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Shadow and Bone Season 1 Recommendation

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Shadow and Bone Season 1 Recommendation
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Eric Heisserer. Eric Heisserer. Eric Heisserer. These words will be the only words on my lips. Eric Heisserer. Most people fall in love with actors. Me? Screenplay writers. These, in my opinion, are the true brains and IQ behind any fantastic movie or show. And Eric Heisserer has done it again. He absolutely crushed it with Arrival. (Was stoked to get a chance to talk with him about that amazing movie.) And also Bird Box. (And was lucky enough to talk to him about that project as well.) And I can’t wait to get a hold of him to talk about his latest sensation, Shadow and Bone. (I’m not stupid enough to even try to talk to him about it right now. He’s definitely the belle of the ball today.)

I’m a pretty voracious reader, and the world of fantasy, like the Grisha trilogy, is well-trod ground for my reading tastes. You know, books by authors like Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, George R.R. Martin, J. K. Rowlings, Robert Jordan, etc., etc. Yet, I somehow missed Leigh Bardugo entirely. Which, I began making amends for about a year ago when I learned that Heisserer was producing a show for Netflix on the series. And I really fell in love with the books.

Shadow and Bone Season 1 Recommendation

Shadow and Bone Season 1 Recommendation

Well, now that I am three episodes in to the eight episodes of book one – I have to say that I’m pretty blown away by the series. I can’t recommend it enough. The other day I recommended the Tribes of Europa as it came from the same people that produced Dark. And while they are similar in feel, the raw production quality of Shadow and Bone is leagues ahead of Europa. It is really obvious that Netflix was looking for a Game of Thrones entrant finally – and they have definitely found it. But I’m sure that where HBO stumbled with GOT, Netflix is going to succeed with Shadow and Bone. Where the books chart a course forward (which is complete already… cough cough), through a trilogy, and then another entirely different group of heroes struggling forward in the Six of Crows duology, and then the King of Scars duology, it would seem like there is plenty of material to keep Netflix happy for quite some time. Personally, I’m happy to continue my reading for now. But I’m already pinging Eric, asking if he’d already been green-lit for season two:

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  2. Having just finished book one of the Shadow and Bone series I’m realizing that book 4 of the series – or actually, the characters of book 4 – were injected into book 1. So, yeah, I’m assuming that Heisserer has a multi-movie deal with Netflix. I asked him on Twitter, but he hasn’t responded yet. We shall see. But it seems like they were worried about the jolt of losing all the old characters from book 3 to all the new characters of book 4, and solved it by melding the two series together. We’ll see.

  3. I haven’t read the books but season 1 ends with questions and some storylines unresolved so it’s obvious that at least a second season has to be in the works.

  4. Finished season 1, not read the books yet. While I enjoyed it, there were inconsistencies that bugged me, and early on, it bounced around too much between characters we don’t care for yet (unless you’ve read the books, I suppose?). I’m a bit worn out on “origin stories,” so while this did take time off for training and the like, it didn’t completely derail the storyline for it, nor did it linger too long. I can appreciate that. I’ll watch the next season, but if for some reason it doesn’t come, I won’t pine for it.

  5. I’ve finished all three Shadow and Bone books – and I’m almost done with the Six of Crows books. The author breaks a lot of the YA standard rules and does the very unpopular, or the more gruesome thing. Which I really dig about the series. Eric basically blended all three series into a single series… so that is why we were following different characters. And I don’t expect the other threads to make sense until their season. So for Season 1, it was all about Alina. Season 2 probably will be Inej and Kaz. etc. ?? Season 2 will probably be about Jurda parem – the grisha drug. Which is actually the point of the fourth and fifth book. Looks like they have compressed seven books into three seasons? We will see.

  6. Providing Netflix actually keeps it going. I still don’t trust them after the OA.

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