Genre: Drama, black comedy
Cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes, K. Todd Freeman, Presley Smith.
The second season of ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ will be available on Netflix on Friday 30 March. Netflix has released a behind-the-scenes video from Season 2 that insinuates new characters and upcoming storylines on top of featuring interviews with key cast members.
Ahead of season two, the official twitter account has confirmed that Alison Williams will be joining the cast. Netflix didn’t explain the specifics of her character, a “mystery role”, but announced that Williams would first appear in Season 2 and return for the final season.
Based on the internationally bestselling series of books, ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ follows the lives of Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes) and Sunny Baudelaire (Presley Smith) after their parents are killed in a fire. Due to a careless oversight, they are initially placed in the care of a distant relative named Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris), but he is a devious villain who will do anything he can to get his hands on the Baudelaire inheritance.
Launching in January 2017, the show has already adapted the first four books of the series, and Season 2, debuting later this month, will cover the next four. With 13 total books in the series, series star and producer Neil Patrick Harris previously confirmed that the show will finish after Season 3.
“We’re three seasons all in,” Harris said. “We’ve intentionally been very truthful and factual and loyal to the books. We’ve added a few characters that aren’t in the books, we’ve added some songs that you probably couldn’t put into the books, but for the most part we’re sticking to the structure of what already worked.”
While TV adaptations of books often try to veer away from the original storyline and experiment with plots, this likely won’t be the case for end of ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’.
> Mar Martínez
