"Shadow and Bone" Season 2 has some surprising blink-and-you ll-miss-it moments, and Ben Barnes told Newsweek of a key deleted scene featuring The Darkling.
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.
The Twilight Saga or any such expansive modern-day myths, the new series
Shadow and Bone on Netflix from 23 April comes with its own peculiar world that functions within a pre-established universe, complete with rules of what is and isn t possible, and characters who function and interact within that world.
So is
Shadow and Bone worth your attention and time? Most definitely. Will it be difficult to understand or get into? A little bit but part of the fun and joy of excellent new legends are often suddenly just falling into them, as if into the middle chapter of a story, and learning about the world and the people as an immersive experience.
Netflix revealed the first trailer for their new series Shadow and Bone on Friday.
In the action-packed teaser clip for the fantasy epic, Ben Barnes is seen as The Darkling, also known as General Kirigan in the show, who is the charismatic yet menacing leader of Ravka s Second Army.
The trailer opens, however, with its main character Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li), an unassuming mapmaker who discovers a dormant power lies within her when she enters the ominous Fold with her best friend Mal Oretsev (Archie Renaux).
One to watch: Ben Barnes stars as the charismatic yet menacing Darkling in the action-packed first trailer for Netflix s fantasy epic Shadow and Bone, which Netflix released on Friday