Netflix's A Series Of Unfortunate Events: 7 Ups & 1 Down

5. The Superb Support

While the show looks great, even better are the people walking around those gorgeous sets. The cast is a real mix of established names and upcoming talent, with a lot of 'where do I know them from?' throughout the series.

The three Baudelaire children have perhaps the hardest task, remaining sensible and stoic with all the mayhem going on around them. Malina Weissman (Violet) and Louis Hynes (Klaus) aren't the strongest parts of the cast, but they do a commendable job nonetheless, and have a nice sibling chemistry together. Sunny, meanwhile, played by Presley Smith, is an absolute star, though that's mostly through her ability to stay still, while hilarious captions are written for her unintelligible noises.

The adult cast is particularly brilliant. There's Alfre Woodard as the scared-of-everything Aunt Josephine, Aasif Mandvi as the eccentric-but-loveable Uncle Monty, and K. Todd Freeman's bumbling Mr Poe, to name but a few (and the likes of Joan Cusack, Catherine O'Hara, and Rhys Darby all deserve a mention, as well as a couple of others I can't name).

The best of the support comes of Patrick Warburton, who brings to life the book's 'author' Lemony Snicket. Whereas in the movie Jude Law was an unseen presence, and never captured the voice of Snicket from the page, here Warburton is pitch-perfect. He periodically interrupts proceedings to fill us in on the narrative, warn us not to watch, and help provide the sense of something larger at play. There's a dryness to his delivery, and a world-weariness, that perfectly fits the silliness of what's going on around him.