Cross the Spice Girls with the Avengers and you get the fairy clique from Fate: The Winx Saga. As a nerdy 90s kid, the series was made for me, but Netflix pulled the plug way too soon after season 2.
Of all the hasty Netflix cancellations, this one hurts the most, because a few days ago I heard showrunner Brian Young’s plans for Season 3 and I thought: I’m really into it!
Netflix’s Fate: The Winx Saga just got more exciting than ever
It is anything but natural for me to watch more than the first episode of a Netflix series. I like to give sci-fi and fantasy formats in particular a chance, but abandon most of them immediately.
When Netflix announced the live-action adaptation of the children’s series Winx Club, I just rolled my eyes and reluctantly looked in at the start. The surprisingly action-packed and crisply told fantasy series with borrowings from The Hunger Games and Harry Potter has me unexpectedly held on the pole.
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Fate: The Winx Saga – The cast could also be a girl group
Fate: The Winx Saga is certainly not perfect, but it strikes an unusually sensitive note fairly early in the series and continually surprises with shocking revelations and character deaths.
Seasons 1 and 2 would have wonderful prep for one even darker and more mature Season 3 done. In Season 1 we meet 16-year-old Bloom (Abigail Cowen), a fairy from the First World (Human World). We follow her as she settles into the magical Alfea boarding school in the so-called other world.
While Season 1 explores the surprisingly brutal and sad past of Otherworld, Season 2 steps it up a notch and unveils the big, dark secret of Bloom himself Season 2 finale is Fate: The Winx Saga on previous highlight of the series arrived.
Warning, spoilers for Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2!
the Revelations are happening in quick succession: Bloom is over a thousand years old. She was “frozen” by her mother to keep her disproportionate strength from doing any harm. Bloom’s mother is alive and has banished herself to the realm of darkness.
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Bloom in Fate: The Winx Saga
At the very end, Bloom drops everything and delves into this mysterious realm, where she approaches a woman who has turned away from her. Bloom asks, “Mum?” End. But I don’t want to settle for this series finale.
A third season would have rounded off the series perfectly: those were the plans
Season 1 explained Alfea and the Otherworld, Season 2 revealed Bloom’s true powers and past, and Season 3 would have taken us into the realm of darkness to answer final questions about Bloom’s menacing powers and the mythology of the Otherworld.
Exactly those were showrunner Brian Young’s plans for season 3. A few weeks before the cancellation, he revealed to Entertainment Weekly:
The goal [für Staffel 3] is to answer the question what the realm of darkness is. How are Bloom and her mother connected to this? And how does it relate to the mythology of the series world, which we repeatedly incorporated in season 2.
Season 3 wasn’t intended to be the last season for Brian Young per se. However, with a hint from Netflix that the series should be coming to an end, Bloom and her mother’s reunion would have the perfect starting point for a round finale delivered. This makes the cancellation of Fate: The Winx Saga feel particularly unfortunate.
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Fate: The Winx Saga – The final scene of the series
Bloom’s mother, unable to control the dragon flame a thousand years ago, could have become her daughter’s boss herself.
Instead of this Netflix leaves us with many burning questions. How is the long overdue family reunion going? How is the mother feeling after a thousand years of exile? And can Bloom ultimately control the dragon flame, unlike her mum?
Bloom’s sneak peek into the realm of darkness marks the end of this story for us. With Netflix, unfortunately, it’s like everything else in life. When you open your heart, you make yourself vulnerable. And when Netflix cuts off a series you love, does that hurt.
The only glimmer of hope is a vague hint from Winx creator Iginio Straffi. He doesn’t just say that a new animated series is in the works. A high-budget film is also to come. However, it is unclear whether this is an animated or live-action film.
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