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

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8. Following the Books Perfectly

It’s hard to make a movie about three books at once. That was the mistake the film version of A Series of Unfortunate Events made. If they had just stuck to A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning in the movie, it would have probably been a lot better.

Instead, they tried to get three different books in and they criss-crossed storylines and it just didn’t work. The great thing about the television show is that each book gets two episodes. That means they get two hours each to explain the plot of the novels. So really, you could have feasibly made one book a movie but, you know, they just didn’t want to I suppose.

But the television show does and amazing job of sticking to the books. It gives us what we always wanted out of the story of the Baudelaire children. For many of us, we loved these books but forgot about them because there wasn’t really a good book to screen adaptation. But now that’s not true. The television series made all of us who read them as kids fall in love with the world Lemony Snicket created for us once again. And it is definitely a sad one.