The Art of Adaptation
Last week’s episode of The Magicians didn’t have me jumping out of my sofa (like the Les Miz episode) or screaming at the screen “That’s awesome writing!” like Be the Penny. Probably because it was the reveal episode. Spell gone. Thank Julia again, for better or worse. But it did have one element that I’ve grown […]
Read More The Magicians – Lost, Found, F…edIt feels like ages since we last saw our favorite ensemble on screen. Honestly, I had forgotten some key plot points because a year is just too long, SyFy. It probably doesn’t help that I’m in the middle of reading The Magician’s Land, which only now in book three reveals Alice the Niffin, where magic […]
Read More The Magicians – A Flock of Lost BirdsAnd the quest is on! It looks like we are in for ships, high seas, and keys! Need to get caught up on The Magician King fast? Here’s my listicle for last season that pretty much covers how the show is tracking with the books. Hey, we ain’t Novel2Screen for nothin’. Consider this your spoiler alert. […]
Read More The Magicians Are Back!Tonight was the Season 2 finale of The Magician. The creators of the show are torturing us by making us wait until 2018 for Season 3. 2018!! Anything could happen by then. That’s like 5 years on Fillory. Fortunately, there are the books. Oh, yeah. The Magicians is based on a book series by Lev […]
Read More The Magicians – Season 2’s Nod to The Magician KingEver since this year’s Oscar season and #OscarsSoWhite, I can’t shake my nagging observation about the current state of the film and television industry: that TV, the item once relegated as “furniture” on my high school drama teacher’s T-shirt, is now the forerunner of the two mediums. Lately, the studios are content to churn out […]
Read More Diversity in TV: Is the Small Screen Better?The Magicians has quickly become one of my favorite TV shows. The fact that it got picked up for a second season only halfway through the first season is a testament that many others feel the same. It’s Fantasy. It’s Sci-Fi. It’s Drama. It’s Thriller. It’s Comedy. It’s Awesomeness. Based on Lev Grossman’s books, the […]
Read More Why I Love The Magicians
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