The Magicians season 5 trailer

[babarsuhail]

Magic may be back, but it's out of control.

Find out just how charged things can get when #TheMagicians returns to @SYFY on January 15. pic.twitter.com/madPWPiTrz
- The Magicians (@MagiciansSYFY) December 2, 2019

Season 5 premieres Jan 15th

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Comments

[radiantlight]

I want to watch this for Margo and E but they did my boy Q so fucking dirty. I don’t think I’ll be able to do it - I might wait til the end of the season and see what people thought.

Forever fucking pissed. I know some people didn’t like Q, but out of all the characters I would have knocked out Alice.

[babarsuhail]

I thought Jason was the one who wanted to leave?

[maxvandenburg]

he did. there was a bunch of bts drama

[williammiller]

What was the drama?

[maxvandenburg]

the official story is that it was a mutual decision, but both lev grossman and all the rumors that have come out since have implied it was jason who wanted to leave, and that he was fighting with the writers (either as a result of his decision or maybe that was the reason he left, idk).

grain of salt, obviously, but i've heard this version from multiple people who are connected to the show, at separate occasions. it was also one of the weirdest actor exits i've seen, with only a handful of cast members posting goodbye messages to jason. idt any of them have interacted with him since. they seemed to get along fine before this season, so... i'd say something went down.

[shahrazade_bard]

Doesn't matter. The way the show (namely its writers) handled his exit--specifically their blatant lack of sensitivity about suicide (going so far as to call it "whimsical")--was abominable.

As far as whose decision it was, I've seen some people claiming Jason supposedly wanting to leave, but since there's been no outright Word Of God confirmation afaik, it's apocryphal at best. Considering how surprised the rest of the cast was, it makes me doubt it was his choice, but even if it was, Gamble, McNamara, and Myers didn't have to be such gleeful pricks about it.

[sthlmsyndrom]

Q was not my fave, but he was the central character that tied them together and got them to work togwther. like please, convince how these characters would ever come together without Q?

yeah i thought the buildup was for alice tbh