350: Magic Pixie Dream Girl

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

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.)

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 350, April 2017.
0:10.8	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable, talking more television, so many good TV shows that have been on lately, and I want to get to them all.
0:18.2	For this portion of the program,
0:22.5	I want to talk about the magicians,
0:23.4	which just featured,
0:26.7	finished season two on the sci-fi channel,
0:28.9	joining me to talk about the magicians.
0:30.4	Glenn Fleischman,
0:30.9	hello.
0:32.9	Magic.
0:34.5	Suddenly I'm here.
0:35.8	He's our Doug Henning.
0:39.7	And also warming up the magic wand, Moise S. Chouyan.
0:41.4	Pregnant!
0:42.3	Not me.
0:45.4	Why, there's a rabbit here.
0:54.8	Okay, so before we talk about season two of the magicians, we should start by talking about where this show comes from and why people might be interested in watching it if they haven't seen it yet before we fire off the spoiler horn and get into the details of season two.
0:59.9	It's based on Lev Grossman's series of books. We did cover one of those books in an old
1:06.4	episode that I think Moises was just sampling not too long ago.
1:11.6	It's called... Episode number 86.
1:13.4	Yes, it's called Like Catcher in the Rye, except crappier, which does, in fact, refer to the
1:17.2	magicians.
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