The long-running Italian cartoon about a group of best-friend fairies, Winx Club, is one of the few explicitly girl-focused shows to make the transition to a darker, edgier live-action. Fate: The Winx Saga by Netflix casts the same spell on the bright, visually vibrant cartoon that Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Riverdale did on their family-friendly Archie Comics counterparts. It has a surprisingly nuanced plot that delves into the consequences of war across generations — but it comes at a cost, both for the characters and for that familiar sense of friendship and mutual support. In the first episode, we see Bloom (Abigail Cowen) moving into Alfea, a boarding school for fairies and specialists (male fairies) in the Otherworld. The first person she speaks with is a specialist named Sky (Danny Griffin), who discovers that Bloom is from the "realm" of California and that she had no idea she was a fairy three months ago. She meets her roommates, including Stella (Hannah
Divergent chronicles tell us about Beatrice (Tris) Prior's journey in a new dystopian world. To avoid the beginning of the war, humanity divided itself into five “factions”: Erudite, for the clever, Amity, for the peaceful, Candour, for the honest, Abnegation, for the selfless, and Dauntless, for the brave. Children grow up in whichever faction their parents belong to, but at the age of 16, they must take an aptitude test to determine which faction they belong to, and the next day, at the Choosing Ceremony, they must choose their life path. Tris realizes she doesn't belong in Abnegation with the rest of her family, so she makes the painful decision to leave her family behind and join the Dauntless. A difficult initiation process follows, and not everyone will survive. Tris struggles to find her place among the Dauntless as she tries to figure out who she is and who her true allies are. Tris has a secret that she discovered about herself during the aptitude test, as if finding