11 Reasons Why Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is Perfect

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7. The Locations

Part of the charm of A Series of Unfortunate Events is all the locations that the Baudelaire children go to. First they leave their wonderful mansion to go to Count Olaf’s rundown home. From there, they go to the far away house of their Uncle Monty. Then it’s to the island where Aunt Josephine’s house teeters on the edge of a seaside cliff. And then finally, they run away into the woods to find the mill.

The children go to amazing places (well they’re not amazing once they get there but you get my point). They’re quirky and strange and it just makes the circumstances the children find themselves in fit. If they were to go to normal homes or even just go to a simple mill, it wouldn’t really fit.

They find themselves with the strangest characters and going through things that no one has ever had to do before. So the locations and where they end up are so extremely important. And it helps that the show does a great job creating those weird houses. Especially Uncle Monty’s reptile room.

To be honest, part of why the movie failed was that they didn’t understand how the locations influenced the whole story. The television show did it perfectly.