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Shadow and Bone Season 1 Episode 1, “A Searing Burst of Light.”] Welcome to the Grishaverse, Netflix’s latest answer to Game of Thrones — and a worthy answer, it is. Whether you’ve hungrily devoured every word of Leigh Bardugo’s YA novels or you’re starting off as a total newcomer to Alina’s (Jessie Mei Li) world, her friends and her enemies, the series premiere of Shadow and Bone is accessible to all (if a little confusing, perhaps, at times). The episode is divided into two major storylines: Alina’s, and a young criminal mastermind named Kaz (F...

For a while in the post-“Twilight,” post-“The Hunger Games” days, YA adaptations were a dime a dozen. Too many novels followed a generic “Superpowers revealed, true selves explored” template, with female protagonists often mired in love triangles that obfuscated their own character development. Plots were simultaneously overly complicated and fairly predictable, and the dystopia setting was particularly worn out. As cinematic or TV adaptations, franchises either fizzled out (“Divergent,” “The Mortal Instruments”) or never got off the ground (“Beautiful Creatures,” “I...