Shadow & Bone Season 2: A Quick Review

 After a too long wait, the second & last season is here.

 

Shadow & Bone Season 2: A Quick Review

Pros:

• The visual effects are gorgeous, better quality than the first one by far.
• The cast are magnificent & the act the hell out of every scene.
• Ben is not only more dashing with the scars, he finally succeeded in inserting all the Darkling's best lines into the show.
• No more insufferable Mal toxic masculinity and slut-shaming scenes.
• No more miscommunication trope as a plot device.
  

Cons:  

• The screenplay appears as if someone who has never read any of the books threw every Grishaverse Fandom (https://thegrishaverse.fandom.com) pages into a blender, then poured the over-smoothed dough into 8 molds to bake a version of the stories.
• Every single character is a much much better person than the original version in the books. One might think this a positive trait, yet the results lack the "edge of one's seat" level of interpersonal friction and irremediable conflicts, making the stakes rather artificial.