A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
Jan. 26th, 2019 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeidealSo I didn't watch the first couple seasons of the show when they came out, because I'd soured significantly on the books from start to finish. I enjoyed the meta-humor of the first few even when it was dark humor, but the later, more "interconnected" books, were like "we're gonna set up mysteries and then not solve them because closure is for babies and losers, Real Writers just leave you hanging," and...I ain't bout dat life.
But I'd heard that the TV series ended a lot better in that regard, so I gave it a try. And yes, it delivered!
Several good villain ensemble songs (and several mediocre ones). Good running gags (there's a very impressive newspaper delivery cyclist in season 2, the arrows on the hospital walls point to stuff like "deadly snake bits," "pee into cup"). Sunny and her card-shuffling skills are very impressive.
It also made me realize how much of the back half of the series I really didn't remember. Like, Quigley Quagmire shows up, there's a line about "this is called a cranioectomy" "doesn't that mean brain removal?" "yes, it's very dangerous, but life is full of risks" (maybe it's the migraines that made that stick with me, hah), and...??? Like everything after the red herrings just kind of blurs together (I'd basically forgotten the entire sugar bowl "subplot"), so I appreciated the second time around.
Fic I want: Ike Anwhistle said in the flashback scene that he wanted kids with Josephine, and ?!?. Maybe they had a linguist child who had a falling out with Josephine over descriptivism/prescriptivism? So Josephine sends them off to Prufrock or something and then one day they're told they have to go live in the orphan shack...!
There's been several fics about "is Violet Lemony's daughter" given the naming discussion, so maybe something where he's like "she had her birthday on the submarine? when exactly? Ohhhh dear."
And just everybody reuniting and being happy, bleepit. :p With dark narrative humor as need be.
But I'd heard that the TV series ended a lot better in that regard, so I gave it a try. And yes, it delivered!
Several good villain ensemble songs (and several mediocre ones). Good running gags (there's a very impressive newspaper delivery cyclist in season 2, the arrows on the hospital walls point to stuff like "deadly snake bits," "pee into cup"). Sunny and her card-shuffling skills are very impressive.
It also made me realize how much of the back half of the series I really didn't remember. Like, Quigley Quagmire shows up, there's a line about "this is called a cranioectomy" "doesn't that mean brain removal?" "yes, it's very dangerous, but life is full of risks" (maybe it's the migraines that made that stick with me, hah), and...??? Like everything after the red herrings just kind of blurs together (I'd basically forgotten the entire sugar bowl "subplot"), so I appreciated the second time around.
Fic I want: Ike Anwhistle said in the flashback scene that he wanted kids with Josephine, and ?!?. Maybe they had a linguist child who had a falling out with Josephine over descriptivism/prescriptivism? So Josephine sends them off to Prufrock or something and then one day they're told they have to go live in the orphan shack...!
There's been several fics about "is Violet Lemony's daughter" given the naming discussion, so maybe something where he's like "she had her birthday on the submarine? when exactly? Ohhhh dear."
And just everybody reuniting and being happy, bleepit. :p With dark narrative humor as need be.
