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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 2! This week, we recover the first of the keys we need to complete the vague "great quest" that kicked off this season. Back on Earth, magic doesn't seem gone as much as it seems diminished and sporadic. We just don't have enough information right now, but there are a lot of episodes to go before final credit role. Thanks for listening! Watch a v...

Hello and welcome to the first episode of The Magicians season 3! Our Fillory homestead is still blighted by the recent fairy invasion and we just can't shake em. It doesn't help that they can seemingly hear and see everything, everywhere. We would ask for help, but Penny is a bit preoccupied by dying at work and Quentin is doing Jager Bombs with the god of hedonism. Can't pull him away from that...

Hello and welcome to the season 2 wrap-up for The Magicians! Thank you to all of the lovely listeners who submitted questions. Do we fully understand every plot point and story arc now? HAH...no, not at all. But we had a lot of fun. That's something! We are back next week with season 3! Watch a video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/eyoGHx7HPNg

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 13. It's a season finale week, y'all! We have all of the standard cliffhanger goodies. Dead gods? Check. Rekindled romances weighed down by copious amounts of emotional baggage? Check. An army of fae with a penchant for boddy horror? BIG check. Thanks for listening and remember to send in those wrap up questions! Watch this podcast on YouTube: ht...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 12! This week, Quentin and Eliot find themselves in Canada talking exposition with the missing Fillory god, Umber. Turns out, he is a much better host than his chaotic foil who relieved himself in the source of all magic. Meanwhile, Penny is executing one of the worst heists since....well the last one we tried to pull off. Third times the charm?...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 11! This week, Fillory's problems keep stacking up as the whole kingdom is being bombarded with an homage to the biblical plagues. Meanwhile, Quentin gets to meet a dragon, which is pretty sick. In the less sick department, Penny is still locked down in a library out of time, planning heist #2 which has to go better than heist #1 did, yeah? Thank...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 10! This week, Fillory is buzzing at the prospect of another royal wedding. Some good buzzing, some treasonous buzzing. Meanwhile, Penny begins his 1 billion year temp assignment at the library out of time. But if the remaining nine-hundred thousand and some odd years are anything like day 1...he is in for rough go of it. Thanks for listening! Yo...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 9! This week, Eliot decides to try and save his subjects from the pains of war by agreeing a 1v1, king to king! Bonus points for making him look like a bad a** in the process. Maybe get a sick statue in his honor? Meanwhile, Quentin and Penny are back on earth still trying to figure out the next step of the "kill a demigod" plan. Unfortunately, J...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 8! This week, Quentin and his niffin sidekick Alice are fighting for a majority stake in controlling Quentin's flesh. Meanwhile, Margo is holding it down the best she can in Fillory and Penny is trying to work out a tenuous new normal with Kady. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 7! This week, we are all taking a little break from our normal daily drama to do some good old fashioned crimes. What's the point of having a group of powerful magicians if we aren't going to rob a bank or two? The only twist is that banks caught on to the "just use magic" cheat code for bank robbery and they decided to get some security sorcerer...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 6! This week Eliot and Margo, along with the entire castle, are kidnapped by the Price(S.) of Loria after Margo rebukes his marriage proposal. Meanwhile, Quentin is back with Alice's family helping them process her passing and maybe, casually asking for their help de-niffining her if that's in the cards. Thanks for listening! Watch this podcast o...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 5! This week, the party is officially split. Eliot and Margo are in Fillory wondering what to do with their jailed revolutionary/assassin. Penny is back in the snowy, isolated Brakebills south trying to sort out his buggy new hands with a pervy ex-professor. Meanwhile, Quentin is developing a morally ambiguous friendship with another magician tur...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 4! This week, on the heels of our tragic (albeit successful) shot at The Beast, everyone is still healing from wounds and reeling from loss. Quentin has a brand new wooden arm and Penny is feeling like his hands might be due for an upgrade as well. Meanwhile, Elliot finds a way to leave Fillory...at least his mind can leave. His body? Well, that'...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 3! This week, we get our second real shot at The Beast thanks to some clever "demonic tattoos". But, unfortunately, Julia has her own villain that needs to die and she needs The Beast's help to do it. When dangerous plans with opposite goals collide sometimes....people die. Thanks for listening! Watch a video version here: https://youtu.be/WmoClI...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 2! This week, most of the group makes it back to earth and begins trying to find out more about this Beast killing battle magic. But unfortunately that knowledge was hidden in plain sight by a tricky pixie who loves a good riddle. Meanwhile, King Elliot is trying his best to be the "cool orgy and champagne guy", but being a good ruler means somet...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 2 episode 1! We pick up in the aftermath of our first real encounter with The Beast. Penny and Margo head off to a healing river for appendage reattachment therapy, while the rest of the group goes looking for crowns. At least 4 of us are coming out of this as royalty. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to season 1 wrap-up for The Magicians! Thank you to everyone to has been listening along with us these last couple of months. We had a great time summarizing our thoughts about the show and answering your questions. See you next week with season 2 episode 1! This podcast also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dnQn2OOy0LQ

Hello and welcome to the season 1 finale of The Magicians! Remember to get those wrap up questions in. This week, Quentin and Julia make their way through time to meet up with the rest of the group. But they don't leave the past empty handed. They use their timeloop shenanigans to set us all up for Beast fighting success. We have knives, we have knowledge, we have a jar of....milk..ok, it's not mi...

Welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 12! This week, on the heels of an aggressively awkward morning after. The group decides to bottle their emotions and head into the the Neitherlands. But shortly after emerging from the fountain Quentin is separated from the group and thrust back to campus alone. Can he find his way back to us? Can we find our way to Fillory? Thanks for listening!

Welcome to The Magician's season 1 episode 11! This week, our magical motley crew dips into some forbidden battle magic for an upcoming spar with The Beast. But battle magic is a dangerous and complicated affair, especially for those of us in a heightened emotional state. So to help compensate, we all drain our heightened emotions into little glass vials and then magic missile the crap out of some...

Hello and welcome to season 1 episode 10 of The Magicians! This week we are getting....sexy? Penny is trapped in the Neitherlands, being pursued by a band of disgruntled laborers. The only way to save him is some good old, tried and true sex magic. But can Quentin overcome his lack of lusty experience to save his friend in time? Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast on YouTub...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 9! This week, we find out that Christopher Plover, the author of Fillory and Further was a massive piece of shit. But we didn't get this second hand from a screen shot of a social media post, we learned it from some kid-ghosts at his haunted mansion. Can Quentin come to terms with his greatest hero turning out to be the worst kind of monster? Tha...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 8! This week, Elliot and his new loverboy Mike are taking their relationship up a notch. Moving on from sultry kisses to flaming cherries, personal revelations, and maybe still a few sultry kisses. Thank goodness everything is exactly as it seems on the surface and nobody is at risk of being stabbed with a cursed knife. Thanks for listening! Watc...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 7! This week, the hosts are split 50/50. Quintin, Penny and the other 1st years have finished their migration north and found an....interesting "educator" in a remote Alaskan cabin. Meanwhile, Margo & Elliot are struggling to find the coolest gift for their upcoming hedonistic, orgy fueled bacchanal. Maybe just a nice bottle of Gin? (djinn?) Than...

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 1 episode 6! This week, the first year students are subjected to another series of obtuse tests of magical skill. But this time, failure means instant an unceremonious expulsion. Can the main movers and shakers make it through the mass culling? Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/SFHNkBQmffQ