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Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 2! This week, we lift the glamor (somehow or another) and say goodbye to our alternate personas. But not after meeting a debonair frog King, poisoning our ex-Dean, and flaying a godly messenger in Greece. Lots of puzzle pieces, but who the heck knows what the picture is supposed to depict. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 4 episode 1! This week it's all new names, new faces, and new places. Can we get our ducks in a row before the big bad thing eventually happens? What is the big bad thing? Who knows. Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this pod here: https://youtu.be/KwVefSy8Pk8

Hello! It's time to wrap-up The Magicians season 3! A huge thank you to all of the lovely listeners who sent in questions/topics. We talk favorite episodes, character coverage, and try to get a lay of the land for season 4. Is it the last season? Who knows. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 13! It's the season finale this week, y'all. That's right, the quest for the keys has come to a close. The gang is all back together and we are trotting off to a spooky old castle full of godly magic and unspeakable evil. But would you believe me if I told you that the gods and monsters weren't our biggest roadblocks to completing our quest? Nah, that comes to us via backstab after backstab after double cross after betrayal. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 12! This week, we get a bit of a lore dump that helps clarify why Julia still seems to be minorly magically inclined. Our shiney new alt-Penny is trying his best to integrate into our timeline, and it's not going great. Meanwhile, Eliot and Margo decide that one episode as deposed rulers of Fillory is long enough, so we head out onto the campaign trail! Thanks for listening.

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 11! This week, timelines are getting twisted, yet again. Penny is here, but...wait, why do his hands look normal? Why isn't he at his purgatory book club building an eternal community of peers? Why are all of these main characters dying?! Oh, these are the same faces but different souls (shades?). Got it! Kind of. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 10! This week, we are continuing our quest for a handful of magical keys. But we just can't seem to keep the party together. Eliot and Margo are back in Fillory playing diplomat for a Kingdom that tried to have them killed. Quentin is at Brakebills with Alice, working on next steps while trying to keep the vibes manageable. Meanwhile, Penny joins a book club in purgatory at the behest of Hades himself...Just now struck me how silly this all got. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 9! This week it's time to save Josh from party purgatory. But this isn't your standard exfiltratation operation. We have to dance, sing, and party our boy to safety. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 8! This week, Penny finds himself in the underworld along with his BEST friend and a prophetic Alice lookalike. He came for a few answers and he he left with an exposition dump the size of a small moon. Pour one out for Mike as he puts this episode on his back and carries us all to credits. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 7! This week, it's another heist attempt for everyone's favorite criminal masterminds (plus Felicia Day). Maybe Quentin and Penny will have more luck extricating a willing hospital patient. Meanwhile, Elliot and Margo finally play their trump card and force the fairy queen to come the the bargaining table. But if making a deal with the fae is dangerous, what's blackmail going to get us into? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 6! This week, Elliot agrees to chaperone Margo and her pubescent groom on a little romantic getaway. However, this is all a ploy to go do some reconnaissance in the far north, where the invasive fairy horde has set up some kind of mushroom breeding ground. Meanwhile, Quentin is back on the sentient boat with a familiar face hunting for the next key. Finding the key is surprisingly easy. Dealing with subsequent magically induced depression is unsurprisingly hard. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 5! Margo, Eliot, and Quentin get to dive into our favorite television trope, alternate timelines! Penny on the other hand, is not having fun on the surviving timeline. Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 4! After Penny's untimely demise at the end of last weeks episode leaves his spirit detached from his corpse, he find himself in a race against the clock. Can his incorporeal form manage to communicate his new situation to his grieving friends before they mistakenly burn his body and leave him in limbo for all eternity? Thanks for listening!

Hello and welcome to The Magicians season 3 episode 3! This week, Elliot needs an assist after a band of pirates takes his sentient ship and crew hostage. Luckily, Margo is able to smooth talk the fairy queen into lending her a hand. Meanwhile, Penny is undergoing supernatural surgery from a poison munching demon doctor and Quentin is with Alice and her family, covered in plastic wrap and cattle prodding eachother...I wish that was innuendo and not fact. But you play the hand you are delt. Thanks for listening!

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 video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/n4oJ7pcw8uc

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 kind of party. Thanks for listening! Watch this recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rp8e0tsFrWQ

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: https://youtu.be/zXm-IEQvGR4

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? Thanks for listening and remember to send us your season wrap-up questions!

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? Thanks for listening! Watch a video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/gs11NEpMrus