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Shadow and Bone season 2 should be announced any day now. All signs show that Netflix is happy with the performance of its recent release, which seems to have been a hit (thanks in no small part to the YA novel’s readership). That said, we wouldn’t be shocked to learn that new audiences are joining in the fun of fawning over Ben Barnes’ brooding performance as The Darkling (yes, it feels wrong, but that’s half the fun).
So, fans of the Small Science and those new to the Grishaverse, we re breaking down everything to know about the (likely) Shadow and Bone season 2. So, not just when we may learn more, but when we could expect the next batch of episodes and who to expect this time around (and new characters who could show up). Plus, since this is an adaptation, we ve got plenty of ideas for where Alina will go next.
Rolling Stone Menu ‘Shadow and Bone’: Fantasy Tropes Done Right
Netflix’s series based on the popular YA novels blends elaborate world-building, sweeping romances, mysterious magic, and more for a hearty dose of escapist television
By NETFLIX
If there’s one lesson Netflix learned from its runaway 2020 hit
The Witcher, it’s this: In these troubled times, the viewing public is voracious for escapist fantasy television. And not just any form of the genre the kind with big-budget effects, deep world-building, tangled romances, and labyrinthine, intertwining plots you can get blissfully lost in.
Last month,
Shadow and Bone leapt into that void with arms wide open. Eric Heisserer’s series was the second most-watched show in the U.S. the weekend it debuted (behind only Disney+’s
That moment when Helnik started to blossom.
By Lyra HaleMay 18th, 2021, 4:53 pm
You can’t talk about Netflix’s
Shadow and Bone series without mentioning Nina and Matthias, played by Danielle Galligan and Calahan Skogman. These two … well, their characters are enemies, to say the least. Nina has grown up hearing stories about the big bad Fjerdans, and Matthias has grown up being taught that Grisha like Nina are an abomination that should never exist. Despite all of that and the history their people have about one another, Nina and Matthias click, according to director Mairzee Almas.
It wasn’t easy. Let’s make that clear. These two are as different as two people can be, so it was a balancing act that needed to be earned, and for Almas, that started when they were in the water together after the Fjerdan ship sunk. Alone, on the brink of death, they leaned on each other, Almas told us in an interview: “So they’re both using each other in the very beginning. Nina’s n