The School for Good and Evil: Netflix's Fairy Tale Epic Lays the Groundwork for Fan-Demanded Sequel — Grade It! Andy Swift Wed, October 19, 2022 at 11:30 PM UTC ...

Although immersed in fantasy, “The School for Good and Evil” gets lost in a nether realm somewhere between Disney Channel fare like “Descendants” and more epic theatricals like Harry Potter.

Netflix’s School for Good and Evil loves fairy tales — and rips them apart. Paul Feig adapts Soman Chainani’s bestseller about a magic-school friendship that defies the tropes.

One need not look further than 1987’s Cannon Films direct-to-video take on Snow White to see exactly how the Evil Queen was being reframed in the late 20th century. The fairy tale remains the ...