Note: My wife and I have only seen 7 episodes of the third season as we prefer to wait and then “binge” it.
Truth is, The Magicians has only been on OK show up to this point. Occasionally funny, pretty interesting, but often dull and hard to follow.
Season 3 has been amazing. Outstanding. An all-time great season and probably the best season of TV I’ve seen this year(Twin Peaks was too dull in parts to count as better).
“Be The Penny” was a hilarious episode. I mean, stop and go back and watch again funny. Poor Penny, “dying” and having to “be the penny” and watch people not care too much that he was dead. Excruciating, but hilarious.
“The life in a day” was awesome. Quentin and Eliot’s life together was amazing and heart-breaking.
Watching the Dean drink and give up is hilarious.
Watching the other girl deal with being married to a psychopath Joffrey type kid kills me every time. The thing she did with the “toothy” frog was amazing.
I can not recommend this show enough and I half-wonder if someone could skip to this season and enjoy it as much as we have.
My wife and I are watching pretty much 2 a day because it has been so hilarious.
I have thought about posting about this - I did in reference to the increased fuck-speak, but it was too early in the season. Yes, agree - it has been really good. The writing has really stepped up.
I told my wife, “Honestly, it all lead to this. Not plot-wise, just the fact that the real writing improvement this year is making this seem like the high quality show they thought they had.”
I can not believe how funny it’s been.
Quentin seeing his “depressive” doppelganger. “I know you wear you hair like that to hide your face, but honestly, it only makes it worse.”
We were laughing so hard.
Eliot and Margo’s conversation using only pop-culture references was great. “We’re going to have to…‘best episode of Buffy’.”
Yes, but something about it seems more modern. I am often surprised how dated Buffy/Angel feel when I watch clips of them now. Firefly has aged better, as has Dollhouse.
Anyway, if anyone hasn’t seen this season, it’s been amazing. I loved the ghost that haunts Breitbills and basically views everything they go through as a TV show since he’s been dead for years:
“Yeah…they have to collect seven keys! If they do…Uh, I forget. Something good happens. I don’t always pay attention enough.”
I watched the first few episodes of Season 1 and hated it. Self-entitled brats who parties and were generally assholes. I got pulled into Season 3 when my husband turned it on. It is awesome. I look forward to seeing it.
Tell me when every one has reached the finale so we can discuss. Ahhhhhhh!
You just described half of my problems with the first book :D. Most of the characters are really rather hard to like much of the time. Despite that the whole trilogy is well worth reading, despite my having lots of issues with parts of the first two books in particular.
Season one wasn’t very good, although interesting. Season two was much better, quite good at times. Season three started out good, had some really good episodes… and then the season finale.
Which was a cheap writers’ bait-and-switch to set up the next season, that completely undermined all the characters’ plotlines and development. I was a fan, up until the finale. I’m guessing I’ll only watch next season if it’s been long enough for me to forget my annoyance.
I felt the same as many: I was looking forward to it, thinking it right up my alley after finishing up “Merlin” (which was also pretty good). I HATED the first season and almost gave up many times. I finally ditched it after the first part of Season 2 but I guess this thread has given me a reason to go back if it’s really that good.
I loved the third season, although I believe a lot of that is due to the same mechanics Zach Weinersmith explores in The theory of awful TV, I’m familiar with and want to follow the characters.
I read the books at my girlfriend’s request before the show started and hated them. I probably would have considered season 1 of the TV show not-worth-it if it wasn’t for the fact that I had low expectations and the TV show is an improvement on many of the flaws of the books. It somehow manages to be sillier while at the same time making me take it more seriously than the books.
Aside from the end of the third season (which was such unmitigated crap), the show has been fantastic. The books were some of the best fantasy I’ve read in a long time and I enjoy how the TV adaptation is it’s own thing (and explains how it is it’s own thing very cleverly). The show is generally witty, beautiful to look at (and I don’t just mean the cast, which appears to be imported from some CW show) and enjoyable.
