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‘Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events’ Season 2 Ep 3 ‘The Ersatz Elevator Part 1’: Orphans are IN!

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So if you’re the Baudelaire orphan trio, you really don’t particularly care about the differences between worried and anxious, very likely feeling both as the odious Mr. Poe takes you to yet another guardians house. Like the rest, #667 Dark Avenue is a very different place for Violet, Klaus, and Sunny to end up, in these unfortunate events that keep happening to them.

 

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Enter Jerome and Esme Squalor, the cities 6th most important financial advisor, who lives in the penthouse of #667, and Esme at least is concerned with all things IN and OUT. We’re not talking inappropriate gas-passing, we’re talking light and dark, orphaned or not, pinstripe suits and cafes specializing in the repetitive use of a single ingredient in every single last dish including the water – that sort of what’s IN and what’s OUT.

Stairs are IN, apparently, so our orphans get to make the long climb to the penthouse on foot, but we’re treated to a very familiar symbol when our Baudelaires look down the stairwell to the bottom floor and see the V.F.D. eye. Orphans are now IN, thank goodness, so while our kids are genuinely welcomed by a cowed Jerome, Esme proceeds to remake them as IN as possible, in pinstripe suits and aqueous martinis. That also means subjecting the Baudelaires to the nasty attentions of the eternal Count Olaf, arriving this time as Gunther, foreign fashion consultant to the simpering Esme. But before the next grand acting scheme, Olaf informed us that he has possession of the Quagmires, very closely in fact, so nothing would do but for our beleaguered children to go looking for their friends!

Esme and Gunther have planned a high profile auction, with all the profits going to Esme herself of course, for the near future. But for right now, Esme’s going to take Klaus and Sunny on a tour of most of the seventy-one rooms of the penthouse, while Violet uses chalk marks to do some exploring of her own. Note that the sugar bowl is missing from Esme’s own tea set. Your easter egg for this episode is that all the portraits in the din

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ing rooms of the Squalors’ penthouse, are of Barry Sonnenfield, Executive Director/Producer for the television show ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’.

Chases and chalk marks and charisma, oh my, and we still haven’t found the Quagmires, nor really, anything else the Baudelaires might be looking for. Esme is insistent on taking the children to the INnest restaurant around, and while Gunther may think its Herring Houdini’s, the real bestest place to go is Café Salmonella. Where everything has salmon in it, including the water. But the Café is full of familiar faces, several of which are doing their level best to stall everyone, so V.F.D. operatives can go look for the Quagmires too!

It has to be said, and will likely continue to be said, that Jacques Snicket is so damn smooth and charismatic, no wonder he’s the go-to operative Jacqueline calls in when she needs missions of the utmost importance done. The way he schmoozes Olivia Caliban, and apparently genuinely seems to love books, librarians, curiosity and the things that make life worth living, is an adult peek into the Baudelaire world that we all love.

Not even a musical number, ‘Keep Chasing Your Schemes’ as performed by Neil Patrick Harris as Count Olaf, can keep the bad guys from hurrying back to #667 Dark Avenue to make sure they beat the Baudelaire children and their friends to whatever treasure there is to be had. But everyone underestimates the ingeniousness of the Baudelaire orphans, and the bottom of the ersatz elevator shaft may just hold a bunch of answers!

Return to Netflix’s Season 2 of ‘Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events’ and the eternal chase of the Baudelaire children!

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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