# A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017)

> Three orphaned Baudelaire siblings are passed from guardian to guardian while fleeing the scheming Count Olaf, trying to uncover the secret behind their parents' death.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/57697

## Facts

- Seasons: 3
- Episodes: 25
- Episode runtime: 52 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: family, comedy, adventure, mystery
- Created by: Barry Sonnenfeld, Daniel Handler
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes, Presley Smith, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, K. Todd Freeman, Jacqueline Robbins, Joyce Robbins
- TMDB rating: 7.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4834206/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: gothic deadpan whimsy, wry, melancholic, comforting, suspenseful

## What critics say

Viewers broadly rate the series positively, enjoying its darkly comic gothic tone, inventive narration and fidelity to the source novels' spirit.

## Synopsis

A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017-2019) is a Netflix family adventure series created by Barry Sonnenfeld and Daniel Handler, adapted from Handler's novel sequence. Three orphaned siblings, Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes) and baby Sunny (Presley Smith), are shuttled between eccentric and dangerous guardians after a fire takes their parents, and their engine is simple and urgent: stay alive, avoid the grasp of the vain, ever-disguised Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris), and quietly chase the secret behind their family's death. Each episode is built from a new disguise, a new hideout and a new set of adults who fail to listen, with the siblings' inventiveness often their only defense. Patrick Warburton narrates as the mournful author Lemony Snicket, whose asides warn viewers away from the misery to come. The show runs across three seasons and twenty-five episodes, a continuing mystery told in episodic chapters. Its storybook world is deliberately out of time, mixing mid-century cars, gothic mansions and modern gadgetry. The mood is gothic deadpan whimsy: grim, darkly funny and sincere about childhood. Fans of Coraline, Pushing Daisies and the classic Oliver Twist will find resonance here.

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