Fate The Winx Saga Season 2 Review: Between Action And Good Visual Effects! Netflix Series
Cast: Abigail Cowen, Hannah van der Westhuysen, Precious Mustapha, Eliot Salt
Director: Edward Bazalgette
Streaming Platform: Netflix
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3/5 (three stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
One of the most loved series by teen audiences has finally landed with its new season on Netflix. Fate The Winx Saga Season 2 debuts today on the streaming platform from the big N and is ready to cheer the souls of lovers of the all-Italian cartoon. The second season of Fate: The Winx Saga opens the curtain in light of the consequences of the previous season’s finale: the threat is upon us and the regime of terror exists in Alfea. So much romance and little world-building in Fate 2, it’s a pity that the couples are not enough to make up for the lack of deepening of the magical universe. Visual effects are greatly improved and new themes and a lot of representation are introduced. I will not dwell further and here is my review of Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2.
Fate The Winx Saga Season 2 Review: The Story
Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2, the school is back in session under the strict authority of the former director of Alfea, Rosalind. With the Burnt out destroyed, Dowling “disappeared” and Silva imprisoned for treason, last year’s Alfea is gone and is permeated by new magic, new love stories and new faces. But when the fairies begin to disappear into the night, Bloom and his friends discover a dangerous threat lurking in the shadows. A threat they will have to stop before it devastates the entire Otherworld.
Those who loved the first season will have no problem finding the second pleasant too. If, on the other hand, like me, you have encountered several defects in the debut season of Fate: The Winx Saga you will have to sit comfortably and wait because the problems persist. Fate: The Winx Saga is a Netflix series that seeks to adapt the super popular cartoon of the early years of the new millennium into live-action sauce. This premise is a must, it will help you to better understand the review in its entirety. You do adapt the story told in the various seasons of the cartoon by transforming the fairy world and almost always so colorful into a universe in a dark academic style. The Netflix show has chosen to ride the wave of recent literary successes by offering a darker and darker TV series than the product of inspiration.
A wise choice and in tune with current television productions, above all it was a decision more than ever necessary to make the product credible. That said, the dark and mystery shades revealed in the first season are revived even more forcefully in the second. Perhaps all this drama and the air of excessive perennial threat is not even necessary and at times obscures the rest of the plot, taking away space for interesting storylines. My perplexity is mainly because of the real threat. The story picks up shortly after the pilot season ends. Now in command of Alfea we find the much-feared fairy Rosalind, played by Miranda Richardson and no longer by Lesley Sharp. Fairies and Specialists train tirelessly to try to be ready for the probable attacks of the Blood Witches. The plot is simple and linear, but the twists are many and the deaths of important characters, even more, get ready.
Fate The Winx Saga Season 2 Review and Analysis
The creators of the show promised us a lot of romance… promise kept! Sky and Bloom are closer than ever, a central couple of the series (like it or not). The red-haired protagonist is the spotless and fearless heroine ready to sacrifice herself for the greater good without hesitation. Bloom is willing to give up everything to save her loved ones and does not hesitate even for a second when she can sacrifice her good for her for that of others. The sky is the charming prince of history, without ifs and buts, the inspiration is evident. In a television context where toxic couples are predominant, Fate chooses to bet everything on the cliché of good guys. Choice, do you win? It depends on the tastes. Surely if Abigail Cowen started to show more expressive ability the character would perform better on screen.
Speaking of couples, there are many new sparks involving the protagonists of Fate: from Aisha (Precious Mustapha) and Gray (Brandon Grace) to the new sentimental revelation of Terra (Eliot Salt) to get to the much-loved Musa (Elisha Applebaum) and Riven (Freddie Thorp). Precisely on the latter, I want to dwell on some reflections. Musa and Riven are the couples that the Fate fandom wants to see on their TV screen and for this reason the creators of the series have chosen to introduce it slowly, too slowly though. The scenes dedicated to them are present, they are many and concentrated from mid-season onwards. The relationship between the two is in the air but not in the script of the Fate writers. Musa and Riven know each other well but only in Fate do they become friends, battle mates and confidants. It is perceived that the boy is starting to become attached to Musa like never before but for now, no romantic scenes are on the horizon. We will have to wait for Fate 3 if it ever comes.
Action and adrenaline are so much present in Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2, the visual and special effects have improved significantly compared to the previous season and this has certainly helped to make the action scenes much more believable and realistic. Unfortunately, we are far from perfect but this is not the purpose of the series. Fate: The Winx Saga aims to conquer and engage the teen audience of today on an emotional level and to rekindle the cartoon fans of the time with the brand. He can? Yes, it entertains and fully hits its target.
The revelations of Fate: The Winx Saga 2 are many, some even hidden but not in the eyes of true experts. Bloom’s past slowly comes to light as well as the story of Beatrix (Sadie Soverall), I won’t add anything else. The father-son relationship between Sky (Danny Griffin) and Saul Silva (Robert James-Collier) is deepened but never properly developed, as is the bond between Sky and his biological father Andreas (Ken Duken). So much potential is wasted by a lazy script.
The second season of Fate: The Winx Saga has lost some magic. For the group of fairies formed by Bloom, Stella, Terra, Aisha, and Musa, everything has changed now that Rosalind has taken command of Alfea. This year Flora, Terra’s cousin, has also joined the group. And, she isn’t the only new cast addition. The new characters, however interesting they may be, do not give credit to the series. There is too much to explore, too much to talk about, and very little time to do it. So, the second season is very confusing and it’s not very clear where we want to go. Mostly, as much as I enjoyed the first season, this one left me with very mixed feelings. On the one hand the love for the saga, on the other a constant question “What am I looking at?”.
For example, Flora is a character that I think is very interesting. Yet in these 7 episodes, she goes from being Terra’s cousin to everyone’s best friend and an integral part of the group without a natural progression of friendship. There is also a lot of confusion around the bad guy. Sebastian, who is it? What exactly are blood witches? Where do they come from? Where does the portal come from? Lots of questions, half-finished answers. Bad guys with little charisma. Even from Rosalind, I was expecting a lot more considering the finale of the first season and yet it brings very little to the new series. Alone Beatrix proved more charismatic, and a better antagonist than Rosalind and Andreas together.
To be honest, the first season had its flaws, certainly but, it told a story following a logical thread and ended leaving those who watched it rather satisfied and with the desire for a sequel. The second season is confused, inconsistent, too fast in the flow of events and leaves with a bad taste in the mouth and dissatisfaction. In short, a good product for Binge-Watching, but certainly not at the level of its first season. Yet, it still left me curious to know what will happen next so, let’s hope for a third season that concludes the story and improves expectations.
Fate The Winx Saga Season 2 Review: The Last Words
I don’t want to scare you but I feel obliged to warn you: get ready for many deaths. Several important characters will leave us in this second season, too bad their loss is not felt. The succession of disappearances one after the other makes the individual losses less incisive and impacting. Too bad because Fate 2 could make much better use of the drama offered by the disappearance, definitive or not, this is to be seen, of some characters. I do not deny that overall, I am not satisfied with Fate: The Winx Saga 2, the technical aspect has undoubtedly improved but the script and the dialogues remain too superficial and listless. Who knows if the third season will also be able to improve the problems of the writing phase?
