Cruel and ruthless Jessica gets great pleasure from torturing those she perceives as enemies. Shapeshifter Marcus attacks and slaughters a whole convoy of Fairborne. It’s a wise choice that stops the show from getting bogged down in the utter horrors of his life. In Green’s excellent novel Nathan is tortured, but here showrunner Joe Barton, whose extraordinary sci-fi The Lazarus Project landed earlier this year, has opted to go a bit easier on him. Are the blood witches really the baddies and can Nathan escape his fate? This involves taking him away for his friends and family, including Annalise who doesn’t know where he is, locking him in a cage and beating him to a pulp on a daily basis. The show plays with perceptions of good and evil as the Fairborne decide to train Nathan to defeat his father. Annalise is also funny and silly and doesn’t care who Nathan’s dad is, and the chemistry between the two is palpable. At school he hangs out with the nerdy kids who don’t know he is a witch, until he meets new girl Annalise (Nadia Parkes), a Fairborne witch whose father is the head of the Fairborne council. Lycurgo is a lanky streak of charisma, a cheeky, snarky, funny kid whose constant bullying from his big sister Jessica (Isobel Jesper Jones) is brushed off with sarcasm. At the start of the series, despite his community’s utter distrust of Nathan, he’s not the victim that he is in Green’s books. While it’s a tale of warring witch factions, The Bastard Son is also a love story.
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