The Incomparable Mothership #350 April 29, 2017
“The Magicians”

Magic Pixie Dream Girl

This week we draw your attention to another excellent TV series that recently concluded a run of episodes: SyFy’s “The Magicians”. Based on a series of books by Lev Grossman, this is a show that starts out as a mash-up of Harry Potter and Narnia and goes in some very surprising directions while continually improving in quality. Love, war, sex, fairies, gods (some evil, some capricious, some just annoying)—there’s a lot to love about this show.

In the first half of the episode we talk generally about the show and why we like it; the second half, after the Spoiler Horn, is devoted to breaking down the events of its just-completed second season.

(Content advisory: “The Magicians” contains a couple examples of sexual assault/abuse. And we talk about them.)

Listen to this episode (1 hour, 14 minutes)