{"id":86585,"date":"2016-04-21T19:35:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=86585"},"modified":"2016-04-22T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T09:41:26","slug":"shadowhunters-season-1-review-netflixs-next-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/shadowhunters-season-1-review-netflixs-next-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadowhunters Season 1 review: Netflix&#8217;s next hit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prospective New York<b> <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\">art student Clary Fray (Katherine McNamara) is just trying to celebrate her seemingly normal 18th birthday with her best friend Simon (Alberto Rosende), but when her mother is kidnapped, she finds out she\u2019s a Shadowhunter, and realises things can never go back to the way they were. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">To rescue her mum, Clary needs to travel to the Shadow World, train with other Shadowhunters and fight evil forces. If it sounds a bit stupid, that\u2019s only because it is. But it\u2019s hard to tell if that\u2019s a good or a bad thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The first few episodes are pretty lame, but the line between lame and good begins to get blurry somewhere between episodes four and six. Maybe the magic, fluff and pairings will grate on some, but all those things are also the juicy bait that draw others in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">There\u2019s nothing overtly special about <em><strong>Shadowhunters<\/strong><\/em>; the performances are alright, the magical effects are standard, and the plot is regular. But once you get into the swing of things and start to understand how the world operates, the characters begin to reveal themselves as the show\u2019s main selling point. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Unless your heart is literally made of limestone, it gets harder not to care about Clary, Simon, Alec, Magnus or even bloody Raphael. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Once the show has successfully reeled you in, you probably won\u2019t care about the fate of the Mortal Cup or whatever other MacGuffin they are all supposed to be retrieving. But you\u2019ll care about the fates of your favourite characters. You\u2019ll actually care a lot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">You\u2019ll either hate Shadowhunters or find yourself completely invested in it. You\u2019ll want to punch the entire cast in the face, or end up crying into a mug of lukewarm hot chocolate while hitting \u2018next episode\u2019 at three in the morning with no idea how you got there. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Shadowhunters do The Mortal Instruments justice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":86586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[8,207],"tags":[4429],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12885833_578851558957714_7069204561541766493_o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}