BY NICHOLAS ALLISON
Look away dear readers,
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■ th is story you are
about to hear is, in
F its relationship w ith
happiness, most volatile.
A word which here means liable to change
rapidly and unpredictably, especially for
the worse.
- For any who loves the books (who could
ever love the tragedy found in them ?)
the series is a wonderful adaption that
captures the horrible tale in a faithful
way froth the original. It adapts to the
small screen in a most theatrical way, but
it does have its own take on it all and it
introduces a number of new characters
to keep fans guessing.
For th o se u n fam iliar, “ A Series o f
U n fo rtu n ate E v en ts” was o rigin ally
written as a series of 13 novels by Lemony
Sn icket, the nom de plum e o f D aniel
Handler, Strangely enough, father than
serving as just the identity of the author,
Lemony appears as the narrator o f the
books themselves and is employed as a
character of his own. It adapts wonderfully
to the Netflix series in which he is played
by Patrick Warburton.
Each book is split into' two episodes.
Season one covers the first four books and
each episode averages about 40 minutes
long, making each book feel like a movie,
and the time between episodes feel like
an old fashioned interlude.
The show centers around the tragic
lives of the Baudelaire children, Violet,
Klaus and baby Sunny, played by Malina
W eissm an , Louis H ynes and Presley
S m ith , resp ectively. Their hom e is
consumed in a fire, killing their parents
and leaving them as homeless orphans.
They shortly find their ways into.hands
of the unskilled actor and most diabolical
Count O laf, played by skilled actor Neil
Patrick Harris. O f all the characters, it
is ^Harris that drives the show. He is at
his cheésieSt here, playing a bad actor in
every sense of the word and clearly loving
his role. He carries that black comedy that
defines the book series.
O la f works the Baudelaire children
to the bone, enjoying them being his
servants and convincing everyone around
them that h e’ s not evil, nor after the
fortune their parents left behind. Over
the course of the first two episodes, the
Baudelaire children learn his goals and
manage to stop him . Getting sent o ff to
live with other relatives when his evil is
revealed, he sees this as a little more than
a setback and takes every opportunity he
can to try and „steal their fortune.
W hether you love the books or have
never heard o f th e m , “ A Series o f
U n fo rtu n ate E v e n ts” w ill keep you
entertained for hours, and season two
is already confirm ed for January 2018,
so there is no need to fear getting too
attached, nothing bad will happen to the
series.
Netflix
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