vendredi 13 janvier 2017
2 Unexpected Cameos on A Series of Unfortunate Events Are a Game Changer
Warning: spoilers for the first episode below!
After months of waiting, Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events finally premiered on Friday the 13th (apt, don't you think?), and there's a lot to love. Neil Patrick Harris gives an inspired performance as the show's greasy villain, Count Olaf, and newcomers Malina Weissman and Louis Hynes (who play Violet and Klaus Baudelaire) are a delight. At the end of the first episode, we also get a pleasant surprise in the form of two unexpected guest stars: Will Arnett and Cobie Smulders, who pop up as Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire's missing parents.
Episode one starts off with the brilliant Baudelaire children being informed that they're orphans now after their mansion burns down, with their doting mother and father - Bertrand (Arnett) and Beatrice (Smulders) - presumably perishing in the blaze. They're sent to live with Count Olaf, a distant relative whose only goal is to get his hands on the Baudelaire family fortune. Not only is he violent, but he forces them to cook and clean for him and his band of cronies and makes the three of them share a dirty, decrepit bedroom. In other words, it's just as unfortunate as the show's title might suggest. At the conclusion of the first episode is a ray of hope for the siblings, however, when it's revealed to the audience that the Baudelaires' beloved parents are alive after all. The only catch? The final scene shows them handcuffed in the back of a van. "I'm worried about the children," Beatrice says, before telling her husband that they need to escape. The car zooms off into the night, and we're left wondering if the family will ever reunite.
This, as any longtime fan of the series can attest, is a huge departure from Lemony Snicket's novels. Although it's never technically made clear, only one of the Baudelaire parents is rumored to have survived the original fire. Convincing theories seem to point to their mother, Beatrice, but note that she likely died soon afterward, sometime between books two and 12, The Reptile Room and The Penultimate Peril. The cause of her death is supposedly still fire, except instead of the one that destroyed the Baudelaire mansion, it was the blaze at the Duchess of Winnipeg's castle. The children never see either of their parents again, but they do hold out hope for quite some time due to suggestive information in the Snicket File.
Regardless of whether or not you're on board with the change, we have to imagine that Smulders and Arnett will definitely keep things interesting. Here's hoping we (as well as Violet, Klaus, and Sunny) get another glimpse of them soon.
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