A year ago, when “A Series of Unfortunate Events” debuted one week before Donald Trump’s inauguration, I wrote that the family show was just what the country needed. Depicting a hopeless world run by malicious men empowered by easily duped adults, the three Baudelaire orphans were the only hope for a bright future. Fortified by the truth and encouraged by the few well-meaning grown-ups, these kids learned how to stand up to ignorance, intolerance, and all forms of evil.
Could children watching at home ask for lessons more suitable, skills more pertinent, or an allegory more fitting for the world facing them in 2017? I think not.
Then, the timing felt serendipitous. Shot long before the election and based on material written during the Clinton administration, there’s no way the creators could’ve predicted what was coming enough to emphasize their story’s darkest elements for added relevance. Their vision just happened to fit.
Could children watching at home ask for lessons more suitable, skills more pertinent, or an allegory more fitting for the world facing them in 2017? I think not.
Then, the timing felt serendipitous. Shot long before the election and based on material written during the Clinton administration, there’s no way the creators could’ve predicted what was coming enough to emphasize their story’s darkest elements for added relevance. Their vision just happened to fit.
- 3/30/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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