Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, or simply A Series of Unfortunate Events, is an American black comedy-drama web television series from Netflix about the orphaned Baudelaire children who must outwit their devious guardian Count Olaf, who adopts various schemes and disguises in his many attempts to claim their family fortune for himself. The show was developed by Mark Hudis and Barry Sonnenfeld, based on the children's novel series of the same name by Lemony Snicket.