Series of Unfortunate Events (Hostile Hospital)

After a brief break to avert my eyes from the tragedy of the Baudelaire orphans, I returned to watching the Netflix adaptation for the eighth book in the series. This is perhaps the bleakest setting in the series, a grimy hospital of horrors. After escaping the V.F.D. village in the fire truck, the orphans end up at Heimlich hospital in the middle of the Hinterlands.

The orphans find themselves trapped in the hospital once again with the Count and his band of evil actors. Their one hope is that the hospital's Library will hold the answers to secrets that seem to surround them...and it does. Only, as is always their luck, they are never able to discover the whole truth, but do gain yet more pieces in the mystery that has become their lives.
The dramatic concluding scene in the Operating Theater of this episode is probably the best scene of the show to date. It is truly a horrible and hostile predicament that the Baudelaire siblings find themselves in, seemingly with no way out. Yet their resourcefulness shines through once again, helping them long enough to continue on to the next terrible series of unfortunate events.
Published on January 28, 2019 16:01
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