Sorry if the audio is very low in this video. With the power being out I could hear my neighbors very clearly and was worried I was disturbing people so I kept lowering my voice.

They had so much potential with Winx club with so much originality and diversity but they just decided to do Riverdale

Like the actual winx cartoon dealt with some 'darker themes' like an arranged marriage and literal genocide but no that clearly isn't what they meant by darker themes. Like all of the relationships in the cartoon were really well developed with little jelousy between the girls but no they had to have a jelousy plot or else it's not 'dark and gritty'. This tv show was a fundamental part of my growing up and i am just p*ssed off that they ruined it

Why were they so negative on Bloom’s parents? Her parents were super lovely and when the dad was fighting a fire he found Bloom and they adopted her.

I always thought Musa was Asian growing up?? I'm also confused why they didn't capitalize on Y2K aesthetic that is huge rn. Nothing about this show makes sense. I'm also kinda confused by their decision to make Stella a mean girl in show, in cartoon she was kinda refreshing for the "girly" character. She was kinda vain and stuff, but she wasn't a jerk to her friends and her vanity was addressed and eleborated on later on which made her a better person. It's kinda messed up to me that a cartoon for kids had more depth then this show lol

My thing is like... in the original Winx Club, the girls were in college. Like, they were older than most other tween-girl-show protagonists. They'd go out on the town, have parties, and all that stuff (obviously a PG-rated version of all that, but the point still stands). And I love that! There was drama in the show, sure, but the main characters didn't hate each other unnecessarily or cause drama just because. They didn't totally get along at first, but they quickly learned to care about each other and get along. And that's what college is like!!! You grow out of all that petty high school drama. You learn to look beyond that kind of stuff and just. You get along with everyone unless you have a real reason not to. And I absolutely hate that they changed that about the show.

The color coding for characters could have been executed well IF: they weren't dressed like 30 year olds in 2010 and if the show was more connected to the source material in that it's a bright fantasy. If they wanted a dark show about fairies they should have dropped the aspects that ground it in being like a cartoon. If the goal was to balance cartoon and live action, they failed miserably.

When Bloom said she was born in 2004 I got fucked up because throughout the whole show I was 100% certain that they were in a college setting

The poisoning Sky scene was also funny because he opened a water bottle, took the tiniest itty bitty fake sip, then immediately closed it and put it aside again. Like… were you even thirsty? And then THAT was strong enough to knock him out within a minute? But not enough to affect Bloom who put her mouth on his right after?

can we fire whoever dressed white flora bc thats a hate crime

when the original casting came out the actress playing Terra was listed as playing Flora, which was eventually changed (in my opinion because of white washing accusations). but like, even though it's technically a "new character," we all know it was supposed to be Flora and they changed it to save their asses tbh. I feel like Netflix wanted to cast a plus sized character and forgot that women can be plus sized and POC.

Tecna. I was Tecna in my winx club. They didn't even mention her. You know how included math/ academically well people felt through Tecna. She was so coool and made intellectuality look as interesting as Musa's music. Even her BF Timmy was such a expressive, smart and sensitive guy paired with rather rational and practical girl. That was so rare.

The costume designer never styled teenager media before. She's the costume person for DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES 🤣🤣🤣

I watched winx club when I was 7 and probably could still write the characters better

The got rid of my gamer girl Tecna. I demand gamers to rise up

“No we didn’t white-wash the Latina character, we just wrote her out of the series!”

Without Tecna or the Trix, Fate just isn’t worth my time

Actually they did originally white wash Flora. In the original scripts and casting calls Tera was Flora. They rewrote her to be Tera when they realized people would be p*ssed that Flora was now white.

"We will make a grown up show for grown ups but also they are all colour coded like your grade school binder was"

This was literally "Chilling Adventures Of The Winx Club"

“They gave everyone accents apart from Bloom who is an American” that made me laugh haha

It's 2021, why is Whitewashing STILL going on?! Aisha is the only main character of colour, yet she's the fairy we learn the least about in the first season.

bring back girly shows no more dark academia

I burst out laughing when sky passed out like Bloom was just like “oh sorry!!” AND SHE DIDNT EVEN TRY TO CATCH HIM/STOP HIM FROM FALLING?? LIKE HAHAHAH THATS RUTHLESS

It was a generic show, and then they wanted to bring in an existing audience for profit so they tagged 'winx' at the end

Having Terra replace Flora as a main character is still an excuse to whitewash. 1, The actress playing Terra was originally announced to be Flora early on, but was then changed to Terra to avoid whitewashing complaints. 2, having her be literally the same character as flora, same personality and everything, is literally just making a white version of a character. 3, if they REALLY wanted to make Terra Flora’s cousin, they still could’ve cast a Latina actress to play her! They could’ve made Flora’s cousin also Latina but they didn’t, because Terra was written in as a way to get away with whitewashing.

Im not gonna say Winx is a ground breaking masterpiece but they took away the colors, the glitter, the friendships and turned it into a CW show. I say this as someone who like CW shows, not everything should be a CW show. Why do they feel the need to take away the colors?! I thought we were done with Darker and Edgier nonsense! Everything is camp now!

When they commented on how one of the characters was 16 I died... they look 30!

Look how they massacred my girl! Stella was Bloom's best friend, we didn't need or want a petty jealousy ploy!! Netflix Flora is a travesty....

Jenny Nicholson mentionned in her video about the Vampire Diaries that the show had a really annoying tendency of using songs with lyrics that matched up perfectly to what was happening in the show... Now I get why it happened so often in this series as well !

‘You wanna age them up? Have them all in therapy.” LMAO

"What about aging it up involves making it bad?" Amanda has no chill holy...

it’s too bad a production company like HBO didn’t pick this show up. could you imagine how INSANE the wardrobe/makeup looks would have been if they used the same stylist’s from euphoria. i feel like they would have perfectly captured the essence of the original winx club show!

Empath? I didn’t know Shane Dawson was in this show!

The cartoon was way more diverse and actually took risk in story telling, it was so bold and as I kid I loved their friendship and watch them go through struggles together. This live action just felt like a slap of reality that Hollywood don't care they just want money out of us, The show is one big ass clickbait.

"the core theme of the show is friendship" * Stella spends the entire serie being enemies with the rest of the club *

What we wanted: Friendship, Healthy relationships, badass antagonists, Y2K fashion What we got: Broken mean girl, edgy and BS lead character, main characters turned to background characters(Musa and Aisha), and dead people that keep coming back to life.

the remake feels like a hate crime I’m not gonna lie

Why did Beatrix and Bloom have more chemistry than Bloom and Sky even though they had that little time together

"Bloom is just a brat" The entirety of the plot explained.

"[Sky] has such boiled chicken energy" Devastating

Swell Entertainment: You made a fairy show boring... People who watched Sword Art Online's 2nd arc: First time?

Why do the actresses look like they are mid forties. I get that you don't actually cast teens to play teens most of the time because of labour laws but the styling and lighting really doesn't help.

Okay but why is "such boiled chicken energy" such a hilarious and accurate description of Sky?

One aspect I always found interesting about the original Winx Club friendships was how the girls had even stronger bonds through their powers too. Yeah, they were all roomies and got into hijinks together and supported each other but I could see links that made sense. Stella and Bloom, light and fire, being besties makes sense especially with their first meeting being Bloom saving Stella. Techna and Musa being close too. Even Aisha/Layla and Flora being close in later seasons made sense (water and plants). It's those little things that made the show interesting for me even it was just a subconscious reach on my part! Plus the colors! The fashion! THE FASHION! It's sad... Thanks for this summary because phew now I really don't even have to hate watch it lol

What bothers me the most is the people who praise that live action trash. I grew up with and watched every single version of winx. So it’s really painful seeing such an awful remake be number #1 Netflix. I can’t help but be angry every time I hear about fate.

In the original files, she was called Flora. They just backpedaled. They somehow didn't think to just have a plus sized latina character, and retconned "oh, they're separate! See??"

The only thing I'd go "to be fair" about is that in the beginning they made an offhand comment about transformation not being around for a long time, thus why the wings were not around, which honestly just makes this more fanfictiony

I feel like the original cartoon Aisha wanted nothing to do with control. I remember them showing her constantly being controlled and told what to do as a kid, and then she made a friend who taught her how to let go and have fun. So it feels weird the remake would just change her whole character like that and make her obsessed with control and discipline. Guess that shows how much the netflix writers knew about the show.

The entire show is a violation of the Geneva convention

Yo, Musa's struggle about feeling someone die would've been such a great storyline

The colors of this show just make me sad. I just want a live action show full of peppy colors and pink and sparkles. Let me escape reality✨✨✨

The way the show made make a freaking Fairy School look like any other human high school... I was like... what? Lol. I didn't want to stay there more than a minute. And I'm surprised you didn't mention Riven and his "jokes".

Techna was my favourite as a kid and the Trix were a lesbian awakening. I feel personally victimized by this show

I dont like that they filmed it in Ireland but mainly used British actors in the series when there originally werent really any British characters

Winx Club used to be my shit when I was younger and had a big impact on my childhood and pre-teen/early teen years, since it inspired me to become more creative with my drawing, writing fanfiction and imaginary Winx OC characters. Overall, I consider it to be my favorite childhood show alongside W.I.T.C.H. and Digimon. So, when I saw that Netflix was turning it into a live-action show, I didn't have the biggest of hopes for it and actually thought they might put in some effort into in. But guess what, this show is an absolute dumpster fire trash and it can't be compared to the original animated show. Even though I didn't watch it, it looked absolutely horrible in the trailer. And for the lack of diversity between the casting choices, I totally agree! At least in the original version they attempted to have three inclusive characters within the six fairies (Musa, Layla and Flora), but here, they wiped their asses with an attempt at having inclusive characters. Whitewashing Flora and turning her into a dollar-store version of her own self? Come on!! Overall, this show is a waste of everyone's time and brain cells. It sucks!

I knew it was going to be bad without even watching it tbh. I loved Winx as a kid and w.i.t.c.h and all that stuff. Please leave those shows alone!! Stop trying to make them for adults

The "changeling" part was taken from Celtic mythology! If you look more into that side of it, then you'll get what the big deal is. Actually pretty cool that they included that, but seems like they did a poor job of explaining it.

"...worked on The Vampire Diaries" Jenny is shook.

i turned it off after bloom(?) said smth about mansplaining to that blonde guy in the first couple of minutes

This is like seeing the footage of that cringey live-action version of Sailor Moon that was pitched in the west.

I can't get over the porg staring intensely at the drawer. 👀

they made stella a mean girl and i will never forgive that

Bloom: Breaks Rosalind out of prison. Lies to and betrays everyone she's close to on order to keep Rosalind safe. Follows Rosalind into the a dark forest alone at night. Helps Rosalind to charge her powers so that she can do whatever she wants. Believes everything Rosalind tells her about her and Alfea's past. Also Bloom: "You want to teach me?? I don't even know you!!!

My crush on Bloom was too big for the first word attached to this show to be homophobic

I just started watching it right before you posted this! As someone who LOVED Winx as a kid, it's very weird.

Amanda: **asks for a winx club reboot** Monkeys Paw: **Curls one finger**

Us: Winx Club! Tv show creators: Ah yes an adult show Us: We want wholesome content Tv show creators: Sex, gore, problematic relationships Us: ...

the way i screamed out loud when you namedropped house of anubis

the more you talked about the "plot" the more it confirms its a 2012 wattpad fic

Some of the dialogue choices were just... straight up horrible

"Boiled chicken energy"... That got me 💀

Day 8 of attempting to convince Amanda to refer to us, her fans as the Armanda Armada because pun

Moderngurlz recently did a review on the live action winx show as well and I think it's very informative, even if you never watched the cartoon you get good context

3:48 If you look up that actresses IMDB page she's listed as playing Flora, not Tara

I *HATE* that every teen-young adult show nowadays always has to be “edgy and dark” and involve sex, drugs, and murder, etc. Some shows do suit that kind of style and do it well (euphoria) but now it’s like every show has that kind of vibe.

I watched it in a day and I don't even know why. I guess I just needed a distraction and that seemed bad enough to not get fully obsessed over. The most annoying part was that it had such a nice concept but they ruined it all with laziness. Just like in the Vampire Diaries where Elena always had to be the most important one, even when her best friends suffered because of this, in this show it was the same with Bloom. What I found utterly ridiculous was when all the girls except for Aisha decided to help her free Beatrix, the confirmed murderer, and then Aisha was forced to apologize for being a snitch, even though she directly said that Bloom's actions were selfish and endangering. I was like... WHAT?!

Remember when Sky and Brandon's names were interchanged mid-series and the show just acted like nothing ever happened? 😹 That was so iconic

Why did they make musa into Shane Dawson’s persona

I understood the Aisha deal as not her suddenly losing control but rather struggling with this one task (and having overcome a lot of struggles in the past, being in control and working hard), while Bloom just gets it with a tiny bit of struggle at first. I thought it was a suprsingly self aware look at 'the chosen one' getting it all with litte effort and Aisha was reasonably frustrated

This lowkey makes me want to hear you try to recap every episode of Riverdale. It's so chaotic and bad.

"I would be horrified, terrified, SCARED EVEN..."

I'm not going to lie, the whole storyline had me confused at the end. As soon as she released Rosalind, nothing made sense. I don't even understand if Rosalind is on the bad side or she's just power hungry.

The reason that the Queen would rather her daughter be know to have blinded a classmate on purpose rather than by accident is because of the nature of the monarchy. This monarchy rules through fear, not love. As such, it is better for them that the daughter is known to be cruel, rather than inept. This way the fear can be maintained.

The opening was phenomenal, especially since your Charlie's Angels video is one of my favorites. I was laughing.

6:16 lmao I'm gonna use that line now... "Such boiled chicken energy"

I am so happy that you brought up the fact that the girls were barely friends. I feel like they had less than 10 different scenes with all of them together. Also the show used phones way too much and the fashion made them look a lot older than 16.

"gives off such boiled chicken energy" I'm going to use this every day for the rest of my life

I just want this to be a Segway for us to get the original Winx Club on Netflix, cause right now there’s tragically only season 7

they could still make a dark show and dress the girls in bright, pop-sugar clothing that’s trendy and catered to their character - i feel as though the juxtaposition of the girls’ aesthetic and the subject matter would have been interesting

NOW GIVE US THE OG WINX ANIMATED REVIEW!!!

"fuck it have them on therapy" will live in my mind forever

THANK GOD SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS!!! From the minute the trailer came out I was pissed.

The costuming choices look a lot like being "Disney Bound". Almost seems like a contract, trademark or service mark issue.

“what about aging it up means making it bad” you hit the nail on the head. I’m going to say this show isn’t “dark, and mature” in the good way, it’s what 12 year olds think is “dark and mature”.

"The core idea of friendship was present in the show" haha that guy either doesn't have friends or his friendships are toxic af.

I love this because it obsolves me of having to put myself through this

I’ve been waiting for this because I didn’t want to watch the dumpster fire of a show

I personally find the show brave to have a protagonist that slept in a warehouse after burning her parents alive. Very relatable 10/10

But what type of fairies were the Headmistress and Rosalind? They had psychic powers so it seems like they could be a different type of mind fairy. But they never stated anything and that's how bad the writing of this show was.