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Warning: The following contains major spoilers for The Magicians’ series finale. Proceed at your own risk!

The Magicians cast its final spell during Wednesday’s series finale, and it was a doozy: Using the world seed, Alice, Margo, Josh and Fen were able to create Fillory 2.0 (complete with a field of bacon!). But there was a complication: The quartet were unwillingly transported to the new land, with no way of returning, leaving their friends back home confused by their mysterious vanishing. Having lost the people nearest to him, Eliot became a professor at Brakebills — and found comfort in Charlton’s kiss! Meanwhile, Julia, Penny and newborn baby Hope Quentin (or HQ, as dad called her) set off traveling in search of their friends.

Then, in the final scene, new High King Margo prepared to release Fillory’s residents from the globe housing them. “You guys know our lives are about to get even weirder in some insane way that we can’t possibly predict,” Margo mused. But the others found comfort in that idea. “That’s how I know it’s our story,” Alice added, as Margo gleefully pressed the button on the globe and… cut to black!

Below, co-showrunners Sera Gamble, John McNamara and Henry Alonso Myers talk about the characters’ fates, what they would have changed about the finale if the series had been renewed and what they wanted to explore in a hypothetical Season 6.

TVLINE | I want to rewind to when you were first crafting the finale. What was your approach to it? And what did you know about the show’s future at that point?
SERA GAMBLE | We knew we were on the bubble. We knew that this might be our last episode. We’d hoped it might not be, but we knew there was a good chance it was, so we wrote an episode we felt could function both ways. And we tended towards scenes that would feel like they were series finale scenes, knowing that we would cut some of it in post if we were going to go on. So, really, what we did was write the most complete version [of the finale]. This is just the first time we’ve done that, and it turned out to be the series finale.
HENRY ALONSO MYERS | The only thing that is really different about what we did this year was, usually, at the end of every season, we flip the table over and pick up the pieces in the beginning of the next season. And the one thing that added on top of that was, in looking back at the series, we made an effort to really resolve some of the strong character stories that we’ve been building up for all the time that we’ve been working on the show. And while we did not resolve the plot, we felt like that left us in a position to have stories to tell. As a result of wrapping up the character stories, we felt like it’ll feel a lot like our people have achieved something. And while their lives will continue, as regular, real-life lives do, this journey that they’ve gone through over the last five years was not for naught. They actually came to a place and learned something about themselves.

The Magicians Series FinaleTVLINE | Sera, it’s interesting that you say that there were scenes that you would have cut if the show had continued. What were some of the things that you would have pulled back?
GAMBLE | I don’t know if it’s so much complete scenes. It’s more as we were getting notes from the writers on the episode, they were pointing out to us things that felt like they provided closure, or that felt, dare I say, more optimistic than our season finales usually are. [Laughs] We kept saying, “We’ll have to look at it in post, and we’ll know more about our situation then.”

TVLINE | Looking back on the finale now, knowing it’s the final episode of the series, is there anything you wish you had done differently?
JOHN McNAMARA | Yeah, I think we could have used one more musical number. [Gamble laughs]MYERS | I don’t disagree with that. [All laugh] I wish we had time for that. I always wish that we had spent more money, although I feel pretty proud that we didn’t leave anything on the table.
McNAMARA | We cleaned up the money cupboard pretty well!
MYERS | As much as we could. We didn’t want to destroy [Fillory] in the finale and have it look cheap.

TVLINE | The finale does have a great sense of closure, and you do get a sense that this story has reached its end. But you can also see where it would be headed if there was a Season 6. What would you have liked to explore, storyline-wise or idea-wise, in a Season 6?
GAMBLE | I will tell you we had had those conversations. I feel like we definitely evoke more story and more plot. When you see where the characters are at the end of the episode, you can imagine where the story might go next. But I feel like, since this is our series finale, we should leave it at that and let the audience take from it what they want to take from it and imagine what they want to imagine. I feel like it’s now out of our hands and in the minds and imaginations of the people who are watching it. Do you disagree, gentlemen?
MYERS | I wholeheartedly agree, which isn’t to say that we didn’t have a plan. But I do think that that’s absolutely right. One of my favorite finales that I’ve seen was the finale for Angel, and one of the things I loved about it is this feeling like the world that they lived in would continue to fight, but they didn’t tell us how, and I kind of feel that way about The Magicians. I feel like the people that watch our show have this relationship with all of the characters in our show, and I feel like rather than tell them where it goes, I would love for them to imagine it. We have a version that we would have done, but I think that matters less than the possibilities that everything that we finished shooting suggests.

TVLINE | The final scene of a finale is so crucial. What did you want the significance to be of that final moment with the gang in Fillory and those final words that Alice utters?
MYERS | Sera and I passed that scene back and forth a bunch of times. The thing that I feel like she kept pushing to get in there, which I thought was really smart, was this feeling that these people were nervous and excited, but so happy to be together. That they’d come to a place where things were terrible, but it was always terrible, and that they finally recognized that, “well, yes, it’s terrible, but at least we have each other.” The thing where we got completely lucky was the last little look that Summer [Bishil as Margo] gives, which is just delightful and kind of encapsulates the entire series of The Magicians, as she presses this button that makes everything terrible. [Laughs]

The Magicians Series FinaleTVLINE | I actually, for a moment, thought that maybe Alice might take on more of a leadership role in this new Fillory. Was there any debate about who should be High King?
GAMBLE | Not really. I think it’s clear that there’s more than one way to be a leader. There’s plenty for everyone to do, there’s plenty of work to go around. Neither of the Pennys has ever been King on this show, but it would be hard to argue that he hasn’t, at times, really stepped up and been a leader. With Alice, selfishly as fans of the character and fans of the show, we wanted her to be a master magician by the time we were done telling the story. So for us, that really important moment for her in the episode is when Zelda looks her in the eye and tells her that she can be one, and she can be one now. That really affects everything that she does from then on.
MYERS | Alice’s arc this whole season is to live through her grief, and the thing that I love about where she ends is she has a realization that grief is not something you move past. The grief is you. It’s something that you have to learn to live with, and it becomes a part of you. And in the end, the story is about her accepting that broken piece of herself, and in accepting it, she finds her true power. That’s as perfect an arc for a character over five seasons as I can imagine.

TVLINE | Are we to assume that Penny and Julia and baby Hope are traveling to this new Fillory?
GAMBLE | They’re looking for it. Everyone’s trying to find each other, and if you listen closely at the beginning of that scene, they have a number of places that they want to look, some of which have been supplied by Brakebills’ new professor, Eliot Waugh. What we wanted to do was give you the general idea that this is the next quest: for our people to find each other.

The Magicians Series FinaleTVLINE | Can you talk about Eliot becoming a teacher and possibly finding the perfect person in Charlton?
GAMBLE | All of us talked a lot about where our characters began when we first met them in Season 1. We had that in mind all season, in addition to the more immediate arc that everyone went through that was very much about grief and learning how to continue in your life after a deep loss. But when you meet Eliot in Season 1, he’s certainly charming. There’s pretty much no one who doesn’t want to hang out with him all the time, but there’s also something very guarded about him. Over time, we’ve seen the ways that he is afraid to pursue what would really make him happy, and that this has always been really complicated for him. But we wanted to see what he has learned over all this time. He’s learned a lot of lessons the hard way over the course of the show. We kind of always had this in mind as a possibility for him and Charlton. We talked about it when we cast the character, God, a couple years ago now, that we knew that they would be stuck inside of Eliot’s mind together, and we thought that that was kind of an interesting way to meet someone — a very intimate, very deep look at someone, living inside their own mind. We wanted to just invoke the possibility of really what Eliot is capable of now inviting into his life, what he’s ready for, what he’s ready to let go of that hasn’t been serving him, the way that he has been unkind to himself that he’s outgrown now, and now he can be kinder and more open for himself.

Magicians fans, what did you think of the series ender? Grade it below, then hit the comments!

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After last year’s finale, The Magicians had a lot of weight to shoulder going into the Season 5 premiere. Last season ended with the death of Quentin, who sacrificed himself to save Eliot and bring back magic. It was a divisive decision, especially when it came to the Quentin/Eliot relationship, and now Season 5 has to prove that it was worth it.

Wednesday night’s season premiere, “Do Something Crazy,”  takes place about a month later. Quentin’s death was technically successful — but maybe too much so, because now the world is plagued with powerful “magic surges” that have been killing magicians. Or, as a newly sober Dean Fogg puts it, “There’s too much goddamn magic.”

One welcome aspect of Quentin’s death is that it allows the series to spend more time on the others, particularly Julia, who is often underutilized but who will hopefully have a larger, more attentive run this season. Julia is perhaps struggling the most, not only because she’s known Quentin since childhood but because Quentin’s death granted her magic again — as we learned in the finale, magic comes from pain. “I only have magic because I lost Q,” she tells Penny (after they go on a date!). “I just have to find something to do with it that’s worth that.”

An answer potentially comes in the form of a literal sexist pig who visits from Fillory, looking for Quentin. The pig creature is on a “mission of dreadful importance,” explaining that Quentin needs to save the world from the apocalypse. (All normal Magicians stuff, to be honest.) Julia offers to do the quest herself; after all, she was once a goddess. But the Fillory pig won’t accept her help because she’s a woman. Luckily, during a later conversation with Penny, Julia realizes that she can choose her own quest and chooses to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse and stop it.

Meanwhile, in Fillory, Margot and Eliot have a pretty lackluster storyline so far. A magic surge messed with the timelines, landing them 300 years into the future and the throne has been taken over by a “dark king.” They attend an annual ceremony celebrating “The Unshackling,” complete with a fun little play expositing what we’ve missed and cosplaying as our heroes. There’s only a short, unsatisfying conversation about Quentin where Eliot refuses to open up — he doesn’t remember much from when the monster took over his body, and he doesn’t “really want to talk about” Q’s death — and Margot accurately calls him out on being “gloriously medicated and in some textbook denial.” But before we can get more, the duo’s mission once again turns to figuring out to save Josh and Fen from death (in the past), time travel, and take back the crown. Again.

As for the other characters? Kady is still teamed up with Pete in the hedge witch world, helping to heal a man who had his arm blown off when trying to remove his Reeds mark. Though the marks were supposed to be removed, the library — which has its own host of problems — hasn’t gotten to it, and hedges are becoming increasingly desperate to use magic again. So her and Pete go on a mission to find a way to remove them which, I assume, will take a few episodes.

Then there’s Penny. Dean Fogg reaches out and explains that because more and more people have been discovering their magic potential, more have been accepted into Brakebills, causing overcrowding. It also means that there are more students from the rarer disciplines like traveling, which causes Dean Fogg to recruit (and trick) Penny into becoming a Professor. Penny is hesitant, worrying that one of his students will die under his watch. “Without your instruction, one of them will absolutely get killed,” Dean Fogg replies. Merritt, one of Penny’s new students, tells him about these traveler “signals” she’s been hearing which causes Penny to travel against his will. It’s somewhat interesting, but I wish it was more connected to the rest of the storylines.

Finally, there’s Alice, who has been in a depressed (and I suspect unshowered) funk since Q’s death, holed up in her mother’s house. She gets roped into a small mission helping the library, declines to participate in a seance with Julia, and takes up smoking just because Quentin used to, sometimes. Her mother offers advice about grief, stating “No one gets to tell you how to grieve … If you need to do something crazy to get through it, do something crazy.” Which, unfortunately, is maybe not the best advice to give someone like Alice — the episode ends with her making a Quentin Golem which surely isn’t going to end well.

All in all, the Season 5 premiere was fine, welcoming us back to a fun world that’s more of the same. On the one hand, the things that work for The Magicians — the quests, the relationships, the fun Fillory world — are still in place and great to see. On the other hand, it’s hard not to wish that there was something more, something different enough that really explains the purpose of Quentin’s death and introduces us to how exactly the season will work without him.

What did you think of The Magicians‘ Season 5 premiere? Weigh in via the following poll, then hit the comments with your reactions.

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A-Ha’s “Take on Me” has never sounded so sad. During The Magicians‘ Season 4 finale, Quentin, Alice and Penny 23 traveled to the mirror world to toss the monster and his sister into the seam between worlds. However, their quest was interrupted by Everett, who broke the mirror. After doing some minor mending, Quentin was able to send both siblings into the seam — but also sacrificed his own life in the process, as Alice watched on in anguish. (Remember, magic is a no-no in the mirror world.)

Following his death, Quentin was reunited in the underworld with Penny 40, who took Q to his own funeral to show him that he changed his friends’ lives as much as they changed his. Tearfully, Quentin watched his pals break into a tender, a cappella rendition of “Take on Me.” At the episode’s end, Penny 40 handed Q an underworld metro pass before declaring that this was as far as he goes. With that, a solo Quentin stepped through a mysterious doorway… and out of the show.

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Below, showrunners John McNamara, Sera Gamble and Henry Alonso Myers talk about Quentin’s departure — his portrayer Jason Ralph will not return as a series regular in Season 5 — and what comes next for Q’s friends.

TVLINE | So this is the last we see of Quentin?
JOHN MCNAMARA | This is the last we see of Quentin, although you’ve seen The Magicians…
HENRY ALONSO MYERS | He may appear in other forms.
MCNAMARA | Yeah, but this is the last you will see of Jason playing Quentin. And I’m not being coy. As far as we’re concerned at the moment, it’s the last we’ll see of Quentin.

TVLINE | Going into this season, what kind of conversations did you have with Jason about this goodbye? Did he know at the beginning, or was it something you clued him into later in the season?
MCNAMARA | We actually had a very open and kind of great conversation at the end of Season 3. We always want to talk to the actors. “How did you feel about the season? What were your favorite things? What do you want to do next season?” We had a feeling that Jason was beginning to sense that he’d explored a lot of that character and had grown a tremendous amount in terms of how that character’s journey unfolded. [We had a] discussion with him on Skype. It just became really clear to Sera, myself and Jason that the best next step for this character would be the kind of death that we had laid out for him that eventually formed this climax. So it was an oddly drama-free, very much mutual, totally creative decision. It was just: How do we best serve this character’s journey, and how do we best continue to shock and surprise our audience? And the answer turned out to be this one thing. He was onboard from jump street.

The Magicians RecapTVLINE | What qualities did you want to imbue this final Quentin episode and his exit with?
SERA GAMBLE | We knew we had a tremendous opportunity, because Quentin has an old, dear friend working off a billion-dollar contract in the underworld. So we realized we had a unique opportunity on this show to explore life and death, and the questions we all have about what constitutes a complete life and what comes next. Some of those questions are, to us, unanswerable so we don’t want to answer them on the show either. It was just exciting to be able to access that.

It’s really lucky and a privilege to be able to tell a story for this long. Shows are usually cancelled, full stop. So when you get to tell a story over many years, and you have creative partners that are as invested as you are in being really rigorous and challenging to every person who is part of telling the story, sometimes you get to do something like this, where you take a character through their whole life journey, essentially. With the incredibly important added part of this, which is that all of the people who love him the most live on, and they experience what it means to lose Quentin, just as the audience is experiencing what it means to lose Quentin, and we’re all very excited about that as well. Because, essentially, we’re a show about growing up and becoming an adult in the truest senses of the word, and losing someone is a huge part of that, losing someone you love.

TVLINE | The way he goes out, it’s such a heroic sacrifice. And between the special effects and the song choice, I think it’s one of the most beautiful death scenes I’ve ever seen on a TV show.
GAMBLE | That was a true writing team situation with John and I, who wrote the script together. I actually had that song before we wrote the scene, and I sent it to him and said, “I just kind of imagine it to this song [‘Cruel World’ by Active Child].” Then because John is John, he came back to me, and he’s like, “And then there will be a musical number.” [Laughs] So that’s how you know it’s a true collaboration.

The Magicians Quentin DiesTVLINE | Was the special effect something you had in mind, or was that something that the special effects team came up with? It was just so striking. I couldn’t get it out of my head after I watched it.
MYERS | If you read the description in the script, it’s weirdly specific, and we tried a lot of different elements before we got settled on the thing. What was very moving about it for us was, in the [writers’] room, in the build up to this, we spent a lot of time looking back at the books to find stories that we hadn’t yet touched that we knew that we wouldn’t have a chance to do without Quentin. One of the big elements of that was minor mending. So once we had settled on that it was his final act of minor mendings that… would ultimately rebound, that was sort of our true north. We kept looking at that, and how that would look if it built slowly and then kind of overwhelmed him.
MCNAMARA | We give a lot of credit to our VFX supervisors, Jay Worth and Curtis Krick, because they were tireless in bringing us choices. There was a lot of kind of, “Yes, that. Not that. Yes, that, but not that color. Too much fire, too much whatever,” and they were just great about it. They really were. They never gave up. … Chris Fisher, who directed it, staged it so beautifully and so cleanly. The geography of the staging, I think, is extraordinarily exciting and pretty clean. You know where everybody is. You’ve got a very complicated setup. You know exactly what’s happening. Often, I think, one of the things that can hurt a fantasy or science fiction show is suddenly you’re making up new rules that are very convenient. This was a world in which all the rules were set up early, and it all conspired to kill Quentin, unfortunately. It’s like a giant Jenga of tragedy.

The Magicians RecapTVLINE | And bravo, John, on getting another musical number in before the end of the season. How did you land on “Take on Me”?
MCNAMARA | My son is very musical. He’s a wonderful pianist. Every night, we go on YouTube and try to find different songs, new songs, music videos and whatever. We literally stumbled across this A-Ha concert in, I think, Sweden, where they did a live acoustic version of “Take on Me.” I just tucked it away like, “That’s a cool version of that song. It’s kind of sad and interesting.” Then I was in the booth recording some of the songs for our musical [episode], and Olivia [Dudley] was coming in to sing her part, and she was humming “Take on Me.” I’m like, “Are you humming ‘Take on Me’?” and she goes, “Yeah, I listen to it every day. I love it.” I said, “Why do you listen to it so often? I love it, too.” She goes, “It’s just a really good way to get into my emotions. If I have an emotional scene, it really helps me get there.” I thought if there’s a way to get that quality of that song into the show, I really want to try it.

I’ve been to probably more funerals than I’d like to have been to, but I find that they all have one thing in common: The moving parts of funerals are usually not the oratory, but the music that’s chosen. It sort of reflects the life of the person. Because we’ve established this kind of spell that a magician can do that gives you instant lyrics, instant orchestration, it felt like a natural place to start with the awkward, “What do we say? What do we say? What do we say?” Then Kady sort of takes point and gets them to express what is, I think, much harder to express with simple words. And also, it would allow for brief moments of flashback to certain moments of the show that meant a lot to Quentin, or where Quentin had a huge effect on one of the characters. And finally, when we figured out that Quentin could actually be there watching his own funeral with Penny 40, that, to me, was like the last [piece] clicking together, because you have basically a performance and an audience. It staged itself nicely without being too, hopefully, treacly or too sentimental.

The Magicians RecapTVLINE | We don’t actually see Alice in the future glimpses that Penny 40 gives Quentin. We just hear about the fact that they want her to run the library. How is she dealing in the aftermath of losing Quentin? 
GAMBLE | I don’t think that there’s a character on the show who’s not touched in a deep way, in a profound way, by what happens to Quentin. That feels honest to us. It’s just human to have experienced a bit of life. Quentin had a unique relationship with each of these characters that you’ll see in Season 5. The way that they sort of metabolize his death, it’s not always linear, but it’s sort of a flavor that runs through everybody’s story in Season 5.

What did you think of the surprising season ender? Grade it via the poll below, then hit the comments. And stay tuned to TVLine for Season 5 scoop!

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I saw you visited the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. set. Any news on the Season 6 premiere date? Also, anything about Coulson’s return? –Jen
ABC has said nothing beyond “summer” yet for the premiere date. As for the other thing, no one I spoke to on set – where they were filming Season 6’s penultimate episode – spoke of Phil in the present tense. Take Chloe Bennet when I asked about Daisy’s state of mind when the season picks up, [REDACTED] amount of time after her mentor and father figure got dropped off in Tahiti to live out his final days. “In my mind, she has a bit more of a peace to her,” she said. “There is obviously the mourning of Coulson, but she’s also been through it all and she is genuinely stronger from it. She is not dealing with things as she has in the past. She has fully accepted her trauma and is moving forward in the most healthy way, for the first time.”