Welcome to a brief recap of episode 1 of the Netflix show “Shadow and Bone”, Season 2. If you are looking for details, you will find these recaps neither very helpful nor profound, I strive to be as brief as possible and only comment on things that stand out the most. If you have not …
Nina and Matthias have settled with “friendship” (and a little more) and are staying at a hotel. They are also trying to figure out what to do because obviously Matthias’ country hate Grisha, and Nina’s country would probably tear witch hunters apart on sight, no matter how good-looking they are. When they are down the …
EPISODE 7 RECAP We start out with the story of how the Darkling created the Fold. After he was driven away from his palace advisor job, the Darkling and his Grisha friends were hunted by the king. A Grisha woman — could be either his friend or his beloved, it isn’t clear here — was …
EPISODE 6 RECAP The Darkling interrogates the man who broke into the palace and attacked Genya and also killed Marie. He then decides to lead a group of Grisha to find Alina, believing that she has been kidnapped. Zoya warns the Darkling that they don’t know anything about Alina yet so best not to invest …
This is the episode where everything happens. And I don’t just mean Alina walking in the Darkling’s room in her bathrobe. EPISODE 5 RECAP (*If you are looking for details, you will find these recaps neither very helpful nor profound, I strive to be as brief as possible and only comment on the most critical …
These episodes are generally uneventful for poor Alina. Unless you want to count the slumber party she and the Darkling have in the end. EPISODE 3 & 4 RECAP (*If you are looking for details, you will find these recaps neither very helpful nor profound, I strive to be as brief as possible and only …
EPISODE 2 RECAP After the little incident inside the Shadow Fold, Alina Starkov is taken to see the leader of the Grisha, General Kirigan, the most powerful Shadow Summoner in existence (that they know of). He is also known as “the Darkling”, aka the only title that matters. The Darkling asks Alina a few questions, …
Welcome to a very brief recap of episode 1 of the Netflix show Shadow and Bone. If you are looking for details, you will find these recaps neither very helpful nor profound, I strive to be as brief as possible and only comment on the most critical occurrences. SOME BACKGROUND INFO Shadow and Bone takes …
Needless to say, there are more than five things we can appreciate — things that are worth thinking about, to be more accurate — about The Thorn Birds (TV, 1983), from the acting to the writing that perfectly translates the scandalous nature of this tragic brick-thick novel. But for now, let us stick with five …
The movie begins with King Arthur waiting for dawn and wondering how they have gotten to this point, where he has to wage war against his best friend and knight, Lancelot. Merlin pops in and out to help Arthur with this thought process, telling him to go back to the beginning, when he first met …
