The Worst Episodes of A Series of Unfortunate Events

The dreadful history of the Baudelaire children begins with a deadpan narrator, a terrible fire and the ominous arrival of a distant relative.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer: Daniel Handler

The orphans arrive at the aptly named Lake Lachrymose to meet their widowed Aunt Josephine, a strict grammarian who's haunted by the past.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer: Daniel Handler

A young submarine captain with ties to the V.F.D. reveals she's looking for the sugar bowl. But so is Esmé Squalor, who's on a mission to find it first.

Director: Liza Johnson

Writer: Daniel Handler, Joshua Conkel

Klaus and Violet look for clues in a suspicious note that passes custody to Captain Sham, a seafaring scam artist with clear ties to Count Olaf.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer: Daniel Handler

Mr. Poe brings the Baudelaires to V.F.D., a bird-loving village with an Old West vibe. Jacques and Olivia continue their search for the Quagmires.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer: Daniel Handler

With Sunny's fate hanging in the balance, Violet and Klaus race to find a life-saving antidote and learn the location of the Last Safe Place.

Director: Liza Johnson

Writer: Daniel Handler, Sigrid Gilmer

While Mr. Poe's secretary works overtime, Count Olaf casts Violet and Klaus in "The Marvelous Marriage," a work of theater with alarming implications.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer: Daniel Handler

The Baudelaires begin life at boarding school and meet a pair of mysterious siblings whose tragic lives sound eerily similar to their own.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer: Daniel Handler

While the Quagmires keep up the search, the Baudelaires struggle to balance their studies with a punishing workout schedule, courtesy of Count Olaf.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer: Daniel Handler

The orphans find themselves under suspicion in the wake of a devastating murder. But time behind bars leads to an important realization.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer: Daniel Handler

The children arrive at the Lucky Smells Lumber Mill and unearth some unsettling accusations about their parents. Count Olaf courts an old flame.

Director: Bo Welch

Writer: Daniel Handler, Joe Tracz

While Count Olaf makes his way to V.F.D. headquarters with Sunny, Klaus and Violet are exactly where we left them: careening toward the edge of a cliff.

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky

Writer: Daniel Handler

Sunny sends a signal from Count Olaf's camp, where a sinister duo is awakening old insecurities. A clue at V.F.D. HQ points the way to a fateful meeting.

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky

Writer: Daniel Handler

After the Baudelaires move in with Dr. Montgomery, a renowned expert in reptile behavior, their new guardian hires a frighteningly familiar assistant.

Director: Mark Palansky

Writer: Daniel Handler

Klaus and Violet suspect Count Olaf and his evil cohorts when a lifeless body turns up in the reptile room. Sunny sees the inside of a suitcase.

Director: Mark Palansky

Writer: Daniel Handler

Violet, Klaus and Sunny get new guardians in a fashionable building, where stairs are in -- and the elevator's out. Jacques Snicket trains a recruit.

Director: Bo Welch

Writer: Daniel Handler

The Baudelaires find their friends -- and then lose them -- at the bottom of an elevator shaft. Count Olaf conducts an auction in disguise.

Director: Bo Welch

Writer: Daniel Handler

A bearded Klaus and Sunny comb the hospital's crumbling halls for Violet, who's being held prisoner under Count Olaf's questionable "care."

Director: Allan Arkush

Writer: Daniel Handler, Joshua Conkel

Life on the lam leads the Baudelaires to a horrifying hospital with an enormous library that could hold the answers to all of their questions.

Director: Allan Arkush

Writer: Daniel Handler, Joshua Conkel

Klaus just isn't himself after seeing Dr. Orwell, an optometrist with oddly optimistic patients. Meanwhile, Violet works to clear her parents' names.

Director: Bo Welch

Writer: Daniel Handler, Tatiana Suarez-Pico

Come one, come all to the creepiest circus the world has ever seen, a place where puzzling mysteries -- and a familiar face -- await.

Director: Loni Peristere

Writer: Daniel Handler, Joe Tracz

Still posing as conjoined carnival freaks, the Baudelaires brace themselves for a beastly fate. Will good fortune intervene ... for once?

Director: Loni Peristere

Writer: Daniel Handler, Joe Tracz

The final chapter takes the orphans to a deserted island: a place of lost lives, old stories and new beginnings. It all ends here.

Director: Bo Welch

Writer: Joe Tracz, Daniel Handler

Various parties converge at the Hotel Denouement, where the mysterious "J.S." has called the V.F.D. together -- and things aren't always what they seem.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer: Daniel Handler, Joe Tracz

Big secrets are revealed when Count Olaf goes on trial in the hotel lobby. The Baudelaires are the first to take the stand, but will justice be served?

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer: Joe Tracz, Daniel Handler