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SEASON
The Magicians - Season 1
The Magicians is based on fantasy fanatic Quentin Coldwater, his enrollment into a Magical Pedagogy and his wild imaginations.
9 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 December 1968, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
6 March 1969, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
16 May 1967, Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland
12 August 1985, Hollywood, California, USA
4 June 1979
December 28, 2016
Part of the fun of the series is how it challenges the idealized portraits of young heroes in fantasy literature with characters plagued by the same bad decisions, hormonally-charged emotions, and selfishness and pettiness of any college kid...
January 25, 2016
The first two episodes are solid, giving us the glimpse of the potential for the series to develop into something thrilling, dark and entertaining.
January 25, 2016
Even as a genre fan, The Magicians compels me less for its supernatural side than its feel for the social alienation that makes fantasy so appealing in the first place.
December 21, 2015
The television show, anxious and impatient, rushes through the bullet points of the book's plot and forgoes the emotional complexity that made the books more unique than just the Potter imitation they seem at first blush.
January 25, 2016
In terms of establishing a world and getting the plot going, the show's first episodes are actually pretty promising.
December 17, 2015
It would take a clairvoyant to know whether The Magicians will eventually develop into an agreeably dark and twisty piece of juicy genre fare, but at this early stage its future looks murky.
December 21, 2015
Magicians is just the latest attempt to conjure up something special. The new series is about a magical school for wizards, but it's not Harry Potter's Hogwarts. Not even close.
January 25, 2016
So far, it holds enough tricks - and more of an adult edge - to be intriguing.
January 25, 2016
The result ends up feeling like a knock-off of the genre works that inspired Grossman, lacking in the wry commentary that made the original books feel so fresh.
