‘Fate: The Winx Saga’ Star Abigail Cowen Breaks Down Bloom’s Fiery Finale Transformation
“I feel like that was the most her she’s ever felt,” Netflix star tells TheWrapJennifer Maas | January 23, 2021 @ 10:00 AM
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(Warning: This post contains spoilers through the Season 1 finale of “Fate: The Winx Saga.”)
In the Season 1 finale of Netflix’s “Fate: The Winx Saga,” a live-action adaptation of the Italian cartoon “Winx Club,” fire fairy Bloom (played by Abigail Cowen) goes through a metamorphosis that allows her to defeat the army of Burned Ones threatening her magical boarding school.
Bloom who thought she was a regular human teen up until a flaming accident at home led to her admission into Alfea goes into full-on fire fairy mode, fiery wings and all, to shoot out burning blasts at the evil creatures.
Fate: The Winx Saga Falls Prey to Netflix s Whitewashing Issue
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When I first heard they were making a live-action adaptation of
Winx Club, I was thrilled. I fondly remember the early-2000s cartoon with its ridiculously fun fashions and core group of girls who will do anything for one another. Then I saw the casting of said group for Netflix s
Fate: The Winx Saga, and my enthusiasm waned. Don t get me wrong; Abigail Cowen, Precious Mustapha, Hannah van der Westhuysen, Elisha Applebaum, and Eliot Salt are all talented actors who don t deserve the hate they ve received from the community, but the whitewashing of the show is apparent and shouldn t have happened in the first place.
The first season of
had it all.
The YA series, inspired by an animated show that lived on Nickelodeon, dished out a hefty helping of ancient magic, teen drama and things that go bump in the night.
But are there plans to head back for round two? Netflix
Fate: The Winx Saga season 2 release date: When will it air?
There s currently no word on the future of
Winx, but given the sheer number of unanswered questions following that eventful finale, it d be nothing short of cruel for Netflix to pull the plug at this stage.
The streamer usually waits around a month before deciding the fate of its shows, so we wouldn t expect to hear just yet.
Fate The Winx Saga : How the Netflix Show Links to The Winx Club
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Fate: The Winx Saga is streaming on Netflix now, and tells of the adventures of a group of fairies at a magical high school. The story comes from
The Winx Club, an Italian animation that ran on Nickelodeon from 2004 to 2009 and in a revived version from 2011 until 2019.
In the Netflix version, a number of the characters will be familiar from the animated version, though with a new set of actors replacing the American voice cast for the cartoon, which included Ariana Grande, Keke Palmer and