Book fans will devour ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’

Having to spend a good amount of time indoors during bitter Vermont winters, new Netflix series are always of interest to us. Once Christmas is past and we’ve finished watching all the movies we receive for Awards Season, we usually dive right into a new show. We chose the first season of the new Netflix series “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events,” based on the book series of the same name that also had a film version in 2004 starring Jim Carrey.

The 2017 Netflix series stars Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your Mother,” “Dr. Horrible”) as the villainous Count Olaf, who dupes the incredibly gullible banker Mr. Poe (K. Todd Freeman, “The Dark Knight,” “Grosse Pointe Blank”) into giving him custody of the Baudelaire children after their home burns in a mysterious fire and their parents are killed.

Olaf is after their fortune, which he cannot touch until the eldest child Violet (Malina Weissman, “Supergirl,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”) comes of age. In the meantime, she and her brother Klaus and baby sister Sunny (Louis Hynes and Presley Smith), have no choice but to move in with Count Olaf and are subject to his nefarious whims.

The season consists of eight two-part episodes, which adapt the first four books of the series.

The Baudelaire children quickly learn of Olaf’s plot to steal their fortune the first chance he can and that he more than likely had something to do with their parents’ deaths.
 

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