Showrunner confirms that we saw the last of Xavier Thorpe

It turns out that Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) was right to leave Xavier Thorpe (Percy Hynes White) on “Read” after having offered him a mobile phone at the end of the first season.
Better yet, during season two of Tim Burton Wednesday, We see her throwing the phone in a boiling pot before returning to Nevermore Academy, only to find that Xavier had been transferred to another supernatural school. It is an abrupt end of an important character from the first season, but intentionally, on behalf of the production team.
The Co-showrunner, Alfred Gough, told TVline: “We have seen the last of him” and said that Xavier is “In a boarding school, we mentioned in season 1, Reichenbach, which is like the European version of Nevermore. “Although the character does not come back or rebounded, Gough did not address the allegations that took place surrounding Percy Hynes White, who played Xavier. Wednesdaysecond season.
Jenna Ortega previously shared with Vanity Fair that “(Wednesday) being in a love triangle made no sense”. And added, with regard to white departure, that it is “a strange redirection, but we introduce so many different characters that I think it will be lost”. And it was lost, almost immediately in the second season – with a final work of art warning the crow on tombstone on Wednesday, Thorpe was written in the Netflix program. Actor Hunter Doohan remains like Wednesday’s only twisted contender, Tyler The Hyde, who plays a darker role in the first part of season two.
WThe absence of Hile Xavier was felt at the start of the new season, as we wrote in our criticism, the possibility of renewing the attention of the show on Wednesday and his friends in a more significant way served the show for the best. This has in turn led the point that his triangle in love with the first season was useless, making Xavier’s role really useless in the unnecessary story, even before immersing you in the accusations surrounding the white.
First part of Wednesday Season two is now in trouble on Netflix.
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