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'Shadow and Bone' canceled after 2 seasons, spinoff also scrapped (ew.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I don't think it was just poor acting that did it. Even Ben Barnes, who I think is a really good actor, couldn't make up for the poor writing and direction. He was definitely still the highlight for me, but watching him in this versus The Punisher or season 1 of Westworld really showed how much the material was lacking here.

There certainly were some actors I wasn't particularly enamoured with, but I think quite a few of them did as well as they could with what they had to work with. I think fairly flat direction and undynamic scenes were the biggest issue, even more so than the not-so-great writing.

In general, though, I found it just felt very "young adult fiction", and not in a good way. I never ended up finishing the first season either.