So many spoilers ahead! Season four of The Magicians was always going to struggle in its ability to live up to its predecessor, one of the best seasons of television in recent memory. For the most par…
The Magicians 4×5 Review: “Escape From the Happy Place” allows us momentarily to come out of the dark
How much more can you ask for in a television series than the ability to elicit such high strung reactions of joy with the simple words “peaches and plums motherfucker?” Since its inceptio…
The Magicians 4×4 Review: “Marry…Kill” allows the characters a moment to grieve
Following last weeks episode where watched as Margo allowed the monster to kill a God for the sake of possibly saving her friend and Quentin learned that his father had passed away when he’d had…
The Magicians Season 4 Premiere Review: The SyFy series returns in top form
Great series that dabble in the fantasy genre are few and far in-between and when they manage to succeed (such as HBO juggernaut Game of Thrones) they tend to need to straddle the line between the fan…
The Magicians: Quentin Coldwater’s a Hero Just Like Us
“My entire life, ever since I first read Fillory and Further, I’ve been waiting for some powerful being to come down and say ‘Quentin Coldwater, you are The One.’ Every book, every movie, it’s a…
The Magicians Season Three Finale Review: Melancholy and character study dominate one of the years best
Television is so rarely everything you want it to be. Sure, there are great series and ones that on a technical level stand leagues about this little SyFy show that could, but few have the ability to …
The Magicians “All That Josh” had one of my favorite scenes of the series to date
It’s difficult to convey sincerity in a manner that feels rich and honest. With modern television (a lot of it at least), an earnest moment will often be cut down by a biting remark mere moments…