/r/brakebills

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A sub to discuss "The Magicians": the trilogy by Lev Grossman, the show on SyFy, and the comics by Lilah Sturges and Pius Bak.

Welcome to /r/Brakebills

/r/Brakebills is a subreddit dedicated to The Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman and the SyFy series based on those books.

Finished some or all of the books and want to discuss them with other fans? Seen the TV show on SyFy? You've come to the right place.

We ask that you keep spoilers out of the titles of your posts, and tag your posts based on what they are about. You can filter out posts that you don't want below.

Please Use the Spoiler Tag

>!Spoiler text between arrows and exclamation points!< now turns into Spoiler text between arrows and exclamation points

Note that this does not work in post titles. You should NOT post spoilers in titles.

Subreddit Rules

  1. We have a 3-strike policy for untagged spoilers or spoilers in post titles. After that, you'll be banned. Anything from episodes of the current season or the novels is considered a spoiler.
  2. Generally, don't be an arsehole. Some people like some things, some people like others. The mods reserve the right to define "arsehole."
  3. No politics, porn, or polemic. The mods would please like one corner of the internet free of political discussion. You are not allowed to link to porn stars you think look like actors. We will not tolerate users starting fights for the sake of it. We don't want this to be a space to gossip about the personal lives of the people involved in the show.

  4. No misogyny, misandry, racism, sexism, etc. No misogyny, misandry, racism, sexism, etc. See rule 2 for more info. We are not OK with you objectifying actors on the show. We are not OK with your sexism. We are not OK with generalizing groups of people based on inherent characteristics.

  5. No repetitive posts. We don't want to see the same tutting videos and questions over and over. Please don't complain that the show is worse than the books or vice versa, ask if you should read the books or watch the show (yes, you should), or ask where you can watch the show (it is available to buy from iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon, and it can be watched on the SyFy website with a cable subscription).

  6. No Piracy. We want the show to last, so it needs good viewing numbers. We are willing to permaban for repeated offenses of this.

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Resources

AMAs

Lev Grossman

2012 in /r/Fantasy

2013 in /r/Books

2014 in /r/Fantasy

2017 in this sub

2018 in /r/Fantasy

Cast & Crew

Jade Tailor (Season 2)

Arjun Gupta (Season 2)

Brittany Curran (Season 2)

Felicia Day (Season 3)

Summer Bishil (Season 3)

Hale Appleman (Season 4)

Mageina Tovah (Season 4)

Stella Maeve (Season 4)

Arjun Gupta (Season 5)

Brittany Curran (Season 5)

Sera Gamble & John McNamara in 2017

Magali Guidasci in 2019

Sean McQuillan in 2020

Wikipedia Pages

The Magicians

The Magician King

The Magician's Land

List of The Magicians Characters

The Magicians (U.S. TV series)

The Magicians Wikia

TV Series Links

SyFy home page

Listings

Physical Kids Weekly Podcast

@HouseAtMurs - fandom twitter

Official unofficial Discord server

Unaffiliated IRC channel ##FreeTraderBeowulf

Episode Discussions

Season 1 (Wrap-up discussion)

Unauthorised Magic/The Source of Magic

Consequences of Advanced Spellcasting

The World in the Walls

Mendings, Major and Minor (Book vs. Show)

Impractical Applications

The Mayakovsky Circumstances

The Strangled Heart

The Writing Room

Homecoming

Remedial Battle Magic

Thirty-Nine Graves

Have You Brought Me Little Cakes

Season 2

Knight of Crowns

Hotel Spa Potions

Divine Elimination

The Flying Forest

Cheat Day

The Cock Barrens

Plan B

Word as Bond

Lesser Evils

The Girl Who Told Time

The Rattening

Ramifications

We Have Brought You Little Cakes

Season 3

The Tales of the Seven Keys

Heroes and Morons

The Losses of Magic

Be the Penny

A Life in The Day

Do You Like Teeth?

Poached Eggs

Six Short Stories About Magic

All That Josh

The Art of the Deal

Twenty-Three

The Fillorian Candidate

Will You Play With Me?

Season 4

A Flock of Lost Birds

Lost, Found, Fucked

The Bad News Bear

Marry Fuck Kill

Escape From the Happy Place

A Timeline and a Place

The Side Effect

Home Improvement

The Serpent

All That Hard, Glossy Armor

The 4-1-1

The Secret Sea

No Better Safe Than Sorry

Season 5

Do Something Crazy (Live)

The Wrath of the Time Bees (LIVE)

The Mountain of Ghosts

Magicians Anonymous

Apocalypse? Now?! & Oops!...I Did It Again (Live)

Acting Dean

Garden Variety Homicide

Cello Squirrel Daffodil

Purgatory

Be the Hyman

The Balls

Fillory and Further (Live)

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Hiatus Book Club

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Magicians coming to Tubi Canada on Feb 28th!

0 Comments
2025/02/02
00:34 UTC

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HD copies of The Magicians?

I'd like to find an HD copy of The Magicians.

Does anybody know where I could find one?

I'm not some kind of degenerate Pirate though; if you have seen it on those subversive "torrent" sites, please send a link so I can avoid them!

4 Comments
2025/02/01
23:54 UTC

89

"King Margo" - an original hurdy-gurdy tune inspired by my girlfriend's favorite character!

9 Comments
2025/02/01
21:52 UTC

74

Tick Pickwick in The Thundermans?

My kids love this show. I was making coffee and was like, "I know that sly voice!!!"

7 Comments
2025/02/01
14:57 UTC

80

Just look at this ❤️❤️

2 Comments
2025/02/01
07:54 UTC

35

Dynamics

As far as the show goes, who's yalls favorite character dynamic? I like Eliot and Margos. I'm sure that's common. But I also like Eliot and Q's. First season's banter between Penny and Q, and sometimes Kady, got overwhelming. I think Eliot and Fen is light and fun as well.

31 Comments
2025/02/01
03:14 UTC

13

The books but in clothing form

Found in the wild but this site has a search function and when I checked “the magicians” it showed unavailable, however gave a spot to be alerted via email. Hoping if enough of us added ours in they might see it as a worthy venture 🙂 I’m not affiliated just would love a scarf 🙂

https://www.litographs.com/collections/the-magicians?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=6630927970991&utm_content=6630929832991&utm_term=6630927970791&utm_campaign=6630927970991

2 Comments
2025/02/01
00:47 UTC

43

Magicians box set currently on sale on Apple TV for 24.99

PSA for anyone looking for a digital copy.

21 Comments
2025/01/31
18:59 UTC

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Summer Bishil via Instagram

need them together in a project together like fish need water

16 Comments
2025/01/31
16:59 UTC

342

"Take on Me" hits different now...

I was careful to write no spoilers.

The song "Take on Me" by Aha has been one of my go-to mood uplifting songs for a decade now, I used to dance to it while doing chores around the house and my coworkers and I used to put it on at work and do the Marlon Webb dance around while closing the store.

Why did magicians have to go and use that song and make it so fucking sad?

Itll never feel the same now.

It's no longer a goofy dance song or a funky 80s jam....it's Quentins song forever.

27 Comments
2025/01/31
04:42 UTC

91

Extras on Tubi not on Netflix

I have seen the show countless times, I was always confused by Elliot and Margos Pop Culture Code lol, I LOVE that Tubi added the caption for it, made it like a brand new scene.

And the recap from Umber 😂 smoke some maryyy waaaana killed me. I don't like the commercials, but these two additions made it worth it.

25 Comments
2025/01/31
02:54 UTC

91

Netflix removal [everyone hated that]

Any one else sad they can't get their re-run fixes anymore on Netflix?

I'm even considering reading the books since I enjoyed this phenomenal magical show.

I'm dying to find similar watches since I finished it the 1/6 time , any recommendations?

70 Comments
2025/01/30
22:57 UTC

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Episode Where Josh Gives all the Exposition/Backstory at the Beginning to...? Penny?

Hi. Does anyone know the season/number of the episode where Josh gives a bunch of exposition to (I think) Penny? At one point, I think he has a diagram of who is sleeping with who--or maybe it was who was murdering who. I can't remember exactly. Thanks.

8 Comments
2025/01/30
21:01 UTC

16

TV series discounted on Prime Video

Each season available for $7

7 Comments
2025/01/30
13:39 UTC

21

Marina - BPD?

So I cant really talk on the other versions of Marina that are portrayed because she does at times just come across as straight up callous..

But anyone get a massive feeling that she has some signs of BPD? It's something I noticed with how quickly she became enamoured with Julia before suddenly dropping her and being extremely petty/jealous when she didn't want Quentin to die.

I wont go into detail why but I have some experience on the subject, from what i'm familiar with this favourite person attachment and split thinking (people wre either black or white, good and bad. It can be overwhelming to contradict these perceptions).

Would make sense why she has this "sometimes she seems good but she relapses into being selfish" routine.

Other than "maybe shes just an asshole" its my only rationalization for her behaviour, because she absolutely doesn't come across as completely callous especially when she came through for Julia after Reynard.

If it was an intentional portrayal, bravo honestly. I think it's pretty accurate with the above aspects, although she definitely seemed more outwardly destructive to others than self destructive, but ig portraying that would've costed more screentime lol.

10 Comments
2025/01/30
10:35 UTC

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I bought Fogg's watch

It's the blacked out version so it isn't exactly Fogg's watch but I love it.

The watch is the Eone Bradley and it was designed by a blind veteran as a timepiece for blind people. I found this example on eBay for $50 and couldn't say no.

32 Comments
2025/01/29
13:35 UTC

276

Just my wet face watching THAT death for the second time.

48 Comments
2025/01/29
06:31 UTC

66

Magicians on sale on fandango at home for $25!

As promised, I’ve been watching the price of the series bundle and it looks like it’s back on sale close to its previous all time low! Check it out :)

https://athome.fandango.com/content/browse/details/The-Magicians-The-Complete-Series-Bundle/1480790

37 Comments
2025/01/28
11:36 UTC

13

They Know.

5 Comments
2025/01/28
05:08 UTC

213

Children of Earth

Last night I walked around my house wearing Ember's shirt and Umber's ring RAMbling on about Children of Earth. It was a moment of pure joy amongst the chaos that is life currently.

4 Comments
2025/01/27
23:26 UTC

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I’ll start: Peaches 🍑

131 Comments
2025/01/27
03:56 UTC

38

Our Lady Underground/RHOBH

I mean, I just have to ask: who here also watches RHOBH? I did the great rewatch like most of us before it was removed from Netflix and holy shit I NEVER NOTICED GARCELLE. Has this already been discussed? Where are my people

25 Comments
2025/01/26
21:16 UTC

96

Quentin not ready to embrace the world without magic, by me

4 Comments
2025/01/25
15:09 UTC

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What witches from other shows & movies do you think The Magicians are capable of beating?

Honestly, as much as I love them, they'd be dead. Their finger tuts take too long to do anything.

pre goddess Julia

74 Comments
2025/01/24
12:41 UTC

75

Freak Out Moment: Alice Skirt Edition

As we all know by now Alice is my forever favorite(as witnessed by my Alice Meets Alice video). So when I noticed I put an Alice skirt in the upcoming The Magicians Props & Wardrobe auction accidentally I may have freaked out just a little bit. But then I thought about it and since I already own half of Alice's wardrobe from the show I decided to keep it listed. Hopefully this means that another Fillorian who also loves Alice as much as I do gets the skirt. Worn when she learned the Rhinemann Ultra in Season 2 Episode 2. Sadly I do not have the shirt that went with it but the skirt is absolutely beautiful.

https://www.whatnot.com/listing/TGlzdGluZ05vZGU6NDc4NTQyMTI4

39 Comments
2025/01/23
22:16 UTC

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