‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’: Patrick Warburton and Barry Sonnenfeld Preview Netflix's Take on Lemony Snicket

Here’s how much of a fan Barry Sonnenfeld is of A Series of Unfortunate Events, the 13-novel saga penned by children’s author Lemony Snicket (a.k.a. The writer/director of such film as Men in Black and TV shows Pushing Daisies began reading the books to his daughter when she was young, and then continued to make them his own bedtime stories when she outgrew them before the series ended. “What I love about the thesis of the whole series is that all children are capable and wonderful and all adults are equally ineffectual, whether they’re villainous or mean well,” Sonnenfeld tells Yahoo TV.