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The title of this article is embarrassing. They took "best series" from a post of a random X user @MhayYhusuf who called the series "the best show on the platform".

Shadow and Bone is far from being a best anything.

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I believe the title refers to the linked article [1]—which claims it topped the platform's charts—rather than the quoted tweet.

It might not be to your liking, but it's been in Netflix's top 10 lists [2] quite a few times.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/sha...

[2] https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10/tv?week=2023-03-19

That would be a most charitable interpretation. By that logic You and Florida Man: would also be it's 'best series' since they all clocked in higher than Shadow and Bone quite a few times.

If we honestly talking about their best performing properties we are talking about the likes of Squid Game, Stranger Things, Wednesday, Dahmer, Bridgerton, Money Heist, The Night Agent, The Queen's Gambit, Lupin and The Witcher S1.

Shadow and Bone is not even close to that group.

Lupin and The Witcher S1 (and Wednesday to a lesser degree) were average adaptations of good stories. The only thing nice in the Witcher was the casting, and Lupin had great initial ideas (like the casting, too), but overall it was very average. Shadow and bones was an average adaptation of an average story.

It reminds me of this thing I saw recently where network TV shows will include blurbs in ads for the show, like "RIVETING!", "CAN'T TURN AWAY...", etc., and the expectation of course is that it's Peter Travers or whoever the hell that wrote the blurb.

Except they were just handles like "@BeckFire49" from random people on Twitter.

I’m surprised they cancelled it though, given how popular the books are.

As someone who watched S1, and enjoyed it. I never bothered to watch S2 owing to the two year delay between releases. I felt like I had probably forgotten too many plot points to fully appreciate it.

Welcome to modern journalism, where a journalist can take a tweet from any rando (of which there are many millions) to make their preconceived point and present it as some sort of consensus.

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