Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 7

[Louella Kammann]

Shadowhuntersis an American supernatural drama television series. The series is based on the book series The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, and developed for television by Ed Decter. It premiered in North America on Freeform. In December 2015, Netflix acquired global rights to Shadowhunters, excluding the U.S., making the series available as an original series a day after the U.S. premiere.

In June 2018, Freeform canceled the series after three seasons, but ordered two extra episodes to properly conclude the series' story.[3][4] During the course of the series, 55 episodes of Shadowhunters aired over three seasons.

But what about some of the changes from this season to the 1st season? Well, I much preferred this season, I had heard before that the show really find its feet after a dodgy 1st season, and that is something I can now completely agree with. This season was great and much improved on the 1st go around and it was greatly appreciated. I enjoyed it more and hopefully the 3rd season continues on with this trend. (If it did I have to say, cancellation seems a bit odd for me at the minute). So, lets start breaking things down a bit more;

As this season continues straight after the 1st, the story from that season spills over onto this one. Which normally, would not be a major issue, but I feel looking back that the show would have done much better either having a longer 1st season to wrap up parts of the story that continued into this season, or broke up the story so everything could be accomplished rather than feeling like it took 30 episodes to bring the Valentine arc to a close. Then also considering the show ends after the next season, I hope there is enough time to cover the story rather than feeling like something is missing.

The acting this season definitely improved, as I had expected it too. The change of show runners I am sure had a major impact on both this and the story line. As the series continues to have much of the same cast, I am only going to focus on Katherine McNamara as Clary, Dominic Sherwood as Jace, Alberto Rosende as Simon and Emeraude Toubia as Izzy. The reason for that is just because of their storylines and how they managed to portray some scenes and how I think they performed overall. (If I had thought of splitting the season into 2, as I should have, I could have done something a little different here)

Kat does a great job of portraying stronger emotions this time around, in the 1st season, sometimes felt more forced than they should have and I was not really caring for what her character was going through. But I felt just about everything this season, the devastation at her mothers death, the feeling of loneliness when she no longer had any family, and the struggle at the beginning with not being able to accept who she is. The story gives her probably the most to work with, as the main cast member with whom everything revolves around, the audience has to care for and be interested in, which thankfully we are able to say we are interested in this season.

Finally, Alberto, the man himself. He finally got the girl in Clary and then he lost her, but even so, this meant that he had to demonstrate to us the audience, his happiness at being with her and the devastation when the relationship blows up and what this meant for him and Clary going forward. Considering their breakup is something that just about everyone will go through at least once in their life, I thought it was acted outstandingly and believable for me. He is also the comedic relief in the show, which can sound like a negative thing, but every time he is on the screen, he steals the spotlight no matter who is on screen with him.

Feels a bit silly having a heading of aesthetics in a breakdown of a show for me, but the improvement from the 1st season to the 2nd, was so outstanding, it deserves a mention in my eyes. We have a split for Clary between her former life as a mundane and her new life as a Shadowhunter, but how can this be shown to the audience effectively? Well in one scene, Clary returns to her art school for sometime out, so they have her dress in light colours walking in the opposite direction to the audience who are in washed out greys, the contrast between the two along with her bright red hair, causes the audience to pause and take note between her new life and the one that she used to know and live in.

Finally, pacing, I loved the fact the season was 20 episodes long, I just hated what a 20 episode season meant. It meant slow storytelling, I have said that if the 1st season had been 4/5 episodes longer they could have wrapped up that line in one go rather than split it over two, which I believe to be true. The other option which I have mentioned was for the show to split the stories into an A and a B section, which I would have loved. Even if they just did the Mortal Cup as Season 1, Soul Sword as 2A and the Mortal Mirror as 2B. I imagine they could have concentrated the telling to the audience in a way that was more enjoyable and easier to follow.

This season mirrored some things that are going on in the real world and that which others have to deal with on a daily basis. With things like drug addiction, social class and relationships. We have Izzy who gets addicted to vampire venom which is a type of drug which gives the user euphoric feelings and a sense of calm. After suffering an injury in battle, she gets addicted due to the healing powers that come from the venom and goes on to continue using the venom after no longer requiring it because of the feelings it gave her. Similar to that of drug users in the real world.

Synopsis of 219: After centuries of being lied to and treated poorly by The Clave, the Downworlders decide to come together and take matters into their own hands as the hunt for Valentine and Sebastian intensifies.

Wow, can we talk about how fantastic this penultimate Shadowhunters episode was? Yes, it still delivered cheesy lines and melodrama to the max, but this still stands as one of my favorite episodes of the second half of the season.

Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, Magnus has gathered the warlocks to his loft and we see him with Catarina and Madzie and a bunch of other warlocks. He and Catarina discuss taking on the Clave and decide to put up wards around the city that keep portals from being created and also stop any one with angel blood from passing the wards.

When the Forsaken attack, Clary, Izzy, and Alec fight them off while Jonathan takes Jace captive. He drags him out onto a bridge preparing to hang Jace. Jace goads Jonathan into letting him go so they can fight head on. Despite Jonathan being the better fighter, ultimately stabbing Jace, Jace easily gets under his skin. It almost makes you wonder whether Jace is more like their father, using his cutting words to do more damage than a seraph blade ever could.

Meanwhile, downtown we see Luke get the update about Jonathan, but he is stopped by Simon who reveals that Maia is missing. For a hot second, I thought we were going to have to stomach Ollie, but thankfully none of that for this episode. We see her wake up at the Seelie court as Meliorn tells her that the queen is dealing with another pressing matter.

The third and final season of Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments was officially announced on April 21, 2017.[1][2] It premiered on March 20, 2018 and consists of 22 episodes. Following the show's cancellation, the season's mid-season break was extended and ran for nine months, and the season concluded on May 6, 2019.

While the Shadowhunters deal with changes in their personal lives and Clary and Jace keep dark secrets, a serious threat to the Shadowhunters emerges in the form of Lilith, a powerful demon building an army of disciples on a quest to resurrect her "precious boy" Jonathan.

The writers began to officially meet to work on the season on May 30, 2017.[3][4] On July 20, 2017 at SDCC, it was announced that Alisha Wainwright was promoted to series regular as Maia Roberts.[5][6] On October 7, 2017 at NYCC, it was announced that Freeform officially ordered the additional 10 episodes (3B) to air in the summer of 2018.[7] The original premiere date that was announced was the 3rd of April,[8] before it was announced in December that the premiere had been moved to the 20th of March,[9] two weeks earlier than the original plan. Freeform's press release for its May 2018 lineup announced that the first half of the season (3A) would end with a two-hour mid-season finale on May 15, 2018.[10]

Principal photography began on August 21, 2017,[11][12][13][14] took a break on December 6, 2017,[15][16] resumed on January 22, 2018,[17][18] and ran until May 2, 2018.[19][20] Additional filming took place afterwards in Paris.[21][22][23]

On June 4, 2018, it was announced that Shadowhunters was cancelled, in part due to Constantin Film losing its deal with Netflix,[24][25] and that 3B would return in spring 2019. An additional two episodes, to air as a two-hour series finale, was ordered in order to give closure to the storyline.[26] It was announced on the 3rd of November that 3B would return on February 25, 2019.[27]

After escaping execution at Alicante -- thanks to a resurrected and then quickly un-resurrected Valentine (Alan Van Sprang) -- Clary (Katherine McNamara) found herself in a prison again all too soon, this time at the hands of Lillith (Anna Hopkins). Elsewhere Alec (Matthew Daddario) and Jace (Dominic Sherwood) had an epic showdown that resulted in Jace finally getting control of himself back from The Owl. The only catch? Magnus (Harry Shum Jr.) had to bargain away his magic to his father Asmodeus (Jack Yang) in order to pull that trick off.

In the final minutes, we got so many twists it was hard to keep track. Lillith successfully resurrected Jonathan only moments after she attacked Simon (Alberto Rosende) -- and you know what happens when you attack Simon thanks to his Mark of Cain. The attack blew back on Lillith, and the resulting explosion took out her, Clary and Jonathan. But are all three of them actually dead? We took all our burning finale questions to executive producers Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer.

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