Big budgets are a bit like expensive sports cars... You can invest as much as you like in a project but if somebody doesn't know how to effectively steer the damn thing forward, your money's being wasted - either way.
I say this because comparing the debut of "Shadow & Bone" S1 (arguably one of the strongest pilot episodes of any series I've seen in years, directed by Lee Toland Krieger) with S2 (led by Bola Ogun) is ironically like witnessing the difference between night & day; one shines brightly with some of the most confident & deft filmmaking Netflix has started a show with whilst the other does not.
That's not to say it's bad... But the return could've been so much better, immediately upon its arrival - & this sadly feels like a lacklustre re-emergence, in contrast to what came before.
I say this because comparing the debut of "Shadow & Bone" S1 (arguably one of the strongest pilot episodes of any series I've seen in years, directed by Lee Toland Krieger) with S2 (led by Bola Ogun) is ironically like witnessing the difference between night & day; one shines brightly with some of the most confident & deft filmmaking Netflix has started a show with whilst the other does not.
That's not to say it's bad... But the return could've been so much better, immediately upon its arrival - & this sadly feels like a lacklustre re-emergence, in contrast to what came before.