(Warning: This post contains spoilers through the Season 1 finale of Netflix’s “Shadow and Bone.”)
“Shadow and Bone” ends its eight-episode first season with a finale that sees Alina Starkov (played by Jessie Mei Li) reach her full Sun Summoner potential when she breaks free of General Kirigan, a.k.a. The Darkling (Ben Barnes), managing to harness the power of the stag amplifier that he has had fused to her body and throw him to his (seeming) death in the depths of the Shadow Fold.
Of course, for those who have been paying attention throughout the rest of Season 1 of Netflix’s “Shadow and Bone,” which launched Friday, things are rarely so cut and dry, and in the closing moments of the finale, we see the Darkling escape the Shadow Fold not just alive, but towing an army of horrifying new shadow monsters.