Here's How You Can Watch Every Season Of Shadowhunters

While Freeform's Shadowhunters more than served Cassandra Clare's source material, and even built out her world in fascinating ways, the series did so on a significantly reduced scale from the 2013 movie. That may seem obvious as Shadowhunters is a small screen affair, and thus working with a substantially smaller budget. Yet, for those who did venture out to see The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones on the big screen, the scaled-back look and feel of Shadowhunters may initially be jarring should you decide to queue the show up on Hulu.

Stick with it, though, because once you adjust to the scaled back production, you're likely to find Shadowhunters the superior adaptation in virtually every way. That's largely thanks to the work of series star Katherine McNamara, whose stalwart work as Clary Fray anchors Shadowhunters in tender-hearted humanity even as her transformation from wide-eyed would-be art student to a**-kicking demon slayer is of the decidedly supernatural flavor. Likewise, the series is bolstered by the solid contributions of McNamara's co-stars, each of whom bring their own distinct energy to the mix.

For the record, even if Shadowhunters is operating on a dramatically smaller scale than it's big screen counterpart, series producers do an extraordinary job of knowing where to spend their money, serving up special effects and killer creature confections as charming in their B-movie-ish makings as they are often genuinely thrilling to behold. All in, Shadowhunters is a series boasting the same sort of vibes as the CW's smash hit horror series Supernatural. And even if it doesn't quite conjure the same deeply detailed, theological mythology, Shadowhunters will certainly scratch the same itch in terms of spiritually progressive thrills and chills. Check Shadowhunters out now on Hulu if you doubt it.