The Miserable Mill: Part One
- Episode aired Jan 13, 2017
- TV-PG
- 44m
The orphans are shipped off to work in a miserable mill with a distant relative who has a complicated name and pays his employees with sandwich tokens.The orphans are shipped off to work in a miserable mill with a distant relative who has a complicated name and pays his employees with sandwich tokens.The orphans are shipped off to work in a miserable mill with a distant relative who has a complicated name and pays his employees with sandwich tokens.
- Violet Baudelaire
- (as Malina Weissman)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMr. Poe says at the beginning of the episode, "It's a catastrophe! It's unprecedented! It's off-book!" In the book, Mr. Poe takes the Baudelaires to the Mill, while in the series they escaped to the Mill themselves. He says this to a fish merchant, who is the author of the books himself, Daniel Handler.
- GoofsAt the end of the previous episode when the children stow away in the truck, the Lucky Smells logo on the tailgate is bright red and vibrant. At the beginning of this episode with the children still in the bed of the truck, the logo is faded and pink.
- Quotes
Count Olaf: Your cruelty is as sweet as this coffee I'm dumping this sugar into. Georgina, I missed this. You, me, an evil scheme, a little death.
Dr. Georgina Orwell: La petite mort.
Count Olaf: You know I love it when you speak Spanish. Let's run away to Europe and find a charming little country to take over.
Dr. Georgina Orwell: What about the children?
Count Olaf: Shouldn't we live together first?
- Crazy creditsIn the opening sequence, the following is typed on the screen: "To Beatrice - My love flew like a butterfly, until death swooped down like a bat."
- SoundtracksLook Away (The Miserable Mill Version)
Performed by Neil Patrick Harris
The Miserable Mill: Part One is another good episode. It does have some problems particularly with the narration with Count Olaf and Patrick Warburton. It does have some dry wit, but otherwise it was over-explanatory. Mr. Poe, however, continues to be the biggest problem especially in the beginning, which is by far the worst written and his ineptitude has been starting to get on my nerves.
Everything else is done very well. The child acting is still getting confident with Malina Weissman and Louis Hynes improving and the guest stars Will Arnett and Cobie Smulders, who were introduced in the Bad Beginning, still delight as Father and Mother whose roles play a vital part of the Bauldelaire's journey in this season. Patrick Warburton, despite the over-explanatory narration, still provides some dry deadpan humor. Neil Patrick Harris continues to shine as Count Olaf especially his poor disguise while Rhys Darby and Catherine O Hara (who played Justice Strauss in the 2004 version) delight as Sir and Dr. Orwell. Oh, and Count Olaf's henchmen, introduced in the first two episodes, still provide some good chuckles and laughs too.
The music score continues to fit the mysterious atmosphere of the show, the directing and editing is still good, and the story entertains with a sense of mystery and tension.
Overall, not perfect, but another fairly good episode.
- gavin-thelordofthefu-48-460297
- Sep 4, 2020
Details
- Runtime44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1