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The Magicians

2016

4.6

291 reviews

Eligible

Season 1 episodes (13)

1 Unauthorized Magic

1/25/16

Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant but depressed college student from Brooklyn is offered an invitation to Brakebills Academy, an exclusive (and secret) graduate school for Magicians.

2 The Source of Magic

1/25/16

Quentin is distraught as he faces expulsion for his involvement in an otherworldly attack on Brakebills, while Julia delves deeper into underground magic and takes a test to prove herself to the Hedge Witches.

3 Consequences of Advanced Spellcasting

2/1/16

Quentin and Julia have an unexpected - and volatile - reunion. Penny is overwhelmed by the power of his own psychic abilities and Alice is determined to find out what happened to her missing brother - at any cost.

4 The World in the Walls

2/8/16

Quentin wakes up in a mental hospital and must set his panic aside to seek the help of the one person he least trusts. Julia is hurt after her fallout with Quentin and commits to learning more powerful spells with the Hedge Witches.

5 Mendings, Major And Minor

2/15/16

Although everyone should be training for the upcoming Welter's Tournament, the students are each dealing with a personal distraction that keeps them from staying focused.

6 Impractical Applications

2/22/16

The first-year students are put through The Trials, a series of unconventional and emotional tests. Those who pass will experience the journey of a lifetime. Fail, and their time at Brakebills is over.

7 The Mayakovsky Circumstance

2/29/16

The first-years meet an uncompromising professor at Brakebills South who pushes their boundaries both in magic and in their personal lives. After Julia loses everything, she must decide whether she's ready to accept help…and what that means for her future as a Magician.

8 The Strangled Heart

3/7/16

Brakebills is thrown into chaos when Penny is violently attacked by someone they thought was a friend while Quentin tries to find a connection to The Beast. After entering a rehab facility, Julia considers giving up magic for good.

9 The Writing Room

3/14/16

Quentin, Alice, Eliot and Penny travel to England to Plover's estate in search of a missing magic button, but what they find is a hauntingly terrifying vision of the author's true self. Julia, now out of rehab, searches for real meaning in her magic, but it comes at a very high cost.

10 Homecoming

3/21/16

Penny travels to the world of The Neitherlands where he soon finds it's not as friendly as he thought. Quentin and Alice must work together, no matter how uncomfortable, to save him. Julia joins an eclectic group of Magicians known as the Free Traders, but a surprising member stands in her way.

11 Remedial Battle Magic

3/28/16

Quentin and the others learn battle magic as they prepare for a showdown in Fillory. But this challenge leads to building frustrations...pushing some apart and others together. Julia and Kady take on a mission with the Free Traders that may push them too far.

12 Thirty-Nine Graves

4/4/16

After a night of drinking, the students wake up to foggy memories and a healthy dose of regret. But Penny is quick to remind them all that there's no time for talking out feelings - their very lives depend on getting to The Neitherlands as soon as possible.

13 Have You Brought Me Little Cakes?

4/11/16

Using time magic, Quentin and Julia have arrived in Fillory and now must try to catch up with the rest who are more than 70 years ahead of them, searching for The Beast.

About this show

Based on Lev Grossman's best-selling book series, "The Magicians" follows Quentin Coldwater, a highly intelligent but socially withdrawn twenty-something secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child about a magical land called Fillory. Beyond that, Quentin's life is dull until he finds himself admitted to a very secret, exclusive college of magic in Upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery. However, magic doesn't bring the happiness, adventure, and meaning that he thought it would…until he and his friends discover that Fillory is real.

Ratings and reviews

4.6

291 reviews

Jim Thibault

August 29, 2016

A fantasy were magic is real, big plot is about a fantasy series. Anybody not think of Narnia when they talked about this fantasy series? I think think who ever owns Narnia should be upset. It was ok the reason I did not like it more was the last episode kind of left me hanging. Ok so this is how it ends ? Why not finish the story are they planning on continuing?

9 people found this review helpful

Robert Mousseau

January 7, 2017

The language is (annoyingly and poorly) censored despite no notice anywhere. All other content is as normal. Would have purchased elsewhere had I known this was basically the equivalent of a walmart version of a record with explicit content.

31 people found this review helpful

T Hewitt

January 23, 2020

I paid for a whole season when Season five came out but with it's second episode being available it wants me to buy it. Is there some way to fix this or some way to contact someone to fix it? Been trying to figure out how to contact support but no luck. The show itself is great and deserves five stars.

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