Fate: The Winx Saga If you've been itching to watch teenage fairy angst, then your wait is over . 

The wink Saga is back for a second season, so cast your spells. Let'S dive in schools back in session under the militant authority of alfaya's, former headmistress Rosalind with the burned ones, gone, Dowling, disappeared and Silva imprisoned for treason. The Althea of last year has grown up with new magic, new romances and new faces, but when fairies start to go missing in the night Bloom and her Suite mates discover a dangerous threat lurking in the shadows, one they'll have to stop before it wreaks havoc. On the entire other world, we're still following Bloom and the rest of the gank.

But the new complication for Bloom is that at the end of season, one she discovered – or at least she unleashed the dragon flame, meaning that she is one of the most powerful fairies. In the world, but because this is all new to her, her magic can be a massive liability and just like in the first season, there is an antagonistic Force, that's threatening the safety of the school and really the magic world as a whole. These threats first very vague and they're mysterious, but then, as the show goes along, we do get sufficient development to understand what's going on and then can actually look at them as a real threat. I think this show is hoping that nobody's going to notice, but Rosalind has a casting change for this season. The new Rosalind is played by Miranda Richardson and I loved just the wicked biting sarcasm and the way that she doesn't take any crap from anybody that she brings now Richardson is fun to watch.

I mean if for no other reason, then she's great when she's grumpy. Now I've mentioned that there are a bunch of horny hookups this season and really we see the show taking on a more mature stance just all the way through there's a character Arc, that's been quietly building and while we may have suspected something with this character, it's Now confirmed – and I love the way that the show handled this aspect and then how the surrounding characters responded. It was touching and it was sweet, but it also fit really well within the narrative, and then it came about at the right time without feeling forced or rushed. Now. I was seriously surprised at how invested I was in this season.

I mean when some of the climactic moments came and there were several that were spread out across the seven episodes I mean. I found myself very sucked into the drama and those character moments, there's one that involves Bloom and another character in the first half of the season, and I like how it caught me off guard, and then I mean even when the reveal came, I was still uncertain. If it was actually true and happening – and this was fun – and it showed me how much I was drawn into the drama, even though I had been sort of fighting it and there's another climactic scene as the show moves into the Final Act and Not only was Surprised by the outcome, but I was chuckling to myself at just how much I was caring about the story. I don't get me wrong. I mean I wasn't going into this to actively hate it or anything like that, but I just wasn't terribly invested in that.

First season, so I didn't have huge expectations for this one. I like that there are some real consequences to the actions this season I mean characters are put into danger and because of how the stakes have been defined by the story, the threats have weight to them. Making the scenarios engaging and enjoyable, but I mean come on this – isn't a perfect show. There are several things that irked me as it went along. I mean the back and forth of characters not wanting to either talk or listen to others.

It does get tiresome now to have some scenes of that feels realistic, but when a character refuses to listen to, others then gets themselves into all sorts of trouble for not listening and then in another scenario, doesn't listen again and gets into trouble. Again, I mean that's bothersome and frustrating now some of the angst gets to be overly dramatic too, and it's not just from the younger cast. We get moodiness from adults that I thought was laughable and then very soap, operaish and then there's the special effects. Now. Sometimes these are convincing when Bloom will use her powers.

I mean the Flames, look mostly good, but there are times when things are on fire and those I mean they don't have a convincing quality to them at all. But I do love it when the eyes of the fairies will glow in the color. That represents their power like take, for instance, we'll watch musa's eyes, glow purple, anytime, she's channeling, her or somebody else's emotions, and this happens a lot in the show for many different characters. And I like how it's used as a subtle clue as to what power is in play and then what it may mean for a character. Now, while there is a small amount of cheese to this, and I'm not really knocking that, because I actually expect some cheese – and I really would have been disappointed if it hadn't existed within the storytelling.

But there's a point in the final climax that involves several of our fairies. Now this sequence was ridiculous and laughable. I mean I know what they were going for, but it broke me completely out of the mood that the story had worked so hard to establish we're. Having this really climactic and dangerous moment, and then we just have these people doing interpretive dance in the air, I mean the visuals didn't fit the part of the story arc at all. I mentioned that there are seven episodes in this and that's one up from the first season where there were only six and each of these are around 50-ish minutes long now, most of the time these didn't drag other than to have some of the repetitiveness.

That I'd mentioned with the lack of listening skills. Now there was enough drama to keep it moving and not get bogged down, but throughout the entire show small bits here and there could be trimmed to cut down on the overall time, but also then to remove some of the unnecessary brooding that a few of the Characters go through now. This season is kind of 50 50. For me, I like most of the story arcs and enjoyed several of the character progressions. But then there are other characters like Riven or even Andreas, where that were almost one note and flat with very little Dynamics to their presentation.

The repetitive parts are bothersome and there is a lot of predictability, but then there are also surprises that the story manages to unveil that we're enjoyable and engaging, and then within the climactic moments, while they're intriguing from a story perspective, they're revealed and the resolved rather quickly. Instead of drawing out the drama of that reveal for maximum Effectiveness, I think, if you were a fan of the first season, you're going to enjoy this one even more as it delves more into the lore of Althea and then really allows some characters to Showcase their Magic plus the increased maturity of the storytelling and the content is going to be more appealing to a broader audience rather than having another tame season, and then with the way that this concludes, there is room for a continuation. So fans should be able to look forward to more their sex, no nudity, a lot of profanity and a bunch of violence. I give season two of Fate. The wink Saga, three out of five couches.

Do you have a favorite character in the show? Now I really enjoyed both Tara and musa's story lines this season, but let me know who you root for in the comments below. If you enjoyed this review.