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TRAILER ''Fate: The Winx Saga'' + Meet the Cast!
Alfea College is more than just magic. Get ready for friendship, love, rivalries, monsters, and a new journey into the Otherworld - coming January 22. Fate: The Winx Saga follows the coming-of-age journey of five fairies attending Alfea, a magical boarding school in the Otherworld where they must learn to master their magical powers while navigating love, rivalries, and the monsters that threaten their very existence.
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Meet the cast of Fate: The Winx Saga in this exclusive behind the. scenes look at the new Netflix series.
The six-part follows the coming-of-age journey of five fairies attending Alfea, a magical boarding school in the Otherworld where they must learn to master their powers while navigating love, rivalries, and the monsters that threaten their very existence. From creator Brian Young (THE VAMPIRE DIARIES), FATE: THE WINX SAGA is a live-action reimagining of the Italian cartoon series WINX CLUB by Iginio Straffi.
Casting includes Abigail Cowen as Bloom (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Fosters), Hannah van der Westhuysen as Stella (Grantchester, Lamborghini), Precious Mustapha as Aisha (Endeavour), Eliot Salt as Terra (Normal People, Gameface), Elisha Applebaum as Musa (Undercover Hooligan, No Reasons), Sadie Soverall as Beatrix (Rose Plays Julie), Freddie Thorp as Riven (The Discovery of Witches, Safe, Overdrive), Danny Griffin as Sky (So Awkward, The Gentlemen), Theo Graham as Dane (Clink, Hollyoaks, Brief Encounters) and Jacob Dudman as Sam (The Stranger, Medici, The A List). Eve Best (Nurse Jackie), Robert James-Collier (Downton Abbey), Josh Cowdery (Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them) Alex Macqueen (The Thick of It, Sally 4Ever) and Eva Birthistle (Brooklyn, The Last Kingdom) also star. FATE: THE WINX SAGA will premiere globally on Netflix on 22 January 2021
January 17, 2021
Five powers. One fate.
Cinco poderes. Un destino.
Los estudiantes del Otro Mundo acuden a la Escuela Internacional Alfea para formarse, aprender magia y descubrir cómo controlar sus poderes. Dentro del castillo del colegio, cinco alumnas que no se conocen de nada deberán compartir habitación.
AISHA es una chica atlética y superdotada, cuyo control sobre el agua es la envidia de sus compañeras.
TERRA es buena y algo torpe. Su influencia sobre el mundo natural deja boquiabiertos a sus rivales.
MUSA, una joven introvertida, se encierra en sí misma para que no la abrumen las emociones de los demás.
STELLA es una princesa ―de las de verdad― y su control sobre la luz inspira e intimida a partes iguales.
Luego está BLOOM, la forastera, procedente del mundo humano con un poder sobre el fuego que estuvo a punto de destruir a su familia.
De repente, cuando un antiguo mal resurge al otro lado de los muros del castillo, las cinco adolescentes descubrirán un secreto, tan poderoso, que pondrá en duda todo lo que saben del Otro Mundo e incluso de ellas mismas.
¡No te pierdas este libro basado en la nueva serie Destino: La Saga Winx
Editorial: RBA Molino
ISBN-13: 978-8427277960
Tapa blanda: 352 páginas
Edad de lectura: 14 años y más
Fecha de publicación: 25 febrero 2021
Alla prestigiosa scuola di magia di Alfea, studenti di tutto l'Oltremondo imparano a padroneggiare i propri poteri. Tra loro ci sono le Winx, cinque ragazze molto diverse che si sono ritrovate a vivere insieme loro malgrado.
Bloom, Stella, Tecna, Musa, Flora et Layla sont six jeunes fées qui vivent dans la dimension magique et qui étudient à Alféa, l'école des fées. Elles doivent lutter contre les forces du mal pour défendre la dimension magique.
Editeur: Hachette Romans
ISBN-13: 978-2016285183
Broché: 360 pages
Date de publication: 3 mars 2021
Prix: 15,90€
''Fate: The Winx Saga'' Book in English, Spanish, Italian and French
At the Alfea International School, students come from all over the Otherworld to train. To learn magic. To discover how to control their powers. Inside the school’s castle, five students are assigned as roommates:
Aisha is an athlete and a classic overachiever whose control over water is the envy of her fellow students.
Terra is an awkward do-gooder whose power over the natural world can overwhelm rivals unexpectedly.
Musa is an introvert who keeps to herself so her mind isn’t overwhelmed by the emotions of those around her.
Stella is a princess—yes, a real princess—whose command over light inspires but also intimidates.
And then there’s Bloom, the outsider, the girl from the human world whose power over fire almost destroyed her family.
These five teenagers want what every teenager wants... to figure out who they are. To make friends. To fit in at their new school. But when an ancient, long-vanquished evil suddenly resurfaces outside the castle walls, these five teenagers are forced to put their powers to the test. And they’ll discover a secret so powerful, it will challenge everything they know about the Otherworld... and themselves.
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9781338692266
Paperback: 304 pages
Reading age: 14 - 18 years
Publication Date: February 4, 2021
Price: $11.99
Los estudiantes del Otro Mundo acuden a la Escuela Internacional Alfea para formarse, aprender magia y descubrir cómo controlar sus poderes. Dentro del castillo del colegio, cinco alumnas que no se conocen de nada deberán compartir habitación.
AISHA es una chica atlética y superdotada, cuyo control sobre el agua es la envidia de sus compañeras.
TERRA es buena y algo torpe. Su influencia sobre el mundo natural deja boquiabiertos a sus rivales.
MUSA, una joven introvertida, se encierra en sí misma para que no la abrumen las emociones de los demás.
STELLA es una princesa ―de las de verdad― y su control sobre la luz inspira e intimida a partes iguales.
Luego está BLOOM, la forastera, procedente del mundo humano con un poder sobre el fuego que estuvo a punto de destruir a su familia.
De repente, cuando un antiguo mal resurge al otro lado de los muros del castillo, las cinco adolescentes descubrirán un secreto, tan poderoso, que pondrá en duda todo lo que saben del Otro Mundo e incluso de ellas mismas.
¡No te pierdas este libro basado en la nueva serie Destino: La Saga Winx
Editorial: RBA Molino
ISBN-13: 978-8427277960
Tapa blanda: 352 páginas
Edad de lectura: 14 años y más
Fecha de publicación: 25 febrero 2021
Precio: 17,10€
L'atletica Aisha, una Fata dell'Acqua talentuosa ma talvolta vittima del suo stesso perfezionismo; l'empatica Musa, che preferisce tenere le persone a distanza per non finire sopraffatta dalle loro emozioni; Terra, insicura e goffa, che nei momenti di crisi sa però tirare fuori risorse inaspettate attingendo alla magia della natura; la bellissima Stella, Fata della Luce con un futuro da regina, dallo stile impeccabile e i modi altezzosi. E infine Bloom, l'unica a provenire dal mondo degli uomini, dotata di una magia del fuoco tanto potente da essere incontrollabile.
Quando antiche creature malvagie che le fate credevano sconfitte per sempre riappaiono seminando morte, le Winx dovranno unire le forze per sconfiggerle. E un segreto riaffiorerà dalle tenebre del passato, un segreto sconvolgente che potrebbe cambiare per sempre il loro destino e il loro mondo... Cinque fate. Cinque amiche. Un unico destino: svelare l'oscuro segreto che potrebbe mettere in discussione tutto ciò che hanno sempre saputo sul loro mondo, nonché la loro stessa esistenza. Il romanzo della serie originale Netflix "Fate: The Winx Saga". «"Dove pensi di andare? Non puoi tornare a casa. Hai troppa paura di fare di nuovo del male ai tuoi genitori." La direttrice Dowling aveva ragione. Bloom stava tremando. Persino in California le notti potevano essere davvero gelide. La donna le si avvicinò e Bloom rimase immobile, rapita da un misto di paura e speranza. "Tu cerchi delle risposte. Io sono un'insegnante, posso darti tutte quelle che vuoi." Più che delle risposte, Bloom voleva tornare a casa, ma non riusciva a trovare un modo sicuro per farlo. Non da sola. Così, quando la donna riprese a parlare, Bloom ascoltò».
Editore: Mondadori
ISBN-13: 978-8804734710
Copertina flessibile: 296 pagine
Età di lettura: 10 anni e oltre
Data di pubblicazione: 2 febbraio 2021
Prezzo: €16,90
Editore: Mondadori
ISBN-13: 978-8804734710
Copertina flessibile: 296 pagine
Età di lettura: 10 anni e oltre
Data di pubblicazione: 2 febbraio 2021
Prezzo: €16,90
Bloom, Stella, Tecna, Musa, Flora et Layla sont six jeunes fées qui vivent dans la dimension magique et qui étudient à Alféa, l'école des fées. Elles doivent lutter contre les forces du mal pour défendre la dimension magique.
Editeur: Hachette Romans
ISBN-13: 978-2016285183
Broché: 360 pages
Date de publication: 3 mars 2021
Prix: 15,90€
January 13, 2021
January 09, 2021
It’s hard to adapt a children’s show—especially when you’re trying to “age it up” for an older audience. Netflix has tried to do exactly that with Fate: The Winx Saga, a tale about fairies trying to balance their magical destiny with romance and homework. But can you really turn a fairy show for preschoolers into a sexy teen drama? All wings point to no.
Fate: The Winx Saga stars Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Abigail Cowen as Bloom, a teenager from California who discovers she’s actually a fairy. In this show’s universe, fairies are the ruling class of a magical place called Otherworld and attend a school called Alfea. Each one controls a unique element (their society also used to have wings but lost them at some point in history, though I’m guessing that’s more of a show budget thing). Bloom, a fire fairy, is recruited to a magical school to hone her magic, where she makes friends with her fairy roommates; light fairy Princess Stella (Hannah van der Westhuysen), water fairy Aisha (Precious Mustapha), earth fairy Terra (Eliot Salt), and mind fairy Musa (Elisha Applebaum).
Over the course of the six-episode season, Bloom and her friends attend a few classes, get drunk at parties, and flirt with boys from the adjacent military academy—all while battling a mysterious threat in the form of creatures called the Burned Ones. The creatures seem to be connected to the main conflict of the season, which is about Bloom investigating her true origins and their link to her powers. It manages to feel simultaneously slow and rushed, with uneven pacing that never quite manages to resolve itself by the end. There were times I was super bored and tuned out, only for the next scene to jump in with a bunch of big events or expository dialogue that took me by surprise.
It’s also really dark. Not only do the Burned Ones leave a lot of bloody corpses in their wake (RIP sheepies from the opening scene), but there’s a substantial amount of sex and drugs and other “adult” content. I swear Fate can’t go three minutes without someone throwing out an F-bomb. All of that isn’t weird on its face, since showrunner Brian Young worked on The Vampire Diaries, but it is strange when you consider the origins of this show. Allow me to explain.
You see, Fate: The Winx Saga is actually an adaptation. Winx Club was an animated series from Iginio Straffi about magical fairy teens that started in 2004, got dubbed in English, and ran for years on various American networks like GKids and Nickelodeon (its latest season ran on Netflix in 2019). It started out for older kids but eventually became fodder for preschoolers. It also stands as one of the most successful shows in Italian television history—it even had its own theme park attractions, at least until they were taken down last year. All the characters, including Bloom, her dull-as-dirt love interest Sky (Danny Griffin), and her fairy friends, are live-action interpretations of existing characters but what was a bubbly magical girl show stands in stark contrast with the gloomy and brooding teen adaptation we get with Fate: The Winx Saga.
The biggest character change so far has been turning the three evil witch characters, collectively called the Trix, into a single femme fatale named Beatrix (Sadie Soverall)—and dear lord did she ever get on my nerves. This show is certainly nothing like the original but since I didn’t grow up with it, I watched the first episode of Winx Club to compare. I’ve got to be honest: Winx Saga might be one of the strangest adaptations I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen a spinoff diverge this suddenly and intensely from its source material. It reminded me of that Dora the Explorer sketch from Funny or Die.
Despite the comparisons, does Winx Saga work as its own series? Ehhhhhhhhh.
Okay, let me be fair: This show isn’t bad. In many ways, Winx Saga is decent. The writing is serviceable, giving us some of that Vampire Diaries and Legacies teen magic drama that Young is known for. The smaller character moments between the girls were the strongest, as the actresses seemed to genuinely like each other. Though the highlight was the fact that it was shot on location in Ireland. We get some gorgeous shots and vistas that are, to be frank, magical. Makes me lament not being able to travel. Damn covid.
The other shining grace is Cowen herself, whose awkwardly confident yet conflicted portrayal of Bloom makes me wonder whether she would’ve been a better choice to play Sabrina Spellman on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. She’s way better here than what she was allowed to be with Dorcas, and I hope to see a lot more from her in the future. While the male characters were so cookie-cutter generic it felt like an episode of Bridgerton, I thought Bloom’s fellow Winx Suite roommates had potential, namely van der Westhuysen and Salt as Stella and Terra. But I was disappointed with how they turned Mustapha’s Aisha into Bloom’s glorified helper, without giving her a story arc of her own—especially because she was the main Black protagonist.
In fact, the show has some diversity issues that would need to be addressed in a possible second season. For example, some were upset that the original series’ Flora (now Terra)—a character whose design was inspired by Jennifer Lopez and fans identify as Latina—was played by a white actress. It was nice to see some body diversity in the show with her character, considering how Winx Club was criticized for impossible beauty standards by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, but that doesn’t change the fact that the cast is overwhelmingly white. There was also some complicated and weird LGBTQ representation that I didn’t understand; All the girls we see get romantic have been in straight, heteronormative couplings, and the only queer relationships have been with villainous characters being mean and horny. We still don’t know every main character’s preferences, so that could change.
Overall, Winx Saga just never manages to spark. This would be bad enough under normal circumstances, but given how little the show has been promoted by Netflix—and how far it strays from the show that kids grew up with—it puts the series at a major disadvantage. It had a lot of obstacles to overcome and really needed to rise up from its roots and give us something amazing. That didn’t happen. It’s no Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. Word of mouth isn’t going to save it, and Winx Club fans probably won’t either. I wouldn’t be surprised if they revolted against it. They might be at the right age for a teen-friendly Winx, but our nostalgic lenses don’t always look kindly on a beloved kids’ show “going dark.”
I’d be hard-pressed to see Fate: The Winx Club get another season. Hopefully, that doesn’t mean the end of Cowen’s career, but I’m guessing this will be the start and end of Alfea. Fate: The Winx Saga debuts on Netflix January 22.
Source: io9.gizmodo.com
''Fate: The Winx Saga'' Review - Netflix Fairy Update is Lackluster
It’s hard to adapt a children’s show—especially when you’re trying to “age it up” for an older audience. Netflix has tried to do exactly that with Fate: The Winx Saga, a tale about fairies trying to balance their magical destiny with romance and homework. But can you really turn a fairy show for preschoolers into a sexy teen drama? All wings point to no.
Fate: The Winx Saga stars Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Abigail Cowen as Bloom, a teenager from California who discovers she’s actually a fairy. In this show’s universe, fairies are the ruling class of a magical place called Otherworld and attend a school called Alfea. Each one controls a unique element (their society also used to have wings but lost them at some point in history, though I’m guessing that’s more of a show budget thing). Bloom, a fire fairy, is recruited to a magical school to hone her magic, where she makes friends with her fairy roommates; light fairy Princess Stella (Hannah van der Westhuysen), water fairy Aisha (Precious Mustapha), earth fairy Terra (Eliot Salt), and mind fairy Musa (Elisha Applebaum).
Over the course of the six-episode season, Bloom and her friends attend a few classes, get drunk at parties, and flirt with boys from the adjacent military academy—all while battling a mysterious threat in the form of creatures called the Burned Ones. The creatures seem to be connected to the main conflict of the season, which is about Bloom investigating her true origins and their link to her powers. It manages to feel simultaneously slow and rushed, with uneven pacing that never quite manages to resolve itself by the end. There were times I was super bored and tuned out, only for the next scene to jump in with a bunch of big events or expository dialogue that took me by surprise.
It’s also really dark. Not only do the Burned Ones leave a lot of bloody corpses in their wake (RIP sheepies from the opening scene), but there’s a substantial amount of sex and drugs and other “adult” content. I swear Fate can’t go three minutes without someone throwing out an F-bomb. All of that isn’t weird on its face, since showrunner Brian Young worked on The Vampire Diaries, but it is strange when you consider the origins of this show. Allow me to explain.
You see, Fate: The Winx Saga is actually an adaptation. Winx Club was an animated series from Iginio Straffi about magical fairy teens that started in 2004, got dubbed in English, and ran for years on various American networks like GKids and Nickelodeon (its latest season ran on Netflix in 2019). It started out for older kids but eventually became fodder for preschoolers. It also stands as one of the most successful shows in Italian television history—it even had its own theme park attractions, at least until they were taken down last year. All the characters, including Bloom, her dull-as-dirt love interest Sky (Danny Griffin), and her fairy friends, are live-action interpretations of existing characters but what was a bubbly magical girl show stands in stark contrast with the gloomy and brooding teen adaptation we get with Fate: The Winx Saga.
The biggest character change so far has been turning the three evil witch characters, collectively called the Trix, into a single femme fatale named Beatrix (Sadie Soverall)—and dear lord did she ever get on my nerves. This show is certainly nothing like the original but since I didn’t grow up with it, I watched the first episode of Winx Club to compare. I’ve got to be honest: Winx Saga might be one of the strangest adaptations I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen a spinoff diverge this suddenly and intensely from its source material. It reminded me of that Dora the Explorer sketch from Funny or Die.
Despite the comparisons, does Winx Saga work as its own series? Ehhhhhhhhh.
Okay, let me be fair: This show isn’t bad. In many ways, Winx Saga is decent. The writing is serviceable, giving us some of that Vampire Diaries and Legacies teen magic drama that Young is known for. The smaller character moments between the girls were the strongest, as the actresses seemed to genuinely like each other. Though the highlight was the fact that it was shot on location in Ireland. We get some gorgeous shots and vistas that are, to be frank, magical. Makes me lament not being able to travel. Damn covid.
The other shining grace is Cowen herself, whose awkwardly confident yet conflicted portrayal of Bloom makes me wonder whether she would’ve been a better choice to play Sabrina Spellman on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. She’s way better here than what she was allowed to be with Dorcas, and I hope to see a lot more from her in the future. While the male characters were so cookie-cutter generic it felt like an episode of Bridgerton, I thought Bloom’s fellow Winx Suite roommates had potential, namely van der Westhuysen and Salt as Stella and Terra. But I was disappointed with how they turned Mustapha’s Aisha into Bloom’s glorified helper, without giving her a story arc of her own—especially because she was the main Black protagonist.
In fact, the show has some diversity issues that would need to be addressed in a possible second season. For example, some were upset that the original series’ Flora (now Terra)—a character whose design was inspired by Jennifer Lopez and fans identify as Latina—was played by a white actress. It was nice to see some body diversity in the show with her character, considering how Winx Club was criticized for impossible beauty standards by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, but that doesn’t change the fact that the cast is overwhelmingly white. There was also some complicated and weird LGBTQ representation that I didn’t understand; All the girls we see get romantic have been in straight, heteronormative couplings, and the only queer relationships have been with villainous characters being mean and horny. We still don’t know every main character’s preferences, so that could change.
Overall, Winx Saga just never manages to spark. This would be bad enough under normal circumstances, but given how little the show has been promoted by Netflix—and how far it strays from the show that kids grew up with—it puts the series at a major disadvantage. It had a lot of obstacles to overcome and really needed to rise up from its roots and give us something amazing. That didn’t happen. It’s no Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. Word of mouth isn’t going to save it, and Winx Club fans probably won’t either. I wouldn’t be surprised if they revolted against it. They might be at the right age for a teen-friendly Winx, but our nostalgic lenses don’t always look kindly on a beloved kids’ show “going dark.”
I’d be hard-pressed to see Fate: The Winx Club get another season. Hopefully, that doesn’t mean the end of Cowen’s career, but I’m guessing this will be the start and end of Alfea. Fate: The Winx Saga debuts on Netflix January 22.
Source: io9.gizmodo.com
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