The second season of Netflix’s “Shadow and Bone” is finally in sight, coming this Spring, two years after the first season premiere. The first images from the new season have surfaced, along with comments (via Deadline) from the showrunners and more that give us a hint at what’s to come.
Showrunner Eric Heisserer:
The most wonderful thing about Season Two is that we get to advance the story of these characters that we’d left in precarious positions at the end of Season One. There’s a lot of potential for them this season. They have to face the consequences for their actions, and then they get to meet new people along the way. The Grishaverse also expands in this season, both in mythology and in characters. In doing so, we expand the world, we go to new locations, we visit Novyi Zem and Shu Han, and those are all integral to the narrative.
He continues, teasing an expanding world. “The most wonderful thing about Season Two is that we get to advance the story of these characters that we’d left in precarious positions at the end of Season One. There’s a lot of potential for them this season. They have to face the consequences for their actions, and then they get to meet new people along the way. The Grishaverse also expands in this season, both in mythology and in characters. In doing so, we expand the world, we go to new locations, we visit Novyi Zem and Shu Han, and those are all integral to the narrative.”
Author and executive producer Leigh Bardugo states:
We are going to get to see some incredible new characters. We’re going to see characters interacting with each other, questing with each other, fighting and laughing with each other, who we never got to see together in the books. And I think that’s a unique thing about this show. Readers are not only going to be surprised by the way that these storylines crash into each other, they’re never going to know where the next move is coming from—and that actually was a pleasure for me because I got to be surprised by my own stories.”
The official season two synopsis:
“Alina Starkov is on the run. A beacon of hope to some and a suspected traitor to others, she’s determined to bring down the Shadow Fold and save Ravka from ruin. But General Kirigan has returned to finish what he started. Backed by a terrifying new army of seemingly indestructible shadow monsters and fearsome new Grisha recruits, Kirigan is more dangerous than ever. To stand a fighting chance against him, Alina and Mal rally their own powerful new allies and begin a continent-spanning journey to find two mythical creatures that will amplify her powers. Back in Ketterdam, the Crows must forge new alliances as they contend with old rivals and even older grudges that threaten their place in the Barrel and their lives. When a chance at a deadly heist comes their way, the Crows will once again find themselves on a collision course with the legendary Sun Summoner.”
Tune in on March 16, 2023, for the second season premiere of “Shadow and Bone” on Netflix.
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- Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev, Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov ep 201 of Shadow and Bone. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix
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- Freddy Carter as Kaz Brekker, Amita Suman as Inej Ghafa in ep 206 of Shadow and Bone. Cr. Netflix
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- Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev, Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov episode ep 202. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix
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- Lewis Tan as Tolya, Anna Leong Brophy as Tamar in ep 208 of “Shadow and Bone Cr. Netflix
