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...
After being in a long book drought, I decided to pick up “The book thief” by Markus Zusak. The first line is what sucked me into the story. ‘'A mountain range of debris in which our narrator introduces himself, the colors, and the book thief,' says the narrator." The narrator or Death quickly became my favorite character in the series and his beginning monologue is one of my favorites, for, how he wrote the color representation of the dead was very unique. However, he is no grim reaper. He is the kinder and gentler version who shows sympathy for his victims. Yet, he urges people to accept that everyone is going to die. "It's enough to state that at some point, I'll be standing over you, as genially as possible. I shall hold your soul in my arms. A color will cling to my shoulder. I'll softly carry you away." And his resentment for human behavior and its cruelty is what resonated with me and I often thought back to this line whilst reading the ...