The Magicians: The Serpent Show Only

March 20, 2019 7:50 PM - Season 4, Episode 9

Quentin eats a quesadilla. Kady and Zelda share a smoke.

Den of Geek - The Magicians goes all in on the Library’s fascist control of magic while it liberates and dethrones others in an insightful episode.

posted by oh yeah! (10 comments total)

I really like Brittany Curran / Fen and Mageina Tovah / Zelda! I fully support their more prominent roles this season. I do, however, object to the relative lack of Eliot which is completely unacceptable.
posted by Justinian at 12:27 PM on March 21, 2019 [4 favorites]

And what is odd in most of the promotional images Eliot is the main image. Perhaps it was written with a lot of evil god Eliot doing nasty stuff that got left on the cutting room floor?
posted by sammyo at 1:03 PM on March 21, 2019 [1 favorite]

Speaking for myself, I think we get plenty of Monster!Eliot doing awful things - he kills someone nearly every episode - and prefer the purely weird stuff, like him walking over the couch as opposed to around it, since it was a straighter path. I am a little mystified why he never seems to help with his own research, but I guess he just finds it too boring?
posted by tautological at 1:20 PM on March 21, 2019 [4 favorites]

Ok, since they obviously want to make it a plot twist... what is "so much worse" than re-incarnating the Monster?
posted by Karmakaze at 2:28 PM on March 21, 2019 [1 favorite]

what is "so much worse" than re-incarnating the Monster?

Building a completely different, second monster? Perhaps a Mrs. Monster for the Monster to have a bunch of Monster-kids with?
posted by mstokes650 at 3:46 PM on March 21, 2019 [1 favorite]

Season Five: Miserable Mean Magical Manic Monster-kids.
posted by sammyo at 4:39 PM on March 21, 2019

Ice Axes! I had given up hope that we'd ever see Margo/Janet wield the ice axes. (One of her most badass things from the books).

Monster Eliot's couch climb had to be rewound a couple times.

I like the development for Zelda, Margo, and Alice (though gods, what a terrible wardrobe on that woman). It makes total sense that Margo would give up the throne to save Eliot.
posted by Ber at 6:24 PM on March 21, 2019

I definitely squeed when I realized where they were sending Margo/Janet. I might still be squeeing.
posted by athenasbanquet at 6:20 PM on March 24, 2019 [1 favorite]

A week later, and I'm still all emotional about Margo's goodbyes to Fen and Josh. Apparently Sera Gamble's been hoping that Margo would get to the desert since Summer Bishil first auditioned (Instagram).
posted by juliaem at 12:14 PM on March 26, 2019

I wonder if anyone has translations for what Harriet was signing to Alice
posted by numaner at 5:10 PM on March 26, 2019