Shadow and Bone

It’s season finale time, folks! After an incredible first season, our final episode of season one begins in complete darkness with all of our characters on the ship in the Fold. Kaz, Jesper, and Inej sneak to the hull of the ship to hide before they carry out their plan. At the front of the […]

Young Aleksander Kirigan rides through the forest on his horse in great hurry, headed to his cottage where another Grisha is waiting. Soldiers are destroying villages and trying to capture all Grisha. As he’s trying to get his friend to escape with him, soldiers arrive to the cottage and surround it. He exits the house […]

Ramping up the action, the sixth episode begins with the Conductor being held captive as Kirigan questions him. Yet everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie, and they know it, since Kirigan is using a heartrender to figure that out. Kirigan believes that the Conductor has something to do with Nina, his […]

Our fear from the previous episode quickly subsides as Mal, painfully injured, walks into a First Army camp, where he is now safe and able to recover from his near-death experience. He later gets approval from the commander to deliver the news about the stag to General Kirigan himself, and begins his journey to the […]

We find ourselves following Mal as this episode opens, as him and his company are marching to their new assignment. Mal has been writing to Alina with no response to the three letters he has been sent. At this point, he feels so distant from her, and we are reminded of that as we briefly […]

In episode three, we are starting to get in the swing of things, and the story is starting to be set up for an ultimate showdown at the end of the season. It starts with Alina waking up suddenly from an ethereal dream with a white stag with intricate antlers that meet in the middle […]

The second episode of the season starts off in a flashback, where we see Alina and Mal at the orphanage they grew up in. Grishas are coming to do a mandatory test on all the children to see if they themselves are a Grisha and have powers. However, the two of them evade it by […]

I must preface this saying that I haven’t read the Shadow and Bone books, so I am going into this show with absolutely no knowledge of the story, characters, or world. I was intrigued to watch it, though, because it stars Ben Barnes, who I have seen in a multitude of movies and television shows, […]