10 Flop TV Shows That Made ONE Huge Mistake

Adapting any series of books into an ongoing TV show is incredibly challenging for many reasons, not least that there's no guarantee audiences will enjoy the show long enough to stick around for the long haul.

Netflix's Shadow and Bone took a rather... unique approach to try and ensure all the written material was adapted, by opting to basically speed-run the source material as fast as possible.

The first season covered the original novel trilogy's first book, while season two slammed into overdrive and adapted the second and third books, Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising, while also pulling in elements from the spin-off novel Crooked Kingdom.

Season two ended up receiving a considerably more polarised response from fans of the books, who felt that the showrunners tried to cram far too much into it, resulting in a rushed mess which did little justice to the much-loved source.

Amid middling viewing figures, Netflix consequently decided to cancel Shadow and Bone after two seasons - an outcome which most have blamed on the how frantically the creators attempted to sprint through the novels.