The Incomparable

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  The Incomparable Mothership April 19, 2020 “The Magicians” season 5

  511 Whales Are Powerful Magicians

  Jason Snell with Glenn Fleishman, Annette Wierstra, Moisés Chiullan and James Thomson

  The final season of SyFy’s “The Magicians” is in the books, and we’re here to wrap it up, as well as share some overall thoughts on the series as the whole. But before we do that, we spend 17 minutes convincing you that it’s a show that’s absolutely worth watching.

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  The Incomparable Mothership June 8, 2019 “The Magicians” season 4

  464 Tapestry of Cakes

  Jason Snell with Annette Wierstra, Moisés Chiullan and Mikah Sargent

  If you’re not watching “The Magicians”, you’re missing out. This is a TV series that started off fine, but then became spectacularly good with its third and (just completed) fourth seasons. We take some time at the beginning of the episode to try to entice new viewers to watch, and then dive into the shocking events that occur in the most recent season. After all, sometimes you’ve got to be a fish.

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  The Incomparable Mothership May 13, 2018 “The Magicians” season 3

  406 A Really Kinky Bunny

  Jason Snell with Mikah Sargent, James Thomson and Glenn Fleishman

  Climb aboard your sentient sailing ship, put on a high-fashion eye patch, and prepare for the big musical number—it’s time to talk about Season 3 of “The Magicians.” This is a series that just keeps getting better, and for our money, this was one of the best and most unexpected seasons of television we’ve seen in a long time. Along the way we mention Buffy, Star Trek: TNG’s “Darmok” and “The Inner Light”, and how the journey can be appreciated even when the story doesn’t quite stick the landing.

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  The Incomparable Mothership April 29, 2017 “The Magicians”

  350 Magic Pixie Dream Girl

  Jason Snell with Glenn Fleishman and Moisés Chiullan

  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.)