cages, not even thinking twice about herself when it came to saving Wednesday's life. She even brought herself to go through with the most difficult decision and finally wolfed out to dig Wednesday out of the grave. It is demonstrated not as a trick, but as a sacrifice and a heroic deed.

The scene proves powerful, effective, and emotive, since the show has already revealed that when it comes to loyalty, even the strongest of cages can be broken. The reasoning might not work in the real world, but the sacrifice does: one friend putting her life on the line to save another one. That is what makes the drama sink.

Wednesday Season 2 may be disappointing if you wanted to see strict monster rules being followed: curfews, rituals, and cages tend to be disregarded whenever the story demands it. Still, those loose rules do come in handy, when you concentrate on the characters. They put characters in difficult situations, provide actors with an opportunity to reveal more of themselves (as in the body-swap scenes), and they make confinement not just a problem to be resolved, but a question of loyalty.

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