“Shadow and Bone Season 2” Review

Shadow and Bone: Created by Eric Heisserer. With Jessie Mei Li, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, Amita Suman. Dark forces conspire against orphan mapmaker Alina Starkov when she unleashes an extraordinary power that could change the fate of her war-torn world.

As with the first season, this series works best when it’s not worried about the B-story and whatever shenanigans they’re up to in a completely different part of the world from the A-story, usually with less interesting characters and much less interesting story elements. Everyone is very pretty with amazing costumes and utterly fantastic special effects that made me drop what I was doing when they were on screen, specifically the smokey demon creatures that were routinely being fought towards the end of the season. Sadly this is the last season we’re going to get of the show, as it’s now been canceled with little hope of being picked up by another distributor. The ending of this season however came with at least a half dozen different endings that added an extra 30 minutes to the episode, all of which happened after the climax of the season, leading me to believe the cancellation news came to the show well after they put the whole thing in the can.

The show’s based on a trilogy of books, so if you want to find out the ultimate conclusion to it all, that’s where you’ll need to look. If you do, let me know what you thought of them, because I already have a TBR pile about 200 books deep that I’m never going to get all the way through.

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