For a while, it looked like Netflix had another hit on its hands with Shadow and Bone. Based on the popular book series known as the Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone follows a young map maker named Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) who finds out she’s actually a powerful Grisha prophesied to save her country. The show made a splash with its first season in April 2021 and released a second season in March 2023. Although the series’ creators had hoped to continue the story in a third season and a spinoff based on the Six of Crows duology, Shadow and Bone was canceled on November 15, 2023.The announcement came shortly after the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, with Shadow and Bone being one of five shows axed by Netflix. Of these five, which also included Agent Elvis, Glamorous, Farzar and Captain Fall, Shadow and Bone was the only show to receive a second season. Season 2 ended with a huge cliffhanger, leaving fans furious at the news that the show had been canceled. While fans have been very vocal on social media, whether this outcry will convince Netflix to reverse its decision remains to be seen.As a fantasy series, Shadow and Bone isn’t exactly cheap to make. The first season was estimated to have had a budget of about $3-5 million per episode, while some reports estimate that Season 2 had an overall budget of about $88 million. For comparison, this puts Shadow and Bone Season 1 in a similar price range as other Netflix shows like Daredevil, Hemlock Grove and Outer Banks. Netflix’s other big fantasy series, The Witcher, had a budget of $10 million per episode in its first season, a figure that more than doubled for its second season. Fantasy shows from other streamers cost astronomically more today, making Shadow and Bone’s Season 1 budget look rather modest, but the budget certainly went up for its second season, and filming delays likely drove costs up even further for a potential Season 3.
For a while, it looked like Netflix had another hit on its hands with Shadow and Bone. Based on the popular book series known as the Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone follows a young map maker named Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) who finds out she’s actually a powerful Grisha prophesied to save her country. The show made a splash with its first season in April 2021 and released a second season in March 2023. Although the series’ creators had hoped to continue the story in a third season and a spinoff based on the Six of Crows duology, Shadow and Bone was canceled on November 15, 2023.
The announcement came shortly after the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, with Shadow and Bone being one of five shows axed by Netflix. Of these five, which also included Agent Elvis, Glamorous, Farzar and Captain Fall, Shadow and Bone was the only show to receive a second season. Season 2 ended with a huge cliffhanger, leaving fans furious at the news that the show had been canceled. While fans have been very vocal on social media, whether this outcry will convince Netflix to reverse its decision remains to be seen.
As a fantasy series, Shadow and Bone isn’t exactly cheap to make. The first season was estimated to have had a budget of about $3-5 million per episode, while some reports estimate that Season 2 had an overall budget of about $88 million. For comparison, this puts Shadow and Bone Season 1 in a similar price range as other Netflix shows like Daredevil, Hemlock Grove and Outer Banks. Netflix’s other big fantasy series, The Witcher, had a budget of $10 million per episode in its first season, a figure that more than doubled for its second season. Fantasy shows from other streamers cost astronomically more today, making Shadow and Bone‘s Season 1 budget look rather modest, but the budget certainly went up for its second season, and filming delays likely drove costs up even further for a potential Season 3.
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