The Magicians Archives

How is it that week after week, a supposedly light-hearted show about magical twenty-somethings trying to figure out their place in the world can nail the intricacies of friendship, love, loyalty, and heartbreak so well? The Magicians somehow manages to pull that off… and each and every week the SYFY series somehow gets deeper and[...]

"Darth Eliot", AKA The Monster of Blackspire Castle, has been parading around in the stolen body of Eliot Waugh (Hale Appleman) during this entire fourth season of SYFY's The Magicians , and his friends would really like to have poor Eliot back There's just one small problem, though… Eliot's dead. At least according to the Monster, who claims[...]

Margo (Summer Bishil) decides that she's going to help Josh find a cure, and we're launched into a very creative parable of modern dating, consent, and remorse. "Marry, F**ck, Kill" is one of those episodes of SYFY's The Magicians that cleverly works current social issues into its broader narrative, and it works very well. THE MAGICIANS —[...]

The Brakebills crew is navigating treacherous waters during the fifth season of SYFY's The Magicians, with memory wipes, dangerously unlucky teddy bears, and a blood thirsty monster who's wearing their friend Eliot (Hale Appleman) around while he hunts gods It's a lot for your average college student to take in, but these kids are wizards[...]

SYFY's The Magicians is often funny, but rarely does it just floor the joke peddle and go for broke The latest episode "The Bad News Bear" does exactly that, and succeeds in launching this rocket-powered funny car of a show into new levels of magical comedy. THE MAGICIANS — "Bad News Bear" Episode 403 — Pictured:[...]

The Brakebills Crew is in for a world of hurt in the next episode of SYFY's The Magicians, 'The Bad News Bear': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FFIiPKLeRAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: THE MAGICIANS | Season 4, Episode 3: Sneak Peek | SYFY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FFIiPKLeRA) When Dean Fogg (Rick Worthy) erased the identities of his prize students, it was for a[...]

The Brakebills crew find themselves one step closer to unraveling their true identities in "Lost, Found, F****d," the second episode of The Magicians' fourth season on SYFY. https://youtu.be/o9ugnU11UfoVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: THE MAGICIANS | Season 4, Episode 2: Exclusive Sneak Peek | SYFY (https://youtu.be/o9ugnU11Ufo) Julia (Stella Maeve) thinks she is a washed-out Brakebills[...]

The Magicians is back for an all new season of mystical mishaps on SYFY! We're only one episode in, and things are already looking pretty dire for our favorite group of magical misfits! And with the name of the second episode being  "Lost, Found, F***ed," it doesn't look like things will be calming down any[...]

SYFY's The Magicians hit the ground running with season four's midseason return, "A Flock of Lost Birds." A young woman named Kimber is lured to a gate in New York City by a fluttering piece of paper She climbs the gate, and finds herself at the Brakebills School for Pedagogy Kimber takes the entrance exams, and[...]

SYFY's The Magicians is back for an all-new season of magic, mayhem, and (maybe) music this Wednesday night! If you need a refresher–and don't have an extra 30 hours to spare binge-watching the series–we have conjured up this handy little refresher course for you, and it's all Brakebill's approved! Courtesy SYFY Quintin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) is a[...]

Great news, The Magicians fans! With your favorite show ready to cast its Season 4 spell over you this week, SYFY has renewed the popular action-fantasy series for a fifth season: Not only are #TheMagicians back TOMORROW at 9/8c, they'll ALSO be back for Season 5 👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/aE1UAQJQLs — The Magicians (@MagiciansSYFY) January 22, 2019 "The Magicians raised the bar[...]

We're just a few weeks away from the fourth season of The Magicians, and SYFY has a spiffy trailer to help you get pumped up for all the magic and mayhem coming your way And while it might be true that "Magic is Back," it also looks like the nefarious Library isn't planning on giving[...]

Explosive publisher BOOM! Studios has offered a first look at the upcoming Magicians OGN by Lilah Sturges and Pius Bak, The Magicians: Alice's Story As the title implies, the graphic novel expands on on the first book by exploring Alice Quinn's backstory before joining Brakebills A press release contains more details: THE MAGICIANS is an award-winning,[...]

Joining Tucci and Biel in the cast are Marlee Matlin (Quantico, The Magicians), Kelly Jenrette (The Handmaid's Tale, Here and Now), John Beasley (Shots Fired, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks), and Louis Ferreira (Travelers). Two Up Created by Two-Up Production and released in July 2015, the Serial/X-Files hybrid Limetown follows American Public Radio (APR) journalist Lia Haddock (Biel)[...]

With the comic book licensing wars ramping up all over the industry, explosive publisher BOOM! Studios has revealed a new secret weapon: Lev Grossman's The Magicians For fans of the popular fantasy novels as well as the Harry-Potter-meets-softcore-porn Syfy TV show, a new graphic novel titled The Magicians: Alice's Story by Lilah Sturges and Pius Bak will[...]

One of the real interesting things to come out of season 1 of The Magicians had to do with time And I'm going to give away a spoiler for season 1 here, but if you're reading articles about season 3 and you haven't seen season 1, then I can't really do much about that Near[...]

I think the Magicians really like going to extremes One of my favorite scenes from season one was a song and dance number inside of an mental institution where Quentin (Jason Ralph) tried to use a song Penny (Arjun Gupta) hated in order to send a message It was the thing that got me hooked[...]

Last night's episode of The Magicians introduced us to Poppy Kline, a graduate of Brakebills and an expert in Dragons She is played by fan-favorite actress Felicia Day (Supernatural, The Guild, Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog) And while the character is surprisingly up and peppy all the time, Day describes her as, "geeky, loves dragons, loves[...]

On tonight's episode of The Magicians, Felicia Day joins the cast as a character straight from the book Day will be playing Poppy, a dragon expert from Brakebills who meets up with Quentin (Jason Ralph) Quentin is out on the seas looking for the next key, and you have to wonder: will a dragon expert[...]

The Magicians continue on their quest to obtain the seven keys that will allow them to bring back magic to the world And this particular key is rather interesting to get. The A story focuses on Quentin (Jason Ralph) and Eliot (Hale Appleman) going through a clock into Fillory's past They have the task of solving[...]

Last night saw the third episode of The Magicians season three and things got a bit… deadly If you're not following along, then you definitely don't want to read this as there are spoilers Syfy has released a new inside-look video that breaks down what happened in the new episode from the cast's perspective. Margo (Summer[...]

Epic quests, Fairy spies, sparks of magic, and exploding cats — that's what makes up the second episode of The Magicians season 3 The episode, called Heroes and Morons, introduces us to Fray, the daughter of Eliot (Hale Appleman) and Fen (Brittany Curran) She is also a spy for the Fairy Queen (Candis Cayne) The[...]

Last night saw the third season premiere of The Magicians on Syfy, and the story picked up right where the last season ended Magic is gone because Quentin (Jason Ralph) killed a god, yet Julia (Stella Maeve) can still do some tiny bits of magic The Elves have taken over Fillory leaving Eliot (Hale Appleman)[...]

The third season of The Magicians kicks off tonight on Syfy, and the show takes a major turn in setting once again The first season focused on the kids going to Brakebills to learn magic, while the second season took them to the magical realm of Fillory to be kings and queens The third season[...]

If you are not watching The Magicians already, this scene my bring you around to checking out the Syfy series as it returns for season three Eliot (Hale Appleman) needs to tell Margo (Summer Bishil) that she is likely being watched But he has to do it without actually saying it flat out… because she's[...]

One of the best shows on SYFY, The Magicians takes all preconceived notions of epic fantasy storytelling and tossing them in a blender with a dash of pop culture, a swig of insanity and just a pinch of the unexpected. The trailer is set to Valerie Broussard's cover of the Police song King of Pain… and[...]

Syfy has released a new behind-the-scenes video introducing a major new character that will be appearing in season three of their hit series The Magicians Like a lot of the magical creatures in Fillory, this particular character is unique in look and we get to see just how it was put together and the make-up[...]

Syfy has released two new trailers for the upcoming third season of the Magicians The series, based on the novels by Lev Grossman, follow Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) and his friends as they go through Brakebills to learn magic and all the dark and twisted adventures that follow This is one of those series that[...]

Syfy has released the fifth and final chapter in the animated story set in the world of The Magicians It's written by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, illustrated by Miss Tak, and narrated/read by Hale Appleman (who plays Eliot Waugh in the series) The is the first part of Fanimations: Party Tricks is here and the second here and the third here and the fourth here.   The story tells of a[...]

Syfy has released the fourth chapter in the animated story set in the world of The Magicians It's written by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, illustrated by Miss Tak, and narrated/read by Hale Appleman (who plays Eliot Waugh in the series) The is the first part of Fanimations: Party Tricks is here and the second here and the third here. So far, we have a new character named Tara[...]