LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS - Netflix 0

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Color me intrigued!

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Wait until we see Count Olaf.

 

 

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About time for a series! I loved reading those books back in the day,what a great writing style he has! I will most definitely watch!

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First Look At Neil Patrick Harris In A Series Of Unfortunate Events Teaser

 

 

This January, Netflix looks to unveil one of their most anticipated series since they began producing original programming. A Series Of Unfortunate Events, based on the Lemony Snicket novels, is set to be one of the first acclaimed series from the streaming service that can appeal to a wider audience. Most of their shows tackle a harder rating, but Unfortunate Events will be appropriate for almost all ages.

 

This week, Netflix released the first footage of the series in the form of a teaser trailer. At the very end of the minute-long video, just before the titles appear, we get our first look at Count Olaf.

 

Count Olaf is the main character of the series, and acts as the main protagonist to the orphans he adopts. The man is strange, and only a strange actor could pull off the role.

 

All episode of the series will air simultaneously on Friday, January 13, only on Netflix.

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Looks great! Catherine O Hara, and Joan Cusack are my favorite actresses. Very cool to see them in the same show!

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I enjoyed the first go around with Jim Carey.

 

I really need to read the books now that I finished the new Magnus Chase and the Asgardians I am looking for something else to read.

 

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You know it is going to be a great Christmas flight when you are Neil Patrick Harris, and you realize Bill Murray is sitting behind you.

 

 

 

Even actors can be fans.

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Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' on Netflix is a weird, wonderful masterpiece

 

 

Tonally, "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is a weird, wonderful masterpiece -- a self-consciously droll gothic dramedy that might be what would happen if Wes Anderson and Tim Burton decided to make a television series about children together. The series is based on the massively popular children's books of the same name, written by Lemony Snicket, the pen name of author Daniel Handler (who is also an executive producer on the series). The story follows the three Baudelaire children, precocious orphans who stand to inherit a fortune when the eldest, Violet (Malina Weissman), turns 18. But it's four long years until then, and in the meantime, the three are persecuted innocents, dogged by the wicked Count Olaf (Harris) who tries to imprison them, kill the baby Sunny (Presley Smith), marry Violet, and sabotages every effort the children make to connect to other adults.

 

It's dark. The most difficult element of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is also the essence of its charm -- its straightforward, unadorned recounting of the terrible things children are vulnerable to, precisely because they are young, innocent, and supposed to mind their elders. The Baudelaire children spend the entire series trying to get adults to take their well-founded fears seriously, as they are knocked about, tricked, stolen from, and sent to live in squalor. But even the best-intentioned adults around them are frail creatures, too -- blinded by ambition, neuroses, or simple selfishness. Ultimately, the Baudelaires learn that they can only truly rely on themselves, and though that is a hard lesson for a children's book, it's a familiar one as well.

 

What's best of all about "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is how every element of it -- from the performances and set pieces to the detailed production design and steady pacing -- come together to form a complete, considered vision. As the show well knows, it's a super weird vision -- which is why it encourages you, with a nod and a wink, to look away at all costs. But if you can stand to watch, "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is a bewitching modern fairy tale, with all the hexes and perils that pretty genre implies.

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