The third and final season of “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” is set to hit Netflix in the coming weeks, and in honor of its impending release, we finally have a full look at the upcoming season that is going to wrap up all the loose ends and lead to the unfortunate conclusion.

The trailer serves as not only a sneak peek at the final season of the popular series, but also as a bit of a minor recap of the first two editions.

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Back in 2004, Paramount attempted to start a new children’s film franchise with “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.” The film, which starred Jim Carrey as the evil Count Olaf, had a massive budget and failed to score big at the worldwide box office. Thus, the franchise was dead. Then back in 2017, Netflix revived the franchise for a brand-new series on its streaming service, and apparently, it’s been thriving.

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If there isn’t already, there ought to be an improbably long German compound word to describe the slightly panicky, drowning feeling of overwhelmed anticipation that is one’s natural state when contemplating just how much good TV there is out there — and that’s even before additional shows like this week’s “GLOW” and “The Mist” have been piled onto the queue. Add in an appreciation of just how few hours there are in a day, and just how much “other stuff” one is supposed to be doing with one’s life, and the prospect of even making a dent in the mountain of unwatched Golden Age TV can actually trigger a full-blown panic attack.

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Barry Sonnenfeld’s has proved to have a unique directorial eye with such pop culture touchstones as “The Addams Family,” “Men in Black” and “Get Shorty.” However, he’s spent the past year or so, working for Netflix as the show runner and executive producer of the streaming service’s “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” reboot.

During our conversation on this brand new episode of the 4 Quadrant podcast, Sonnenfeld bluntly explains why he was fired from the original movie (there was no love lost between himself and a producer at DreamWorks), how to handle the incredibly talented, but infamously difficult super producer Scott Rudin (it involves pillows) and goes into major detail on the casting and production of ‘Unfortunate Events.’

Many movie fans have also forgotten that Sonnefeld was a master cinematographer and was the Director of Photography on modern classics such as “Misery,” “Miller’s Crossing,” “Raising Arizona,” “Throw Momma From The Train” and “When Harry Met Sally.” The 64-year-old explains why as much as he loved that aspect of filmmaking why he’ll never go back.

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In light of Netflix planning to double the number of its original shows next year, with 31 presently on the slate, the binge-watching phenomenon is in no danger of expiring. And now I have an extra reason to finish up “The Crown,” because “Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events” arrives next month, and it looks pretty damn good.

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Based on Daniel Handler‘s darkly humorous series of books, the story follows the helpless yet whip smart Baudelaire orphans who are taken in by their evil Count Olaf, who desires their inheritance.

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‘Tis the season for family get togethers, but we’re sure no one’s relatives will be as odious as Count Olaf. He’s the guardian of the ill-fated and orphaned Baudelaire children in the darkly funny and deliciously devilish “A Series Of Unfortunate Events” book series. The books by Daniel Handler have been adapted before, in the not particularly well received Jim Carrey vehicle in 2004. But now, a dozen years later, Neil Patrick Harris takes on the part played by Carrey, and the actor is excited about the opportunities the role affords for switching gears, as Count Olaf dons disguises to try and swindle the kids out of their inheritance.

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Twelve years ago, Hollywood first tried to adapt Lemony Snicket’s (aka Daniel Handler‘s) “A Series Of Unfortunate Events,” his delightfully dark tales about the Baudelaire children, into a movie starring Jim Carrey. It didn’t turn out so well, but now Netflix is going to give it another shot in a TV series format that at least from the first look and teaser, seems to be more in line with the spirit of the books.

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