![]() They are smart, quirky, precocious, inventive and quote James Brown and Albert Einstein, although the series is set in some nebulous time that echoes mid-20th century. We meet the children going to the beach on a gray day, perfect for them because no one goes. “In this story, there is not only no happy ending but no happy beginning - and few happy things in the middle,” ominously intones Lemony, played with a perfect understated drollery by Patrick Warburton. Handler has published his 13 novels under the pen name Lemony Snicket, who is the narrator of the books but also a character in the series about the Baudelaire children: 14-year-old Violet (Malina Weissman), her younger brother Klaus (Louis Hynes), and baby Sunny (Presley Smith), who possesses razor-sharp teeth. The hourlong show can be both light and unexpectedly dark. The eight-part series, based on the popular children’s books by Daniel Handler, is delightfully weird or weirdly delightful, depending. The theme song for Netflix’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” available Friday, warns the audience to “Look away!” ![]()
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