Wednesday star Jenna Ortega has revealed that season 2 was directly inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death, a short story genre fans will likely be familiar with. Netflix subscribers, too, it turns out, given that it was also the basis for one of the gnarliest episodes in Mike Flanagan's macabre miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher.
"I think the feel that we're going for is a little bit more horror-inspired," Ortega told Vanity Fair recently, though it's worth noting that she cited the 1964 film adaptation of Poe's 1942 work, starring Vincent Price, as a specific starting point. "Not to say that suddenly we're the goriest show of all time. I mean, there [are] six-year-olds watching."
