Season 3 Fate The Winx Saga

[Manases Yatnalkar]

Ican not deny that as a young girl, I thoroughly enjoyed dancing in my living room to The Winx Club on my weekends and pretending I was a fairy in a candy-colored world where friendship, kindness, and fairy magic was all I needed. So, when I realized that a show called Fate: The Winx Saga was coming to Netflix and a live-action interpretation of the series, I was cautiously excited. But that excitement quickly melted into disappointment as I watched the trailer and then it solidified into a mild rage by the time I finished the six-episode first season of this abomination.

Created by Brian Young, a former writer and story editor for The Vampire Diaries, Winx Saga takes the light, friendly, effervescence of an animated fairy show and turns it grungey, angsty, and melodramatic. Of course, with a writing staff from The Vampire Diaries, the vibe of Winx Saga becomes pretty clear. Love triangles, teenage insecurity, and predictable plot twists are laid on thick, and it is hard to spot anything of the original source material beyond the concept of there being fairies.

I love a good plot twist. I love it when you never see it coming, but upon re-examination, the clues were all there. I love being given pieces to a puzzle, where the writers trust that I will be an intelligent viewer and put them together without heavy-handed hints dropping left and right.

So after six hours of viewing and four thousand words, I think I have made it clear what I hate so much about this show. You might ask, Therese, why did you waste all this time talking about something you hate? Firstly, because someone needs to. Someone needs to call out these very obvious and egregious issues. There was potential for Winx Saga. Potential for it not to end up looking like another Riverdale or Sabrina. Potential for this show to embrace its cheesy, colorful, and fun origins. They could have embraced darkness by adding the school of witches connected to Alfea, but instead, they wrote them out. The potential was squandered.

@Notyourcommentor This article is AMAZING it points out everything single drop of issue, and more, found in this show. It calls the show out and its creators for being STUPID. Therese knows her stuff. Bloom is a winy little brat, and what even was Stella? Like at least someone called the Winx saga out while you are sitting here and being dumb

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