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Entertainment Weekly released a bunch of photos from season 2, with a short description of each photo.

There’s no reprieve from misfortune and sorrow for the Baudelaire orphans when this adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events returns for season 2.

Covering books 5 (The Austere Academy) through 9 (The Carnivorous Carnival) of Lemony Snicket's beloved series, this season aims to be more ambitious and complex than the first.

"Tonally, we have more action, and things are little darker and sadder," executive producer Barry Sonnenfeld tells EW.

"Now that we're in season 2 -- and I think the same is true with the books -- now the Baudelaires can start to take some control and try and take more action," says Neil Patrick Harris, who returns as Count Olaf, the villainous man who is after the Baudelaires' fortune. "I think season 2 ends up being a little bigger in its scope and scale, but also allows for a little bit of a more fevered heartbeat from our protagonists."

Picking up immediately where season 1 left off, the second season premiere finds Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes), and Sunny (Presley Smith) at the miserable Prufrock Preparatory School, which is where Mr. Poe deposits them until a suitable guardian can be found. There, they meet their unbearable new classmate Carmelita Spats (Kitana Turnbull), whom you can see in this image.

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After their brief stay at that miserable boarding school, the Baudelaires are shuffled off to a fancy art deco penthouse to live with the obsessively trendy Esmé Squalor (Lucy Punch), the city's sixth most important financial advisor. And, as always, Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) isn't too far behind. When he does catch up to his prey, he'll be in disguise as ambiguously European auctioneer Günther.

"It was wild," says Harris of playing the Karl Lagerfeld-inspired persona. "It’s an Eastern European accent that intentionally switches from mostly German to sometimes French to a bit of British, and some Irish pops in a bit in there."

In this image, Günther and Esmé attend the IN-est most auction at Veblen Hall.

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Here, Günther and Esmé dine at the IN-estmost Café Salmonella.

The audience can expect Esmé to have a huge personality that rivals Olaf's. "Lucy Punch is kind of a genius," says Harris of his scene partner in this image. "I can't wait for everyone to see her take on her character. She's almost a livewire of electricity that is just unhinged and everywhere, yet fully guarded and in control, but not. It's a great performance."

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Episodes 7 and 8 will tackle the book The Hostile Hospital, which sees the Baudelaire kids take refuge at the Heimlic Hospital. Unsurprisingly, this hospital is a pretty dangerous place for them. "We go into a very darkened hospital with similar-looking hallways and the Baudelaires trying to avoid being dismembered by each other," teases Harris. "[It's] almost like The Shining -- twisted hospital nightmares."

As you can see here, Count Olaf and his new partner-in-crime Esmé eventually find the Baudelaires and infiltrate the hospital in disguise as medical staff. Even though Olaf is barely in disguise here, Sonnenfeld says Harris still developed a unique voice for his character's latest persona.

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Over the course of the season, Olaf's villainy will start to take a toll on his mind. "Olaf is becoming more and more overtly unhinged, and the road that he is on is veering in all sorts of maddening directions," says Harris.

A Series of Unfortunate Events returns in 2018.

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We got a lot of photos from the Season 3 table read. According to the filming schedule, they will wrap up Season 2 this week and they will be filming The Slippery Slope episodes until December 8th. Maybe we will get a teaser by December.

[Via malinaweissman on Instagram]

A dreadful dinner with dreadful people to soon begin another dreadful season... #ASOUE

I had so much fun with all of you tonight! The ASOUE cast and crew are all truly amazing, I can’t wait for what next year has in store for us.

[Via dylan.kingwell on Instagram]

Passing notes, copious doodles and flip book creating - I mean FOCUSING AND BEING TOTALLY SERIOUS AND PROFESSIONAL OBVIOUSLY HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST I WOULDN'T BE YOU UNCEREMONIOUS PILLOCK!!! #tableread #aseriesofunfortunateevents

I adore my crazy, unfortunate family. Every day spent with them is a day well spent. Such supportive and generous people.

[Via louis.hynes on Instagram]

Love working with this guy👍🏻 @paddywarbucks #Asoue 👁💜

Esme and Carmelita? #LucyPunch #Asoue

Always in good company. ❤️these people, ❤️this show @paddywarbucks @nph and rose #netflix #asoue #family #actors #producer #amazing #show #people

How fun was that amazing cast dinner! The entertainment for the night was priceless! I can't say it enough, love these people💞#Asoue #family #actorlife #actors #producer #netflix #amazing #cast #netflixasoue

Table read went amazingly always entertaining with this awesome group #actors #actress #actorslife #netflix #asoue

[Via kitanaturnbull on Instagram]

Usman Ally and Matty Cardarople have finished filming their scenes!

Last week it was @sararue , now @saracanning ... we have the best Saras. #asoue #seasontwo #season3 #lookaway #ASOUE3 #ASOUE2

Ciao Vancouver. That's a wrap

These Henchpeople are out of here! For now. Ciao #asoue See ya Vancouver.

We have a new behind-the-scenes photo of The Carnivorous Carnival episodes (or maybe The Hostile Hospital). What do you think?

In a recent interview with Boston Globe, Daniel Handler talked about his involvement in the following seasons of A Series of Unfortunate Events:

Q. How have you enjoyed working on the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” TV series? Are you satisfied with how the show is going so far?

A. I’m always more interested in seeing what other people think. Right now, I’m kind of impatient because they’re finishing filming season two and they’re beginning to film season three, and I’m very eager to see some further edited drafts of the episodes, and I’m really curious to see what people think of them.

Q. How do you think the new seasons will be different from the first season?

A. It’s really hard to tell. I was very involved toward the end of the first season and the beginning of the second season and then less so now. That’s another thing: I was closer to the process as we were finishing the first season then I am now, and I’m curious to see how that goes.

Q. Why are you less involved with the show now?

A. I’m less involved because they asked me to be less involved (laughs).

Q. Was that amicable?

A. It wasn’t my idea (laughs). It’s amicable in that I don’t think anyone stayed up all night crying about it or sharpened their dagger and swore revenge. I was on a plane flying home from Vancouver, where I did a read-through of the scripts and kind of all the stuff we do early on in the season, and when I landed there was an e-mail saying, “We’d rather not have you involved at this point.” So that was surprising.

Q. Why do you think “A Series of Unfortunate Events” remains so popular after all these years?

A. Oh gosh, I don’t know. I never thought anything I’d do would be popular. For years, people would say, “Why do you think these books have done well” and I would say, “I don’t know,” and finally someone said, “You have to stop saying you don’t know,” so I made up this answer that I would just say all the time. Then I heard an interview with a Fox News personality, and they explained their popularity basically with the same excuse, and I thought, “well, obviously that person’s speaking nonsense, so I can’t speak that nonsense anymore.” So I’m back to the honest answer, which is I have no idea.

Elite Daily made an interview with Neil Patrick Harris. Little information of season 2 is revealed but it is a very interesting interview. He talks about the Baudelaire orphans:

I’m very excited by this season. It’s still based as firmly as Season 1 was on the books before them and that’s our source material. I’m a big fan of it, I think these middle books allow the Baudelaire kids to take action in a way they weren’t able to in the first few. They were kind of static and a bit shell-shocked by the loss of their parents and their constant uprooting and meeting new people who continue to let them down. But now that they figured that structure out, these kids can take some more action and we’re getting to have some more fun. I’m playing redonkulous characters with crazy voices, very schizophrenic.

-NPH [Property of Elite Daily]

His new disguises:

There’s a turbaned gym teacher named Coach Genghis. That’s also a motivational speaker. There is an Eastern European auctioneer and a fashionista named Gunther, who’s very Lagerfeld-ian. There’s a dapper, scatting detective named Zach Dupoux (Dupin?), who has a gold tooth and a tooth pick and rhymes a lot. And then, I play a murderous surgeon right out of a 1960s horror movie. And now, I'm Count Olaf because apparently he’s been murdered so he can behave like himself since everyone thinks he’s dead.

-NPH [Property of Elite Daily]

And he promises there will be surprises:

I like that we’re honoring the book but also giving fans of the books something that they haven’t seen before. And I like that for those who hadn’t read the books, they thought it was going to be a nice happy ending [at the end of Season 1] and it’s a series unfortunate events even for them watching at home. We have some supporting characters that aren’t really in the books that we’ve elaborated upon, so that those that are diehard fans still have another level to observe and it helps depend the storytelling in ways. There are musical numbers as well.

-NPH [Property of Elite Daily] 

In a recent interview from Broadway Buzz, actor Kevin Cahoon confirmed his participation on the second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events with a recurring role. His role has not been revealed yet. But some fans speculate he might be playing Kevin from The Carnivorous Carnival.

Kevin Cahoon to Take on Role in A Series of Unfortunate Events Broadway vet Kevin Cahoon (The Wedding Singer), who was recently seen as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Ken Ludwig's new take on Robin Hood at The Old Globe Theatre, has landed a recurring role on the Netflix hit A Series of Unfortunate Events. No word yet on the role Cahoon will play, but we have no doubt he'll bring the same level of theatricality to the show as its star, Tony winner Neil Patrick Harris.