Alina Starkov is an extremely complex character that people should want more for. People should want her to grow, to find herself.
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Shadow and Bone 1×08 “No Mourners” Review
“No Mourners” concludes Shadow and Bone’s first season almost as we’d expect it, a little rushed in its climax, but it gives us incredible moments of character development, so you’ll hear no complaints from me. Choice is a predominant, ongoing theme throughout the course of this season, and the finale reiterates its importance with reflection and moments full of loud whispers. It sets up the oncoming arcs for our favorite characters with storylines that work and feel incredibly natural in how they’re developing. Alina Starkov is the heroine of the season, the Saint, the Sun Summoner, and the one whose choices matter
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Shadow and Bone 1×07 “The Unsea” Review
As far as season penultimate episodes go, “The Unsea” is easily on my list of favorites. It isn’t flawless by any means, but it’s a magical showcase of vulnerability while focusing on the importance of freedom. It’s the episode that sets almost every dynamic up remarkably while still leaving a lot of room to dissect the grey areas that play into the complexities of these characters. There’s never inherently good or evil in shows within this genre, which make the analytical scope of working through them so large and inviting, it’s a thrill for me. And surprisingly, in an episode
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Shadow and Bone 1×05 “Show Me Who You Are” Review
“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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Shadow and Bone 1×02 “We’re All Someone’s Monster” Review
“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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Shadow and Bone 1×01 “A Searing Burst of Light” Review
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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Netflix’s ‘Shadow and Bone’ is Moving, Enticing, and the Next Best Thing in Fantasy
Shadow and Bone is moving, enticing, and the next best thing in fantasy.
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