Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of A Series of Unfortunate Events catchup with the first two episodes of the third and final season entitled the Slippery Slope. Now it had been a good while since I had seen season two and I had almost forgotten just how much fun this show is. It is very self aware and it’s playful way of poking fun at itself and television general is just brilliant. Highlights include Olaf saying that he felt like this car journey has been going for a year (as the third season picked up exactly where the second season left off), and also him declaring that he had no interest in late in the series back-stories from his henchmen. It toes the line well and it fits in also with Olaf’s deluded Thespian persona.

Speaking of the henchpeople, they took on an emotional ride. I really (and I guess weirdly) warmed to the relationship between Sunny (who is a brilliant character and actress) and the Hook Handed Man. I thought it was going to lead to him saving Sunny… and I still don’t know if that happened. Did he know she had escaped when he chucked the cage off of the cliff to cover that fact up? And it ended up with him being the only henchman left with Olaf as all of the others surprisingly quit. The show suggested that we will not see them again which if so is a real shame: they really do bring some great comedic moments to the show…and is that one person a man or a woman!? We’ll never know now!

The show introduced two new villains with gloriously evasive names (the man with a beard but no hair and the woman with hair but no beard) who seemed to take over as the show’s main antagonists. I don’t see Olaf being redeemed or anything but these new bad guys seem more effective if not more evil. Also I could not believe that the man was played by Richard E Grant! I could notice slightly by the voice when I got to part two but I would have never have guessed before finding it out. They took the whole arson, kidnap and blackmail thing up a notch by ramping up the scale of their operation. How they’ll be stopped is hard to answer as the Violet and Klaus are still very much outnumbered. I guess I’ll just have to keep watching to find out.

DD Rating: 9/10