


Poe's secretary Jacqueline is a secret VFD member who tries to keep the children safe from Count Olaf's clutches.

Poe's sister, and his wife is named Polly. Despite this meaning that the Baudelaire parents most likely did perish in the fire (which is true to the books), the events surrounding the Quagmire parents are unique to the TV series. Towards the end of episode seven, however, viewers learn that they are actually parents to the Quagmire children, not the orphaned Baudelaires. They escape their kidnappers, fight off a drunken mob and angry refrigerator repairman, and survive a plane crash, all the while hoping to reunite with their children. No bodies are recovered in the fire, so we assume that Mother (Colbie Smulders) and Father ( Will Arnett) are the children's parents. Major spoiler warning! The Bad Beginning (Episodes one and two) Fortunately, Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a tried-and-true replica of the books. Favorite characters disappear, the sequence of events is shifted, and the setting is usually changed to a more cost-effective filming location. One of the reasons fans have doubts is because making a book into a movie or television show usually means that things get lost in translation. Even Game of Thrones fans seem to acknowledge the HBO series as a worthy adaptation. In fact, the Harry Potter film series and The Lord of the Rings trilogy are excellent. Avid readers generally remain steadfast in their belief that the book is always better than the movie or TV show, but this isn't to say that some adaptations can't be good.
