7.6/103,074 votesLoading...#1 - The Bad Beginning (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/2017
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
7.6/101,956 votesLoading...#2 - The Wide Window (1)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/13/2017
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
7.6/10975 votesLoading...#3 - Grim Grotto (1)
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/2019
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
7.7/101,903 votesLoading...#4 - The Wide Window (2)
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/13/2017
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
7.7/101,172 votesLoading...#5 - The Vile Village (1)
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/30/2018
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
7.8/10959 votesLoading...#6 - Grim Grotto (2)
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/1/2019
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
7.9/102,423 votesLoading...#7 - The Bad Beginning (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2017
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
7.9/101,452 votesLoading...#8 - The Austere Academy (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/30/2018
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
7.9/101,328 votesLoading...#9 - The Austere Academy (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/30/2018
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
7.9/101,164 votesLoading...#10 - The Vile Village (2)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/2018
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
8.0/101,137 votesLoading...#11 - Slippery Slope (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2019
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
8.0/10999 votesLoading...#12 - Slippery Slope (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2019
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
8.1/102,206 votesLoading...#13 - The Reptile Room (1)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/2017
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
8.1/102,089 votesLoading...#14 - The Reptile Room (2)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/13/2017
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
8.1/101,951 votesLoading...#15 - The Miserable Mill (1)
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/13/2017
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
8.1/101,266 votesLoading...#16 - The Ersatz Elevator (1)
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/30/2018
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
8.1/101,223 votesLoading...#17 - The Ersatz Elevator (2)
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/30/2018
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
8.2/101,184 votesLoading...#18 - The Hostile Hospital (1)
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/30/2018
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
8.2/101,158 votesLoading...#19 - The Hostile Hospital (2)
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/30/2018
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
8.3/101,961 votesLoading...#20 - The Miserable Mill (2)
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/13/2017
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
8.4/101,160 votesLoading...#21 - Carnivorous Carnival (1)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/30/2018
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
8.4/101,174 votesLoading...#22 - Carnivorous Carnival (2)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/30/2018
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
8.5/101,277 votesLoading...#23 - The End
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 1/1/2019
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
8.7/101,105 votesLoading...#24 - Penultimate Peril (1)
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/1/2019
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: Joe Tracz, Daniel Handler
8.7/101,128 votesLoading...#25 - Penultimate Peril (2)
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1/1/2019
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
The Worst Episodes of A Series of Unfortunate Events
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The orphaned Baudelaire children face trials, tribulations and the evil Count Olaf, all in their quest to uncover the secret of their parents' death.
Genres:Action & AdventureFamilyComedyMystery
Network:Netflix
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Bad Beginning (1)" is the worst rated episode of "A Series of Unfortunate Events". It scored 7.6/10 based on 3074 votes. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Daniel Handler, it aired on 1/13/2017. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Wide Window (1)".