
The reasons are many and varied, so let’s jump into it. And while the first half of the season suffered some growing pains as the kinks of the storylines were being ironed out and the universe of the show expanded, there’s no doubt – despite the solid and well-loved thirteen episodes of the first season – that Season 2 ended up utterly blowing its predecessor out of the water. With Shadowhunters’ second season now drawn to a close, it seems this is an appropriate time to reflect on the past twenty episodes – to think about the things that worked, the things that didn’t, and the things that have kept us fervently glued to our screens for an hour every Monday night (or Tuesday morning for us ever-patient international fans).įrom the outset of Season 2, with new showrunners coming in to take over the helm and promising a drastic paradigm shift from the show we were all introduced to, there was some palpable anxiety as we entered the second season of Shadowhunters earlier this year.
