Fate The Winx Saga Season 2

Fate: The Winx Saga spoilers follow.

Fate: The Winx Saga season 1 had it all – so now it's up to season two to up the ante in every way once again.

The young adult show, inspired by Nickelodeon's blithe Winx Order series, is bringing its ain magical blend of ancient magic, teen angst and end-of-the-globe drama. Basically, all the ingredients for one addictive sentry.

It was an instant success, which was gratifying for the cast and crew, even though there were a couple of kinks that they had to iron out quicksmart later on backlash cast a small, but not unfixable shadow on the series at large.

So, what's going on? Hither'south everything you need to know near what season two has in store.

Fate: The Winx Saga flavor 2 release date: When volition information technology air?

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Fate: The Winx Saga will be dropping new episodes on September 16. Similar most Netflix series, flavour two volition be arriving in full – perfect for a weekend watch. Even amend, season two has been extended, with more episodes than the beginning outing – 8 episodes will make up this season's runtime.

Across flavour two, the future of the show has non been confirmed, and then we tin can practise nothing just continue our fingers crossed for a season 3. Withal, a slew of YA shows have recently been axed by Netflix, so it will depend highly on the show's performance with viewers before information technology gets the become-ahead.

Brian Young (creator of The Vampire Diaries) is returning as showrunner and executive producer of the supernatural coming-of-age series, and confirmed the news to Multifariousness.

"The six episodes in season 1 but scratched the surface of this incredibly rich globe and the powerful fairies who inhabit information technology. As Bloom's story continues to evolve, I tin't wait for you to larn even more almost Aisha, Stella, Terra, and Musa! And you lot never know who might prove upward at Alfea next term," he said in a statement.

"Winx connects with audiences in the alive-action accommodation the aforementioned way it does in animation," added Iginio Straffi, creator of the original cartoon. "Over the years, we have seen Winx grow into a global phenomenon and millions of fans take faithfully followed the show."

Fate: The Winx Saga season 2 bandage: Who's in it?

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Season 2 is getting a bigger cast ready to fight against the evil that is descending upon the school.

First and foremost we accept our leading girl gang back in action, comprised of Bloom (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina's Abigail Cowen), Aisha (Precious Mustapha), Musa (Elisha Applebaum), Terra (Eliot Salt), and Stella (Hannah van der Westhuysen).

Joining them will exist Paulina Chávez, who volition play another fairy from the original blithe series, Flora. In Fate: The Winx Saga flavor ane, the show came under fire for ignoring the Latina grapheme and instead replacing her with Terra, who isn't present in the serial.

This led to accusations of white-washing from fans, and this was something the cast and crew were eager to correct.

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"I'one thousand really glad that those conversations accept happened and have been heard," Eliot Salt explained to Metro.co.britain around season one'southward launch. "I think those are more than valid criticisms, and if nosotros get a series ii, I wish we had control plenty to say that information technology volition be rectified, but I'm adequately certain that information technology will be.

"The voices have been heard, and also we've tried to amplify them behind the scenes equally much as we can."

However, it's not currently known if they also plan to correct in some manner the absence of an East Asian character – as the creator of the cartoon based Musa on Lucy Liu, and the character is also played past a white actress in the series.

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Joining the girls on their adventures are returning characters Sky (Danny Griffin), Riven (Freddie Thorp), Beatrix (Sadie Soverall), Silva (Rob James-Collier), Dane (Theo Graham), Queen Luna (Kate Fleetwood), Andreas (Ken Duken), Sam (Jacob Dudman) and Harvey (Alex MacQueen).

Even so, they take to watch their back as evil headmistress Rosalind is back – admitting with a new face. Originally played by Lesley Sharp in flavor one, this flavour she will be played by Miranda Richardson.

Gentleman Jack and War Machine star Daniel Betts is also joining the cast equally Professor Harvey. There are as well some new students – Grayness, played past Brandon Grace, and Sebastian, portrayed by Normal People's Éanna Hardwicke.

Fate: The Winx Saga season 2 plot: What will happen?

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A dark cloud has descended over Alfea College, as Headmistress Rosalind took over later murdering her predecessor Farah.

Meanwhile, Silva has been arrested for the attempted murder of Andreas, who is very much alive after surviving the battle of Aster Dell where he supposedly died 16 years ago. Andreas's render will leave a lot of problems for son Sky, who besides believed him to be expressionless until minutes before the end of flavour one. Awkward.

Rosalind now has the upper mitt, confident in the conventionalities that the faculty and in turn the students will autumn in line. But you don't have to be in the writers' room to know that season 2 will likely involve Alfea's equivalent of Dumbledore'southward Army working to right some serious wrongs.

War is besides on the horizon, with The Burned Ones paling in comparison to what lies ahead, co-ordinate to Rosalind. But what, exactly, will information technology entail? And who volition come up out on top?

What we do know is that Bloom and her fairy magic will exist key.

In a teaser clip for the upcoming episodes, Abby Cowen teased: "We have new villains. We have new additions to the school."

"You can expect epic fights and lots of steamy romance," added Hannah van der Westhuysen, who plays Stella. We can't wait.

Fate: The Winx Saga season 2 trailer: When can I watch it?

While the official full-length trailer hasn't been released yet, there have at the very least been a fair number of teasers to proceed usa hooked in.

Higher up was the first look at the serial entirely, confirming the arrival of Terra'due south Latinx cousin, Flora. The pair simply meet and share a hug equally she was finally brought into the Winx universe.

Following that was a teaser video confirming the release appointment, which you can accept a gander at the top of this article. Even though it was only a brief wait into what to await, information technology seems the prove is embracing its darker elements as evil forces begin to accept over their school.

We'll let you know when the last trailer drops!

Fate: The Winx Saga is available to stream on Netflix.