Netflix Takes Riverdale And Sabrina Into Teen Drama

Just like Riverdale and Sabrina, Netflix took another childhood favourite and changed it into a live action, dark teen drama, full of action, suspense, mystery, and of course teen angst! At first, I wasn’t sure if I would like this; got slow halfway through, but things got interesting in the second act, especially the last episode; and the ending, I did not see that coming! Thank you Netflix, for making Winx Club bad ass!

What Is Fate: The Winx Saga Based On?

Even when they’re not completely stupid, the trend is still tiring because it introduces conflict in places where there really was none in the original material. This is the case with Fate: The Winx Saga, based on the Italian cartoon series Winx Club, about a group of friends at a fairy school. Read on for more… FATE: THE WINX SAGA: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

The Gist: The man moves outside a force field to find the sheep; there, he’s attacked by some sort of monster or animal. The first person she talks to is a specialist named Sky (Danny Griffin), who finds out that Bloom is from the “realm” of California (i.e. not from the Otherworld) and that, three months ago, she had no idea she was a fairy. Every one of her other roommates has a different power: Bloom can generate fire; Aisha (Precious Mustapha) controls water; Musa (Elisha Applebaum) is an empath; Terra (Eliot Salt), who grew up at the school because her father works in the greenhouse, can manipulate plants.

Bloom goes outside that barrier in order to figure out how to control her powers; at various points, she flashes back to life at home right before she left, when she got so angry with her demanding mother (Eva Birthistle) that she actually managed to set fire to her parents’ bedroom, almost killing her mom. Aisha happens by when Bloom tries to control her fire power, and prevents her from starting a brush fire. After talking with Bloom, who claims there isn’t any fairies in her family lineage, Aisha speculates that Bloom is a changeling, a fairy who was swapped for a human baby in the “real world”.

Fate: The Winx Saga is based on Iginio Straffi’s cartoon series Winx Club; it feels like if you took that show and mixed it with something more adult, like Pretty Little Liars, you get Fate. Our Take: Fate: The Winx Saga, created by Brian Young (The Vampire Diaries), is a bit dumb in places, and feels like a show that would feel comfortable on The CW’s schedule instead of on Netflix. It’s not awful by any means, but it also just left us shrugging by the end of the first episode, wondering if the show could have benefitted from a smaller cast and a bit more character development.

It feels like we’ll find out this information while working around typical teenage-y storylines about the rest of the girls, like the “misunderstood bitch” that Stella seems to be, the “just wants to be on her own” Musa, or the “gets aggro to combat bullying” Terra. Only Aisha feels like a character that can go someplace interesting, but there’s scant evidence of that in the first episode. Parting Shot: Oh, did we mention another character?

Just like Riverdale and Sabrina, Netflix took another childhood favourite and changed it into a live action, dark teen drama, full of action, suspense, mystery, and of course teen angst! At first, I wasn’t sure if I would like this; got slow halfway through, but things got interesting in the second act, especially the last episode; and the ending, I did not see that coming! Thank you Netflix, for making Winx Club bad ass!

What Is Fate: The Winx Saga Based On?

Even when they’re not completely stupid, the trend is still tiring because it introduces conflict in places where there really was none in the original material. This is the case with Fate: The Winx Saga, based on the Italian cartoon series Winx Club, about a group of friends at a fairy school. Read on for more… FATE: THE WINX SAGA: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

The Gist: The man moves outside a force field to find the sheep; there, he’s attacked by some sort of monster or animal. The first person she talks to is a specialist named Sky (Danny Griffin), who finds out that Bloom is from the “realm” of California (i.e. not from the Otherworld) and that, three months ago, she had no idea she was a fairy. Every one of her other roommates has a different power: Bloom can generate fire; Aisha (Precious Mustapha) controls water; Musa (Elisha Applebaum) is an empath; Terra (Eliot Salt), who grew up at the school because her father works in the greenhouse, can manipulate plants.

Bloom goes outside that barrier in order to figure out how to control her powers; at various points, she flashes back to life at home right before she left, when she got so angry with her demanding mother (Eva Birthistle) that she actually managed to set fire to her parents’ bedroom, almost killing her mom. Aisha happens by when Bloom tries to control her fire power, and prevents her from starting a brush fire. After talking with Bloom, who claims there isn’t any fairies in her family lineage, Aisha speculates that Bloom is a changeling, a fairy who was swapped for a human baby in the “real world”.

Fate: The Winx Saga is based on Iginio Straffi’s cartoon series Winx Club; it feels like if you took that show and mixed it with something more adult, like Pretty Little Liars, you get Fate. Our Take: Fate: The Winx Saga, created by Brian Young (The Vampire Diaries), is a bit dumb in places, and feels like a show that would feel comfortable on The CW’s schedule instead of on Netflix. It’s not awful by any means, but it also just left us shrugging by the end of the first episode, wondering if the show could have benefitted from a smaller cast and a bit more character development.

It feels like we’ll find out this information while working around typical teenage-y storylines about the rest of the girls, like the “misunderstood bitch” that Stella seems to be, the “just wants to be on her own” Musa, or the “gets aggro to combat bullying” Terra. Only Aisha feels like a character that can go someplace interesting, but there’s scant evidence of that in the first episode. Parting Shot: Oh, did we mention another character?

Just like Riverdale and Sabrina, Netflix took another childhood favourite and changed it into a live action, dark teen drama, full of action, suspense, mystery, and of course teen angst! At first, I wasn’t sure if I would like this; got slow halfway through, but things got interesting in the second act, especially the last episode; and the ending, I did not see that coming! Thank you Netflix, for making Winx Club bad ass!

What Is Fate: The Winx Saga Based On?

Even when they’re not completely stupid, the trend is still tiring because it introduces conflict in places where there really was none in the original material. This is the case with Fate: The Winx Saga, based on the Italian cartoon series Winx Club, about a group of friends at a fairy school. Read on for more… FATE: THE WINX SAGA: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

The Gist: The man moves outside a force field to find the sheep; there, he’s attacked by some sort of monster or animal. The first person she talks to is a specialist named Sky (Danny Griffin), who finds out that Bloom is from the “realm” of California (i.e. not from the Otherworld) and that, three months ago, she had no idea she was a fairy. Every one of her other roommates has a different power: Bloom can generate fire; Aisha (Precious Mustapha) controls water; Musa (Elisha Applebaum) is an empath; Terra (Eliot Salt), who grew up at the school because her father works in the greenhouse, can manipulate plants.

Bloom goes outside that barrier in order to figure out how to control her powers; at various points, she flashes back to life at home right before she left, when she got so angry with her demanding mother (Eva Birthistle) that she actually managed to set fire to her parents’ bedroom, almost killing her mom. Aisha happens by when Bloom tries to control her fire power, and prevents her from starting a brush fire. After talking with Bloom, who claims there isn’t any fairies in her family lineage, Aisha speculates that Bloom is a changeling, a fairy who was swapped for a human baby in the “real world”.

Fate: The Winx Saga is based on Iginio Straffi’s cartoon series Winx Club; it feels like if you took that show and mixed it with something more adult, like Pretty Little Liars, you get Fate. Our Take: Fate: The Winx Saga, created by Brian Young (The Vampire Diaries), is a bit dumb in places, and feels like a show that would feel comfortable on The CW’s schedule instead of on Netflix. It’s not awful by any means, but it also just left us shrugging by the end of the first episode, wondering if the show could have benefitted from a smaller cast and a bit more character development.

It feels like we’ll find out this information while working around typical teenage-y storylines about the rest of the girls, like the “misunderstood bitch” that Stella seems to be, the “just wants to be on her own” Musa, or the “gets aggro to combat bullying” Terra. Only Aisha feels like a character that can go someplace interesting, but there’s scant evidence of that in the first episode. Parting Shot: Oh, did we mention another character?

Just like Riverdale and Sabrina, Netflix took another childhood favourite and changed it into a live action, dark teen drama, full of action, suspense, mystery, and of course teen angst! At first, I wasn’t sure if I would like this; got slow halfway through, but things got interesting in the second act, especially the last episode; and the ending, I did not see that coming! Thank you Netflix, for making Winx Club bad ass!

What Is Fate: The Winx Saga Based On?

Even when they’re not completely stupid, the trend is still tiring because it introduces conflict in places where there really was none in the original material. This is the case with Fate: The Winx Saga, based on the Italian cartoon series Winx Club, about a group of friends at a fairy school. Read on for more… FATE: THE WINX SAGA: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

The Gist: The man moves outside a force field to find the sheep; there, he’s attacked by some sort of monster or animal. The first person she talks to is a specialist named Sky (Danny Griffin), who finds out that Bloom is from the “realm” of California (i.e. not from the Otherworld) and that, three months ago, she had no idea she was a fairy. Every one of her other roommates has a different power: Bloom can generate fire; Aisha (Precious Mustapha) controls water; Musa (Elisha Applebaum) is an empath; Terra (Eliot Salt), who grew up at the school because her father works in the greenhouse, can manipulate plants.

Bloom goes outside that barrier in order to figure out how to control her powers; at various points, she flashes back to life at home right before she left, when she got so angry with her demanding mother (Eva Birthistle) that she actually managed to set fire to her parents’ bedroom, almost killing her mom. Aisha happens by when Bloom tries to control her fire power, and prevents her from starting a brush fire. After talking with Bloom, who claims there isn’t any fairies in her family lineage, Aisha speculates that Bloom is a changeling, a fairy who was swapped for a human baby in the “real world”.

Fate: The Winx Saga is based on Iginio Straffi’s cartoon series Winx Club; it feels like if you took that show and mixed it with something more adult, like Pretty Little Liars, you get Fate. Our Take: Fate: The Winx Saga, created by Brian Young (The Vampire Diaries), is a bit dumb in places, and feels like a show that would feel comfortable on The CW’s schedule instead of on Netflix. It’s not awful by any means, but it also just left us shrugging by the end of the first episode, wondering if the show could have benefitted from a smaller cast and a bit more character development.

It feels like we’ll find out this information while working around typical teenage-y storylines about the rest of the girls, like the “misunderstood bitch” that Stella seems to be, the “just wants to be on her own” Musa, or the “gets aggro to combat bullying” Terra. Only Aisha feels like a character that can go someplace interesting, but there’s scant evidence of that in the first episode. Parting Shot: Oh, did we mention another character?