Alina and Gen. Kirigan (Netflix)
If you start watching Netflix’s “Shadow and Bone” and realize that you’ve seen it before, that’s because you probably have—not literally, of course, because it is a new show but in the sense that it’s another young adult flick based on a YA novel. Before you say YA novels aren’t all that bad, and they really aren’t, that isn’t the point this review is going to make. Instead, “Shadow and Bone” takes what is good from YA stories but also brings with it some of the bad.