Netflix的热门剧集《星期三》第二季虽然对爱伦·坡的致敬不如第一季密集，但仍巧妙地融入了这位19世纪美国作家作品的元素。从校长办公室墙上的爱伦·坡肖像，到剧中出现的乌鸦意象，再到故事中“滴答作响的心脏”和以坡作品命名的咖啡馆，都延续了第一季对坡式哥特风格的致敬。剧中甚至有角色直接评价情节转折“堪比爱伦·坡”，显示了该剧对这位文学大师的深度喜爱与借鉴。如果你想在等待第二季更新的间隙重温经典，不妨观看《亚设屋的倒塌》，其中也隐藏了许多爱伦·坡的元素。

🪶 **爱伦·坡的肖像与“杰出校友”**：在第二季第一集中，新校长巴里·多特（史蒂夫·布西密饰）办公室墙上挂有爱伦·坡的肖像，并称其为“我们最杰出的校友”，甚至校长本人在发型上也与爱伦·坡有几分相似，巧妙地将这位作家置于学校历史的中心。

🐦 **多重“乌鸦”意象的再现**：虽然不像第一季那样频繁提及《乌鸦》，但第二季中实际出现了多处与乌鸦相关的意象。例如，学生们搭建的“创始人金字塔”被塑造成一只庄严的乌鸦形状，此外，剧中的乌鸦不再是温顺地“轻叩门扉”，而是展现出类似希区柯克《鸟》中更具威胁性的姿态。

🕰️ **“滴答作响的心脏”与《泄密的心》的呼应**：在第一集中，由阿贾克斯讲述的关于一个发明了发条心脏的男孩的故事，其核心情节与爱伦·坡的短篇小说《泄密的心》有着异曲同工之妙。故事中的男孩因心脏改造而变得冷酷，最终在奈弗莫尔学院遭遇不测，据说他的发条心脏至今仍在跳动，这与《泄密的心》中主人公被自己埋葬的受害者的心跳声所困扰的情节相呼应。

☕ **“泄密的心”主题咖啡馆**：在奈弗莫尔学院的四方庭院中，有一个名为“泄密的心咖啡馆”（The Tell-Tale Café）的餐车，这同样是对爱伦·坡著名短篇小说《泄密的心》的直接致敬。咖啡馆提供的特色饮品也以坡的作品命名，例如“鲁马基雅托谋杀案”（Murders in the Rue Macchiato）。

📚 **书架上的爱伦·坡作品**：在第二季的钟楼解谜场景中，星期三需要从一堆书籍中找出缺失的那一本，这些书籍作者包括H.G.威尔斯、马塞尔·普鲁斯特、安·M·马丁等文学巨匠，其中也赫然包括了爱伦·坡的作品，再次印证了剧集对这位作家的重视。

Like the beating of the hideous heart in Edgar Allan Poe's story, Netflix's Wednesday continues to tick with references to the 19th century American writer.

The first season of Tim Burton's spooky series was haunted with many a nod to Poe, from the Gothic setting of Nevermore Academy (named for Poe's most famous poem, 1845's The Raven) to the highly dangerous Poe Cup in which teams were story-themed, and the secret Nightshade Society, a possible hat-tip to the 1935 story Morella.

In Season 2, the references aren't as plentiful, but they're still there — Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) even calls a plot twist "worthy of Poe" at one point. We've rounded them all up below. And if you're not content with the long intervals of horrible sanity between the release of Part 1 and 2 of Wednesday Season 2, try a rewatch of The Fall of the House of Usher.

The Poe portrait

In Wednesday Season 2, episode 1, when teen siren Bianca Barclay (Joy Sunday) is called to the office of chipper new principal Barry Dort (Steve Buscemi), he directly points to a portrait of Poe on the wall, "our most famous alumni." The thing is, Dort also kind of looks like the author with that hairdo...

The ravens

While Poe's The Raven was mentioned a colossal amount of times in Season 1, there's a fair few actual ravens in Season 2. In episode 1, the Founder's Pyre constructed by the students is shaped like a stately raven. And in the main storyline, ravens aren't gently rapping at chamber doors like in Poe's story, instead taking a leaf out of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

The clockwork heart

The ticking heart at the centre of the ghost story told by teen gorgon Ajax (Georgie Farmer) in episode 1, feels inspired by Poe's 1843 short story "The Tell-Tale Heart."

"The Tale of the Skull Tree," the episode's stunning, characteristically Tim Burton animation, follows a "brilliant boy with a fragile heart" who invents a mechanical ticker for himself. However, it changes him into a cold and ambitious man, one who attends Nevermore Academy and meets his untimely death there. "Legend has it," Ajax explains, "that his body is buried at the foot of the Skull Tree in an unmarked grave. But if you put your ear to the skull's hollow left eye, you can still hear his clockwork heart." The story shares attributes with Poe's protagonist, who is plagued by the beating heart of a man he murdered and buried under the floorboards.

The Tell-Tale Café

In the Nevermore quad, there's a food truck called The Tell-Tale Café, a reference again to "The Tell-Tale Heart." You can see in episode 2 it's selling themed offerings named for Poe stories like "Murders in the Rue Macchiato."

A stack of Poe books

In episode 2, Wednesday must solve a nasty little puzzle in the clocktower, in which she must figure out which book is missing from the stacks around her. They're works by literary legends including H. G. Wells, Marcel Proust, Ann M. Martin, and yes, Poe.

Did you spy any more Poe references? Let us know in the comments.

Wednesday Season 2, Part 1 is now streaming on Netflix. Part 2 lands on Sept. 3.