I’m really confused what story did they try to tell.
A bunch of families escape some kind of a pogrom. Young father of three kids sacrifices himself so others could escape. His widow is given a Miracle: a magic house, and also each of her descendants gets a magical talent.
Except one of her granddaughters, Mirabella, that is given none. Who decides to give the magical gift? It’s not the House, it doesn’t even have control over some portions of itself. It isn’t Grandmother. Is it the Candle, then?
So, it’s a story about a Magic Candle that decides to randomly give away superpowers to a single family: the Madrigals. They tell us their family name like 20 times, without any good reason. Could be called Smith’s, for all I care.
The magic house starts to crumble, though, and the family members little by little start loosing their magic powers. Mirabella gets a vision that tells her that she needs to make peace with one of her sisters. Why? Their relationship didn’t seem awful before that, and the only reason she hates her now is because the house started crumbling during her engagement dinner, and she blames Mirabella for that.
In any case, Mirabella learns that the sister doesn’t want to marry the guy she’s engaged to. And that’s how they make peace.
Then Grandmother comes and tells Mirabella that she’s responsible for the house crumbling. Mirabella in her turn says that the Grandma is responsible. Again, the only issue we see with this family is somewhat forced marriage, and Grandma despising Mirabella for not getting a magical gift. Do you see we’re going in circles there?
In any case, the house crumbles. But then Mirabella makes peace with her Grandma by saying that she now sees how much she suffered. Suffered how, by living in a magical mansion for 50 years, as a benevolent ruler of a village? I don’t see any suffering going on there.
And the villagers help rebuilt the house. Guess because the family helped with their magical gifts? And then all family members get their magic back. Not the villagers. Those are simple serfs, remember? Only the “royalty” get the gifts.
Does Mirabella get a gift for uniting her family? No. Because fuck her, it’s the Magic Candle that makes the decisions here, and you don’t fuck with the Magic Candle, understand?