Unfortunate Events is clearly a very good show with a number of positive qualities that I enjoy and after 3 episodes I went "ok cool, I think I get it". It seems like it's going to go on roughly along these lines and it's a meal that filled me very quickly.
yeah that's actually one of the criticisms I would level at the source material
it just kinda went on a bit too long and didn't do enough with all that space
Is unfortunate events very explicit with violence and what not, like don't let toddlers be around while this is on? I don't want to scare them, but I want to check it out. But if I have to watch it when they're asleep, i'll probably just skip it.
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KwoaruConfident SmirkFlawless Golden PecsRegistered Userregular
Unfortunate Events is clearly a very good show with a number of positive qualities that I enjoy and after 3 episodes I went "ok cool, I think I get it". It seems like it's going to go on roughly along these lines and it's a meal that filled me very quickly.
yeah that's actually one of the criticisms I would level at the source material
it just kinda went on a bit too long and didn't do enough with all that space
Yeah thats why I dropped it after a couple books, the formula showed no signs of changing
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
Is unfortunate events very explicit with violence and what not, like don't let toddlers be around while this is on? I don't want to scare them, but I want to check it out. But if I have to watch it when they're asleep, i'll probably just skip it.
I would say the Barry Sonnenfeld Adams Family movies are a decent metric. It's about on that level.
On the bright side maybe Steve Carell will make a Micheal Scott show that isnt terrible
I would really hope Carell isn't that desperate.
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ASOUE follows a pretty similar formula until book like...four? THEN, shit pops off and basically never stops after (mid-books spoiler)
the Baudelaires get framed for killing a dude, become fugitives and set themselves to solving the mystery their own damn selves.
After that, the structure has some pretty serious overhauls, like one book that's just a chase down a mountain, one where they're the ones in disguise, etc. So the gist of the show should be changing pretty dramatically if they get a season 2
ALSO: Have we talked about how Steven Merritt of the Magnetic Fields did a whole album for ASOUE, with one song for each book?? and the show somehow forgot to incorporate them......?????
I don't know why I saw the movie, but I did, and the only part I can remember is Jim Carrey doing a Newfie impression and hollering "STAY WHERE YOU'RE AT AND I'LL COME WHERE YOU'RE TO" and I thought that was fun
I want Patrick Warburton to narrate, like, everything
up to and including the events of my actual life
and yes, he should still be reminding everyone that whatever I'm doing at any given moment will not end well
I want Patrick Warburton to narrate, like, everything
up to and including the events of my actual life
and yes, he should still be reminding everyone that whatever I'm doing at any given moment will not end well
i mean that last bit was kind of a given
meanwhile i want my life narrated by a sixty year old former blue oyster cult roadie
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you should at the very least watch the first two episodes, that will tell you pretty much everything you need to know as far as determining whether it is something you'd be into
GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
He's a better show narrator than Ron Howard. Which is a heck of an accomplishment.
But I just fucking love the Our Town style of it of him just walking around the scene as it's happening telling you everything will be awful most of the time.
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I want my life narrated by @Rorshach Kringle after he's had 3 40s in 20 minutes.
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He's a better show narrator than Ron Howard. Which is a heck of an accomplishment.
But I just fucking love the Our Town style of it of him just walking around the scene as it's happening telling you everything will be awful most of the time.
Wait what? Warburton just walks through scenes as they happen, narrating stuff like some kind of invisible omnipresent god?
He's a better show narrator than Ron Howard. Which is a heck of an accomplishment.
But I just fucking love the Our Town style of it of him just walking around the scene as it's happening telling you everything will be awful most of the time.
Wait what? Warburton just walks through scenes as they happen, narrating stuff like some kind of invisible omnipresent god?
He's a better show narrator than Ron Howard. Which is a heck of an accomplishment.
But I just fucking love the Our Town style of it of him just walking around the scene as it's happening telling you everything will be awful most of the time.
Wait what? Warburton just walks through scenes as they happen, narrating stuff like some kind of invisible omnipresent god?
Please say yes.
Exactly this!
In super nice suits and sometimes Victorian bathing suits even.
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While the show definitely will have some setbacks/negatives for you: the show is featured around three children (who are kind of meh) and is a bit repetitive in its formulas, I think you might enjoy it for the bad guy in it.
Count Olaf is a shitty local actor who, with the help of his cartoonish theater troupe, try to capture the children to steal their fortune. In the second episode he just keeps chasing them with a knife and utters lines like this:
Klaus: We don't know what you're up to, but we will find out. If anything happens to my sisters or me, you'll never get your hands on the Baudelaire fortune. Count Olaf: If I wanted to harm you, orphan, your blood would be streaming out of this car like a waterfall.
Meanwhile there is one subplot that moves along with each episode in the background.
But the best part of the show is Patrick Warburton as the Rod Serling-like narrator of it who keeps warning the audience to stop watching.
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Unfortunately Olaf is my big hang up of the show.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
He's a better show narrator than Ron Howard. Which is a heck of an accomplishment.
But I just fucking love the Our Town style of it of him just walking around the scene as it's happening telling you everything will be awful most of the time.
Wait what? Warburton just walks through scenes as they happen, narrating stuff like some kind of invisible omnipresent god?
Please say yes.
Exactly this!
YES!!
*Clicks first episode and starts watching.*
YES YES YESSSSSS
I want my life narrated by @Rorshach Kringle after he's had 3 40s in 20 minutes.
when i did college radio, one of our most popular features was me getting really drunk and describing death metal album covers
I would listen to this
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I can't tell if it's the dissonance of NPH's voice from that kinda badly done prosthetic job, or just the actual character. I think I need him to be like 10-20% more menacing? It seems like the plot thinks he is. I mean I get he like all of the adults needs to be some level of buffoon. But I dunno, I think it's a little too much for me.
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yeah that's actually one of the criticisms I would level at the source material
it just kinda went on a bit too long and didn't do enough with all that space
Yeah thats why I dropped it after a couple books, the formula showed no signs of changing
I would say the Barry Sonnenfeld Adams Family movies are a decent metric. It's about on that level.
this joke certainly doesn't seem dead
Wow.
On the bright side maybe Steve Carell will make a Micheal Scott show that isnt terrible
I would really hope Carell isn't that desperate.
After that, the structure has some pretty serious overhauls, like one book that's just a chase down a mountain, one where they're the ones in disguise, etc. So the gist of the show should be changing pretty dramatically if they get a season 2
ALSO: Have we talked about how Steven Merritt of the Magnetic Fields did a whole album for ASOUE, with one song for each book?? and the show somehow forgot to incorporate them......?????
I'm drawing a complete blank on this one.
A Series of Unfortunate Events
And the words that make up the acronym are in the thumbnail of the video.
I've been reading the discussion and still thought "A Song of -- no wait."
I haven't read the books, but my wife has
We're two episodes in, and while I'm not sure I actually like the style, I do love how much they're just fucking going for it
And Patrick Warburton as Lemony Snicket is great, just wonderful
The phrase 'ersatz elevator' has definitely lodged in my brain for some reason though
When the movie came out I remember thinking I should check it out but never did
that's my take away
That's my take now that I see Patrick Warburton is in it
up to and including the events of my actual life
and yes, he should still be reminding everyone that whatever I'm doing at any given moment will not end well
i mean that last bit was kind of a given
meanwhile i want my life narrated by a sixty year old former blue oyster cult roadie
or Bobcat Goldthwait.
But I just fucking love the Our Town style of it of him just walking around the scene as it's happening telling you everything will be awful most of the time.
Wait what? Warburton just walks through scenes as they happen, narrating stuff like some kind of invisible omnipresent god?
Please say yes.
hm hm yeah I'd roll with bobcat
Exactly this!
In super nice suits and sometimes Victorian bathing suits even.
@Rorshach Kringle, let me see if I can sell you on this.
While the show definitely will have some setbacks/negatives for you: the show is featured around three children (who are kind of meh) and is a bit repetitive in its formulas, I think you might enjoy it for the bad guy in it.
Count Olaf is a shitty local actor who, with the help of his cartoonish theater troupe, try to capture the children to steal their fortune. In the second episode he just keeps chasing them with a knife and utters lines like this:
Meanwhile there is one subplot that moves along with each episode in the background.
But the best part of the show is Patrick Warburton as the Rod Serling-like narrator of it who keeps warning the audience to stop watching.
YES!!
*Clicks first episode and starts watching.*
YES YES YESSSSSS
man I don't get this
when i did college radio, one of our most popular features was me getting really drunk and describing death metal album covers
I would listen to this