THE MAGICIANS showrunner Sera Gamble shared 10 facts about season 2 in a new interview.
In an interview with Hypable, showrunner of The Magicians Sera Gamble shares what is to come in this new season. There are spoilers ahead! If you have not seen episode 2×04, then proceed with caution! I have warned you.
1) From the very beginning they knew Alice wouldn’t be around forever
Sera Gamble said, “We always knew that we would do this. We didn’t see any way around it and we didn’t want anyway around it. Alice is one of the most meaningful parts in the book. Alice’s death shapes all the other characters from then on out. Everyone is affected in a way that they can never turn back from. So that was just too juicy.”
2) That doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of Alice — yet
“The people that watch The Magicians are savvy TV viewers. This is not their first rodeo,” Gamble explains. “They know that on television if you even think about someone from your past, you can flash back and see that face again. So no. This is not the last time in the life of The Magicians series that you will see Olivia Taylor Dudley’s face.”
3) Thanks to some specific sort of magic, Quentin will have a very emotional experience which touches on that loss
“One of the great things about writing a show that is fantasy [is that] one of the tools in our toolbox is magic,” Gamble shares. “If you trace it back to the very oldest stories, which are fairy tales and stories around the campfire, these tools — magic and monsters and spells — they’re a way for us to externalize things about the human psyche.”
4) Julia’s story will also use magic to highlight it
“The other storyline that is really utilizing these tropes and the tools in the same way is Julia’s,” Gamble elaborates. “[Her story is] also something that’s kind of difficult and fraught and can be a challenge to dramatize. The after effects of the extreme trauma that she went through in being attacked — we have this giant paintbox of magical colors that we get to use so we can pull apart some of the things she’s going through. We can look at them each one by one and kind of bring them to life magically.”
5) Eliot also has a lot on his plate this year, including confronting his demons
“He took really drastic measures at the end of last season,” Gamble starts. “He had this lovely moment of self awareness — that he had to change something or his life was going nowhere good. So his biggest challenge [this year] is just– when you try to change your life it’s really fucking hard. He’s living an extreme version of that,” she continues.
To read the full interview and the rest of facts check out the original interview here.
The Magicians airs on SyFy on Wednesday at 9/8c
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