Spoil Me! The Magicians

Thank you very much to Jessie for commissioning this episode! The main takeaway of this episode my utter disbelief that this is the penultimate episode of the series. It's just so incredibly loaded with half-formed ideas that still need a lot of time to percolate and develop, and knowing there's exactly ONE episode left to explain it all is really a tall order. There's also a bunch of musical stuff in this one, which I can take or leave, and a bunch of heist stuff, which I'm totally here for. Thank you all so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you very much to Ashley for commissioning this episode!This episode is when we FINALLY get the answer to so many of the questions that I've been asking (and which NOBODY else has been asking, BTW) and it's actually pretty interesting. Turns out that the Takers are the guard dogs of the Underworld, and they've been dragging people away because...I guess they're confused over who is alive and who is dead and deserves to be pulled into Hell? Whatever. We get to see Hades again, and I find him so compelling but ALSO goddamn dude take some fucking responsibility. You fucking BAILED and your shit started to fall apart. This is YOUR fault! WHERE YOU BEEN, bro? Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you again soon with a new episode!

Thank you very much to Mathy for commissioning this episode! Alright so I was a little bit unhappy with the last episode, but I think that unhappiness has grown into full-blown concern about the final season at this point. I don't understand what the writers are doing with the Dark King at all. I do not understand why I'm supposed to feel sorry for him, or why anyone else does. I do not understand why nobody is asking questions about him and who he is, who the Takers are and where they come from, what happens to the people they take, literally ANYTHING. Our whole crew is out here planning an assassination with NO FUCKING INFORMATION and I just can't get on board with the story because I'm so distracted by the fact that they don't even seem interested in the reasons why! Ugh. That's all just ugh.

Thank you very much to Ashley for commissioning this episode! I really loved this one, because it was a rare episode in which Elliot gets to have an unqualified success, and also he opens up to friends and in genuinely vulnerable with them. We don't get to see him doing well and believing in himself very often, and it's so lovely to see his smile at the start of the time-travel scene when he realizes that the gambit worked and the moon is not yet broken. I loved this! Also, the reveal of who has actually been inside his head is hilarious, although I stand by the fact the the editing of a scene during the previous episode had me CERTAIN that something had happened off-camera. Anyway, thank you all so much for listening, and I will see you again soon with a new episode!

Thank you to Ashley for commissioning this episode! So this is a pretty neat episode that explores a whole other world that we've never seen before, AKA the Etheric Realm (sp?) which seems like a pretty great, chill place to be. Katie and the Dean go there together to find answers, and he winds up having to stay there, even though Katie was pretty eager to remain behind herself. Understandably! But apparently feeling of personal responsibility aren't welcome, and she's feeling too much of an obligation to help other people to be allowed to stay. Then there's the whole thing with Penny. It's such an odd storyline because we're being fed the barest details in bits and pieces, and I still feel like I have no concept of what's going on there even after the big reveal. Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you to Ashley for commissioning this episode!So we get to see what happens when someone attempts to raise a golem with the wrong intention in their hearts, and poor Alice gets (in a way) the chance to say goodbye that she wanted. It's actually kind of touching, and a nice way to pay homage to the time-honored tradition of magicians attempting to raise their dearly departed loved ones. Meanwhile, in Fillory, Margo is trying to fix the fucked-uppedness of her current sitch, and with the help of Elliot and his stolen time-devices, manages to get Josh back! She sacrifices her kingdom for Josh!Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you very much to Michael for not only commissioning this episode, but also for commissioning a live watch! I was able to hang out on Crowdcast and experience this excellent finale with all of you, and Melanie was in the chat ALSO watching for the first time, which was pretty awesome! I really am impressed with the risk this finale took in killing off a person that many people would consider to be the main character. And while I've often had my suspicions about someone coming back after being killed, I'm pretty confident (due to the handling of his death) that Quentin isn't coming back. Thanks again to everyone for listening, and I will see you next month with the start of Season 5!

Thank you very much to Nicole for commissioning this episode! Well this episode proves to be very enlightening, with the introduction to The Binder, and the revelation on just how the Monster and his sister were made. I really want to know HOW they were made, though, because the whole thing is treated they came to be, though, because he calls them "mistakes" and implies that they were cut up into pieces as babies, which we saw isn't actually true. Can the Binder lie? Meanwhile, Zelda and Kady find out what her old mentor is up to, but it seems like they've ALSO been found out because they're locked in the Poison Room while investigating. Whoops. Really should have had a doorstop or something. Thanks for listening, and I will see you again soon with a new episode!

Thank you very much to Nicole for commissioning this episode! This was a really good one. I'm a huge fan of Eliot's acting, and I really thought he managed to push himself in this episode to do some things that were pretty unsettling. Also, the fucking scene with Margo and Fen absolutely killed me. Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you very much to Nicole for this commission! What a weird episode this is, too! I'm very much here for the way in which this episode emphasizes side character plots and challenges us to think of them as MAIN characters. We are asked, in a way, why we see Quentin as the "main" character, and then we get to see what's going on with a bunch of the women in the story. I liked it! Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you very much to Nicole for commissioning this episode! This episode was compelling AF and I don't know what to think about the way it wraps because I'm assuming this means the monster was fooled but I'm really worried that it's going to start to catch on. Oh also Penny is kidnapped and I have no idea what that's about? Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you so much to Ashley for commissioning this episode. First of all, I LOVED this episode. I'm such a huge fan of heist shit, as we all know, and this was a really fun spin on an old standby...the card game. Also, I like when Quentin gets to be good at something. However, I'm really going to need Alice to break out of Library jail because damn but I am hardcore BORED of her storyline. Thank god for the Creature being interesting enough to make up for it. Thank you all for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!