And then all the gags and the clever self-references begin to get just a tiny bit annoying. Without genuine evil or danger for the Baudelaire children – Violet, Klaus and Sunny – to overcome, I found it harder to feel their pain or care about their fate. Yes, Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris), I am talking to you: more pantomime villain – you don’t scare me. But – and this might have something to do with me not exactly being the target audience age – I never quite got lost in its world. I enjoyed the big budget sets, the colours, the flying lizards and ironic serpents, Lake Lachrymose, inventive Violet’s amazing inventions, baby Sunny’s human lathe dental skills, and the appearance of Don Johnson (Don Johnson!) from my own childhood, owner of the Miserable Mill here. Then I binged on all eight episodes in Netflix, and, well, quite loved it. I hadn’t read the books (though plenty of adults do, and many references – from James Brown to Herman Melville – might sail over a child’s head) until I sped through the first, The Bad Beginning, on a loyalty check. If you love the novels, you’ll almost certainly love this. First look at Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events for Netflix – video Guardian
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