Is Lemony Snicket an unreliable narrator?

Lemony Snicket is most definitely an unreliable narrator in that he has a huge amount of personal stake in the events of A Series of Unfortunate Events. First he is a volunteer which automatically leads him to side with the Baudelaire’s over Count Olaf on a professional level. read more

Miss Clack, who succeeds him as narrator, is fairly lemony too: a sharp, shrill, judgemental sort of lemony. The novel Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) features one in the form of the hugely digressive author, Jerome K. Jerome. read more

In both the film adaptation and the Netflix version, Lemony Snicket is brought in as his own character, who narrates. Jude Law played him in the 2004 movie, and Patrick Warburton will play him in the Netflix series. You can catch a glimpse of him in the two trailers released by the show. read more