The End
- Episode aired Jan 1, 2019
- 52m
IMDb RATING
8.5/10
1.2K
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The final chapter takes the orphans to a deserted island: a place of lost lives, old stories and new beginnings. It all ends here.The final chapter takes the orphans to a deserted island: a place of lost lives, old stories and new beginnings. It all ends here.The final chapter takes the orphans to a deserted island: a place of lost lives, old stories and new beginnings. It all ends here.
Malina Pauli Weissman
- Violet Baudelaire
- (as Malina Weissman)
K. Todd Freeman
- Arthur Poe
- (credit only)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaKit reveals the contents of the sugar bowl, which had otherwise never been revealed, not even in the books.
- Quotes
Ishmael: [about Olaf] How did a group of children like you come to be shipwrecked with a man like that?
Violet Baudelaire: It's a long story.
Klaus Baudelaire: Extremely long.
Sunny Baudelaire: Three seasons
- SoundtracksLook Away (The End Version)
Performed by Neil Patrick Harris
Featured review
The Final Chapter
None of the previous twelve adaptations, all in two parts, were less than decent. All in fact from personal view were decent ("The Slippery Slope", a bit conflicted on this one) to brilliant ("The Penultimate Peril"). Making for a thoroughly enjoyable and brave though not completely consistent book to television adaptation of a book series that were better from a younger standpoint but generally the books are still an entertaining read now.
Having said that, the last book "The End" has never done much for me for reasons that have been summed up already very well, ending too much on an abrupt note, leaving too much unanswered, pretty dull at times and pretty heavy-going even for a book series centred around unfortunate events that were constantly reiterated that they wouldn't get better and get worse instead. For me though, this book to television adaptation of 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' version of "The End" is an example in a relatively minor group is a big improvement and the only one of the series' thirteen adaptations to be better than the source material.
The added bits actually helped provide more answers (though "The Penultimate Peril" in my mind did better at this aspect and "The End" is somewhat of an epilogue to the events), rather than feeling like superfluous padding and without complicating the story. Found the episode's events to be more interesting to the book, there is more of a sense of urgency and tension and the emotional moments, like Kit's role, resonated more and were quite poignant. The different side to Olaf rang true more, it was not easy to completely swallow in the book considering how truly evil he was in the previous books yet in the series the (to me) foreshadowing in "The Penultimate Peril" when Count Olaf talks of his perception of honesty and desire helped make it more plausible here.
It was a wise move leaving it as one episode, "The Penultimate Peril" actually felt more of a last book and episode due to doing better at tying things up. Wheras "The End" is more of a coda to show what became of the Baudelaires and has a slighter narrative than the previous books. There is much more of a sense of hope, after seeing glimmers of it in "The Penultimate Peril" not seen very much at all in the previous episodes (what was there being very short-lived). We also see the Baudelaires' maturity as characters and the moral dilemmas are thought-provoking and affecting.
Personally thought "The End" looked great, the lighter look being a refreshing contrast to the near-constant doom and gloom seen before. There was more atmosphere before, but the lighter look emphasised the hopeful aspect of the story. Ishmael is suitably enigmatic and Peter MacNicol and Neil Patrick Harris give particularly great performances, Patrick Warburton shining too.
Like the book, except not quite as badly, "The End" ends on too much of an abrupt note and what is there to try and solve that problem feels tacked on.
Other than that, this was truly impressive. 9/10
Having said that, the last book "The End" has never done much for me for reasons that have been summed up already very well, ending too much on an abrupt note, leaving too much unanswered, pretty dull at times and pretty heavy-going even for a book series centred around unfortunate events that were constantly reiterated that they wouldn't get better and get worse instead. For me though, this book to television adaptation of 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' version of "The End" is an example in a relatively minor group is a big improvement and the only one of the series' thirteen adaptations to be better than the source material.
The added bits actually helped provide more answers (though "The Penultimate Peril" in my mind did better at this aspect and "The End" is somewhat of an epilogue to the events), rather than feeling like superfluous padding and without complicating the story. Found the episode's events to be more interesting to the book, there is more of a sense of urgency and tension and the emotional moments, like Kit's role, resonated more and were quite poignant. The different side to Olaf rang true more, it was not easy to completely swallow in the book considering how truly evil he was in the previous books yet in the series the (to me) foreshadowing in "The Penultimate Peril" when Count Olaf talks of his perception of honesty and desire helped make it more plausible here.
It was a wise move leaving it as one episode, "The Penultimate Peril" actually felt more of a last book and episode due to doing better at tying things up. Wheras "The End" is more of a coda to show what became of the Baudelaires and has a slighter narrative than the previous books. There is much more of a sense of hope, after seeing glimmers of it in "The Penultimate Peril" not seen very much at all in the previous episodes (what was there being very short-lived). We also see the Baudelaires' maturity as characters and the moral dilemmas are thought-provoking and affecting.
Personally thought "The End" looked great, the lighter look being a refreshing contrast to the near-constant doom and gloom seen before. There was more atmosphere before, but the lighter look emphasised the hopeful aspect of the story. Ishmael is suitably enigmatic and Peter MacNicol and Neil Patrick Harris give particularly great performances, Patrick Warburton shining too.
Like the book, except not quite as badly, "The End" ends on too much of an abrupt note and what is there to try and solve that problem feels tacked on.
Other than that, this was truly impressive. 9/10
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- TheLittleSongbird
- Dec 22, 2020
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- Runtime52 minutes
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