Monday, 10th May 2021 at 5:21 pm
We might still be waiting for confirmation about a second season for new Netflix fantasy drama Shadow and Bone, but some of the show’s stars already have big plans for a potential second run.
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Archie Renaux, who plays Mal on the series, has said that he would love to see “new lands explored” in a follow-up series, while he has also given his thoughts on talk of a possible romance between his character and Alina Starkov.
The stars aren’t the only people who are keen for another run, either – executive producer Leigh Bardugo, whose Grishaverse novels are the source for the series, previously told
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Shadow and Bone includes all the classic touchpoints of a new juggernaut fantasy series: a coming-of-age narrator, an ominous place full of darkness and monsters, period costumes, and British accents. But the series also added a new ingredient it wants to make sure we’re aware of from the jump: racism!
“I live in East Ravka, but I’ve never been welcome here,” Alina (Jessie Mei Li) narrates barely thirty seconds into the first episode, “because I look like my mother, and she looked like the enemy.”
Adapted from the massively bestselling YA fantasy series by Leigh Bardugo,
The women of Netflix's Shadow and Bone are the kind that you wish you'd see more often on screen and we're glad to have every single one of them in our lives!
Shadow and Bone.
It’s a fair question. Alina, an unassuming cartographer in the general’s army, has just displayed hitherto unknown powers and created magical light in the dark wasteland known as the Fold. But “what are you,” and General Kirigan’s immediate dismissal of Alina’s straightforward responses, filled me with a sense of wincing familiarity. In Leigh Bardugo’s “Grishavese” books , Alina is white, but the Netflix series changed Alina’s race to reflect actress Jessie Mei Li’s half-Chinese heritage, and as a half-Chinese person myself, I know all too well that “What are you?” is the world’s worst and yet most popular guessing game for mixed-race people.