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      10 hours ago

      Lol, this was the one I immediately thought of. I was going to send it to me wife followed by “Magicians.”

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      The Magicians? Do yourself a favor and continue on (well… Depending on where you stopped, I guess.) To me, Season 1 is a difficult sell. It’s all over the place, and some of the characters are… Not super likeable, ahem. Season 2 gets much better, and season 3+ are my favorite seasons of television, ever.

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        15 hours ago

        I finished season one and everything (save like two actors) just absolutely sucked. I have no desire to go back. “What if Harry Potter but horny” just doesn’t do it for me.

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          Fair. Don’t take this as pressure to watch this. But for what it’s worth, “Harry Potter but horny” is exactly what I grew tired of after S1, and they drop that hook pretty thoroughly.

          S2-5 is more like “there’s no such thing as a chosen one. We’re all just fucked up in different ways, and the only way to get meaningful change done is if we try to be better, together - regardless of if we ever manage to grow past that damage”.

          Except Alice. Fuck Alice, she never not sucks.

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            1 day ago

            Alice was the Hermione-ish stand in, right? What little I remember, I remember disliking her character the most.

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              Yep. They changed her pretty drastically from the way she is in the books (which was probably a good idea), but way, WAY overcorrected. I also don’t really like the actor for the role, but that is secondary.