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- 2016
- TV-14
- MTV
- 2016
- TV-14
- MTV
Summary The adaptation of the fantasy book series by Terry Brooks set thousands of year in the future where follows Elvin Princess Amberle (Poppy Drayton); Eretria (Ivana Baquero), a Human Rover; and Wil(Austin Butler), a Half-Elf, Half-Human, seek to stop a Demon army from destroying the world.
Created By: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
- 2016
- TV-14
- MTV
- 2016
- TV-14
- MTV
The Shannara Chronicles
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 5, 2016
52
6.6
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Summary The adaptation of the fantasy book series by Terry Brooks set thousands of year in the future where follows Elvin Princess Amberle (Poppy Drayton); Eretria (Ivana Baquero), a Human Rover; and Wil(Austin Butler), a Half-Elf, Half-Human, seek to stop a Demon army from destroying the world.
Created By: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
52
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
27% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
52
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
27% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
First rate production value, interesting characters and an intriguing story make for a world well worth escaping to.
The series is sassier than the book.... Moving pictures require something different; messianic folderol is best served there with a little sex, and a little seltzer. That has been provided.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 356 User Ratings
6.6
62% Positive
220 Ratings
220 Ratings
14% Mixed
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
24% Negative
85 Ratings
85 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 356 User Ratings
6.6
62% Positive
220 Ratings
220 Ratings
14% Mixed
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
24% Negative
85 Ratings
85 Ratings
This is up there as one of my favorite tv shows. It was done incredible well, and actually does the book justice. The story line is really well written and the charterers did an excellent job. I'm incredible bummed about the shuffling around with this show, causing it to end with season 2. Someone really needs to pick up the licences and resume the show.
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Though there’s plenty of reasons to mourn a show that’s covering up its central emptiness with so much narrative busy work, there are glimmers of hope that maybe, if the show gains some footing in its second act, it might still find itself in time.
The world-building is imaginative and impressive, but the mythology is exhausting to keep up with, especially when the reward is basically just a romance-novel version of The Lord of the Rings.
MTV's big swing at epic fantasy is a lot of hokey bombast, wasted on a cast of callow babes in the exotic woods. [4-17 Jan 2015, p.15]
Every time a character opens their mouth for some tin-eared quip that wouldn’t be out of place on a soapy drama like Gossip Girl, it knee-caps the rest of the storytelling. And wherever the dialogue isn’t weirdly contemporary, it’s frustratingly clunky.
Yet again, a great book is decimated and perverted by modern TV/Movie hacks. Poor casting, horrid acting and modern identity politics meshed together into a mockery **** story. The acting is this show was sub CW quality. I got so tired of hearing Austin Butler cry out "Amberle." Who copy/pasted that into the script? I enjoyed the books and wanted to like this show, but it was so disappointingly bad.
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Production Company:
- Farah Films
- Music Television (MTV)
- Sonar Entertainment
Initial Release Date: Jan 5, 2016
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
Directors Guild of Canada
• 1 Nomination
