“I Feel Like a Rescue Dog at Netflix,” Sonnenfeld gushed at the New York premiere which debuted their rendering of Daniel Handler’s best-selling series. Moments before Wednesday night’s premiere of the new Netflix original program A Series of Unfortunate Events at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City, director and executive producer Barry Sonnenfeld sounded near tears as he thanked fellow executive producer Daniel Handler, author of the 13 novels of source material, who responded with a hug.