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Shadowhunters

A film and a series that both start from the same book and then have nothing to do with each other.

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Where to start with Shadowhunters

Two adaptations of the same books, made three years apart, with no connection between them. Both begin with the first novel, so the film is not a prologue to the series, it is the same opening told again.

  1. 1
    Shadowhunters, season 1 Shadowhunters

    Thirteen episodes covering roughly what the film covers, with a different cast and a different plan. Nothing before it is needed, and it is the version that actually got to tell a story.

  2. 2
    Shadowhunters, season 2 Shadowhunters

    Twenty episodes released in two halves of ten, and the point at which the series stops tracking the novels and goes its own way. Reading along book by book will mislead you from here.

  3. 3
    The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

    Optional and best kept for afterwards. It adapts the same first novel, its planned sequel was cancelled outright, and nothing follows from it.

Then what? The third season is the awkward one: ten episodes in spring 2018, then the show was cancelled during the gap, then twelve more nine months later written as an ending. The last two of those aired together as a two-hour finale, so watch them in one sitting. That is the whole story on screen; most of Cassandra Clare's other series have never been adapted.

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