Click here to copy URL

The Magicians (TV Series)

The Magicians

2015

Sera Gamble (Creator), John McNamara (Creator) ...

Jason Ralph, Arjun Gupta, Stella Maeve, Olivia Taylor Dudley ...

5.6

1,151

TV Series. Fantasy. Horror. Mystery. Drama TV Series (2015-2020). 5 Seasons. 65 Episodes. After being recruited to a secretive academy, a group of students discover that the magic they read about as children is very real-and more dangerous than they ever imagined.

	Author	Review
United States	Joshua Rivera The Verge	"[5th Season Review]: Despite its dour start, The Magicians is a joy to watch moment to moment, and the canvas feels wide open in a way it hasn't since the show's stellar third season."	POS
United States	Michael Ahr Den of Geek	"[5th Season Review]: Does what this show has consistently done well for years: introduce several different threads at once and somehow make it flow."	POS
United States	Adam Chitwood Collider	"[5th Season Review]: 'The Magicians' is still tons of fun. There are weird creatures, off-color jokes, and plenty of fantastical twists and turns."	POS
United States	Alexander Zalben Decider	"[5th Season Review]: Based on the evidence, the show is still charming enough, tongue-in-cheek enough, and the cast game enough that I'm willing to stick around"	POS
United States	Robyn Bahr The Hollywood Reporter	"[4th Season Review]: The joy of 'The Magicians' rests in its clever characterizations updating classical legends, mythological creatures and religious figures to match contemporary archetypes"	POS
United States	Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"[4th Season Review]: Adult life is messy in a way that makes the idea of planning feel laughable, in a way the series can capture with both grace and humor."	POS
United States	Lisa Weidenfeld AV Club	"[4th Season Review]: It's all a solid enough blend of tongue-in-cheek humor and forward motion to prove that, four seasons in, the writers have a firm grasp on their wandering plot"	POS
United States	Hanh Nguyen IndieWire	"[4th Season Review]: 'The Magicians' is still the funniest fantasy show on TV because it's incredibly self-aware.	POS
United States	Chaim Gartenberg The Verge	"[3rd Season Review]: 'The Magicians' has quietly become one of the most consistently entertaining shows on TV."	POS
United States	Lisa Weidenfeld AV Club	"[3rd Season Review]: It’s a fantasy show for people who love fantasy shows"	POS
United States	Adam Chitwood Collider	"[3rd Season Review]: Darkly hilarious, emotionally complex, wildly fantastical, and a little funky-there's nothing else like it, and that's precisely what makes it such a joy to watch."	POS
United States	Adam Chitwood Collider	"[2nd Season Review]: It has a pretty serious villain problem that prevents it from a cohesive greatness, but the charisma and wit of the cast and writers go a long way towards smoothing things over"	NEU
United States	Terri Schwartz IGN	"[2nd Season Review]: 'The Magicians' continues to be the best show on TV that you're probably not watching. It consistently transcends and subverts genre tropes"	POS
United States	Lisa Weidenfeld AV Club	"[2nd Season Review]: It's starting to feel like the show has a clearer sense of what it wants to be, and how its characters can grow up."	POS
United States	Chancellor Agard Entertainment Weekly	"[2nd Season Review]: I enjoyed The Magicians season 2 a lot more than I did the first season"	POS
United States	Jeff Jensen Entertainment Weekly	"The pilot is an effective introductory chapter to a story that speaks to a moment cluttered with both escapist fantasy and neo-gothic gloominess. It’s Harry Potter, distressed with a Heavy Metal acid bath."	POS
United States	Tim Grierson The Wrap	"The show puts more stock in atmosphere and attitude than in distinguishing its characters or sci-fi fantasy terrain from those of comparable projects."	NEU
United States	Maureen Ryan Variety	"There’s little time for texture or complexity in the first two episodes (...) Even the production design seems more cheap than spare, and tends to make the mythical Brakebills look like a bland store selling Ikea knockoffs."	NEG
United States	Tim Goodman The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s a mere two episodes, but 'The Magicians' provided enough evidence that it has enough talent and ambition to keep the surprises coming."	POS
United States	Sara Stewart New York Post	"The book’s fans may not be completely satisfied (...) but the spirit of this dark-natured series is intact. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.