"Kind of got nothing left to lose": Hunter Doohan on what Tyler's cliffhanger arc in Wednesday Season 2 might mean for the future

Hunter Doohan has lifted the veil on the unsettling cliffhanger that his character, Tyler Galpin, found himself a part of at the end of Wednesday Season 2.

He provided insights into what the character's fate might signal about the show’s future. With Netflix’s gothic powerhouse sealing the Season 2, audiences are left to unpack the reasons behind why Tyler, still traumatized by loss, betrayal, and manipulation, decides to run away with Isadora and join a community of Hydes, despite his years of mistrust and the bruises of exploitation.

The move itself spills over into Season 3, creating a framework of a tense and uncertain trajectory in which Tyler has to deal not only with his Hyde identity but also with the threatening vacuum of his life without a controlling “master” to guide him in the world.

In the recent interviews, Doohan described Tyler in rather grim terms: “kind of got nothing left to lose”, a portrait created by the unyielding cycles of coercion, heartbreak, and violence. At the end, one can see that Tyler, who remains highly suspicious of Isadora, is not motivated by loyalty but rather by desperation, holding on to a risky course as all doors have already been closed.

Then there is the Wednesday herself. Her shocking gesture of mercy during the climax of Wednesday Season 2 turns out to be the emotional axis that may redefine the fate of the two characters as the story moves into uncharted dimensions.

Hunter Doohan gets candid

In an interview with ScreenRant, Doohan explained:

“Yeah, I think he's kind of lost everything. He knows he's gonna die now, because in episode 5, he didn't know what was happening to him, that he would die and lose touch with reality without a master. But in episode 8, he knows that both his parents are dead, for sure this time, and he knows he's gonna die. So, I think he's kind of got nothing left to lose, and he's a little unwilling to trust her. I think he's still not fully trusting her, when we see them driving off together, because he's been burned by older women before.”

Such an honest evaluation intensifies the sense of danger as the next season approaches. Tyler's survival is now hanging in the balance in a neighborhood that he despises and a partnership with Isadora, which is full of suspicion.

Doohan emphasized that the gesture of mercy at the end of Wednesday Season 2, when Wednesday opts to release Tyler instead of executing him, makes his future loyalties a worrisome issue.

Netflix’s spiky take on the Addams Family mythos has already become a pop-cultural phenomenon by combining gothic folklore, enigmatic mysteries, and cynical humor with emotionally charged character development. The series stars Jenna Ortega as a deadpan genius portraying Wednesday Addams in Nevermore Academy, a home to outsiders, monsters, and the supernaturally gifted.

Throughout the two seasons, she is not only struggling with sinister and mysterious clues but also with relationships that stretch and shift her stiff moral compass.

Tyler Galpin, who was first introduced as a sullen stranger, is revealed as Hyde and has provided a pivot in Wednesday’s story. His journey as a potential love interest, then a bloodthirsty rival, and then an anxious ally has mirrored her own evolution.

In Wednesday Season 2, the climax of his narrative takes on an ugly turn when his mother, Francoise, and uncle, Isaac, drive him to a deadly procedure, leaving Wednesday in a desperate moral quandary. During the showdown, she resists the lethal blow and instead frees him. This act of mercy marks the beginning of either redemption or doom.

Doohan, speaking for both fans and critics, puts the decision of Wednesday into the context of “helping each other out” in times of utter failure. Her freeing of Tyler comes at the same time that both characters nearly step into the realms of their own destruction.

The uncertainty of that decision, he told RadioTimes.com, keeps the charge of “will they/won’t they” going between them. It makes the uncomfortable relationship between them one of the most volatile and most appealing ones of the series.

As Doohan stated:

“Their dynamic throughout the whole show, and the fact that, when it comes to it, instead of killing him and kind of ending it all she frees him, they actually help each other out… You know, she's freeing him of his Masters again, and he's helping in that moment with her [by fighting Francoise].”

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