The Bad Beginning: Part Two 

The Baudelaire orphans try and escape the grasp of the evil Count Olaf.

Director:

Barry Sonnenfeld

Writers:

Daniel Handler (based on the book series by) (as Lemony Snicket), Daniel Handler (teleplay by)

Stars:

Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Weissman

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Neil Patrick Harris	...	Count Olaf
Patrick Warburton	...	Lemony Snicket
Malina Weissman	...	Violet Baudelaire
Louis Hynes	...	Klaus Baudelaire
K. Todd Freeman	...	Arthur Poe
Presley Smith	...	Sunny Baudelaire
Will Arnett	...	Father
Cobie Smulders	...	Mother
Joan Cusack	...	Justice Strauss
Usman Ally	...	Hook-Handed Man
Matty Cardarople	...	Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender
Cleo King	...	Eleanora Poe
John DeSantis	...	Bald Man
Jacqueline Robbins	...	White Faced Woman #1
Joyce Robbins	...	White Faced Woman #2

Storyline

The Baudelaire orphans try and escape the grasp of the evil Count Olaf.

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Mystery

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 January 2017 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

The Sonnenfeld Company, What is the Question?, Paramount Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

64 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.00 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This trivia is based on an interview with Jacqueline and Joyce Robbins. For some scenes, a "jelly" or a fake baby was used as a stand-in for Presley Smith, the child actor who played Sunny Baudelaire. This is considering they couldn't put an actual baby in a cage. According to the actresses, Presley was photographed and when the prop baby was ready, they sat the baby actress next to her stand-in and (no pun intended) she did a double take and laughed very hard to see herself like this.

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Goofs

When Sunny wins in Poker against Count Olaf's henchman, you see that she wins with a Straight Flush (Same suit and consecutive numbers) with an A/K/Q/J/10 of Spades. However, a Jack of Spades is also in the henchman's hand, and there is only one of each card in a traditional 52-card deck.

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Quotes

Justice Strauss: Carpe diem!
Count Olaf: Seize the children!
Justice Strauss: Seize the *day*!
Count Olaf: I *said* day.

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Connections

Featured in The Dom Reviews: A Series of Unfortunate Reviews, the Bad Beginning (2017)

User Reviews

An Improvement, but Still Stumbles

The second episode benefits simply because it comes after the first. The tone is established, we've already spent an hour with the characters and the plot can finally start to really move forward.

The Baudelaire children are much more grounded in this episode, with their skill sets coming into play (as they will throughout the rest of the series). Count Olaf is less out of place, and he gains control of the world that he'll stalk the children through for the remaining episodes to come.

All the tropes are set up, the running gags. The "death" of the Baudelaire's parents is explored a little more heavily, and, with it, the main goal of the series. We as an audience now have something hopeful (though Lemony Snicket will tell you it's not so) to look forward to.

Though Olaf's house is a disgustingly gorgeous set piece, it will be nice to move on. It took a couple of hours, but I'm now fully interested to see the rest of this world. I'm sure with the next episodes that the story will find its pace, and I'll suddenly find myself racing through these episodes at a break-neck speed.