Clary and Isabelle are sent on a mission to meet the Iron Sisters in order to find more clues about Valentine’s plans.

Iron Sisters:

There will be spoilers from previous episodes and slight spoilers from this weeks. 

After the last two episodes, I felt this type of episode was needed. Iron Sisters was a breather, it wasn’t an episode that keeps the audience on the edge of their seat. It’s one, where the world of the show is built and character development is in the works.

Clary (Katherine McNamara) and Isabelle (Emeraude Toubia) are sent on a mission to find out more about Valentine (Alan Van Sprang) and his interest in the mortal instruments.  Both girls travel to the Iron Sisters and find out more about the shadowhunter world.

Meanwhile, Alec (Matthew Daddario) and Magnus (Harry Shum Jr.) go on their first date, Simon (Alberto Rosende) and Maia (Alisha Wainwright) go on the hunt for Luke and it isn’t Jace’s day.

Iron Sisters

For the past couple of weeks, there have been hints that we will be going to see the Iron Sisters and it finally happened in this week’s episode. I loved this part of the episode. I loved Izzy’s want and the way that she looks up to them.

There were parts of the Iron sisters that I loved, how everything looked. But not how they looked. I just felt they lacked something and I can’t pick what it was.

While Clary and Izzy are at the Iron Sisters, we are able to see a little history about the soul sword. I loved not only how they did it, but the way that everything joined together.

We also get out first look at Luke’s sister Cleophas (Lisa Berry). Although she’s a new character to this series, I felt that it worked quite well and it will defiantly add tension as the series goes on. Especially with the ending of this week’s episode.

Clave

The Clave is full force in Iron Sisters through Aldertree (Nick Sagar). The audience is able to see the power that the Clave holds on shadowhunters. The dominance that Aldertree presence is scary as hell, and I can see it falling to pieces as the season goes on. Although we haven’t seen the Clave as a whole yet, I think that Aldertree is a pretty good representation of it.

Luke

This week’s episode was hard on Luke. Tormented with grief and his werewolf nature, he loses control. So not only is her struggling with the death of Jocelyn, but him being a werewolf.

I think this episode’s focus on the werewolves, gave the audience an insight on how downworlders work and how they fit into the shadowhunter world.

Simon and Maia

I loved the scenes between Simon and Maia. It was nice to see a little lightness in this episode and the interaction between these two was so good. The banter was pretty similar to the books and flows nicely to where the books go with Simon and Maia and their relationship.

Through Maia, we also get to see her side of being a werewolf. Her struggle, her heartbreak. But, the audience is also able to see that a pack is also a family and most of the time they look after one another.

Alec and Magnus

These two finally went on their first date! And it was as awkward and adorable as I imagined.  Magnus has so much experience while Alec has none, and it was so cute them trying to step around each other. I love that Magnus calls me Alexander as hits the mark with the books. Also, there is also hints of there being tension because of the many people Magnus has been with over the years.

Jace

In this episode we also see Jace struggling with not only Aldertree, but the rest of the institute. Aldertree is treating him like crap, he doesn’t want him there and because of that his peers, the people that he fights with are second guessing what he does.

I could really feel Jace’s emotions in this weeks episode, it was tough and hard. But, I do feel that it will add tension to the show.

Izzy

For the most part, I really like what they are doing with Izzy. The addiction is something very different but works so well. It shows that sometimes shadowhunters are no different to mundanes. However, there was a time in this episode where Izzy was ‘listening in’ to a conversation with Clary and it just didn’t sit with me right.

Overall

I really enjoyed this episode. Nothing ‘intense’ happened until the end, but I was interested all the way through. Iron Sisters really worked on the characterisation of nearly all out main characters and I loved it. The audience was able to sit back and take the world in. Get to know it a little more.

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