Based on the books by Daniel Handler – writing under the pen name Lemony Snicket - the story is set to follow the Baudelaire orphans after they move in with the evil Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris).

And, much like the books did, Patrick Warburton, in his guise as Snicket, has listed all the reasons why viewers should not watch the series when it hits their Netflix library next year.

He explains: “The story of the Bauedlaire orphans is so upsetting and so utterly unnerving that the entire crew is suffering from low morale – a phrase which here means ‘currently under medical observation for melancholia ennuis and acute sitfulness.”

However, if you listen carefully, it seems as if one person on the crew is more than happy to be involved in the tale of misery and despair…

Watch Netflix’s eerie first trailer for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events