I’m re-watching The Magicians with my wife, since she’s never seen it. It’s been long enough since I watched it last that I don’t remember a lot of things that happened, so there’s a lot of “I forgot got that!” moments for me, which is fun.

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    Loved The Magicians! I didn’t even make it through the first book and I can’t remember what on Earth convinced me to watch the show, but I’m so glad I got on board!

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        That’s fair, and I do remember it being explicitly discussed and still I wasn’t into it. But I am always curious to try it out again. Art hits differently at different times, after all

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        I don’t usually give up on books, and it’s been a long time so it’s foggy, but my impression was that it was trying too hard to be harry potter/Narnia but adult! And edgy! And I couldn’t stand Quentin or really any of the characters. I only know one other person that’s experienced both and he also gave up on the book series.

        Sometimes I am curious to try the books again now, but the show is so good I’d rather just rewatch it!

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        For some reason, every episode had me expecting that and then it would turn out to be amazing.

        Edit to add: every episode I actually said, “this one will veer too far into teen drama, and I’ll have to drop out” but somehow they’d pull it off. It was really great television