The Magicians Archives

While it's impossible to pick the best David Bowie song, performance, or even cover – here's a collection of the best uses of the music of the "Thin White Duke" in television shows- from Netflix's Stranger Things, FX's American Horror Story, and HBO's Watchmen to SYFY's The Magicians and MTV's MTV Unplugged. Images: Netflix/SYFY/Screencaps Stranger Things –[...]

Rounding out the line-up, we have Appleman from The Magicians and, of course, Ryan is from Star Trek: Voyager and now Star Trek: Picard. SDCC TV Guide Magazine's Fan Favorites (SDCC Image) Now, this SDCC panel covers a lot of ground, especially in the way of diversity and representation, and each panelist had a lot of great[...]

Kripke spent some time online chat time with Sera Gamble (You, The Magicians, Supernatural) for a round of "Writer Q&A." Sera Gamble interviews Eric Kripke (Image: Sera Gamble Official) Over the course of the half-hour, Kripke and Gamble cover a number of topics, from how his adaptation of the Garth Ennis/Darick Robertson comic book series came to[...]

SYFY's been on a bit of a "series splurge" lately – which may be one of the reasons why news that The Magicians would be casting its final season of spells with the current fifth season – with the series finale now set for April 1 Based on Lev Grossman's bestselling novels, the series fpremiered[...]

The fourth season of SYFY's The Magicians ended on one hell of a punch to the feels, as one of the main characters of the series, Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph), died defending his friends and restoring magic to all of existence It was a bittersweet ending, with Quentin finally coming to terms with Alice (Olivia[...]

Explosive publisher BOOM! Studios has unveiled an unlettered first look preview at The Magicians #1, the first of a new five-issue series from Lev Grossman, Lilah Sturges, and Pius Bak debuting the "next generation" of students at Brakebills From the press release: Long after Quentin and his friends have graduated from Brakebills, Dean Fogg welcomes a[...]

The malevolence behind the threat at Brakebills will rock everyone to their cores – and even shock longtime fans of The Magicians! The Magicians is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling adult fantasy novel series created by Lev Grossman, which has become a worldwide pop culture phenomenon and inspired a hit television series on Syfy[...]

I have never watched The Magicians on SYFY I share this not as a point of pride, but because I want you to be aware of where I am coming from for this panel write-up It doesn't mean I don't care about the show or have no interest, or that I am being intentionally obtuse in[...]

The BOOM! Studios panel at San Diego Comic-Con had quite the announcement for fans of Lev Grossman's The Magicians novels— He will be re-teaming with the creative team of the excellent graphic novel adaptation of The Magicians that BOOM! Studios released earlier in July of 2019. //Credit: BOOM! Studios The Magicians: Alice's Story delved into the details[...]

Your entertainment options are about to branch out a little on July 9th, with the latest season of The Magicians, the final season of Gotham, and a classic bit of '90s cheese coming home to roost Here's your full list of Blu-Ray releases for this week! THE MAGICIANS — Pictured: Hale Appleman as Eliot Waugh —[...]

Actors from two of my favorite shows of this past year are going to tie the knot soon, according to their social media pages. Stella Maeve, who plays Julia on The Magicians, is now engaged to Deadly Class actor Benjamin Wadsworth for about three weeks now. View this post on Instagram. Most reactions on social media were pretty[...]

During the finale of The Magicians fourth season on SYFY, we found our heroes in a world completely inundated with magic, thanks to the heroic actions of one Quintin Coldwater (Jason Ralph). THE MAGICIANS — "The Secret Sea" Episode 412 — Pictured: (l-r) Jason Ralph as Quentin Coldwater, Olivia Taylor Dudley as Alice — (Photo by:[...]

I'm not going to put on any airs here, DO NOT READ FURTHER if you don't want spoilers for the fourth season finale of SYFY's The Magicians Here's a picture of Lizard King Eliot (Hale Appleman) and a giant stop sign to show you how serious I am. THE MAGICIANS — "All That Hard, Glossy Armor"[...]

But entertainment media doesn't get me to cry too often. The Magicians fourth season finale, "No Better Safe Than Sorry" pretty much busted my dried out empty husks of tear ducts and had those suckers streaming for the better part of 15 minutes. //Credit: SYFY What did it? Was it the acting? No While the performances from this[...]

Here we are, yet another season of SYFY's The Magicians is coming to an end. Frankly, I'm not ready. SYFY has been really canny with the way they schedule some of their original programs, mostly opting towards a leaner, meaner episode count per season than traditional network programming, which lends to a lot less bloat for the[...]

Here we are, yet another season of SYFY's The Magicians is about to wrap, and I'm more nervous than I have any right to be. THE MAGICIANS — "All That Hard, Glossy Armor" Episode 410 — Pictured: Hale Appleman as Eliot Waugh — (Photo by: Eike Schroter/SYFY) Last year, we saw the Brakebill's crew dash off to[...]

That it occurred on SYFY's The Magicians is not surprising in the least. So much happened on this latest episode, I will try to touch on most of those notes without slipping too far into the summary zone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MdYUMct1uQVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: THE MAGICIANS | Season 4, Episode 12: Tease | SYFY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MdYUMct1uQ) So[...]

There are only 2 episodes left for the 4th season of SYFY's The Magicians, and the writers of the show kind of threw me for a loop And I absolutely love it when that happens! //Credit: SYFY The entire fourth season has focused on the Monster of Blackspire Castle (Hale Appleman), which has possessed the body of[...]

Julia (Stella Maeve), Margo (Summer Bishil), and Penny 23 (Arun Gupta) release the physical personification of the Binder from his book, and it took me all of 30 seconds to recognize Matt Frewer, the stunningly eccentric actor behind proto-CGI '80s Pepsi-pitch being Max Headroom. //Credit: SYFY And Frewer wasn't even the strangest thing in "The 4-1-1", the[...]

Oh, very clever! The writing staff behind SYFY's The Magicians has named the eleventh episode of the fourth season "The 4-1-1" And I thought it was just about getting everyone up to speed on the Monster! Here's where we're at so far: The Monster of Blackspire Castle (Hale Appleman) has possessed the body of Eliot Waugh[...]

Somewhere during season 4 of The Magicians, something unexpected happened Margo Hanson (Summer Bishil) became my favorite character She's brash, profane as hell, and exceptionally human She's also the toughest person in at least two realms. THE MAGICIANS — "All That Hard, Glossy Armor" Episode 410 — Pictured: (l-r) Hale Appleman as Eliot Waugh, Summer Bishil[...]

No, not my annual Easter candy binge, that's in two weeks! It's almost time for the annual musical episode of The Magicians And we have a clip! https://youtu.be/ymNKknjg720?list=PLX5Az9LAnbkRAJBeQRWxwPplmXOsRoHd4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: THE MAGICIANS | Musical Episode Sneak Peek | SYFY (https://youtu.be/ymNKknjg720?list=PLX5Az9LAnbkRAJBeQRWxwPplmXOsRoHd4) It looks like Margo's (Summer Bishil) subconscious mind is manifesting different parts of[...]

There are two constants in life: 1, the tax man always tax his cut, and 2… The Magicians will always have a musical episode Get ready, kids, it's almost time for "All That Hard, Glossy Armor". THE MAGICIANS — "All That Hard, Glossy Armor" Episode 410 — Pictured: (l-r) Hale Appleman as Eliot Waugh, Summer Bishil[...]

We're seeing a little more momentum on SYFY's The Magicians after "The Serpent", which pulls the veil off of the Big Bad of this season's story arc, with major implications for everyone involved. THE MAGICIANS — "The Serpent" Episode 409 — Pictured: Olivia Taylor Dudley as Alice — (Photo by: Dean Buscher/SYFY) Olivia Taylor Dudley's Alice takes[...]

This season of The Magicians has been slowly ramping up to several different confrontations, and I'm pretty certain that they're all related to a master plan from the Library! THE MAGICIANS — "The Serpent" Episode 409 — Pictured: (l-r) Hale Appleman as Eliot Waugh, Arjun Gupta as Penny Adiyodi — (Photo by: Dean Buscher/SYFY) Kady (Jade Tailor)[...]

The Brakebills crew find themselves making a deal with an ancient dragon in order to find more of the Monster's missing body on "Home Improvement", the 8th episode of The Magicians 4th season on SYFY. THE MAGICIANS — "Home Improvement" Episode 408 — Pictured: Tara Karsian as The Prophet — (Photo by: Eric Milner/SYFY) Julia (Stella Maeve)[...]

"The Side Effects" opens with a neat over the head long shot that perfectly sets up the rest of the episode – it's disorienting, and from a point of view that we're not used to seeing on The Magicians. THE MAGICIANS — "The Side Effect" Episode 407 — Pictured: (l-r) Chris Brochu as Derek, Arjun Gupta[...]

So far, this season of The Magicians has focused more on the interpersonal relationships between the Brakebills crew, and how those relationships effect the world around them Now, it looks like the SYFY series will be shifting the focus of the story to those around the main characters. THE MAGICIANS — "The Side Effect" Episode 407[...]

Penny (Arjun Gupta) and Marina (Kacey Rohl) find themselves imprisoned by a magician desperate to send them to their home dimension in "A Timeline and Place", one of the more interesting examinations of the multiverse on SYFY's The Magicians to date. Stoppard is a horomancer, someone who creates magical devices to manipulate magical energy[...]

With all of the Eliot-centric shenanigans going on during last week's The Magicians, it would be easy to forget that Penny (Arjun Gupta) was abducted part way through the episode! Don't worry, Penny We'll never forget you, Boo. Except, maybe we will? It looks like Penny and Marina (Kacey Rohl) are at the mercy of a magician[...]