With just over a week to go until the premiere of Netflix’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events Season 2, the show has announced that Allison Williams has been added to the cast.
The news was revealed in this particularly adorable tweet posted to the show’s official Twitter account:
Three heads are better than one when facing the particularly perilous. Welcome #AllisonWilliams to S2! Or should we say good luck? pic.twitter.com/BQgNaE4dBi
— A Series of Unfortunate Events (@Unfortunate) March 20, 2018
Williams, who previously starred in Get Out and HBO’s Girls, is set to appear in a mystery role in Season 2 and is currently in Vancouver filming scenes for the show’s third and final season.
Here’s the synopsis for A Series Of Unfortunate Events Season 2:
Based on the internationally best selling series of books, season two of the Netflix original series plunges further into the epic world of this darkly comedic mystery. Starring Emmy and Tony Award-winner Neil Patrick Harris, A Series of Unfortunate Events recounts the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans – Violet, Klaus, and Sunny – and their extraordinary encounters with the devious Count Olaf who will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance. Foiling his many dastardly plans and disguises, the young siblings discover clues to their parents’ mysterious death, links to a covert organization, and begin to unlock long-held family secrets.
Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes, Presley Smith, Patrick Warburton and K. Todd Freeman (among others) return for season two. New additions to the cast include (but are not limited to) Lucy Punch, Nathan Fillion, Tony Hale, Robbie Amell, Sara Rue, Roger Bart and David Alan Grier. Featuring ten cinematic one-hour episodes, season two of A Series of Unfortunate Events launches globally Friday, March 30 on Netflix.
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