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.
Now I've always been of the persuasion that hospitals are terrifying places. This is probably why so many horror movies take place in them. Aware of this fact, the show does a great job of playing with this troupe. There are many references to famous horror films in this story and they are done wonderfully.
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.
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