Please don't read further, dear reader, so as to be spared horrible news that might last in your memory for a lifetime, but if you do continue, please be informed that Netflix regrets to announce that Count Olaf has not gone away but is back for a second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events - that sadly has already also been renewed for a third, sure to be dreadful, season.
The 10 terrifying episodes of the second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events, has just become available on Netflix South Africa and around the world, and adapted books 5 through 9 of the novel series: The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital and The Carnivorous Carnival.
Sadly Netflix says viewers who persist in watching this sorry display of poor orphan children looking for their parents and being preyed upon by their evil uncle Count Olaf who wants their inheritance, will be subjected to a shack full of crabs, a tyrannical vice principal (aren't they all?), murder, kidnapping, high fashion, unnecessary surgery, ravenous lions, and a great deal of herring.
Netflix made a trailer available, but says "sadly, the trailer is only the beginning" and provides "our sincerest apologies" for what it calls "the worst season".
In the second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events, the poor rich Baudelaire children are introduced to life at Prufrock Preparatory School, an unpleasant institution, where before long, Count Olaf shows up in a thinly-disguised disguise as the school's new gym teacher.
Neil Patrick Harris is once again back as Count Olaf, with Malina Weissman as Violet Baudelaire, the eldest child and a gifted inventor, Louis Hynes as the middle Baudelaire child interested in literature and books, and Presley Smith as that small little thing, Sunny Baudelaire, the youngest Baudelaire who's already seen so much sadness and suffering in life, and who excels at biting with her unnaturally strong teeth.
