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- 2017
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 2017
- TV-PG
- Netflix
Summary Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes), and Sunny Baudelaire seek to solve the mystery of the death of their parents and foil Count Olaf's (Neil Patrick Harris) schemes to take their inheritance in this Netflix adaptation of the books by Lemony Snicket.
- 2017
- TV-PG
- Netflix
- 2017
- TV-PG
- Netflix
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017)
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 13, 2017
8.0
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Summary Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes), and Sunny Baudelaire seek to solve the mystery of the death of their parents and foil Count Olaf's (Neil Patrick Harris) schemes to take their inheritance in this Netflix adaptation of the books by Lemony Snicket.
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
81
93% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
7% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
81
93% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
7% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Could Netflix do justice to the books? The answer: “Yes, and then some” — an American idiom which here means, “Binge it; here’s something which goes above and beyond mere ‘goodness’ — and reaches into the realm of knockout profundity for kids and adults alike.”
Its heart and mind are persistently in the right place, and its entertainment value remains high.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 410 User Ratings
8.0
83% Positive
342 Ratings
342 Ratings
9% Mixed
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
7% Negative
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 410 User Ratings
8.0
83% Positive
342 Ratings
342 Ratings
9% Mixed
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
7% Negative
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
It's a great adaptation of the book series, the actors who plays the Baudelaires, they act like who knows what is the character. And, Neil Patrick Harris does a perfect Count Olaf, he is a great actor, and i clap my hands for everybody who did the series.
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Season 1 Review: This is not just whistling Dixie. Although basically comic, and not without moments of beauty and relief, the series is a dream in which you escape one trap only to fall into another, elude your pursuer only to find him somehow before you, and where hope springs eternal only so it can be eternally snatched away. But you should watch it, anyway, and take your time.
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By breaking the books into digestible chunks, it goes down smoothly and, yes, makes you want more.
The result is a show that’s likely to appeal to both adults and children with its layers of mystery, a weird sense of humor, and hyper-self-awareness--as long as viewers can accept the misery that lies ahead.
The former Doogie Howser knows how to expertly milk a laugh from a mugging glower, a sarcasm-tinged line reading, or an extended bit of physical comedy (there's some especially funny work with O'Hara in this regard). And none of that counteracts the slight twinges of pathos he allows to break through the cartoonish veneer whenever the series tantalizingly references Olaf and the Baudelaires's backstory.
It’s easy to forget that A Series Of Unfortunate Events is family entertainment. It treats mature themes like grief, loss, and disappointment with sardonic honesty, but that’s a world-weariness beyond the show’s reading level.
Book readers will undoubtedly find things to love in the twisting Gothic sets (thank you, Netflix’s generous budget!), its clear affection for the source material, and the generous runtime a movie adaptation could never allow. From the outside looking in, though, unraveling Lemony Snicket’s many strange-for-the-sake-of-it twists and scattershot storytelling feels like more trouble than it’s worth.
This show starts out really good with its unique production design and only improves from there ending with one of the greatest television endings of all time.
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Season 1 Review: This is not just whistling Dixie. Although basically comic, and not without moments of beauty and relief, the series is a dream in which you escape one trap only to fall into another, elude your pursuer only to find him somehow before you, and where hope springs eternal only so it can be eternally snatched away. But you should watch it, anyway, and take your time
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Production Company:
- The Sonnenfeld Company
- What is the Question?
- Paramount Television
- Netflix
Initial Release Date: Jan 13, 2017
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 14 Nominations
The CAFTCAD awards
• 5 Wins & 6 Nominations
Leo Awards
• 4 Wins & 6 Nominations
