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Grade: 4.0/5.0 The long awaited fantasy realm of the Grishaverse has finally made it to the screen. Based off of author Leigh Bardugo’s successful book trilogy of the same name and duology “Six of Crows,” “Shadow and Bone” is Netflix’s newest addition to the streaming service’s growing collection of beloved novel-to-television adaptations. With a slew of main characters — each developed considerably well in the series’s short length of eight episodes — “Shadow and Bone” weaves the compelling story of the Grisha people who can wield the elements, the enemies-to-lovers-t...

What's New on TV? Does Netflix’s ‘Shadow and Bone’ strike a chord? A still from the series. Sara Kabir Sara Kabir For any popular book to screen adaptation with an already existing fanbase, there is always a risk of either enraging or disappointing fans of the original source material or confusing new viewers. Netflix's new fantasy series, Shadow and Bone, takes that risk and takes it a step further by having Leigh Burdugo, the author of the bestselling "Grisha" trilogy and "Six of Crows" duology, upon which the show is based, as an executiv...

Opinion Netflix’s Shadow and Bone includes all the classic touchpoints of a new juggernaut fantasy series: a coming-of-age narrator, an ominous place full of darkness and monsters, period costumes, and British accents. But the series also added a new ingredient it wants to make sure we’re aware of from the jump: racism! “I live in East Ravka, but I’ve never been welcome here,” Alina (Jessie Mei Li) narrates barely thirty seconds into the first episode, “because I look like my mother, and she looked like the enemy.”  Adapted from the massively bestselling YA fantasy series by L...

This article contains spoilers. Every child dreams of magic. You look for it in ordinary things, in wind whistling through open windows…

Stars: 5/5 We are welcomed into the Grishaverse, a world based on the New York Times Bestselling series that shares the same title, “Shadow and Bone.” I’ve been waiting for this series since the cast was announced in 2019. Having read both Leigh Bardugo’s “Shadow and Bone” and “Six of Crows” series, I was worried whether Netflix would prioritize this show. Netflix is now either giving us the pinnacle of television and cancels after one season or the garbage we all love to laugh at while groaning at when Netflix renews for a million seasons. With a na...