And I now present my detailed breakdown of the second full trailer for the series! Especial thanks to
for providing screenshots from the trailer, as my previous method for acquiring direct trailer screenshots which didn't need editing no longer works; for this reason, I apologise, but some screenshots may not exactly show the details I point out, but believe me, they're there. Additional thanks to everyone above who advised on Sara Canning, and additional apologies to anyone whose connection isn't up to this.
Lemony Snicket (Patrick Warburton) lights a match to illuminate a sewer. This presumably leads into the scene from the previous trailer in which he peers out from beneath a manhole, and may also be related to the shot from the previous trailer of a bricked-up wall in a sewer with a V.F.D. insignia chalked onto it.
A Lucky Smells Lumbermill truck takes Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes), and Sunny Baudelaire, in raincoats, through what is presumably the Finite Forest, to Paltryville and Lucky Smells Lumbermill itself. This would differ from their means of transport to the town in the original
The Miserable Mill, in which Mr. Poe escorted them by train.
Paltryville’s main street, with Lucky Smells Lumbermill at the end. Buildings at either side of the street appear to have been burnt down, contrasting with the happier times shown in the photograph of the location featured in the previous trailer. The destruction of the surrounding buildings may relate to the destruction of the archives of
The Daily Punctilio in the books, said archives having comprised numerous stacks of newspapers lined up on the side of Paltryville’s streets, but this event took place after TMM in the original books.
Note that, in this shot, the Baudelaires are on the edge of the woods, rather than in the middle of town.
Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) opens a pair of double-doors in his house to the Baudelaires. Note that both doors appear to bear the V.F.D. insignia.
Feathers tumble as Olaf is revealed at the top of his mansion’s tower. The feathers may relate to the Mountain Bluebird seen flying across from Justice Strauss’s house in the previous trailer.
Olaf greets the Baudelaires and Mr. Poe at his door, as seen in the previous trailer.
All three Baudelaires attempt to sleep in the same tiny bed in Count Olaf’s house.
The Baudelaires, in what is probably a dormitory for Lucky Smells Lumbermill workers. The man they are talking to is, therefore, probably Phil.
Olaf, in evening wear, in his mansion; another V.F.D. insignia appears in the glass behind him. A later shot suggests that this is his dining room, probably from the dinner party scene in TBB.
The interior of Lucky Smells Lumbermill.
Sir (Don Johnson), finding something useful for the Baudelaires to do under his guardianship.
The Baudelaires, apparently leaving the lumbermill; since all are in uniforms and Klaus is without glasses, they may be on their way to Dr. Orwell’s office for Klaus’s second visit.
Lucky Smells Lumbermill machinery. The brief shot (not shown) of the machinery being activated may be from one of the points in the story in which Klaus, under hypnosis, causes an accident with the machinery, with the saw recalling the story’s climax.
The Baudelaires look about the lumbermill in dismay. Since Klaus has glasses, this is probably their first day at work.
Violet and Klaus debarking.
Olaf and the Baudelaires, in their room in his house, with Olaf discussing first impressions; this may be the unseen moment in the books where they are first shown the room he has given them.
Since Olaf is in evening wear and (drunkenly?) demanding food for multiple people, this is probably the dinner party he hosts at his home for his theatre troupe; the framing, clothing, and surroundings are the same as highlighted in a previous shot.
Olaf enters his yard. This may be the point in the story in which he shows Violet and Klaus that he has caged Sunny and hung her from his tower window, though it is not clear that he is wearing the same clothes as in the shot from that scene in the previous trailer.
Klaus, without glasses and almost certainly hypnotised, in Lucky Smells Lumbermill.
Olaf uses a spyglass to watch from the porthole of his room aboard a ship which may be the
Prospero, a scene which probably takes place at the end of Netflix’s version of
The Reptile Room.
The hook-handed man (Usman Ally) appears at a barred window. It is unclear where this scene is taking place, though
Esmé's meme is meh has made a convincing case for it being Captain Sham's Sailboat Rentals from
The Wide Window.
Olaf menaces the Baudelaires; there is apparent, but not definite, continuity from the earlier “first impression” scene.
Olaf stands upon his own dining table. This appears to be from the scene where Olaf offers the children raspberry cupcakes after they complain to Mr. Poe about his treatment of them at the dinner party.
Count Olaf and the bald man (John DeSantis) look upwards. This scene appears to take place in Count Olaf’s house, judging from Olaf’s casual wear.
Charles (Rhys Darby), justifying Sir’s actions by explaining that he had a terrible childhood, as in the original TMM text.
Klaus and Sunny deposit something in a shredding machine at Lucky Smells Lumbermill.
Olaf, in his yard, presumably mocking the Baudelaires; this may be from the scene where he reveals that Sunny has been caged and imprisoned outside his tower room. The V.F.D. insignia is visible on the door behind him.
Olaf eating meat.
The Baudelaires in the Lucky Smells Lumbermill library, Klaus responding to Charles’s excuse for Sir.
The Briny Beach trolley, presumably taking the Baudelaires and Mr. Poe from the beach in the second cut; Violet’s stone-throwing device and a marked stone are abandoned, possibly to be encountered again on the return to Briny Beach in
The Grim Grotto in Season 3 (as suggested in
The Bad Beginning Rare Edition).
Violet and Klaus in their room. Violet may be preparing her invention to try and rescue Sunny from Olaf’s tower room, as the youngest Baudelaire is nowhere to be seen.
Violet retrieves and processes various items from Olaf’s house for her improved grappling hook invention.
Violet reassures Klaus, and uses her invention to enter Olaf’s tower from the outside (intercut in the actual trailer). As seen in the first trailer, the invention is considerably more complex and ambitious than in the original text.
Mr. Poe’s car approaches Dr. Montgomery’s house; as seen in the previous trailer, in Netflix’s interpretation the house is modest in size and the Reptile Room is enormous.
Uncle Monty (Aasif Mandvi) assures the Baudelaires that they are safe.
Uncle Monty shows the Baudelaires through the Reptile Room.
Sunny in the company of the Incredibly Deadly Viper.
Jacquelyn (Sara Canning), disguised as a spyglass-using statue in the centre of the maze in Dr. Montgomery’s grounds, which apparently has moving walls. Every element of this scene is original to the adaptation, including the character of Jacquelyn.
Jacquelyn, tied to a tree which she has had to uproot in order to escape, attempts to enter a telephone box. This scene is also entirely original and it is unclear in which book it would take place, but the city is visible in the background.
A doorbell, implicitly that of Aunt Josephine’s house, is pressed.
The Baudelaires meet Josephine Anwhistle (Alfre Woodard) for the first time. Curiously, although they are in her house (note the visible cracked walls), the children appear uncertain as to her identity.
Immediately after introducing herself, Aunt Josephine is frightened by her own reflection. The Baudelaires seem unimpressed.
Stephano (Count Olaf) arrives at the door of Uncle Monty’s house. Plausibly, though unlike the books, he is feigning a strong accent. The Baudelaires immediately recognise him.
Stephano uses a dagger to prevent the door from being closed on him, a shot extremely similar to one used in the 2004 movie.
Olaf, in a one-piece diving suit, boarding the
Prospero.
Dr. Orwell (Catherine O’Hara), hair slightly unkempt, flings darts at a picture of Count Olaf. This scene is not only original to the adaptation but implies an antagonistic relationship to Olaf not present in the original books.
Count Olaf confronts an alarmed street sweep in the town of Lake Lachrymose (as evident from the presence of the Anxious Clown restaurant to one side). Given the location, this is clearly
not Foreman Firstein (as speculated in my previous breakdown) and seems likely to be an original character.
The hook-handed man threatens the Baudelaires in their room, in a scene apparently continuing from one in the previous trailer where he roughly escorted them into the room. His line is from the books, but was originally delivered to Klaus alone in Justice Strauss’s house.
Stephano (without glasses) uses his dagger to threaten the Baudelaires, who are wearing pyjamas, in Uncle Monty’s garden. This may take place when he is attempting to remove the Baudelaires from the property shortly after Monty’s death.
Sunny unzips a suitcase from where she is hiding within. This scene may take place in TRR, in which accessing Stephano’s suitcase is a plot point.
Captain Sham (Count Olaf).
Dr. Orwell and Shirley (Count Olaf).
Count Olaf, in his tower room, using his spyglass; the henchperson of indeterminate gender (Matty Cardarople) is visible in the background.
The Baudelaires (not wearing pyjamas) flee into Uncle Monty’s maze. Stephano (with glasses) pursues them. A shot of the maze from above shows Jacquelyn(?) in her previously-seen statue disguise.
Outside the Anxious Clown, Olaf wrestles with the sweep; there is apparent continuity with his voiceover “Their fortune will be mine.” It is unclear why Olaf would be fighting or telling this to an ordinary sweep, suggesting that the sweep is actually no simple street cleaner but has a more important association, perhaps as a volunteer.
The Baudelaires, in a boat in the middle of Lake Lachrymose during Hurricane Herman, lighting a beacon for help. Their boat appears to be in significant danger.
In Uncle Monty’s house, Stephano (without glasses) draws his dagger, the Baudelaires flee down a staircase, Stephano (with glasses) throws the dagger, and the dagger strikes the back of a mechanically-operated door just as Klaus draws it shut. The continuity of these shots is not entirely clear.
Justice Strauss (Joan Cusack) enthusiastically converses with Count Olaf as he hurriedly removes the Baudelaires from her property. Judging from her evident pleasure, this may occur shortly after Olaf has asked her to appear in
The Marvelous Marriage.
) I am so excited you guys!! Just about a month left (32 days to be exact)...wow...
