Shadow and Bone season 2 confirmed — just announced at Netflix Geeked Week

Shadow and Bone season two confirmed — just announced at Netflix Geeked Calendar week

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The first Netflix Geeked Week news just bankrupt — Shadow and Bone season 2 is finally confirmed. The bandage bankrupt the news in a prune, only they didn't say when the adjacent flavor is coming. Grishaverse fans have been waiting for this news for weeks, and it felt similar it was taking a piddling longer than e'er.

Today's news comes a short time later on the first month of Shadow and Os beingness on Netflix (it debuted on April 23), and so news was expected, as Netflix usually announces renewals and cancelations about a month after the debut. Shadow and Bone fans are on the winning side of things right at present, as Netflix announced it was canceling Jupiter'due south Legacy last week.

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Shadow and Bone season two will exist comprised of eight all-new one-hour episodes. Showrunner, writer and exec. producer Eric Heisserer said, in a press release, that he is "honored and thrilled to render to the Grishaverse and keep the stories of these endearing characters, particularly Milo."

Grishaverse mastermind Leigh Bardugo added "I've been writing in the Grishaverse for nearly ten years now, and so I'm thrilled nosotros get to keep this adventure going. In that location are so many places nosotros've barely gotten to visit and I can't wait to innovate our audience to more of the saints, soldiers, thugs, thieves, princes, and privateers who make this world so much fun to explore."

In previous interviews, Heisserer prepared fans to expect upcoming editions of the series. It all makes sense because of the many Grishaverse books, which give Heisserer a lot of material for what'south coming next. He's said he's had "exhaustive" plans for Shadow and Bone season 2 — and that he'due south been chewing on them in his caput for years.

As for how many more seasons, he'd previously said he planned for a trilogy of seasons — but now he's told Collider that "It can exist far more than than three seasons." Every bit for how many more? He noted "I experience like this is going to remain strong and healthy even at 4 seasons and beyond that, who knows? But I experience very nervous talking nearly that. I experience like I'one thousand the baseball player pointing at the rafters and I take no thought."

The cast of Shadow and Bone season 2 is definitely going to abound. Heisserer told Collider that the Dregs will finally get Wylan Van Eck. And he didn't beat around the bush either, declaring the second season will accept "i hundred pct more Wylan," though we don't know how much Wylan that means, every bit the commencement flavor had no Wylan.

Nikolai Lantsov the Sturnhound — leader of a pirate fleet — is besides expected to be added to the show. Alina and Mal volition need Nikolai's help.

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