Meet yet another generic fantasy TV show that is totally bingeable, but not necessarily any good. It is just so generic that no twist will come as a surprise unless you're super new to the genre.
I never watched the cartoon so I'm not the one to complain how things were ruined. I'm sure that the cartoon didn't get the Y.A. treatment that this show got. The show focuses on Bloom (Abigail Cowen) a 16 girl who discovers that she is a fairy. In order to help her control her powers she is sent to fairy boarding school. She shares a room with a few other fairies which is the basis for their friendship and rivalry.
The school has fairies that train their magic. Learn how to control it. And warriors that always train and protect the school from the burned ones.
The school is super uninteresting. Everyone has phones so it is all very modern teenager. They text each other, write mean posts about each other and so on and so forth.
Sure there are some mysteries in the show. Where did Bloom get her powers from? What is the school hiding underneath it? And it makes the show compelling. You will watch all of it despite a lot of cringe worthy moments. The acting is pretty flat, the plot is not very original, yet somehow I found myself compelled to finish the show. It has a surprising twist ending and an open one. We know that they were building on the approval of a second season and they got it.
If you're bored and looking for something light watch to pass the time, this might be the right show for you. It's just another show from Netflix.
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