Full spoilers from The Magicians continue below. For a preview of what to expect in Season 3, make sure to read our Q&A with showrunners John McNamara and Sera Gamble.
With Season 2, The Magicians continues to be the best show on TV that you're probably not watching. It consistently transcends and subverts genre tropes, both as a fantasy series and as a story exploring relationships between college-aged students.
After discovering Fillory in Season 1, The Magicians spent a vast majority of its time in the magical land in Season 2. The new land offered a new wealth of opportunities for ways to screw with Quentin, Julia, Alice, Eliot, Margo, Penny and Kady, and showrunners John McNamara and Sera Gamble took them with glee. They are fearless as showrunners, and the dark thread through the Magicians means that these characters keep getting thrown into worse and worse insane scenarios, and much of the fun of the show is seeing how they'll try to get out of them.
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With Season 2, The Magicians continues to be the best show on TV that you're probably not watching. It consistently transcends and subverts genre tropes, both as a fantasy series and as a story exploring relationships between college-aged students.
After discovering Fillory in Season 1, The Magicians spent a vast majority of its time in the magical land in Season 2. The new land offered a new wealth of opportunities for ways to screw with Quentin, Julia, Alice, Eliot, Margo, Penny and Kady, and showrunners John McNamara and Sera Gamble took them with glee. They are fearless as showrunners, and the dark thread through the Magicians means that these characters keep getting thrown into worse and worse insane scenarios, and much of the fun of the show is seeing how they'll try to get out of them.
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