‘Shadowhunters’: Watch Episode 2 ‘The Descent Into Hell Is Easy’ Early!
SHADOWHUNTERS - “The Descent Into Hell is Easy" - Clary’s memories may be the key to finding her mother and The Mortal Cup in “The Descent Into Hell is Easy,” an all-new episode of “Shadowhunters,” airing Tuesday, January 19th at 9:00 – 10:00 p.m., EST/PST on Freeform, the new name for ABC Family. ABC Family is becoming Freeform on January 12, 2016. (ABC Family/John Medland)
STEPHEN HART, KATHERINE MCNAMARA
Now that Shadowhunters has had its world premiere (read our recap here), Freeform is giving fans another treat.
The network has made the second episode, titled “The Descent Into Hell Is Easy,” available early online seven days before its premiere via the Freeform app (download it here!) It’s also available to watch on Hulu.
If you’re lucky to watch it early please don’t post spoilers for those that have to wait until next Tuesday.
Shadowhunters airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on Freeform.
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I have tried several times to watch this 2nd episode and can’t. Don’t promise what you can’t deliver. I am done with this show.
Have you tried just going to the (freeform) website to watch it? That’s what I did – I wasn’t going to watch it on my phone! lol The screen’s so small…
google this episode dear
there are lots of download links already
Is there any way to watch the episodes from Germany? The app can´t be downloaded in Germany and I don´t have Netflix. Does anyone know if Amazon video is going to stream the show?
Right now we only know about Netflix, maybe it will be on Amazon later on. You can try Netflix for free for one month. After that it’s 9.99 €/month.
Not valid out of US..
What a pity, what a shame 😦
Better than the first episode! I love it. I don’t really mind the changes, and acting will definitely improve later on. Otherwise, Netflix wouldn’t have been interested in airing the show as it is released.
go to freeform.go.com that’s abc family/freeform’s official website now. It has the first two episodes. I don’t have cable, so I’m just going to watch on my computer from now on for it.
I finally got to see episode 2. I’ll admit it is a bit better than the pilot but the Institute is still throwing me off. The technology and other Shadowhunters walking around not really interacting with the main cast kind of makes the Institute look like, dare I say, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, a bit of Arrow and Flash. Why couldn’t they keep it like in the books, glamoured and simple lit up by witchlight or have a similar interior like Supernatural’s Men of Letters Bunker just a bit bigger since it’s a church. Speaking of, I can’t even imagine Church (the cat) living in place like this, high tech and all.
I don’t like Clary’s vision-like necklace. It’s distracting, it doesn’t give the storyline time to develop or for the characters to react. For instance, instead of actually searching for Dot or finding any clues, Clary gets a vision and BAM they automatically know where Dot is and rush to the Pandemonium. I think it could of been more exciting if they went to Dot’s apartment, interacted to get to know each other a bit more and so could the audience and then faced a forsaken or whatever. Also, Clary’s necklace kind of stole the spotlight of Izzy’s demon detecting necklace which is more significant to story.
Another distraction was Dot. She took away Magnus role. He’s supposed to be more involved and so far we have gotten barely a glimpse of who he is. He just a stand-in with no purpose. Everything has been about Dot.
I didn’t like Hodge nor the rune that keeps him from speaking about the past. It made the show a bit Harry Potter-ish. ‘You know, they don’t speak of you know who?’ but in this case, they cannot talk about, *whispers* you know, Valentine and the Circle.’ I liked that Hodge gives an explanation of the Shadow World, Valentine and Circle in the books and the film. It works.
And what didn’t make sense to me was if they cannot speak of the past, then how does Jace know that Hodge and his father (Michael Wayland) where part of the Circle? Wouldn’t that mean Jace would hate Hodge too since in this tv version of Jace, he holds a deep hatred for members of the Circle, for getting his father killed. It makes no sense that he has this knowledge.
Changes are necessary, I get that but couldn’t they have kept the culture of the Shadow World and stick to the important points of the story instead of cluttering things that are distracting?
These are great points! I feel you.
I wish you would have put a spoiler alert, episode two comes out on Canadian Netflix sometime later today. I was googleing around trying to find what time it would be released and now everything that’s going to happen is completely ruined. You were even asked to not leave spoilers but you broke down the entire episode anyway. 😦
Netflix releases the episodes every Wednesday on 12:01am Los Angeles time.
Thank you so much!