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Sanditon Is Returning for Seasons Two and Three

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It’s official! Sanditon is returning for seasons two and three. Charlotte Heywood will be returning to the seaside resort where her heart once broke and hopefully, this time, she’ll get the happiness that she deserves. The announcement was made earlier this morning on Twitter followed by an official statement by Red Planet TV, the company that had initially cancelled the series. And we’d be remiss not to mention the coincidence of the renewal. After the success of Bridgerton and the four season renewal, are network executives finally understanding the importance of happy endings and the detail that no one wants

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Nina Zenik and Matthias Helvar in Shadow and Bone Season 1.

Shadow and Bone 1×06 “The Heart is an Arrow” Review

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“The Heart is an Arrow” and humanity is so often complex in the same way that it is striking. Shadow and Bone’s sixth episode gives us reunions and answers—it leaves us with questions and a lot of moments of exceptional character development. The show is great in the beginning, but really, the last four episodes are where it sets sail and does so gorgeously even in the wreckage. While the previous episode showed us who a lot of these characters are, this one shows us who they are to each other. Yes, the path is clear for each of the characters, but

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Scene Breakdown: The Bastard of the Barrel Escapes from the Shadows: An Ode to Agency in ‘Shadow and Bone’

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Of all the confrontations that fans of Shadow and Bone had been waiting for, this was one of them, and though a shorter scene than a lot of others, what’s most surprising is how intricately it set apart two men in power. (However different said power might be.) (Before anyone jumps at my throat, I like The Darkling as a villain. And I don’t normally like villains. Ben Barnes is riveting as the smug, manipulative Shadow Summoner (who has chemistry with everyone and everything), but in these scenes especially, the villainy is coming through. Which as is, it’s great.) However,

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Shadow and Bone 1×05 “Show Me Who You Are” Review

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“Show Me Who You Are” is one explosive, nuanced title for the amount of stuff that erupts in this episode and just how much we start to see through these characters along with their relationships. And it showed viewers exactly who these people are without telling us too much. (Which is a first for this show that previously featured a lot more telling with some characters.) The Winter Fete is here, and The Crows are in, but before we get to see through their disguises, let’s dig into Alina coming into her own and accepting her role as The Sun

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Music Monday: “Beautiful Crime” by Tamer

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Do you also obsessively listen to a song on replay until you get sick of it or are you normal? Same. This week’s feature is from an artist I personally hadn’t heard of before, but I’ve been on such a Kaz and Inej fan videos kick that it’s where my discovery came from. “Beautiful Crime” by Tamer is something else entirely. It’s such a perfect song for the duo that you can’t convince me it wasn’t written for them. (This is my headcanon now. Let me have it.) No, but on a serious note, while the song is lyrically beautiful,

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This Week’s Most Noteworthy Performance: Amita Suman

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April 23-May 1Season One | Shadow and Bone Amita Suman Shadow and Bone is full of incredible performers left and right who’ve each done a compelling job of bringing their characters to life with range and nuances that have made them even better than they were on paper. This is a series that demanded its characters show more and the performances do. When we say they all understood the assignment, we mean it.  Nevertheless, from the very first episode to the last, it’s Amita Suman who stands out impeccably, bringing to life parts of her character that would have otherwise

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Shadow and Bone 1×04 “Otkazat’sya” Review

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“Otkazat’sya”—otherwise known as orphans, the abandoned ones. An appropriately title for an episode that showcases the fact that contrary to what Baghra tells Alina, needing people is not a weakness.   Shadow and Bone’s “Otkazat’sya” really looks into the idea of loneliness and how it translates into the communities that are built, along with the bonds that are fortified. It looks into why friendships matter and it looks into why these stories, interwoven with each other work so well on the series because it’s seen through all the characters almost obviously. We talk a lot about how asking for help actually requires great courage,

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Shadow and Bone 1×03 “The Making at the Heart of the World” Review

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What is the heart of the world in this universe? What “making” are we talking about? The Fold? Heartrenders? The chemistry between everyone on this show? I don’t know, I never actually figured it out but regardless, I’m here for it. “The Making at the Heart of the World” kicks off with Alina dreaming of a stag (the stag) and when she’s awakened, she’s bombarded with the Little Palace staff, but incoming Genya Safin (Daisy Head), who’s by far one of the easiest characters to love on this series from the moment she graces our screens. The staff continue to

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Scene Breakdown: Knives, Trust, and Loyalty in Shadow and Bone’s “Otkazat’sya”

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When Inej gives Kaz her knives in Shadow and Bone‘s “Otkazat’sya,” it serves as a rather obvious showcase of trust. Trust is a convoluted spectacle at times, a labyrinth of endless security that relies heavily on excavation—searching, cherishing and cementing. It seldom requires words in this form, it’s either buried deep or boldly on display, and when there are words, they are a parallel to what’s been established before. Trust is hard to come by, it is a rare state of ease and a deliberate exhibition of emotional revere, a promise that entails, this is it—this is a constant.   Sometimes,

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Shadow and Bone 1×02 “We’re All Someone’s Monster” Review

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“We’re All Someone’s Monster” opens up with a flashback to Mal and Alina’s Grisha test indicating that they ran and hid because Alina didn’t want to be separated from him in case she was Grisha, and that’s just precious. We’ll keep saying this, but this friendship is a beautiful thing and so damn pure, it’s a solid way to start the episode and paralleling it with General Kirigan’s (Ben Barnes) introduction as he asks Alina who she is. When Alina can’t say anything more than the fact that she’s a cartographer, Kirigan asks Zoya to explain what happened, which leads

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Scene Breakdown: A Moment of Vulnerability in Shadow and Bone’s “The Unsea” Between Inej Ghafa and Kaz Brekker

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“Crows don’t just remember the faces of people who wronged them. They also remember those who were kind. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.” Kaz Brekker and Inej Ghafa‘s moment of vulnerability in Shadow and Bone‘s “The Unsea” might just be the most intimate scene in the first season. Brick by brick. Word for word. Glance after glance. There is so much vulnerability and beauty in this scene, I can write my entire thesis on it. It’s not just a moment between two characters who have rarely opened up to others, but

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Shadow and Bone 1×01 “A Searing Burst of Light” Review

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Welcome to the Shadow Fold, Grishaverse. The time is now, the day is here, and we’ve got a lot to breakdown with Shadow and Bone’s first episode,”A Searing Burst of Light.”  First things first about these reviews, I have not read the Shadow and Bone trilogy, my expertise in both book and TV verse lies with the Six of Crows duology. And for the sake of these reviews, I’ve done a bit of research here and there, but for this season, my point of view when it comes certain parts will be based strictly on what the adaptation tells us. “A Searing Burst of

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Music Monday: ‘Shadow and Bone’ (Original Score) by Joseph Trapanese and The Budapest Art Orchestra

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Shadow and Bone’s original score is packed with a lot dig into. I wouldn’t know where to begin even if I was told where to begin. My one complaint, I wish parts of were split up and longer because I’ve got so many parts that are my favorite bits, I want to listen to those moments on a loop until the end of time. Shadow and Bone‘s original score is a showstopper with tracks so aching and so intricately balanced with high stake emotions and slow drawn, heart tugging strings that make for a masterful compilation. Let’s break down “Royal

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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier 1×06 “One World, One People” Highlights

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“One World, One People” concludes The Falcon and The Winter Soldier 1×06, except this clearly isn’t a series finale because nothing is wrapped in the kind of bow we’d prefer so, I suppose we shall now have to wait to hear what’s happening because what!? (Marvel has confirmed there will be a Captain America 4 film starring Anthony Mackie, so that could be it.) That said, I’m not going to get into the fact that everything apart from Sam Wilson’s arc felt rushed and incoherent, executed in such a way that I just don’t even want to bother trying to

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Scene Breakdown: Simon and Daphne Form an Attachment on Bridgerton’s “Diamond of the First Water”

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We know we’ve talked plenty about Bridgerton’s Simon and Daphne, but with the news that Regé-Jean Page won’t be returning for season two, we figured we’d do scene breakdowns for all their dances because that’s what everyone wants, right? While we’ve already discussed our favorite, their first in “Shock and Delight” it’s now time to discuss what was actually their first real dance, and the moment we all knew that we’d love Simon and Daphne so much more than we did in The Duke and I. We’ve discussed bits of this in our full episode review of “Diamond of the

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