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Shadowhunters

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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews

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Shadowhunters: The Powers That Be

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Shadowhunters

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Freeform | Release Date: January 12, 2016

Summary: The television adaptation of Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series follows Clary Fray (Katherine McNamara) after she discovers she is a Shadowhunter, an human-angel hybrid who hunt demons. When her mother is kidnapped, Clary and her best friend Simon (Alberto Rosende) meet Shadowhunter Jace (Dominic Sherwood) and embark into theThe television adaptation of Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series follows Clary Fray (Katherine McNamara) after she discovers she is a Shadowhunter, an human-angel hybrid who hunt demons. When her mother is kidnapped, Clary and her best friend Simon (Alberto Rosende) meet Shadowhunter Jace (Dominic Sherwood) and embark into the Shadow World.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Fantasy

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S3:E21. Alliance/All Good things
Air Date: May 6, 2019
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S3:E20. City of Glass
Air Date: April 29, 2019
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S3:E19. Aku Cinta Kamu
Air Date: April 22, 2019

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Metascore

45

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5

Critic Reviews

83

Newsday

Verne Gay

Jan 11, 2016

Season 1 Review: Wild start, but a good-looking one. Read full review

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rob Owen

Jan 12, 2016

Season 1 Review: It's soapy and action-packed while still paying attention to developing its characters, the typical ABC Family Freeform mix of elements that's proved successful with its audience so far. Read full review

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The New York Times

James Poniewozik

Jan 11, 2016

Season 1 Review: It’s too moody and self-serious for a pulpy action show in which monsters dissolve into hot sparks when stabbed. Part of the problem is the script, and part is performance; the dialogue is sometimes written more sassily than it’s delivered. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter

Keith Uhlich

Jan 11, 2016

Season 1 Review: What remains is origin-story drudgery (much talk of lost magical objects and Clary's "destiny") that's occasionally leavened by bursts of unintentional humor. Read full review

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We Got This Covered

Isaac Feldberg

Jan 12, 2016

Season 1 Review: The pilot is so bloated, attempting as it does to relay all the rules of its fictional universe through nauseatingly clunky dialogue and disorienting time- and location-jumps (including some to freaking Chernobyl, where the series’ big bad has randomly chosen to camp out), that it’s difficult to make sense of anything going on, but here are the basics. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Tirdad Derakhshani

Jan 12, 2016

Season 1 Review: A dull YA fantasy adventure that takes itself so excruciatingly seriously it invites mockery. Read full review

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The Wrap

Tim Grierson

Jan 12, 2016

Season 1 Review: Not fun enough to be trashy and not resonant enough to make you care.... Lordy, is it silly--and worse, it lacks the wit or sharp self-awareness to own up to its campiness or help make its melodramatic elements more palatable. Read full review

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Lilhomie09

May 22, 2019

Shadowhunters was a awesome show! I am so upset to hear its ending they left to many unanswered I am really starting to get irritated with freeform because even if the show has good reviews they still cancel it I would love to see shadowhunters come back instead of the mortal cup make it aShadowhunters was a awesome show! I am so upset to hear its ending they left to many unanswered I am really starting to get irritated with freeform because even if the show has good reviews they still cancel it I would love to see shadowhunters come back instead of the mortal cup make it a different series.… Expand

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Lucas565

Nov 24, 2020

Apesar de não ter muita coisa haver com os livros, eu particularmente amei essa série

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10

bardi455

Aug 12, 2019

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Aquelyras

May 7, 2021

One of the Best Series on Netflix for me. Sadly a Short Ending. Still hopeing for a Return #SaveShadowHunters

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SantiT

Sep 2, 2019

Desarrollo de personajes perfecto e increíblemente planeado que mejora capítulo a capítulo. La banda sonora muy buena y hay momentos en los que los efectos especiales son muy buenos y otros en los que se hizo lo que se pudo.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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Regius_Sanguis

Jan 22, 2021

The first two seasons (books 1 to 4 of Cassandra Clare) were a full 10. Well written, well played. Season 3 (vaguely inspired from books 5 and 6) is really a mess. Frankly speaking, I didn't miss so many bungled differences from the books. There were so many differences with the books in theThe first two seasons (books 1 to 4 of Cassandra Clare) were a full 10. Well written, well played. Season 3 (vaguely inspired from books 5 and 6) is really a mess. Frankly speaking, I didn't miss so many bungled differences from the books. There were so many differences with the books in the other seasons, it's ok, but third season it's childish and really poor, despite the really good actors. I followed it just for the sake to see how the producer will end the series: awful. Too bad they ruined the original story, the books were awesome.… Expand

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5

Caiobarroso

Dec 19, 2019

Uma das melhores séries que já assisti, até hoje eu não me recuperei daquele final

2 of 2 users found this helpful20

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: March 20, 2018
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  S3:E21. Alliance/All Good things
  Air Date: May 6, 2019
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  S3:E20. City of Glass
  Air Date: April 29, 2019
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  S3:E19. Aku Cinta Kamu
  Air Date: April 22, 2019
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  S3:E18. The Beast Within
  Air Date: April 15, 2019
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  S3:E17. Heavenly Fire
  Air Date: April 8, 2019
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  S3:E16. Stay With me
  Air Date: April 1, 2019
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  S3:E15. To the night children
  Air Date: March 25, 2019
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  S3:E14. A Kiss From a Rose
  Air Date: March 18, 2019
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  S3:E13. Beati Bellicosi
  Air Date: March 11, 2019
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  S3:E12. Original sin
  Air Date: March 4, 2019
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  S3:E11. Lost souls
  Air Date: February 25, 2019
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  S3:E10. Erchomai
  Air Date: May 15, 2018
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  S3:E9. Familia Ante Omnia
  Air Date: May 15, 2018
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  S3:E8. A Heart of Darkness
  Air Date: May 8, 2018
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  S3:E7. Salt in the Wound
  Air Date: May 1, 2018
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  S3:E6. A Window Into an Empty Room
  Air Date: April 24, 2018
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  S3:E5. Stronger Than Heaven
  Air Date: April 17, 2018
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  S3:E4. Thy Soul Instructed
  Air Date: April 10, 2018
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  S3:E3. What Lies Beneath
  Air Date: April 3, 2018
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  S3:E2. The Powers That Be
  Air Date: March 27, 2018
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  S3:E1. On Infernal Ground
  Air Date: March 20, 2018
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: January 2, 2017
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: January 12, 2016