{"id":236576,"date":"2021-04-27T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/netflixs-shadow-and-bone-is-ya-fantasy-done-so-so-right-film\/"},"modified":"2021-04-27T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:00:40","slug":"netflixs-shadow-and-bone-is-ya-fantasy-done-so-so-right-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/netflixs-shadow-and-bone-is-ya-fantasy-done-so-so-right-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Netflix’s ‘Shadow and Bone’ is YA Fantasy Done So, So Right \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Netflix’s ‘Shadow and Bone’ is YA Fantasy Done So, So Right \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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(Welcome to\u00a0The Quarantine Stream<\/strong><\/a>, a new series<\/a> where the \/Film team shares what they\u2019ve been watching while social<\/a> distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Series<\/strong>: Shadow and Bone
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Where You Can Stream It<\/strong>: Netflix
\nThe Pitch<\/strong>: Set in a war-torn fantasy world where people, called Grisha, have the magical ability to manipulate matter, young orphan Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li<\/strong>) discovers that she is a fabled Grisha called the Sun Summoner \u2014 the only person with the ability to tear down a swath of permanent darkness called the Fold, which splits her country in two. She\u2019s taken in by\u00a0General<\/a> Kirigan (Ben Barnes<\/strong>), the leader of the Grisha and a Shadow Summoner who believes that together, he and Alina can change the world.<\/p>\n

Why It\u2019s Essential Viewing<\/strong>: YA fantasy? You may roll your eyes as I did when you heard the genre and heard of the following that\u00a0Shadow and Bone<\/em> has, from\u00a0Leigh Bardugo\u2019s beloved\u00a0Grisha<\/em> trilogy novels. A chosen one heroine, a love triangle between the handsome brooding one and the childhood friend one, a magic academy where the students are divided up by their very specific powers. And yet, half an hour into the first of the eight episodes of\u00a0Shadow and Bone<\/em>, I sat up and thought, \u201cOh, no.\u201d I could feel an obsession setting in that I hadn\u2019t felt since I was on tumblr in 2012. These overly familiar elements were coalescing in a way that was exciting, and imaginative, and compelling, and app<\/a>ealed very specifically to me in a way that meant I was going to be nursing a new Netflix addiction.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not the first to say that YA fiction has become pretty hacky since\u00a0Hunger Game<\/a>s<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Twilight<\/em> forced Team Peeta and Team Edward on us. The genre has devolved into a painfully familiar formula \u2014 the chosen one, the love triangle, the division by personality traits. It\u2019s a shame that this is what emerged from YA, and not the rich and challenging storytelling that you could get from lesser-known works like\u00a0House of the Scorpion<\/em>\u00a0(don\u2019t get me started on how the novels that broke the YA mold were usually categorized as children\u2019s lit). But I\u2019m not here to complain about the state that YA is in, but rather to praise when a show can have all those elements and get it so,\u00a0so<\/em> right. And that\u2019s\u00a0Shadow and Bone<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Right off the bat, Shadow and Bone<\/em>\u00a0shows off a rich, almost confusingly complex world. Alina Starkov is a half-Shu orphan raised in the Russian-inspired Ravka, which is at war with its surrounding countries \u2014 the Scandinavian-inspired\u00a0Fjerdato the north, and the East Asian-based\u00a0Shu\u00a0Han to the south. Alina\u2019s ethnicity earns her the scorn of her fellow orphans, except for Mal (Archie Renaux), another biracial outsider who becomes her best friend. There\u2019s a lot of interesting racial politics at play in\u00a0Shadow and Bone<\/em>, which the show admittedly hammers in pretty heavily with characters frequently spitting \u201chalf-breed\u201d at Alina, or calling attention to the anti-Shu propaganda which looks eerily like anti-Japanese propaganda from World War II. But it\u2019s the way that\u00a0Shadow and Bone<\/em>\u00a0effortlessly introduces this world while setting the stage for all the characters and the pieces to come together that makes it such a splendid watch.
\nBecause not only do you have Alina\u2019s chosen-one story to keep the show moving forward, you\u2019ve got a colorful cast of characters that flesh out the world. While Alina is being discovered and squirreled away to train for her world-saving fate, we have the \u201cCrows,\u201d a trio of criminals led by the hilariously spiteful Kaz Brekker (Freddy Carter) who set out to kidnap Alina for a huge fortune. The series juggles storylines and a vast ensemble in a manner that has been compared to\u00a0Game of Thrones<\/em>, but the thing about\u00a0Shadow and Bone<\/em> is that it has fun with it. There\u2019s an awareness that the series is a YA fantasy series that is 99% people pining for each other, and maybe 1% people kissing (and they all look great doing it).\u00a0Shadow and Bone<\/em>\u00a0refreshingly doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously \u2014 that\u2019s for the fans to do.<\/p>\n

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