Shadow and Bone.
Netflix
Let's get the cheap joke out of the way right at the top, just so we don't have it hanging over our heads for the entire review:
Do not be misled by its title.
Shadow and Bone does not, in this instance, refer to the two things James Bond does in every movie.
Ok, good, that's out of our systems, lets move on.
Shadow and Bone is a new 8-episode fantasy series based on a successful book trilogy by Leigh Bardugo. It's stuffed with characters, locations, plot twists and — it must be said — very,
very familiar fantasy elements including, but not limited to: characters who possess the ability to control various elements (wind, water, fire, sure, but also: machines, and even bodies); a Big Dark Thing (in this case, a monster-haunted wall of shadow known as The Fold) that is Prophesied to be Be Defeated by A Chosen One (a Sun-Summoner, who controls light); the fact that the aforementioned Chosen One is not noble-born, but a Reluctant Commoner Who Must Be Trained by Stern Teachers Until She Accepts And Masters Her Gift, etc., etc., etc.