![]() ![]() The Baudelaires possess complementary talents. His self-importance pierced with melancholy, he’s a villain with the heart and habits of an annoyed and impatient teenager, a know-it-all short on information: “All of the artistic and financial aspects of my career are finally coming together like two pieces of a bread in the middle of a sandwich.”Īs in most stories for young people, children must ultimately fend for themselves. Slipping in and out of various disguises, Harris’ Count Olaf is at once more grotesque and more banal than Carrey’s. (In order, the action centers on Count Olaf’s house and theater a herpetologist’s laboratory a lakeside village and a sawmill.) Long-arc mythology I am fairly sure was not on Handler’s mind when he first put pen to paper has been retrofitted into his new adaptation. With the first four books getting two hour-long episodes apiece, there is plenty of room for banter, action and off-the-point humor, and yet it feels more dynamic than the film, for all the film’s compression. ![]()
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