How Dark is Netflixs A Series of Unfortunate Events Show Lemony Snicket. While director Brad Silberling. Author Daniel Handler. According to Neil Patrick Harris, whos playing the villainous Count Olaf, the show gets shockingly dark. Below, learn more about the Netflixs A Series of Unfortunate Events show. Season one of the Barry Sonnenfeld produced series is eight episodes long. Netflix is planning three seasons two episodes will typically cover one of the 1. The story follows Violet Malina Weissman, Klaus Louis Hynes, and Sunny Baudelaire after their parents perish in a tragic and mysterious house fire, leaving the children in the custody of Count Olaf. In The Night of the Hunter inspired tale, Olaf and his theater troupe stop at nothing to steal the Baudelaire fortune. A Series of Unfortunate Events is clearly a little darker than the average young adult series. Harris told Collider the show will remain faithful to the tone of the novels I think its super faithful to the books. I think at times its shockingly dark. From what I gathered, Netflix was concerned that adults werent going to be able to value it because it was skewing towards a younger demographic. And I think now that its done, they want to make sure the kids still value it and its not gone too Stranger Things. I really wanted Olaf to be bad. To be a bad person. Count Olaf is a real diabolical monster on the page, and thats exactly how Harris wanted to play the character I tried to just focus as much as I could on being as literary possible and try to honor how Olaf was described by Lemony. So, a lot of piercing darkness and sort of delusional dementia. He thinks hes so handsome and he thinks hes incredibly charming and gifted as an actor, and yet hes not. So I didnt want to be overly charming, I wanted to be just awful. Distinctly mean. And then let the levity of the situation inform the takeaway for the viewer. I didnt want to make him like myself. While Jim Carrey made for a very good Count Olaf in the 2. Silberlings picture, as good as it is, leaned a little too heavily on comedy. You could tell they were trying to make a dark story more accessible to a mass audience. With Netflixs new adaptation, lets hope its as shockingly dark as Harris says, because that sounds in tune with Handlers series. When a massive fire kills their parents, three children are delivered to the custody of cousin and stage actor Count Olaf, who is secretly plotting to steal their. Another series of unfortunate events are headed to Netflix. The streaming giant has renewed Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events for a second season. The Vile Village A Series of Unfortunate Events, No. Heres the official synopsis Based on the internationally best selling series of books by Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler and starring Emmy and Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events recounts the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans Violet, Klaus, and Sunny whose evil guardian Count Olaf will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance. The siblings must outsmart Olaf at every turn, foiling his many devious plans and disguises, in order to discover clues to their parents mysterious death. The eight episode series is a Netflix original production, executive produced by Emmy Award winner Barry Sonnenfeld and Daniel Handler, and also stars Patrick Warburton Lemony Snicket, Joan Cusack Justice Strauss, Malina Weissman Violet Baudelaire and Louis Hynes Klaus Baudelaire. Watch The Purge: Anarchy Online Forbes on this page. A Series of Unfortunate Events debuts on Netflix on January 1. Cool Posts From Around the Web. Start your 2. 01. Series Of Unfortunate Events for a change. Club. Heres whats up in the world of TV for Friday, January 1. Saturday, January 1. Still Waters Online Putlocker there. All times are Eastern. Top picks. Lemony Snickets A Series Of Unfortunate Events Netflix, 3 0. Friday Author Daniel Handler a. Lemony Snicket and producing partner Barry Sonnenfeld werent all too pleased with the 2. Jim Carrey led film version of Handlers series of not quite childrens books, so they signed a nigh unrecognizable Neil Patrick Harris as the villainous Count Olaf and are taking another whack at it. Clubs Esther Zuckerman Harris compares his version of the loathsome Olaf to one Wile E. 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