The Magicians season 4

If the ‘Magicians’ Comic-Con Panel is Any Indication, Season 4 is Going to Be Crazy and Lots of Fun [Comic-Con 2018]

Posted on Sunday, July 22nd, 2018 by Vanessa Armstrong


“Can you tell we were drinking tequila in the green room?” showrunner Sera Gamble asked at one point during The Magicians panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

The answer to Gamble’s question was yes, but it was a wonderful thing to see Gamble, her fellow executive producer John McNamara and cast members Jason Ralph, Stella Maeve, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Hale Appleman and Summer Bishil enjoying each other’s company and having a rowdy time on stage. Tequila or no tequila, it was clear that they all genuinely liked each other, and the panel was full of jokes and laughter as they took audience questions and tried to avoid spoiling anything from Season 4.

Felicia Day joined in the fun as the panel’s moderator, and kicked off the show by introducing a clip that recapped what happened in Season 3. I won’t go into the specifics of the last season here, except to say that it ended on a cliffhanger, with most of the cast’s minds being wiped and given alternative lives and personas. “We have an unspoken rule that at the end of a season of a TV show – just for good luck and hoping you’ll get another season – to just frack everybody as hard as you possibly can,” Gamble said when asked about the end of Season 3.

Gamble and McNamara certainly effed things up for the main characters at the end of last season, and also admitted that they initially weren’t sure where the story would go in the fourth or even if they had a fourth season at all. “That was one of my favorite conversations with the network,” McNamara jokingly explained. When the network asked McNamara what would happen if the show continued, his answer was: “I don’t know. Why don’t you pick the show up?”

On a slightly more serious note, Gamble expanded a bit on the writing philosophy of The Magicians: “We live and die as writers on the idea that it’s good to be stuck, that it’s good to run out of story. It’s really good when we don’t know what happens next, because that means hopefully you guys don’t know what’s going to happen next either.”

Luckily for Magicians fans, SyFy did pick up the show for another season. Gamble, McNamara and the rest of the writing team have also figured out at least the beginning of Season 4, as the cast just finished shooting the fourth episode.

But even though the writers and actors know how next season will start, the panel was very careful to stay away from spoilers, even in the hilarious teaser video that was screened for the audience. While light in details, the teaser did give an overview of the new personas Dean Fogg magically imprinted on everyone: Quentin now smiles a lot and is a professor called Brian (or “Bri-Guy” as Ralph calls him); Julia is now an architect named Kim; Margo is now called Janet and is involved in high fashion; Kady becomes Sam, who is a gun-wielding badass; Josh is Isaac the Uber driver; Penny is the wonderfully named DJ Hansel, and Eliot is…well, no one really knows what Eliot is now, beyond that he’s possessed by a big bad monster that, according to Appleman, was initially based on imagining a nine-year-old without any empathy or impulse control.

And while nothing concrete was mentioned, there were some hints of what may come. Bishil’s character Margo (AKA Janet) apparently has a few scenes with Josh (AKA Isaac), and Gamble coyly suggested that Olivia Taylor Dudley, who plays Alice on the show and sang during the third season’s musical episode, may sing again in the future.

But whatever is in store for The Magicians’ beloved characters, fans can be sure that both the writers and the actors are giving their all to the show. “Everybody brings their A-Game,” McNamara explained. “And some of us have really weird A-Games.” We’ll just have to wait and see how weird their A-Games can get next year.

The fourth season of The Magicians will air on SyFy in 2019.

SAN DIEGO, CA — During one of the most memorable scenes in the third season of “The Magicians,” Hale Appleman and Summer Bishil have an entire conversation in pop culture references to avoid being understood by a spy, but there’s one reference Appleman needed explained to him.

“I hadn’t seen ‘Battlestar Galactica’ so the Grace Park reference was something that needed to be explained to me,” he told reporters during the SYFY show’s press room at Comic-Con on Saturday.

He added, “Although, I will say last Comic-Con, right after we shot that episode, I ran into Grace Park in an elevator and I said, ‘Hi, excuse me, Grace Park?’ And she thought I was like a really creepy fan and I was like, ‘No I just, uh, I just name dropped you in an episode of “The Magicians,”‘ which also makes no sense. So she was a little like, ‘Why are you talking to me?’ But she was really cool.”

The scene also included references to Britney Spears’ breakdown in 2007, “Gossip Girl” and “Harry Potter.”

“Summer and I knew that scene was a real opportunity for us, but a real gift to the fandom and to the fans of all of the references we dropped in that scene,” Appleman said. “So we really took it upon ourselves to be super prepared and we ran the lines for that scene a bunch before we shot it, so we could really nail the rhythm of it because we knew that was really important in order to make the comedy of the scene work.”

Season 4 of “The Magicians” is set to air in 2019.

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Maybe this will show up on cable someday....

Meanwhile S4 next month !  

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Not long now !

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This a great way to ramp up interest for the new season.

Picked up for season 5 already !  

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Don't forget S4 premire tonight !

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Looking forward to watching it!

First ep was better than most of last season , less fantasy , more 'real world' while still being magical.

Jewel will be in 3 eps this season. That should be fun.

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In last night's ep we see in the opening credits that Jewel Staite will have a guest starring role. "Oh great", we say, and dutifully watch very carefully to see her spot. Finally, about 7 minutes from the end she appears wearing a green dress, standing on the right side of the scene,on a balcony on a castle or something, looking out over a valley. Suddenly a flying sleigh pulled by a team of flying reindeer, we assume, zooms by and disappears in the distance. "WTF ? ",  Jewel exclaims, and that's it ! A 3 second scene and three words of dialog !  WTF indeed !  The scene had no connection to the rest of the episode before or after. She will appear twice more this season in eps 7 and 9.  We can hope that her role will link into the overall season plot in some discernable way.

The producers were very proud last season for being able to get that language into the dialog, and they make frequent use of it, when no other SyFy shows can use it, nor any other non-pay networks, as far as I know. Why this is important to them is a mystery.....