"The End"
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Adapted from: | The End | |
Main character(s): | Violet, Klaus, Sunny | |
Baudelaire guardian: | Ishmael | |
Main enemy: | Count Olaf | |
Olaf's disguise: | Kit Snicket (Count Olaf's disguise) | |
Main setting: | The Island | |
Library: | The Arboretum | |
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Director: | Bo Welch | |
Producer: | Neil Patrick Harris | |
Release details | ||
Story number: | 4 | |
Season/series: | Season 3 | |
Premiere network: | Netflix | |
Release date: | January 1, 2019 | |
Format: | 52 minutes | |
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"The End" is the twenty-fifth and final episode of Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events. It covered the entirety of The End and Chapter Fourteen.
Official synopsis
The final chapter takes the orphans to a deserted island: a place of lost lives, old stories and new beginnings. It all ends here.
Dedication
- For Beatrice –
- I cherished, you perished,
- the world's been nightmarished.
Plot
The story begins with the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, and Count Olaf trapped on a boat heading away from the Hotel Denouement and to the sea. The Baudelaires are forced to listen to Count Olaf brag about how he has triumphed, how successful he is, and how rich he will be with his hands almost on the Baudelaire Fortune.
After a storm, the Baudelaires are welcomed on an The Island by a girl named Friday Caliban, while Count Olaf is shunned. The island facilitator, Ishmael, introduces the Baudelaires to the islanders and their customs and cages Olaf.
Later, the Baudelaires realize Ishmael called them the Baudelaire "orphans" during dinner, when they never told him their parents died. They go to Olaf and ask him if he knows anything.
Chapter Fourteen
- For Beatrice –
- We are like boats passing in the night-
- Particularly you.
The series ends with a short epilogue called "Chapter Fourteen" in which, one year later, Kit's baby and the Baudelaires sail away from the island on the boat they arrived in. They realize it was originally called The Beatrice.
Unlike the book, this Chapter Fourteen shows the fates of Count Olaf's original troupe, Fernald and Fiona, the Quagmire triplets, the people on the island who sailed away, various other characters, and Beatrice II.
Cast
Starring
- Count Olaf - Neil Patrick Harris
- Lemony Snicket - Patrick Warburton
- Violet Baudelaire - Malina Weissman
- Klaus Baudelaire - Louis Hynes
- Sunny Baudelaire - Presley Smith
Guest starring
- Kit Snicket - Allison Williams
- Ishmael - Peter MacNicol
- Beatrice Baudelaire - Morena Baccarin
- Hook-Handed Man - Usman Ally
- Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender - Matty Cardarople
- Beatrice Baudelaire II - Angelina Capozzoli
Co-starring
- Trolleyman - Darcey Johnson
- Friday Caliban - Nakai Takawira
- Alonso - Simon Chin
- Colonist - Amanda Burke
- Another Colonist - Jason Burkart
- Miranda Caliban - Angela Moore
- Bertrand Baudelaire - Matthew James Dowden
- Isadora Quagmire - Avi Lake
- Fiona - Kassius Nelson
- Bald Man - John DeSantis
- White-Faced Woman #1 - Jacqueline Robbins
- White-Faced Woman #2 - Joyce Robbins
Uncredited
Crew
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References
- In a wide shot, it's seen that The Island is shaped like the tattoos on the volunteer's ankles, as is the city in which the Baudelaires lived.
Story notes
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Filming locations
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Production errors
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Deviations from the novel
- Lemony compares the despair of being on the run instead of finding a tack in the root beer float. This also happens much earlier.
- Violet and Klaus are still rowing when Count Olaf makes all his dubious claims instead of just drifting because they are exhausted. They are also using regular oars and not giant spatulas. Sunny tries to give Olaf some nuts to eat instead of mashing up some beans.
- The boat was called the Carmelita II, instead of just simply Carmelita. Olaf is writing the name of the boat on the nameplate instead of simply tearing off an old one.
- Most of the things that were said in the book before the storm struck was omitted.
- The landing on The Island:
- The Baudelaires' tattered clothes are not their concierge outfits because they changed in the previous episode.
- Klaus is about to touch Olaf to see if he is alive instead of Sunny asking if he kicked the bucket ("Kikbucit?") before he wakes up. He does not ask about his figurehead and actually sees the espresso machine. Friday arrives right after that, instead of them walking for a while before they see her. Olaf is not yet in posession of the harpoon gun.
- Olaf is allowed to follow them to the island instead of being left behind.
- Meeting Ishmael:
- A statue was not one of the things found in the book.
- Olaf threatens Ishmael with the harpoon gun (that he took from someone) immediately (in the book Olaf is not present at all), leading to him being locked up way earlier than usual (and gagged), as he trips over Sunny's foot trying to get away.
- In the books, Ishmael tells the other castaways on the island that his feet are injured, and keeps them covered in clay to promote this idea as it supposedly has healing powers, but he is lying so that he does not have to do much work on the island. In the TV series, he wears boots made of clay and walks around the islanders sometimes, although he apparently has his own sleigh, implying he has told them that he is partially disabled in this version.
- He tells the Baudelaires about Decision Day (which is tomorrow and not a few days off) instead of Friday.
- More on the Island:
- In addition to not having spices, the islanders do not have citrus fruit or even use fire. In the book, they used a fire for their evening meal.
- Mrs. Caliban mentions that she was on a cruise but nothing about how her husband disappeared/died. Friday is the one who says that her dad was devoured by a mantee.
- Violet, Klaus and Sunny actually spit out their drinks instead of choking them down.
- Ish actually mentions that Count Olaf will drown because of where they have put the cage.
- They don't question why Ish knows there is a storm coming.
- Ish only warns Violet about rocking the boat instead of all three of them because Klaus and Sunny did not suggest anything. The latter now believes he is trouble because of it, earlier than in the book, when they only realized it after he ate a horseradish apple.
- When visiting Olaf's cage (as they have not been abandoned yet like they are in the book), they bring him ceviche. Olaf says "Of course I'm going to die!" instead of "Of course I'm trying to trick you!"
- Instead of going to the arboretum by Finn and Erewhon's request of weapons, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny follow wet footprints that he left out of his boots and realize for themselves that he's sneaking off instead of Olaf telling them.
- The Incredibly Deadly Viper is not present in he arboretum at the time.
- The entry in the book is different:
- The "shadowy figure" from the passage is Olaf instead of Kit. He doesn't write an annotation to him.
- The Baudelaires have not been abandoned yet for rocking the boat, but the verse he writes about them in the show is something he said to them in the book. The annotation is written about them.
- It's page 252 instead of page 667.
- When Ishmael catches them, he reveals he was the principal of Prufrock Prep a long time ago. It's possible that in the book, he may have taught there instead. Ish is the one who started V.F.D. (at least in the show). The story he tells is not the same as the one in the book until it mentions the Baudelaire parents, who apparently left on their own instead of being driven out. He doesn't force the Baudelaires to come with him, either.
- Friday finds Kit instead of the Baudelaires. Olaf also claims that he found the Mycellium instead of them. Ish doesn't want to give the Baudelaires up.
- Since Ish doesn't sneak off to eat apples, he's poisioned with the other islanders. The arguement as breakfast doesn't happen.
- The contents of the sugar bowl are revealed: an immunizing hybrid of the Mycellium in sugar cubes.
- When they go back to find spices for their throats, the Viper spies on them through a tree. They don't realize that it's here and Klaus thinks he's hallucinating. Since the islanders already left, they don't have a stockpot to offer them.
- Olaf has to carry Kit across the water instead of across the sand. He recites half the verse that Kit does in the book and she finishes it. They both recite the one that Olaf says in the book. Kit doesn't die immediately after giving birth but the apple did not work for her.
- Chapter 14's differences:
- The book that Beatrice and Betrand left behind is called "An Incomplete History" instead of "A Series of Unfortunate Events".
- The line about leaving the island that Beatrice wrote spells out Betrand's name instead of simply calling him "B".
- Violet recalls meeting Lemony is the show, in the book they did not meet him.
- They actually celebrate baby Beatrice's birthday.
- Klaus asks, “If we leave, what will we find?” instead of Sunny. Violet says, “We can’t shelter her forever” instead of Klaus.
- There is no tape on the nameplate, it's easy to pull off. Beatrice does not say her name.
- In the books, the fates of Count Olaf's living associates, the Quagmire triplets, Fernald, Fiona and Captain Widdershins were left ambiguous, presumably died in the Hotel Denouement Fire or devoured by The Great Unkwown. Here, their fates are shown:
- The associates, minus Fernald, had become a famous theatre troupe.
- Quigley successfully reunited with Duncan and Isadora aboard the Self-Sustaining Hot Air Mobile Home.
- Fernald and Fiona managed to find their stepfather.
- The Viper's fate in the book was unknown too. Here, it's shown that it clearly swam out to the outrigger to give the islanders an apple.
- Lemony meets his niece.
Continuity
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Behind the scenes
- The episode incorporates elements from The Beatrice Letters, with Beatrice Snicket looking for her uncle Lemony in the present of the books.
Home video releases
DVD releases
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Blu-ray releases
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Gallery
Chapter Fourteen
External links
- Watch The End (episode) on Netflix
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