![]() Plenty of internet posts have sprung up comparing and contrasting the show to the books, and there’s more than enough in that regard to talk about. But the creative team behind the show obviously wanted to just get down to business. Granted, audiences should expect a TV show to take its time to build, at least slowly, to the big action of the story from the book. Pepper in a group of fellow hard-partying Brakebills magicians and a Narnia-like world that haunts Quentin’s thoughts, and you have the main gist of The Magicians.Īnd yet the book lovers out there who tuned in to the show’s first three episodes the past two weeks may have found something resembling their favorite thing by Grossman, but not something identical to it. Unlike Quentin, she’ll fulfill her magical potential by whatever means necessary. ![]() ![]() (Think: horny post-collegiate Hogwarts.) His best friend Julia is rejected from Brakebills, but obsesses over how to achieve her own magical education with a shady group of underground, non-Brakebills witches. The Magicians tells the story of Quentin Coldwater, a fantasy book-obsessed 20-something loner who finds himself accepted into a magical university called Brakebills. ![]()
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