Netflix broke good news for Baudelaire fans first thing this year: its adaptation of Daniel Handler's 13-book "A Series of Unfortunate Events" will be back with all-new episodes on March 30. The streaming giant made the announcement with a video of Neil Patrick Harris' Count Olaf introducing the first footage from season 2.
"Now there may be some of you surprised that Netflix would choose this to be the first face you see in 2018," Harris says, smugly flaunting a large knife. "But those are the same people who wouldn't recognize handsome if it set your house on fire." He then goes on to tease the new promo before revealing he is holding an even larger blade. Check out the video below:
"A Series of Unfortunate Events" season 2 follows the events from books five to nine of Handler's series: "The Austere Academy," "The Ersatz Elevator," "The Vile Village," "The Hostile Hospital," and "The Carnivorous Carnival." The new promo does not give away much plot details, but it does tease one change from the source material.
According to Inverse, little Sunny Baudelaire (Presley Smith) is standing up early in the series. In the books, the publication notes she does not start walking until after the Baudelaires leave Prufrock Preparatory School at the end of the seventh book, "The Vile Village." However, she seems to be already standing up in the footage, while Violet (Malina Weissman) and Klaus (Louis Hynes) are still hanging out at Prufrock Preparatory School.
While it does not seem like a big deal, Sunny's self-sustaining steps in the book mark the time that the orphans no longer depend on adults for help. By then, they get to pick where they go and start to take the fight to Count Olaf.
Then again, as the shot only shows the upper half of the Baudelaires, it is possible that Sunny is just holding on to Violet's hand in the trailer. Either way, Netflix's adaptation has made several changes from the book including Lemony Snicket's involvement in the story, Sunny's speech, and the Baudelaire parents' ambiguous fate, which did not drastically help or hurt the story. In fact, the show received mostly positive reviews from critics and fans alike despite those alterations. It remains to be seen whether season 2 would do the same.
