![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. The following unfortunately contains huge spoilers for Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. A Series of Unfortunate Events 1 The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator) 3.99 491,147 ratings20,599 reviews Dear Reader, I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. ![]() Here are eight ways the Snicket story of the Baudelaires zips along better in the new show. And because Daniel Hander (Lemony Snicket IRL) wrote most of these teleplays, none of theses improvements feel intrusive or pandering one bit. While the the books are wonderful pieces of work - and it could sound blasphemous to say this - there are some notable improvements from a plot perspective which the Netflix show has implemented in adapting these books. But the adaptation of the Lemony Snicket books, A Series of Unfortunate Events, into a Netflix series feels more like a flightless animal spontaneously getting wings: an unexpectedly weird and wild event which adds various elements to the books that are both delightful to look at and functional for storytelling mechanics. Other times, an adaptation is natural compromise between text source material and filmed media, like the rational inclusion of more women in the Lord of the Rings movies. The events recounted in this five-book box set (which includes The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, and The Carnivorous Carnival) are sure to depress you. Sometimes an “adaptation” ends up meaning “forced change,” like the infamous studio-mandated voice-over in Blade Runner. Adaptation in narrative art is a funny process. ![]()
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