Neil Patrick Harris’ villainous turn is far from unfortunate

But the malice and nefariousness are surprisingly enjoyable. “We’re far from friendly, but I like that a 10-year-old and a 40-year-old can watch the same scene and enjoy it for different reasons,” he said. “We feel like we’re making something that, in all of its nastiness, in all of its cynicism, is good.

Harris as Count Olaf.

Does it make you want to go home and quiz Harper and Gideon?
I’m having to shift into ‘that parent’. Not, certainly, spelling backward. But to get them to recognise that homework, that reading, that writing, isn’t something that they do for an hour until they can play — and so they’re excited to know that it doesn’t stop until you’re 80 and you have cataracts. So I’m on them to make sure they’re using sentence structure well, that they’re spelling things right, that their E’s look uniform. It’s time.