Episodes: Series 5 – UK Region

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To be perfectly honest, I was not looking forward to The Magicians Season 5. The Syfy series has long been one of my favorite shows on television, even moreso when it started leaving Lev Grossman’s phenomenal source material behind and began carving out its own path. But the Season 4 finale, in which the show’s lead character Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) sacrificed himself to save his friends and thus exited the series, broke my heart. The hero of this story, the character who so deeply drew me into the world of The Magicians and made me fall in love with this brash, bold fantasy series (first in the books, then onscreen), was gone. I don’t mean to be dramatic, but it’s hard to imagine watching one of your favorite TV shows without its leading character.

And yet, I should have known better. Time and time again The Magicians paints itself into a corner, flirts with jumping the shark, and then takes a sharp left turn into “holy shit” territory, never once looking back. All while keeping one foot firmly granted in emotional reality. And impossibly (though not without a bit of clunkiness), Season 5 nicely recovers from Ralph’s exit. This show that has always been about the brutal realities of adulthood—the depression, the grief, the frustration—leans into its long-running themes, as the characters deal with Quentin’s death in various ways. But in possibly the best decision the writers could have made, the story also moves on from Quentin. There are new quests, new mysteries, new baddies. And we quickly understand the hero we lost was never the only hero of this story.

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Actors: Matt LeBlanc, Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig, Mircea Monroe, John Pankow
Format: PAL
Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
Region: Region 2
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 – 1.78:1
Number of discs: 2
Classification: 15
Studio: BBC
DVD Release Date: 21 May 2018
Run Time: 200 minutes
ASIN: B07BKGS1BZ