Curtain was defeated, it turns out he’s back with a brand new scam for world domination. The Society refuses to sit still while Milligan and Rhonda sort out what happened and find the trail of clues Mr. Benedict set up a reunion and scavenger hunt for the children to enjoy but he and Number Two are abducted during their trip abroad. Season 2 picks up with the Society a year after the Whisperer is disabled. Constance Contraire (Marta Kessler) ends up disabling the Whisperer by sheer force on the strength of her resistance to lies. Sticky Washington (Seth Carr) is a memorization master. Kate Weatherall (Emmy De Olivera) has tools in a bucket for every possible physical roadblock.

Reynie Muldoon (Mystic Inscho) is an ace riddle and puzzle solver and also serves as the de facto leader. The kids call themselves The Mysterious Benedict Society, hence the title. Curtain’s cover for operating the Whisperer is disguising itself as a gifted and talented school which requires assembling a group of orphan children who are also smart and able to see through the fake “Emergency” Curtain created for domination. Number Two (Kristen Schaal), Rhonda Kazembe (MaameYaa Biafo), and Milligan (Ryan Hurst) are his faithful assistants and friends.

Benedict uses his scientific skills and relies on a team of specialists in the areas he lacks to help disable the Whisperer. How many series can claim one actor plays the hero and the villain/antagonist at the same time?!?Ĭurtain’s web of government control and lies cannot be defeated solely by violence. Tony Hale’s brilliant double act is in fact the most compelling reason for new viewers to start watching The Mysterious Benedict Society.

This explains the lack of things like cell phones and the internet but the existence of television. The world of Benedict and Curtain is an alternate reality version of our world where things went off the rails in the 1950s and ‘60s. Curtain’s (also Tony Hale) nefarious scheme to control the world via a massive mind control machine called The Whisperer. Season 1 follows Nicholas Benedict (Tony Hale) as he fights his twin brother L.D. The novel series was a middle-grade bestseller long before either Benedict became famous in the US for playing Sherlock Holmes or the Sorcerer Supreme Wong. Why is The Mysterious Benedict Society a series that neither Benedict Cumberbatch nor Benedict Wong is involved in? Trenton Lee Stewart wrote the first book with the same name in 2007, then proceeded to write three more novels plus a prequel.

The mysterious benedict