TV Series Review: Shadowhunters Ep3 *Spoiler free*

Shadowhunters: Episode 3

Episode Name: Dead Man’s Party
Release date: 26 Jan. 2016
Running Time: 42 mins
Starring Katherine McNamara,Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Rosende, Matthew Daddario, Emeraude Toubia, Isaiah Mustafa, Harry Shum Jr.,Alan Van Sprang, David Castro, Kaitlyn Leeb, Jade Hassouné
Watch: Freeform (US) – Netflix (Worldwide)
Episode Reviews: 1|2| 3

With Simon being held captive at The Hotel Dumort, Clary pleads with Jace, Alec and Isabelle to help her rescue her best friend. As the team readies for the mission, Jace helps Clary learn more about her Shadowhunter powers, Isabelle turns to her favorite Seelie for Intel, and Alec begins to question Jace’s motives and his place in their partnership. Meanwhile, a very scared Simon gets very up close and personal with Camille, the leader of the vampire clan.
Ep3 is Directed by Andy Wolk.

Dead Man’s Party:

As the weeks go on each episode of Shadowhunters keeps on getting better and better, I am actually enjoying it at the moment and my hopes are now high that it’s going to turn into something good.

Episode 3 continues off from the cliff hanger in episode 2 – Simon (Alberto Rosende) being taken by the vampires.

I love how the vampires look. The teeth, the pale skin, the clothes that they wear. It’s modern take on old vampires and I like it. In this episode there is the introduction of two vampires and if you are fans of the book you know who they are. Camille Belcourt (Kaitlyn Leeb) and Raphael Santiago (David Castro).

Though Camille looks different from the books, she has the same vibe about her. She is sexy and persuasive and gorgeous. They have also brought her in quite early compared to the books, however I don’t have a problem with it because I am sure they are doing it for a reason.

Raphael, I am already in love with them. I am one of few people who really likes Raphael from the books. I was so happy when he was casted because he was notably missing from the movie and I loved seeing him on the screen. Castro is going to bring the Raphael that all know and some of us love to light.

We also get to see a bit of Clary’s (Katherine McNamara) anger in this episode. She is fuming and quite anger at the shadowhunters in particular Isabelle (Emeraude Toubia) for the kidnapping of Simon. Clary is ready to jump right now and go and get Simon, however the shadowhunters are trying to do in the logical way and plan. They cannot simply walk into Hotel Dumort.

We see a bit of Simon somewhat heroic nature when he tries to escape by throwing a dagger at Raphael. Which is unsuccessful, but it was still fun to watch.

I love, love, love the sibling banter between Isabelle and Alec (Matthew Daddario). I cannot explain how perfect it is, some of the remarks had me laughing my head off.

In this episode we also get to see more of Hodge, who has this talk with Alec that wanted me to slap him about for. I was like Alec, no don’t believe what he is saying.

In saying that, we also start to see conflict between Alec and Jace (Dominic Sherwood) and I just wanted to cry, because no, this cannot happen. But, they are also parabatai, so it kind of all works out and they always have each other’s backs.

The connection between Jace and Clary is starting to improve as well. In the first 2 episodes it was wired and cringe worthy, but as the series is going on, it’s getting better.

Episode 3 is the episode that we are also introduced for the first time to Meliorn (Jade Hassouné). As much as I hate Meliorn as a character, Hassouné played him really well. He has this presences about him that is perfect for Meliorn. The one thing I disliked about this scene was Isabelle. I truly didn’t like the way that she was portrayed in this scene, having sexy time to get information.

Overall, I actually enjoyed episode 3 of Shadowhunters everything is started to come together and each week the episodes are getting better and better. I like where the series is going and even though it’s not a perfect adaptation, I am seeing things from the books appear in the show, even if it’s smal.

Have you watched Ep3? Did you enjoy it? Are you going to watch more? How are you liking the Series so far?

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