shadow and bone is inspired by the works of Leigh Bardugo, and Season 2 adapts a number of her books.
Bardugo’s novels share the collective title Grishaverse, named for the characters who possess a variety of powers known as the Grisha.
So far, the Grishaverse consists of the shadow and bone trilogy, the Six crows duology and the king of scars duology. It also includes collections of short stories such as The Language of Thorns, The Lives of the Saints and the graphic novel The demon in the forest.
Here’s everything you need to know about the new season of shadow and bone.
In Season 2 of the Netflix hit, Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) is still on the run with Mal Oretsev (Archie Renaux) after the events of Season 1, but the pair are quickly drawn back into the fight to save their homeland of Ravka .
Alina makes it her mission to find the last of Ilya Morozova’s boosters to increase her powers and defeat General Kirigan aka The Darkling (Ben Barnes) and tear down the Shadow Wrinkle he unleashed on Ravka centuries earlier.
The only way to do that is to team up with new allies like the Ravkan prince, Nikolai Lantsov (Patrick Gibson).
Meanwhile, the Crows – Kaz Brekker (Freddy Carter), Inej Ghafa (Amita Suman) and Jesper Fahey (Kit Young) – plot revenge on Pekka Rollins (Dean Lennox Kelly) for framed them for murder. They try to achieve this with the help of Nina Zenik (Danielle Galligan) and Wylan Hendricks (Jack Wolfe).
The fantasy series adapts the last two books by Bardugo shadow and bone trilogy, titled siege and storm And ruin and rise, respectively. It also excludes elements Six crows And Crooked Kingdom.
Kaz’s revenge plot against Pekka Rollins is a storyline in crooked kingdom, For example, while details of Kaz’s backstory and Wylan’s introduction to the Crows crew are a part of Six crows.
There are even elements of king of scars Duology included in the show, such as Nikolai’s friend Dominik, who died in battle years before Bardugo’s books were set to music but is still alive during the events of the TV show.
Showrunner Eric Heisserer narrates news week this rationalization shadow and bone The second season’s story, which incorporates storylines from multiple books, “came out of necessity due to the show’s large cast.”
He explained, “The discoveries we made in the first five weeks of the Writers Room as we watched Season 2 were big tectonic shifts for us as we realized so much of it siege and storm– because it’s solely from Alina’s point of view – didn’t give us much interaction […] with other main characters.
“And when you have such a large and exciting cast list as ours, we knew right away that we had to find the most aerodynamic story possible that would allow us to hit the moments with Alina’s development and her arc […] but then allowed us to move on to either of Nikolai’s team or the Crows or any number of other new characters we introduced here. So it was about feeding a lot of mouths.”
shadow and bone Season 2 is available now on Netflix.
