![]() ![]() The show adapts Leigh Bardugo’s immersive, best-selling book of the same name (first in the Grishaverse trilogy) while writing new material for the wonderfully acidic characters of Six of Crows (first of the duology, set two year later). Like the classics that came before it, Shadow and Bone works best when it’s fully committed to the dramatics of spectacle and emotion. Though there are some hiccups with weaving together its two primary stories, the series captures Bardugo’s talent for balancing large scale world-building with theatrical action sequences, sweeping romances, and elements of horror-some of my favorite parts of young adult fantasy. ![]() Told over the course of eight episodes, Netflix’s Shadow and Bone feels like a homecoming for those of us who never grew out of reading young adult fantasy. ![]()
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