Latest Fantasy News: Despite leaks, the ‘Tears of the Kingdom’ hype train keeps chugging along as Netflix users fight for ‘Shadow and Bone’ season 3
Look folks, I love Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom.
They are excellent books, full of captivating characters, and who doesn’t love a good, impossibly complex heist? But the shows inspired by these beloved stories — and Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone trilogy — are simply not it. The actors are doing a spectacular job, but they’re doing it with dull, uninspired material whose few fine moments are snatched directly from Bardugo’s pages. Everything else — which equals out to the vast majority of the show — veers much too far from the source material, and as a result is excessively safe, overstuffed, and painfully vanilla.
Despite this fact, frantic Shadow and Bone fans are putting the work in to see the show return. It might arrive as a letdown if it ever does get the greenlight from Netflix, but fans are determined to get a season three anyway.
Their chances of success are slim — if the Warrior Nun fandom is anything to go by — but fans aren’t giving up easy. At least the Shadow and Bone campaign will help keep fantasy fans distracted from the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leak, which ruined several of the game’s plot points for gamers lacking in self control.
The game’s official release is only a few weeks away, so we won’t be dodging spoilers for long, but fans of Bad Cinderella may have a far harder time on the internet over the next few weeks. The musical was completely absent from the Tony’s list of 2023 nominations, a fact that very few fans seem to disagree with. Those that support the musical, however, are finding themselves disgruntled by the bad rap it’s getting online.
It’s not alone in getting negative feedback, of course, with Disney’s Peter Pan & Wendy also facing harsh criticism in the wake of its
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