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The Shannara Chronicles (TV Series)

The Shannara Chronicles

2016

Alfred Gough (Creator), Miles Millar (Creator) ...

Ivana Baquero, Austin Butler, Aaron Jakubenko, Manu Bennett ...

5.5

2,000

TV Series. Sci-Fi. Adventure. Fantasy An Elvish tree, known as the Ellcrys, is dying. The bad news is that the tree has been the only piece of magic that protects the Four Lands from the Demon World. Amberle Elessedil is the only one who can save the tree. But she has to unlock magic that the Elves haven't used in thousands of years. With the help of Wil Ohmsford, she travels to find the lost magic. But it won't be an easy task.

	Author	Review
United States	Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"Even though it often seems to be merely reworking various fantasy formulas. It moves quickly and does a nice job of weaving together two story lines."	POS
United States	Maureen Ryan Variety	"'Shannara' (...) is a standard quest journey in which there are troll, gnomes, living trees and magic books (...) But there’s conviction in the show’s execution."	POS
United States	Melissa Maerz Entertainment Weekly	"The world-building is imaginative and impressive, but the mythology is exhausting to keep up with, especially when the reward is basically just a romance-novel version of 'The Lord of the Rings'."	NEU
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"The three central characters are all blandly pretty faces who give continuously stilted line readings and never convincingly embody their respective mythic archetypes, so it's up to the old pros to pick up the slack."	NEG
United States	Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times	"'Shannara Chronicles' whips up plenty of fun millennial magic."	POS

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