Idk How I Feel About This

Idk how I feel about this

Daniel Handler (a.k.a Lemony Snicket) explains why he’s less involved with ‘Unfortunate Events’ on Netflix - The Boston Globe

The writer, who’ll appear at the Boston Book Festival on Saturday, says the breakup was amicable. Sort of.

Q. How have you enjoyed working on the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” TV series? Are you satisfied with how the show is going so far?

A. I’m always more interested in seeing what other people think. Right now, I’m kind of impatient because they’re finishing filming season two and they’re beginning to film season three, and I’m very eager to see some further edited drafts of the episodes, and I’m really curious to see what people think of them.

Q. How do you think the new seasons will be different from the first season?

A. It’s really hard to tell. I was very involved toward the end of the first season and the beginning of the second season and then less so now. That’s another thing: I was closer to the process as we were finishing the first season then I am now, and I’m curious to see how that goes.

Q. Why are you less involved with the show now?

A. I’m less involved because they asked me to be less involved (laughs).

Q. Was that amicable?

A. It wasn’t my idea (laughs). It’s amicable in that I don’t think anyone stayed up all night crying about it or sharpened their dagger and swore revenge. I was on a plane flying home from Vancouver, where I did a read-through of the scripts and kind of all the stuff we do early on in the season, and when I landed there was an e-mail saying, “We’d rather not have you involved at this point.” So that was surprising.