{
  "id": "wednesday",
  "title": "Wednesday — Netflix",
  "description": "Nevermore’s mysteries across both released seasons, prose and audio adaptations, illustrated readers and the official interactive festival. A school-year and age clock avoids turning Netflix release dates into fictional dates.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "netflix",
      "label": "Netflix Wednesday — screen stories & licensed companions",
      "note": "This guide covers the Netflix / MGM Wednesday rendition, not every Addams Family incarnation. Both complete seasons stay grouped; adaptations share their season’s position. Licensed companions and the festival remain in this inclusive chronology, with promotional status distinguished from screen canon."
    }
  ],
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "colonial",
      "title": "Wednesday — Goody & Crackstone recollections",
      "type": "TV segment",
      "date": "17th century; Colonial-era Jericho",
      "order": -300,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2022",
      "description": "Goody’s struggle against Crackstone underlies the modern investigation.",
      "note": "Optional historical scenes within Season 1; a precise 1625 event date was not directly checked. Not the release-era Addams Family films.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "history"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "17th century",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNT9SFVD",
      "productName": "Wednesday — Complete First Season, Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact first-season Blu-ray listing checked. Playback region / seller condition should be confirmed.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "colonial",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "rotwood-era",
      "title": "Wednesday — Rotwood & Hester’s earlier school history",
      "type": "TV segment",
      "date": "1960s",
      "order": -40,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "A former professor’s legacy reaches Wednesday and Enid.",
      "note": "The official explanation specifies Rotwood taught in the 1960s. Her modern ghost encounter stays within Season 2; not all of that episode belongs in this earlier era.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "rotwood"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "1960s",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.netflix.com/title/81231974",
      "productName": "Watch on Netflix",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official series with Seasons 1 and 2. A licensed second-season Amazon box set was not verified; no unofficial pressing substituted. Subscription / region may apply.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on Netflix",
      "storyGroup": "rotwood-era",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "parents",
      "title": "Wednesday — Garrett Gates / parents’ Nevermore mystery",
      "type": "TV segment",
      "date": "1990; recalled history, interval references conflict",
      "order": -25,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2022",
      "description": "The circumstances of Garrett’s death are revisited.",
      "note": "Contemporary episode reference reports 1990 / thirty-two years earlier. Novel publisher blurb says twenty-five years. Keep the historical year and disclose this inconsistency rather than derive a supposedly exact modern year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "history",
        "history-year",
        "novel1"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "1990",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNT9SFVD",
      "productName": "Wednesday — Complete First Season, Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact first-season Blu-ray listing checked. Playback region / seller condition should be confirmed.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "parents",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "s1",
      "title": "Wednesday — Season 1, Episodes 1–8",
      "type": "TV series",
      "date": "First Nevermore school year; Wednesday age 15–16",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2022",
      "description": "An expelled student investigates a monster, family secrets and an ancient enemy.",
      "note": "One continuous school mystery, including the sixteenth birthday in episode 6. All eight episodes grouped; no major present-day time jump requires eight separate cards. Modern calendar not equated with 2022 release.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "episodes",
        "age",
        "age16",
        "history"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "Age 15–16",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNT9SFVD",
      "productName": "Wednesday — Complete First Season, Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact first-season Blu-ray listing checked. Playback region / seller condition should be confirmed.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year1"
    },
    {
      "id": "s1-novel",
      "title": "Wednesday: A Novelization of Season One",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "First Nevermore school year; age 15–16",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2024; 2025 paperback",
      "description": "Tehlor Mejia retells Wednesday’s first school mystery in prose.",
      "note": "Same story position as Season 1. Added narration / adaptation differences do not create a separate chronological sequel.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "novel1",
        "sample1"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "Age 15–16",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTPBT7MT",
      "productName": "Season One novelization — publisher-linked paperback",
      "productMatch": "Amazon product recovered from the publisher’s selected paperback link. Original hardcover is a different edition; stock not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year1"
    },
    {
      "id": "s1-audio",
      "title": "Wednesday: A Novelization of Season One — audiobook",
      "type": "Audiobook",
      "date": "First Nevermore school year; age 15–16",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2024",
      "description": "Ines del Castillo narrates the prose adaptation.",
      "note": "Same story and position; audio is a separate reading format, not additional events.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "novel1"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "Age 15–16",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1VYF25S",
      "productName": "Season One novelization — audiobook",
      "productMatch": "Exact audio retailer product recovered after selecting Audio on the publisher page; distinct from the print / ebook link.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year1"
    },
    {
      "id": "s1-graphic",
      "title": "Wednesday: The Season One Graphic Novel",
      "type": "Graphic novel",
      "date": "First Nevermore school year; age 15–16",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "July 6, 2027",
      "description": "Marie Anello and Leo Trinidad adapt the first season in comics.",
      "note": "Upcoming format grouped with the adapted season. Current publisher date supersedes the 2026 solicitation; no complete published pages inspected or availability claimed.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "graphic",
        "old-catalogue"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "Age 15–16",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY5TQ6ZB",
      "productName": "Season One graphic novel — upcoming publisher-linked edition",
      "productMatch": "Publisher supplies this exact Amazon destination. Preorder / release status may change; at this audit it is scheduled for 2027.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year1",
      "upcoming": true
    },
    {
      "id": "iam-wednesday",
      "title": "I Am Wednesday — Little Golden Book",
      "type": "Picture book",
      "date": "First-season Nevermore period; age 15–16",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2024",
      "description": "An illustrated introduction to Wednesday and her unfamiliar school.",
      "note": "Licensed simplified companion at the source-season position. Full illustrated text not acquired; no independent post-season adventure or day invented.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "iam"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "Age 15–16",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593896696",
      "productName": "I Am Wednesday — Little Golden Book",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding ISBN-identified Golden Books edition; exact listing / stock not directly inspected in this audit.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year1"
    },
    {
      "id": "iam-thing",
      "title": "I Am Thing — Little Golden Book",
      "type": "Picture book",
      "date": "First-season Nevermore period; age 15–16",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Thing lends a hand with Wednesday’s school life and investigations.",
      "note": "Companion / character perspective in the same source-story window. Publication in 2025 does not move it into Season 2.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "thing"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "Age 15–16",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJ284941",
      "productName": "I Am Thing — publisher-linked edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact publisher outbound Amazon match; selected edition and seller availability should be confirmed.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year1"
    },
    {
      "id": "poe-cup",
      "title": "The Poe Cup Race! — Wednesday",
      "type": "Illustrated reader",
      "date": "First school year; age 15, Season 1 episode 2",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2026",
      "description": "Wednesday and Enid challenge Bianca in the Poe Cup.",
      "note": "Retelling of episode 2 grouped with Season 1, rather than a new competition after Season 2.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "poe",
        "episodes",
        "age"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "Age 15",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8ML3QFM",
      "productName": "The Poe Cup Race! — publisher-linked reader",
      "productMatch": "Exact publisher outbound Amazon destination; the 2026 book adapts the earlier screen event.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year1"
    },
    {
      "id": "hide-seek",
      "title": "Hide and Seek! — Wednesday",
      "type": "Illustrated reader",
      "date": "First-season monster investigation; age 15–16",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2026",
      "description": "Wednesday searches for the monster lurking near Nevermore.",
      "note": "Best-fit placement with the first-season investigation, not parked as an unresolved 2026 adventure. Publisher premise supports the source arc; exact adapted scenes await interior review.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "hide",
        "episodes"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "Age 15–16",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FV7WRLGH",
      "productName": "Hide and Seek! — publisher-linked library binding",
      "productMatch": "Exact publisher link for the selected library-binding edition, ISBN 9798217226900. Paperback has a separate ISBN.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year1"
    },
    {
      "id": "outcast-guide",
      "title": "Book of Outcasts — Wednesday’s in-character annotations",
      "type": "Illustrated companion",
      "date": "First-season Nevermore period; age 15–16",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Character profiles and Wednesday’s notes introduce Nevermore’s outcasts.",
      "note": "Included for its official in-character material, with the first-season guide. A reference companion does not independently extend the plot or establish new exact dates.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "outcasts"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "Age 15–16",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593901770",
      "productName": "Book of Outcasts — hardcover companion",
      "productMatch": "Publisher identifies print ISBN 9780593901779. Exact containing guide for the in-character notes; current Amazon stock not independently verified.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year1"
    },
    {
      "id": "festival",
      "title": "Wednesday: Eve of the Outcasts — Netflix House",
      "type": "Interactive story",
      "date": "est. first-school-year era; age 15–16 rendition",
      "order": 1.5,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Visitors join a Nevermore festival and exchange clues with Thing.",
      "note": "The Weems-office / early-school setting supports a first-season-era placement. This licensed attraction is not certified as a missing TV episode; exact timing and all branching dialogue remain uninspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "festival",
        "episodes"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "est. age 15–16",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.netflix.com/house/experiences/wednesday",
      "productName": "Explore official experience",
      "productMatch": "Official narrative attraction / visitor information. No equivalent Amazon story product verified; admission is not purchased here.",
      "actionLabel": "Explore official experience",
      "storyGroup": "festival",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "s2",
      "title": "Wednesday — Season 2, Episodes 1–8",
      "type": "TV series",
      "date": "Second Nevermore school year; est. age 16–17",
      "order": 2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "New murders and family secrets follow Wednesday back to Nevermore.",
      "note": "Another school year after the first mystery. Age range inferred from the prior birthday and school-year progression; not an assertion of a specific seventeenth-birthday scene. Parts 1 and 2 were a release split, so the eight related episodes remain one run. Opening summer material belongs to this season.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "episodes",
        "second",
        "age"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "est. age 16–17",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.netflix.com/title/81231974",
      "productName": "Watch on Netflix",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official series with Seasons 1 and 2. A licensed second-season Amazon box set was not verified; no unofficial pressing substituted. Subscription / region may apply.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on Netflix",
      "storyGroup": "year2"
    },
    {
      "id": "s2-novel",
      "title": "Wednesday: A Novelization of Season Two",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "Second Nevermore school year; est. age 16–17",
      "order": 2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "July 6, 2027",
      "description": "Moira Stone adapts the second season’s mystery.",
      "note": "Same-story format with Season 2. The live publisher now lists July 2027, superseding the old July 2026 catalogue; it is not presented as already released or another fictional school year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "novel2",
        "second",
        "old-catalogue"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "est. age 16–17",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F85M53CS",
      "productName": "Season Two novelization — upcoming publisher-linked edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon match from publisher. Upcoming at this audit; full novel interior unavailable.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year2",
      "upcoming": true
    },
    {
      "id": "s2-audio",
      "title": "Wednesday: A Novelization of Season Two — audiobook",
      "type": "Audiobook",
      "date": "Second Nevermore school year; est. age 16–17",
      "order": 2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "July 6, 2027",
      "description": "The second season’s prose retelling is announced in audio.",
      "note": "Same-story position and future release as the print novel. Narrator not confirmed on the checked publisher page; do not invent a performance credit.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "novel2"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "est. age 16–17",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTCVR2KG",
      "productName": "Season Two novelization — upcoming audiobook",
      "productMatch": "Exact audio Amazon destination from the selected publisher Audio panel; July 2027, ten-hour announced duration. Not the first-season recording.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year2",
      "upcoming": true
    },
    {
      "id": "pugsley",
      "title": "I Am Pugsley — Little Golden Book",
      "type": "Picture book",
      "date": "Wednesday’s second Nevermore year; est. age 16–17",
      "order": 2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2026",
      "description": "Pugsley develops electrical powers and looks for a friend.",
      "note": "Publisher explicitly locates it in Wednesday’s second year. Grouped with its source season; does not inherit the first-season position merely because the other Little Golden Books do.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "pugsley"
      ],
      "continuity": "netflix",
      "railLabel": "est. age 16–17",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY5N2CLH",
      "productName": "I Am Pugsley — publisher-linked edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact publisher outbound Amazon destination. No unrelated Addams Family comic substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "year2"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "episodes",
      "title": "Netflix — Wednesday episode inventory",
      "url": "https://www.netflix.com/tudum/wednesday",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Two released seasons; eight episodes each. Episode 6 of the first season is the birthday; the season-two release split does not establish a fictional time jump."
    },
    {
      "id": "age",
      "title": "Netflix / Miles Millar — Wednesday arrives aged fifteen",
      "url": "https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/wednesday-character-cast-guide-season-1",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Showrunner describes the newcomer as fifteen. This is reconciled with the later birthday, rather than copying inconsistent age shorthand in publicity."
    },
    {
      "id": "age16",
      "title": "Netflix — Ortega / Christie character interview",
      "url": "https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/jenna-ortega-wednesday-interview",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publicity contains both fifteen-year-old and sixteen-year-old descriptions. Use age fifteen to sixteen across Season 1, not an exact calendar inferred from actor age."
    },
    {
      "id": "second",
      "title": "Netflix — Season 2 first look / creators",
      "url": "https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/wednesday-season-2-teaser-photos",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Return for another year at Nevermore. The 2025 release is not proof that three fictional years passed after Season 1."
    },
    {
      "id": "history",
      "title": "Netflix — Season 1 ending explained by cast / creators",
      "url": "https://www.netflix.com/tudum/wednesday-episode-8-finale-ending-explained",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Connects Goody, Crackstone, Garrett Gates and the modern mystery. Historical recollections are embedded scenes, not additional independent TV series."
    },
    {
      "id": "history-year",
      "title": "Garrett Gates — contemporary episode chronology check",
      "url": "https://www.capitalfm.com/news/tv-film/netflix/wednesday/laurel-gates-garrett-explained/",
      "kind": "Secondary / episode reference",
      "note": "Reports 1990 / thirty-two years earlier. Publisher novel description instead rounds the parents’ mystery to twenty-five years; that contradiction is disclosed, not silently resolved by arithmetic."
    },
    {
      "id": "rotwood",
      "title": "Netflix — Rosaline Rotwood’s 1960s teaching period",
      "url": "https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/lady-gaga-dead-dance-wednesday-viral-dance",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official episode-six explanation distinguishes the former professor’s teaching era from her modern appearance. Music-video performance is not automatically a new Addams-family adventure."
    },
    {
      "id": "third",
      "title": "Netflix — Season 3 production wrapped September 30, 2026",
      "url": "https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/wednesday-season-3-release-date",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Current official production update supplies the timely angle. An unreleased season is inventoried below without invented episode titles, dates or completed events."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel1",
      "title": "PRH — Season One novel, print / ebook / audio",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751688/wednesday-a-novelization-of-season-one-by-tehlor-mejia-and-the-wednesday-tv-show-writers/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Tehlor Mejia; September 3, 2024 original hardcover / ebook / Ines del Castillo audio; September 2025 paperback. Publisher-selected paperback Amazon B0DTPBT7MT and separately selected audio B0D1VYF25S."
    },
    {
      "id": "sample1",
      "title": "Penguin UK — legal Season One novel sample",
      "url": "https://cdn.penguin.co.uk/dam-assets/books/9780241760741/9780241760741-sample.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "37-page publisher sample located and text inspected for date / age clues. Sample is an opening extract, not a full-text or all-flashback audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel2",
      "title": "PRH — current Season Two novel / audio release",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775635/wednesday-a-novelization-of-season-two-by-moira-stone-and-the-wednesday-tv-show-writers/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Moira Stone and TV writers. Live publisher page now says July 6, 2027 for hardcover, ebook and ten-hour audio, superseding the 2026 solicitation. Separately selected Amazon matches B0F85M53CS print / B0FTCVR2KG audio. No narrator confirmed."
    },
    {
      "id": "graphic",
      "title": "PRH — current Season One graphic-novel record",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/800243/wednesday-the-season-one-graphic-novel-by-marie-anello-and-the-wednesday-tv-show-writers-illustrated-by-leo-trinidad/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Marie Anello / Leo Trinidad; current date July 6, 2027, ISBN 9798217121502; Amazon B0FY5TQ6ZB. Supersedes older spring catalogue’s July 2026 placeholder. No released interior claimed."
    },
    {
      "id": "old-catalogue",
      "title": "PRH — Spring 2026 retailer catalogue",
      "url": "https://prhcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/PRH-Panels_Spring-2026.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Earlier graphic-novel date July 28, 2026 conflicts with current product record. Used for omission checks and identifying changed solicitations, not as proof of release."
    },
    {
      "id": "iam",
      "title": "PRH — I Am Wednesday",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751689/i-am-wednesday-little-golden-book-by-golden-books-illustrated-by-vivien-wu/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "July 2, 2024, ISBN 9780593896693. Illustrated introduction to this Netflix rendition, not the 1991 film."
    },
    {
      "id": "thing",
      "title": "PRH — I Am Thing",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775634/i-am-thing-wednesday-by-golden-books-illustrated-by-vivien-wu/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "May 6, 2025; Vivien Wu illustrations. Publisher outbound Amazon B0DJ284941. Broad first-season companion period, no new exact day inferred."
    },
    {
      "id": "poe",
      "title": "PRH — The Poe Cup Race!",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/800103/the-poe-cup-race-wednesday-by-christy-webster-illustrated-by-vivien-wu/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Christy Webster / Vivien Wu, January 6, 2026. Same Poe Cup story as Season 1 episode 2; outbound Amazon B0F8ML3QFM."
    },
    {
      "id": "hide",
      "title": "PRH — Hide and Seek!",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813387/hide-and-seek-wednesday-by-christy-webster-illustrated-by-random-house/9798217226900/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "July 7, 2026, paperback ISBN 9798217226894, library binding 9798217226900. Description is Wednesday’s school-monster investigation, not a separately dated sequel. Outbound library-binding Amazon B0FV7WRLGH."
    },
    {
      "id": "pugsley",
      "title": "PRH — I Am Pugsley",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/824372/i-am-pugsley-wednesday-by-golden-books-illustrated-by-vivien-wu/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "July 28, 2026. Explicitly occurs with Wednesday’s second Nevermore year, Pugsley’s developing powers and search for a friend. Outbound Amazon B0FY5N2CLH."
    },
    {
      "id": "outcasts",
      "title": "PRH — Book of Outcasts",
      "url": "https://penguinrandomhouselibrary.com/book/?isbn=9780593901786",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Ally Russell / TV writers; 80-page first-season guide includes in-character Wednesday annotations. Included as a companion, not an invented extra season. Printed ISBN 9780593901779."
    },
    {
      "id": "festival",
      "title": "Netflix — Wednesday: Eve of the Outcasts",
      "url": "https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/netflix-house-wednesday-eve-of-outcasts",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official November 12, 2025 description confirms an interactive mystery with Thing and a Wednesday-designed festival. Nevermore setting / Weems office establishes an early-series-inspired setting; a precise screen-canon day is not certified."
    },
    {
      "id": "disc",
      "title": "Amazon — Wednesday Season 1 Blu-ray",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNT9SFVD",
      "kind": "Official retail edition / direct listing check",
      "note": "Actual title Wednesday: S1 (BD) [Blu-ray] read without affiliate query. Exact first season; no claim of a second-season box set."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Wednesday — Season 3",
      "type": "TV series",
      "status": "Announced / unreleased",
      "note": "Official September 30, 2026 wrap update checked. No released episodes or final fictional span yet verified; production publicity is not a completed season.",
      "sources": [
        "third"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Other Addams Family comics, films, animated series, novels and games",
      "type": "Other continuities",
      "status": "Outside this Netflix-continuity guide",
      "note": "Charles Addams cartoons, the 1964 / 1998 TV versions, 1991 / 1993 features, animated films and their tie-ins are not silently presented as prequels to Ortega’s Wednesday. This is an explicitly scoped guide, not a claim to catalogue all Addams media.",
      "sources": [
        "age",
        "episodes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Coloring / sticker / seek-and-find / paper-doll books, cookbook, tarot and blank journals",
      "type": "Activity / reference",
      "status": "No separately verified narrative installment",
      "note": "Publishing inventory checked. Profiles / in-character guide notes included above. Activity prompts and recipes are not automatically extra adventures; an original dated narrative insert would require interior evidence before addition.",
      "sources": [
        "outcasts",
        "old-catalogue"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Official Woecast, interviews, trailers, episode extracts and dance videos",
      "type": "Podcast / promotion",
      "status": "Commentary or containing-episode material",
      "note": "The Woecast is cast / production discussion, not an audio drama. First-six-minutes previews and existing scene compilations belong to their episode. No separate licensed story game / audio drama verified beyond the Netflix House mystery.",
      "sources": [
        "episodes",
        "rotwood",
        "festival"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-20",
    "status": "Research edition — verification gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "Reviewed all sixteen released episodes as two continuous season runs; adaptation formats share the appropriate source-season position.",
      "Checked current publisher inventory through the 2026 readers; I Am Pugsley belongs to the second year, while Poe Cup is a Season 1 episode-two retelling.",
      "Resolved publication contradictions before final build: current graphic novel and Season Two novel / audio records say July 2027, superseding older 2026 solicitations. Pugsley and Hide and Seek remain published 2026 titles on live publisher pages.",
      "Selected print and audio panels separately to recover correct Amazon matches; no 979-prefix ISBN was converted into an invented ASIN.",
      "Age fifteen to sixteen reconciles official newcomer description with the birthday. Second-year age is estimated; release years are kept separate.",
      "Kept the attraction in an early-school-era window with promotional status; did not create a speculative new Addams universe."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Full episode frame / prop chronology has not been audited. 1990 / thirty-two-year backstory and the novel publisher’s twenty-five-year description conflict; modern calendar left broad instead of invented.",
      "Only an opening legal prose sample was available, not complete novels / every illustrated-reader interior. Hide and Seek’s exact adapted scenes and companion marginalia need fuller inspection.",
      "The 2027 graphic novel has no released interior to inspect; festival branching dialogue and every promotional micro-post have not been exhaustively archived.",
      "Publisher outbound Amazon matches were recovered; only Season 1 disc title was directly checked on Amazon. Stock, playback regions and third-party seller claims are not guaranteed."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}