A Series of Unfortunate Events

So you probably know by now that watch a movie every week for my Netflix and quill class. So this week I watched A Series of Unfortunate Events and it was very intriguing and kind of sad. After their parents die in a terrible fire, the orphans Violet, Klaus and Sunny are sent to their removed distant relative Count Olaf to live where they are treated like servants till he can collect their money.

This show is not something that I would normally watch but today in class we analyzed the first 4 minutes of it and it grabbed my interest. The movie is narrated by Lemony Snicket who really caught my attention in the first few minutes because he stated “If you are interested in stories with happy endings, then you’d be better off somewhere else.” And “You might dream that justice and peace win the day, but that’s not how this story goes.” These two automatically started stirring questions in my head and all kinds of curiosity. This show uses this aspect to its advantage over and over again leaving you with a new question every time and making you want to watch even more. This also leaves you with a big cliffhanger at the end of the first show where it shows the parents alive but in handcuffs, making you wonder even more.

The other aspect of this show that grabs your attention is how everyone besides their new neighbor across the street Justice Strauss whom is genuinely kind to them wants the orphans for their own personal gain. Everyone is very insensitive to th kids and seems like they couldn’t care less that the kid’s parents died. To Mr. Poe and his wife want to help the children so that they can get publicity and be seen as “good” people when in reality they are not very friendly towards them. And the even bigger, badder wolf is Count Olaf; he wants them entirely for the inheritance. He takes them into his very rough sketchy looking mansion and makes them his little servants. Through the first episode it shows them cooking and cleaning and doing everything he wants them to while he abuses them mentally and physically. With the children being portrayed as sweet and innocent it really makes the watcher sympathize for the children.

Another aspect that I have to tell you about is how adorable it s that they made the baby more personable by letting the older sister translate for the baby, this gives her a lot more personality and just makes you fall in love with her and her cute little smile. Therefore you get even more attached to the kids and hate him even more when he is hateful towards her.This show is a great show and I recommend watching it, it really pulls you in then you just want to watch more.

Response:  This show really sounds great, it’s not really something I would normally like since I really like happy endings and definitely Rom- Coms. With everything you explained maybe I’ll have to watch it and see if I get hooked too. I can tell that it’s at least decent by how focused you were on it when I walked by. If I like it then we can watch it together!