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The Shannara Chronicles Season 2 | TV Show Review

Series of adventures, war, and evil that occur throughout the history of the Four Lands.

Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051220/

Watch The Shannara Chronicles Season 2 trailer here.

Why Did It Get Cancelled?!

If you looked back at my review for The Shannara Chronicles Season 1, you would quickly become confused with my sudden change of heart (in reference to the bolded title just one or two sentences up there). Yes, I admit I did not enjoy the first season and due to that, I judged season two pretty quickly. I will be completely honest here, I expected to dread each episode in The Shannara Chronicles Season 2. Yet, with a shocking turn of events, I ended up really enjoying this season. It was everything I wanted from season one but never got. To be more objective, as much as I liked this season and I do think it did doubly better than it’s previous season, there is still so much room for improvements. So, season two was good but still far from perfection.

I really liked the addition of Mareth in this season. Her character started out being so mysterious, I could not get a clear read on her at all. Fortunately, when things began clearing out, she became an extremely interesting character. Her backstory, her abilities and her capabilities. If The Shannara Chronicles had continued, I would have been so down to watch more Mareth. She was one of the reasons I really enjoyed this season to begin with. Melise Jow did this character justice.

Apart from Mareth, Garet Jax was such a fresh inclusion into the TV show too. Likewise, I could not get a read on him in the first few episodes. I do think his backstory was slightly cliche but Garet Jax made up for those cliche bits with his badass abilities. Mind you, Garet Jax is entirely human, whatever his character has the ability to do, he was NOT born with it. Which makes him even more interesting than if he was someone supernatural. Personally, I have never watched any show with Gentry White in it, but the team made a right choice casting White as Garet Jax.

Of course, with every show I watch, I look out for character growth. Although I would not consider Bandon’s character as growth, I completely understand why he chose to go down that particular path. I just hate what happened to Bandon in the end. This was one villainous character I would have looked forward to watching more of; instead of that Warlock Lord who was probably the least interesting character in the entirety of The Shannara Chronicles.

I am very sad this TV show has come to an untimely end. This will probably be one of those cancelled TV shows I had watched that I regret not getting to earlier on. Maybe I would not have been able to do anything about its cancellation, but even if it was going to just be a sliver of hope, it’s still hope. Now, I’m just downright late to the game, the results are out and I can’t help in anything. I do wonder though, if the show had more episodes per season, would it have helped? One thing’s for sure, there would be more room for plot development.

Ratings: ★★★★☆

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