IMHO. 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' ~ there is literally nothing good in the beginning, no good end and nothing good in the middle, and still the show is soooo good

First of all, I now believe it's the best kind of manifestation of destiny - just when I started watching the 1st season, being sure there is nothing more, it turns out there is more and that more has just been aired. And though I got a little bored by the end of the 1st season, being already acquainted with the story thanks to the 2004 full-length movie, with season 2 interest came back to me.

It's probably not the best or the right way to judge an artwork, but this is the way I do. It's only then worth reading or watching when it leaves me with a sad aftertaste of wanting to be submerged in that atmosphere longer and regretting that that beautiful world will open its secrets to me no more.

I saw many people asking whether the 'Series' is for children or for adults and what its target audience would be. And though I understand it's an adventure about and for teenagers, it reminds of important things.

To sum it up, what was the main problem and the main conflict? Young children who couldn't rely on anyone but themselves, because the adults, who were supposed to offer them protection, offered something completely different. And the biggest disaster is not that they tried to burn the children at stake or were ready to push them into a pit with lions, or that some of them refused to help, but that they did it completely abandoning their brains. In fact, every episode is about how they rely on public opinion, rely on ludicrous codes of laws

rely on machines and artificial intellect

rely on certificates and credentials, instead of relying on common sense.

The problem is that the adults didn't listen.

I was perfectly sure that the acting was awful until to my surprise I realised that's the way this show is done! Throw a stone in me if something absurd is not necessary in our world to let us reevaluate what's absurd in the first place - and all this in an absolutely beautiful and dark and dirty Art Deco setting, with perfectly fitting music.

At some points I was wondering if this story has not been written in and about Russia...

And I swear, this series made me remember that villains can be charismatic.

 Strange, but I loved every number and every absurd scene.

In 'The End' Daniel Handler (I say Handler because obviously the series follow the books very closely) suddenly got sentimental and made an attempt to make Olaf pitiable and explain his villainy through wrongs done to him, and make him do one last good act, but I'm not sure if I wouldn't like that Olaf be more of a ruthless absolutely immoral character. Still, these series are just too realistic and even cruel to let me have my way with anything. After all, among supporting characters most brave people who were really trying to help as much as they could, met their end sooner or later, and the only ones who survived were cowards and losers who did not push the matters through or were half-hearted.

Is there any way to conquer that rigidness of mind that makes people rely on something instead of making sound decisions? The author's answer is - education. I couldn't agree more. In addition to many other things I've thought over while watching, I remembered that I'm stagnating, too..... think I'll go learn something new now.