A Series Of Unfortunate Events Season 3 Review: 6 Ups & 3 Downs

1. "The End" Is Only One Episode

Typically the show spends two episodes adapting a single of Daniel Handler's books, yet bizarrely, the final book The End is adapted into just one 52-minute episode.

The result is a rushed final instalment that was evidently forced to cut out a lot of the source material's nuance and detail, with several of the new characters introduced in this episode landing without any impact whatsoever.

Though The End still sticks the landing, giving the story an extra 45 minutes to breathe would've been to its enormous benefit, and why Netflix felt the need to cram it all into less than an hour is just baffling.

One can only assume it was a cost-cutting measure, but when you've made it this far, what's one more episode?

These flaws aside, season three mostly hit its markers and delivered the goods. Here's everything it got right...