Fate The Winx Saga Season 2 is on its way and, although, the first season was not a favourite watch for everyone, people are still looking forward to the world building and introduction of new characters and powers in this series. The Netflix show is based on the fan-favourite Nickelodeon animated series Winx Club by Iginio Straffi.
Produced by Archery Pictures in association with Rainbow, Fate The Winx Saga is developed by Brian Young, who is also the showrunner and executive producer. The extensive cast includes Abigail Cowen as Bloom Peters, Hannah van der Westhuysen as Stella, Precious Mustapha as Aisha, Eliot Salt as Terra Harvey, Elisha Applebaum as Musa, Danny Griffin as Sky, Sadie Soverall as Beatrix, Freddie Thorp as Riven, Eva Birthistle as Vanessa Peters, Robert James-Collier as Saul Silva, Eve Best as Farah Dowling and Lesley Sharp as Rosalind.
The first season of Fate The Winx Saga consisted of six episodes in total. Ahead of the release of Fate The Winx Saga Season 2, let us have a quick recap of all the things that happened in season 1.
– Netflix’s Fate The Winx Saga Season 1 Recap Contains Spoilers –
Fate The Winx Saga starts off with our main character, Bloom (a fire fairy) landing up in Alfea- a magical school for Fairies and Specialists located in one of the other realms. At the campus, Bloom meets Stella (a light fairy, her mentor for the campus tour as well as her suitemate) and Sky (a specialist in training). She also gets introduced to her other roommates Aisha (water fairy), Terra (earth fairy) and Musa (mind fairy), who are fairies with their own unique powers. Soon enough it is revealed that Bloom’s parents are human and are not aware of Bloom being a fairy or at Alfea.
Bloom is enrolled on the school by headmistress Dowling on finding out that she is a fairy. The clarification given to Bloom is that she might have a dormant fairy gene in her ancestry which is why she has the powers of a fire fairy. However, Bloom is still very new to the entire thing and has difficulty wielding her powers. In fact, in a flashback, we see that she is responsible for burning down her house and almost harming her parents.
With the arrival of all the new fairies and specialists at the school, there is an orientation party that Bloom does not enjoy much, leading her to cross the protective barrier of the school and step outside into the woods. While practising her magic there, she loses control. However, Aisha saves her using her water magic but, does not miss out on mentioning that Bloom could be a changeling due to her magical capacity.
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This exposition leaves Bloom disturbed which is when she plans to leave the realm and visit the First World (the world of humans) using a ring Stella offers her. But, while returning from the First World to Alfea, she is attacked by a Burned One- a demonic presence assumed to be extinct for ages. She is reduced by Dowling and her roommates but loses her ring.
On realizing Bloom has lost her ring, Stella manipulates Bloom, Terra and Sky to help her retrieve it. On their hunt to find the ring, the group finds Sliva, a Specialist trainer, injured by the Burned One. Terra tries to treat him as Bloom is knocked by the voices of the Burned One in her head. However, with Aisha’s help, she is able to defeat the Burned One and get Stella’s ring back. Silva is brought back to the academy for treatment.
Meanwhile, a new, mysterious student named Beatrix arrives at the academy and gets involved with one of the trainee specialists called Riven. She is seen searching Dowling’s office and finding a secret passage which turns out to be locked.
Bloom soon is graced by the dream of a woman telling her to look for her. She confronts Dowling after finding a picture of that woman to which the headmistress reveals that it is a woman named Rosalind, who happened to be Dowling’s mentor and is now dead. However, she is not aware of how Bloom and Rosalind are connected. Bloom’s romance with Sky tightens but, Stella’s past actions scare her into getting too much involved with her ex-boyfriend. As Silva’s condition worsen, it is apparent that there is more than one Burned One out there.
But, the situation is taken care of when Bloom and her friends fight off a Burned One with the help of Dowling which results in Silva getting better. Meanwhile, Beatrix finds a way to get into the secret passage by killing Dowling’s assistant in the process. It is revealed that the secret passage leads to a place where Rosalind is kept captive. The death of Dowling’s assistant creates a ruffle as Queen Luna, Stella’s mother visits the school, who is not happy with Stells’s performance and decides to pull her out.
On the other hand, we see Bloom joining hands with Beatrix to find out more about Rosalind which leads them to a place called Aster Dell. Beatrix shares with Bloom that it is the land where Dowling and her allies committed some heinous crimes of killing people alongside the Burned Ones. She also reveals that the happening of Aster Dell took place 2 days before Bloom’s birth indicating that Bloom’s biological parents are from Aster Dell and were murdered. Rosalind being alive is also let out of the bag.
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On the way back to the academy Beatrix is imprisoned at Alfea and probed by the professors to reveal her plans. Bloom hatches a plan to help break Beatrix out as she can offer Bloom more information on Rosalind. Beatrix offers a deal to free Rosalind. Stella seems to have snuck back to the academy and with Musa and Terra decides to help Bloom without helping Beatrix much to Aisha’s dismay. The escape plan function with Bloom conjuring magic at the stone circle when she is discovered by Sky, who reveals to have been spying on her. The two promise to trust each other and they kiss but, Bloom ends up drugging him.
Bloom decides to confront headmistress Dowling about Aster Dell, who says that it was Rosalind who tricked them into attacking the place with casualties and that is why she is held captive. On the other side, Terra and Musa break out Beatrix. The group joins together and breaks out Rosalind and, in the process immobilizes Beatrix. With the group freeing Rosalind, we see a battalion cry emerging as Burned Ones attack the institute.
With Rosalind free, she finally reveals to Bloom that her biological parents are alive and the Burned Ones are actually after her for her powers. Rosalind tries to activate Bloom’s full powers but, the latter realizes that she is being used. She rather follows her own will and lures the Burned Ones away from the academy as she unleashes her full power which is denoted by the emergence of her fire wings, something that has not happened in centuries. After the battle is over and Bloom comes out victorious, she decides to visit her parents on Earth and reveal to them her true identity.
She goes back home with her friends as things take a different turn in Alfea. Silva reveals to Sky that he killed his father Andreas as they had joined Rosalind’s evil side. But, in the final moments of the show, we see Andreas is alive and is presented in front of everyone by Queen Luna and Silva is arrested for attempted murder. Rosalind becomes the new headmistress at Alfea after she kills Dowling in the woods while a confrontation. But, this is not before she spills the beans on why Bloom is special- the Dragon Flame, an ancient powerful magic that resides within her.
Fate The Winx Saga Season 2 Trailer
Fate The Winx Saga Season 2 is scheduled to arrive on Netflix on September 16, 2022.
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