![]() Sometimes this worked in the show’s favor sometimes it did not. What we got in Shadow and Bone season 2 was a mishmash of story arcs and timelines that put people in very different places than I expected them to be. And they rushed through that in about three episodes, kind of ruining a lot of the big moments from that plot, and what happened had no buildup, so the payoff wasn’t as satisfying. As they also planted the seeds for the Ice Court heist – the plot of Six of Crows – I’m interested to see how they intend to resolve that story in the planned spinoff, considering the vendetta against Pekka is how it happens in the books. And so that meant they had to pull from the Six of Crows duology, using most of the plot of the second book to help deal with the mess waiting for Kaz, Inej, and Jesper back in Ketterdam. And honestly, if it had just been those two books, I think they would have handled it nicely.īut because they introduced the Crows early, there had to be something for them to do. Fitting two books into the same amount of episodes that previously adapted one felt like a really big ask. I knew they intended to pull elements from the third book, but it wasn’t until the soundtrack listing and episode titles were released that I realized it was going to be the full plot. I’ll admit that I was a little skeptical when I learned they planned to adapt both Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising in Shadow and Bone Season 2. Still, Shadow and Bone Season 2 was a lot of fun, it handled the introduction of some fan-favorite characters very well, and it laid the groundwork for both a potential third season and spinoff. Each episode was about fifteen minutes longer than in season 1, which helped, but I still wish they would have held something back. Not only did the second season finish the original trilogy, fitting Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising into the same amount of episodes they used to adapt Shadow and Bone, but it also contained quite a lot of the plot of Crooked Kingdom. But I feel like Shadow and Bone Season 2 tried to cram too much into one season. Dávid Lukács/Netflix © 2023 I don’t consider myself a book purist, and I actually liked the changes they made to the first season. (L to R) Lewis Tan as Tolya, Anna Leong Brophy as Tamar, Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov, Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev, Patrick Gibson as Nikolai in episode 202 of Shadow and Bone.
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