Mei Li and Renaux truly give their all, imbuing Alina and Mal’s relationship with the right amount of earnest pining and steaminess. Season Two of Shadow and Bone tries to dive deeper, ramping up the blood and gore and political machinations. Oh, and as the chosen one, she’s of course entangled in a love triangle between older Grisha and Second Army General Kirigan (Ben Barnes) and her childhood best friend Mal Oretsev (Archie Renaux), who is not magical but oh so attractive.
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She spends the series discovering her powers, including the secret of Amplifiers, magical animals that when killed can make a Grisha stronger. Her country of Ravka is split in two by a perilous field of shadows called The Fold.
Fantasy tropes abound in Season One, which introduced viewers to Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) as a sainted Grisha (magic user) with the rare power of Sun-Summoning. Have you ever wanted to watch Game of Thrones but thought the actors were just a bit too well-known? Wished the live-action Avatar: The Airbender was made by the CW? Thought The Great and The Witcher could have a bang-up crossover episode? It doesn’t matter if those thoughts have never crossed your mind, because Netflix’s supernatural fantasy series Shadow and Bone is here with a second season anyway.Īdapted from multiple books in the Grishaverse series by author Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone is set in a magical land where imprints of some of the most prominent cities in their most famous eras - think plague-era Amsterdam, dynasty-ruled Beijing, Tsarist Moscow, and Viking Stockholm - not only exist, but are roughly a three-day journey from each other.
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