You know that anxiety dream where you find yourself taking an exam in a class for which you haven't done any of the reading?
Even if it's a class that, by dream-logic, you think you're familiar with, it's like a veil of darkness is settling over part of your brain.
Coincidentally, a veil of darkness has settled across part of the kingdom of Ravka, the Russian-inspired land at the heart of Netflix's Shadow and Bone.
Called "The Fold," it's a nearly impenetrable magical partition populated by flying monsters called "volcra." Viewers coming into Shadow and Bone without any of the background from Leigh Bardugo's novels are likely to feel at least somewhat thrust into darkness by all of series creator Eric Heisserer's attempted world-building.
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