The Magicians

[bayonetbrant]

Anyone watching this one?

I'm through S1 Ep2 on Netflix and hooked...

[Staggerwing]

I saw the ads on Syfy last year but have not checked it out. With that endorsement of yours I may do so now.

[bayonetbrant]

I saw the ads on Syfy last year but have not checked it out. With that endorsement of yours I may do so now.

it's Harry Potter for grown-ups. 
The kids are all in grad school, so there's a lot of adult themes of sex, drugs, bad decision-making, regret, revenge...  or as Mirth calls it - "Thursday"

[jamus34]

I read the books, looking to check out the show...I will give the author credit that he did a good good job showing growth and changing tone in the books.

Book 1 I likened to Holden Caulfield goes to Hogwarts.

Book 2's ending almost had me give up on the series. I doubt that I've read a more disturbing conclusion to a novel; and I've read some doozies.

Book 3 concluded things a little too neatly but better than most trilogies that I've read.

[bayonetbrant]

I'm up to S1 Ep5 at this point.  Might get Ep6 before the wife & son get back from the RHCP concert

[jamus34]

I'm up to S1 Ep5 at this point.  Might get Ep6 before the wife & son get back from the RHCP concert

Question - is it GOT level of not appropriate for anyone under the age of 18 or do they tone it down a bit?

[bayonetbrant]

There's some language, but it's nowhere near GoT-level explicit

There's one 'sex scene' in the first episode, but no one is naked.

Honestly, I could see my 14-yo watching these with me.

[jamus34]

There's some language, but it's nowhere near GoT-level explicit

There's one 'sex scene' in the first episode, but no one is naked.

Honestly, I could see my 14-yo watching these with me.

Thanks BB!

[bayonetbrant]

It's not like it's anything he hasn't heard while riding in the car with me during rush hour.  He's used to language :)

[MetalDog]

I read the books, looking to check out the show...I will give the author credit that he did a good good job showing growth and changing tone in the books.

Book 1 I likened to Holden Caulfield goes to Hogwarts.

Book 2's ending almost had me give up on the series. I doubt that I've read a more disturbing conclusion to a novel; and I've read some doozies.

Book 3 concluded things a little too neatly but better than most trilogies that I've read.

I did give up at Book 2.  Don't remember if I finished it or not.

[egg_salad]

I watched all of Season 1.  Other than the protagonist being a bit whiny, I liked it.

[bayonetbrant]

I'm up thru Ep8 now.  Slowed down a bit now that I have to share the TV in the evening.  The first 4-5 episodes I got thru when the wife had our son at a concert

[bayonetbrant]

Ok, update to the question earlier about being kid-friendly

There's more sexual content in later episodes, and I don't know that if let my son watch at this point
There's a whole episode on sex magic
There's a rape scene that becomes a primary motivation for one of the main characters
There's way more than I'd let him watch
It's not quite GoT, but maybe I've step below that

[JasonPratt]

I gather there's some pretty hard-core darkness in the series, since the concept essentially deconstructs the Narnia and Potter stories (and some of Potter is already pretty dark). The author himself states that everything including the Potter series exists in the story except C. S. Lewis and the Narnia novels -- these having been replaced by the "Filory and Further" novels and their secretly evil author.  :o

[Sir Slash]

I understand real magicians are planning on boycotting the show. Or else just making it disappear behind a curtain.