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The Shannara Chronicles - Season 1
When the Four Lands became threatened by a grave danger from the Demon army an unlikely trio sets out to save their homeland.
18 February 1991, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
18 February 1982, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
11 November 1976, South Island, New Zealand
7 June 1991, Surrey, England, UK
19 February 1974, London, England, UK
23 March 1992, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
25 April 1980, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1972
27 January 1972, Pacific Grove, California, USA
January 04, 2016
The world-building is imaginative and impressive, but the mythology is exhausting to keep up with, especially when the reward is basically a romance-novel version of The Lord of the Rings, complete with courtly hand-kissing and sexy elfin bubble baths.
January 06, 2016
The fact that the mostly inert The Shannara Chronicles is utterly familiar on both levels is a reminder that a truly vibrant fantasy story requires some sort of invention.
December 29, 2015
Like watching someone else play a prepackaged Dungeons and Dragons campaign, only not as much fun.
January 04, 2016
The truth is, genre-loving families and fantasy fans who want to travel to another world but don't want to fork over the admission to a multiplex (or a premium channel) could do worse than this.
June 10, 2016
The good outweighs the bad in a series that is still finding its feet. Here's hoping the second series is a less bumpy ride - and that Wil stops clumsily losing the Elfstones.
January 06, 2016
The show sputters along, never quite finding its footing between the stakes of a collapsing fantasy universe and a soapy teen drama.
January 05, 2016
It doesn't help that the characters seem to be allowed to switch from talking dour fantasy-novel heroes to bored millennials whenever the mood strikes them - perhaps something that might have to do with this being MTV.
January 04, 2016
Fantasy stories tend to risk the ridiculous to achieve the sublime. But The Shannara Chronicles almost always lands on the wrong side of that divide.
December 30, 2015
The Shannara Chronicles can't help but show off how cool its various magical storylines are, and in doing so it shows off its shortcomings. Its characters are fairly weak, with the exception of Manu Bennet's Allanon, though its setting is gorgeous.
January 04, 2016
Whatever visual beauty this pretender to Game of Thrones' high fantasy throne does possess is undone by wooden performances, formulaic execution and dialogue so howlingly bad it resembles subpar fan fiction.
