Why is Wednesday crying black tears? This Season 2 psychic mystery, explained

Wednesday season two Part 1 is here and there are many new mysteries to uncover at Nevermore Academy. In the first episode, Wednesday discovers that she’s having problems with her psychic powers, specifically black tears streaming from her eyes. Yikes. Why is Wednesday crying black tears and how will this affect her? It didn’t take long to get answers to this inquiry.

In the opening sequence, Wednesday tracks down the Kansas City Scalper, a famed serial killer, using her powers. She rightfully tortures him but, while at his house, she has a psychic episode and cries black tears. Thing points this out but she dismisses it as a psychic glitch and continues with her life. That means returning back to “the scene of the crime” a.k.a. Nevermore Academy. 

She’s a certified celebrity there now and no longer the only Addams on campus. Her brother Pugsley is there and her mother Morticia is staying on campus in a gardener’s cottage (the former home of Mrs. Thornhill) at the request of Principal Dort, who wants her to be the gala’s new chair. Once settled in her abode and alone, Morticia thumbs through a book that belonged to her sister Ophelia, whom she says is a lot like Wednesday. It includes some disturbing drawings, including of a young woman who is screaming with black tears coming from her eyes. 

At the end of the episode, Enid touches Wednesday on the shoulder and sends her into an involuntary psychic episode. She sees a vision about Enid dying because of her. Meanwhile, she’s convulsing and draining black tears from her eyes on the ground as Enid and Morticia watch. In episode two, she wakes up to Morticia sitting nearby. Her mother tells her that the black tears are psychic exhaustion, which happens when you abuse your gift. Wednesday asks how to get them to go away and Morticia responds that she needs to give up Goody’s book of spells because it is dangerous.

Morticia warns her to just wait for her new guide and not to use her gift as a weapon, which rubs Wednesday the wrong way. This sets up some major tension between the mother and daughter with the former trying to save the latter from her own tunnel vision and stubbornness. Wednesday also discovers that she’s having problems using her psychic powers at all, which only makes her want to dig into Goody’s book more. She wants her gift back to possibly save Enid’s life and solve the recent murders. Naturally, Morticia takes the book and holds it hostage, believing it will lead her daughter down a treacherous path. She believes that Wednesday will end up like Ophelia, who was driven to madness and disappeared 20 years ago.

Wednesday finally tells Morticia her vision about Enid in episode three, and their arguments about Goody’s book and Wednesday’s lack of control of her powers comes to a head. They have a very cool duel and Morticia wins, taking the book and eventually burning it. Things end rather terribly with the Hyde back on the loose and Wednesday seriously injured after being thrown from a window. We will have to wait and see what happens in Wednesday season two Part 2 with her powers and whether those black tears will return again.