The Best Episodes Written By Daniel Handler

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.0/10(12 votes)

   #1 - The End

   S3:E71/1/2019

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

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   7.9/10(15 votes)

   #2 - The Hostile Hospital (1)

   S2:E73/30/2018

   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.

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   7.7/10(20 votes)

   #3 - The Miserable Mill (1)

   S1:E71/13/2017

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

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   7.7/10(9 votes)

   #4 - Penultimate Peril (2)

   S3:E61/1/2019

   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?

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   7.6/10(14 votes)

   #5 - The Hostile Hospital (2)

   S2:E83/30/2018

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

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   7.6/10(14 votes)

   #6 - Carnivorous Carnival (1)

   S2:E93/30/2018

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

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   7.6/10(14 votes)

   #7 - Carnivorous Carnival (2)

   S2:E103/30/2018

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

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   7.6/10(10 votes)

   #8 - Penultimate Peril (1)

   S3:E51/1/2019

   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.

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   7.5/10(22 votes)

   #9 - The Reptile Room (1)

   S1:E31/13/2017

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

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10. 

    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #10 - Slippery Slope (1)

    S3:E11/1/2019

    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.

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    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #11 - Slippery Slope (2)

    S3:E21/1/2019

    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.

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    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #12 - Grim Grotto (1)

    S3:E31/1/2019

    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.

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13. 

    7.4/10(22 votes)

    #13 - The Wide Window (1)

    S1:E51/13/2017

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

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    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #14 - The Vile Village (2)

    S2:E63/30/2018

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

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15. 

    7.3/10(21 votes)

    #15 - The Miserable Mill (2)

    S1:E81/13/2017

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

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    7.3/10(16 votes)

    #16 - The Ersatz Elevator (1)

    S2:E33/30/2018

    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.

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    7.3/10(15 votes)

    #17 - The Ersatz Elevator (2)

    S2:E43/30/2018

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

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18. 

    7.3/10(22 votes)

    #18 - The Wide Window (2)

    S1:E61/13/2017

    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.

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    7.3/10(10 votes)

    #19 - Grim Grotto (2)

    S3:E41/1/2019

    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.

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    7.2/10(21 votes)

    #20 - The Reptile Room (2)

    S1:E41/13/2017

    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.

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    7.2/10(15 votes)

    #21 - The Vile Village (1)

    S2:E53/30/2018

    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.

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22. 

    7.1/10(27 votes)

    #22 - The Bad Beginning (2)

    S1:E21/13/2017

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

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    7.1/10(19 votes)

    #23 - The Austere Academy (1)

    S2:E13/30/2018

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

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    7.1/10(17 votes)

    #24 - The Austere Academy (2)

    S2:E23/30/2018

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

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    6.9/10(45 votes)

    #25 - The Bad Beginning (1)

    S1:E11/13/2017

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

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